The Blork Blog

Despite raving about Chistroprudov Dimitri’s very clear and beautiful nightime cityscapes a few days ago, I remain an unrepentant fan of fuzzy photographs. I don’t like fuzzy for the sake of fuzzy, but sometimes fuzzy adds to the narrative of a photograph. Other times it’s purely a matter of aesthetics (which is, arguably, part of [...]

Mixed in with all the recent news about the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates are a lot of references to “post-racial America.” Many of those references imply that Barack Obama’s presidency is already a failure because racial and racist events still take place in the United States.
Um. Maybe I’m stating the obvious, but [...]

One of the things I love about the Web is that it brings so much good stuff to so many people. Blah blah blah, you all know the drill. Today I’m all agape over some photographs by Russian photographer Chistroprudov Dimitri, who apparently specializes in night-time cityscapes of Moscow, taken from various rooftops around the [...]

According to my research, Queen Elizabeth II was 49 years old when Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” came out.
That’s how old I am now.
This terrifies me because the Queen has always seemed like an old lady to me. Part of what makes it feel so weird is that BoRhap — like the Queen — has never really [...]

I‘ve been having some trouble with books lately.
(1) I accidentally bought the LARGE PRINT edition of Morley Callaghan’s “The Loved and the Lost.” (It is ironic that when you buy online from Chapters-Indigo, the “large print” designation is marked in fine print.) It’s not a disaster; after all, the words are all the same, and [...]

There’s been a backlash against netbooks in recent weeks, with one blog post in particular standing out. Netbooks, for the uninitiated, are small, lightweight and not-so-powerful laptops that have been selling like hotcakes for the past year because they offer most of the capabilities of a full-size laptop in a lightweight package (usually about a [...]