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David Licata | July 25, 2011
John Yearley! John is a subscriber to the blog and his name and those of the other subscribers were printed on a piece of paper, tossed in a hat, and drawn from said hat by my assistant. John will receive a copy of The Film That Changed My Life by Robert K. Elder. Congratulations from [...]
David Licata | April 12, 2011
We have a winner! Congrats to Steph, who correctly answered with Mahalia Jackson and Frank Lloyd Wright. I hope you enjoy the book, Steph. Thanks to the fine folks at Gotham Books, I‘m offering offered a paperback copy of The Blueprint: A Plan for Living Above Life’s Storms, an unapologetically Christian self-help book written by [...]
David Licata | August 15, 2010
Laura Bittman Ward submitted this e-mail written by her father. Laura explains: My dad sends out an email every Thursday to a group of his old high school friends who he reconnected with at their 50th reunion a few years back. My uncle Peter died last summer, he was only in his early 50s. He’d [...]
David Licata | August 13, 2010
That’s me behind the camera at Arcosanti, shooting … the windshield of the rental car? Yes, I’m shooting the transformation of sunray, the win-free-art-created-by-me prize in this summer’s contest. You have until tomorrow night to enter the contest. Click here for the details. Photo by Andy Bowley.
David Licata | August 11, 2010
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is now. Chinese Proverb I’ve received some good essays for the contest (all to my e-mail account, are you really that shy?), but I’m greedy and I want more. Contest ends this Saturday (8/14). Here are the rules.
David Licata | August 9, 2010
The pine tree seems to listen, the fir tree to wait: and both without impatience — they give no thought to the little people beneath them devoured by their impatience and their curiosity. Friedrich Nietzsche This quote seems especially fitting since next week I will be in Inyo National Forest (CA) shooting Bristlecone Pine trees [...]
David Licata | August 7, 2010
It’s Tree Week here at blog central. “I think the tree is an element of regeneration which in itself is a concept of time.” Joseph Beuys Here are a couple of photos I took of part of Beuys’ piece, 7000 Oaks, right here in Manhattan (22nd Street between 10th and 11th Avenues). Tell me why [...]
David Licata | August 3, 2010
One quarter of A Life’s Work is about trees, and lately I’ve been thinking about why we use trees to memorialize. I was going to write a post about it, but frankly, I’d rather read your thoughts on the matter. To encourage this, I’m offering more free art. The rules: Tell me why humans use [...]
David Licata | May 24, 2010
Last week I posted some sounds of A Life’s Work. Here now are the matching images. Please remember that I was selecting sounds for the contest and wasn’t too concerned with the quality of the captured images, so if you see some flaws in the shots, a little unsteadiness or a focus issue, be forgiving. [...]
David Licata | May 21, 2010
This contest is over: Cliff Garstang answered correctly. B. Look for another “Win Art” contest this summer. I put together this little montage of sounds from A Life’s Work to share here, and then I thought, why not make it into another contest! I’m going to make this one easy. If you play the above [...]
