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meds.vase 01, originally uploaded by PeterDuke.
Sometimes you can be inspired by a lack of inspiration, or at least someone else’s.
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Wordnet Senses:
1. Muse — (in ancient Greek mythology any of 9 daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne; protector of an art or science)
2. muse — (the source of an artist’s inspiration; “Euterpe was his muse”)
1. nympholepsy — (a frenzy of emotion; as for something unattainable)
What is a muse?
What is that thing [...]

Jeffrey Fulvimari Fashion Plates, originally uploaded by PeterDuke.
I went to the Jeffrey Fulvimari show, with my daughter Katie, last night.
We had a *great* time.
Jeffrey is a world class talent with a naive approach that carries on the repetitive tradition of Warhol and the contextual irony of Roy Lichtenstein. While the event was peppered [...]

Pygmalion, originally uploaded by PeterDuke.
I need to be mused.
There needs to be some non-verbal communication that says “that’s it”.
Having a good idea of what ‘it’ is, before you pick up the camera, seems to resonate with me, so I try to form an opinion about the thing I am shooting.
The opinion can be [...]

I have been thinking a lot about Photography lately. It is an interesting medium. Unmoving and frozen, it portrays a mythical existence, unknown in a normal experience of life. Pictures are interesting because of the density of information that can be delivered to a cognitive being… I guess that’s where the old “Thousand Words” quote [...]