Photography

An iris by any other name?

An iris by any other name?

Right, so, here’s a question for the nomenclaturally aware mechanical engineers in the audience. Last weekend, I was exposed to two equally awesome objects that include radially-opening apertures that I call “irises.” The first, to left, is Alan Rorie’s Aperture Lamp, which includes an adjustable opening to control the amount of light it emits. The […]

Anna Ventura, (iN)VISIBLE

Remember when you were a kid looking at clouds, and suddenly the one cloud turned into a turtle, and then a whale? Wait. What am I saying. Remember yesterday when you found that rock that looked like a face, or the popcorn you swore was a dead ringer for The Old Man in the Mountain? […]