Dressed In Value ended February 2010 and is no longer active.
Q: What does ‘dressed in value’ mean?
A: Read this and maybe this.
Q: What's with the lion?
A: Read this.
Q: Who are you?
A: Ricky Irvine.
Q: What qualifications do you have?
A: See this.
Q: Do you have your portfolio online?
A: See this.
Q: Do you have a philosophy of design?
A: I try to focus on good typography and overall clarity, tending toward simplicity and avoiding what is unnecessary.
Friday, December 25, 2009
I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes prayer, too, and the eye of the storm. I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.
—Saul Bellow, in The Writer’s Desk
Tuesday, December 01, 2009
A few years ago we attended a photography lecture by National Geographic photographer Sam Abell at the University of Kentucky. I remember being quite amazed and inspired by this man, his ability to yield powerful stories through photography, and his simplicity and calmness. To this very day I consider his advice every time I pick up a camera.
Here following is what I learned from him (quoted from a 2008 article in the Minneapolis-St Paul StarTribune):
Abell lives in Charlottesville, Va., but he travels the country to teach professional and student workshops, as well as “photo camps” for inner-city children. At all of them, he passes on many of the things he learned about picture-taking from his father, a teacher and freelance photographer, while growing up in northern Ohio.
Dad’s biggest lesson?
“A form of patience that distills itself into three words: ‘Compose and wait,’ ” Abell said. “[It means] as a photographer to be out in life and to have a scene select you, sort of speak to you, and to dwell
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