Category Archives: Art

An exercise in perspective

Posted on July 15, 2023 by Doc Searls

I wrote this today for a list that’s mostly populated by folks in overlapping music, broadcasting, legal, tech, and other businesses who share a common interest in what’s happening to the arts and artists they care about in a world … Continue reading →

Posted in AI, Art, Business, Cognitive Science, music, Subscriptions | 6 Comments

A workflow challenge

Posted on March 29, 2023 by Doc Searls

I shoot a lot of pictures. Most are from altitude (such as the above). But lots are of people and places; for example, here are a few I shot at DWebCamp last summer with my new Sony A7 IV camera … Continue reading →

Posted in Apple, Art, data, Photography, problems | 3 Comments

Places

Posted on October 18, 2022 by Doc Searls

Let’s say you want to improve the Wikipedia page for Clayton Indiana with an aerial photograph. Feel free to use the one above. That’s why I shot it, posted it, and licensed it permissively. It’s also why I put a … Continue reading →

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From Hollywood Park Racetrack to SoFi Stadium

Posted on September 30, 2022 by Doc Searls

Hollywood Park Racetrack is gone. In its place is SoFi Stadium, the 77,000-seat home of Los Angeles’ two pro football teams and much else, including the 6,000-seat YouTube Theater. There’s also more to come in the surrounding vastness of Hollywood Park, … Continue reading →

Posted in Architecture, Art, Aviation, Awesome, Business, california, data, infrastructure, Photography, Places, Technology, Travel | 4 Comments

Wayne Thiebaud, influencer

Posted on December 28, 2021 by Doc Searls

Just learned Wayne Thiebaud died, at 101. I didn’t know he was still alive. But I did know he had a lot of influence, most famously on pop art. Least famously, on me. Many of Thiebaud’s landscapes were from aerial … Continue reading →

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Speaking of character

Posted on July 12, 2021 by Doc Searls

It seems fitting that among old medical records I found this portrait of Doctor Dave, my comic persona on radio and in print back in North Carolina, forty-five years ago. The artist is Alex Funk, whose nickname at the time … Continue reading →

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The universe is a start-up

Posted on March 4, 2020 by Doc Searls

“Pillars of Creation” is a live view of stars forming in a neighboring region of the Milky Way. (Inside the Eagle Nebula, 5,400 to 6,100 light years away.) The Solar System, formed 4.6 billion years ago. Earth became a planet .46 … Continue reading →

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Where the nickname came from

Posted on April 26, 2017 by Doc Searls

My given name is David. Family members still call me that. Everybody else calls me Doc. Since people often ask me where that nickname came from, and since apparently I haven’t answered it anywhere I can now find online, here’s the story. … Continue reading →

Posted in advertising, Art, Blogging, Broadcasting, Business, Friends, Fun, Geography, history, North Carolina, Past, Personal, radio | 5 Comments

The biggest bust in Santa Barbara is about to go down

Posted on February 20, 2017 by Doc Searls

Emanuele Orazio Fenzi, better known as Francesco Franceschi (1843-1924), was an Italian horticulturist responsible for vastly increasing the botanical variety of Santa Barbara (introducing more than 900 species). He was also for awhile the primary landowner on the Riviera, a … Continue reading →

Posted in Architecture, Art, Culture, Geography, Geology, Santa Barbara | 2 Comments

Loving Leonard

Posted on November 12, 2016 by Doc Searls

I was as deeply affected by learning Leonard Cohen died as I was by the election results. Maybe more. I can’t name an artist whose songs mean more to me than his. Not Dylan, not (I’m thinking…) anybody. (Here’s how … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, music, Obituary | 7 Comments