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There’s a fabulous article in this month’s issue of Vanity Fair on Normal Rockwell, the celebrated American painter. The photographs he staged to work from as models for his paintings are provided next to the finished painting images, allowing a stunning and comparison between what the artists inferred and what elements he enhanced with the paintbrush.

The way the world looks from this vantage point is layered in unusual dimensions and uniquely visible. The way the perspective looks from the outside is a misleading inward-turning capsule. Both perspectives are valid.
The person in the catbird seat may never realize the unique point of view at their disposal. Or they can take advantage of it and leverage its use for value.

I was saddened to hear of the drug overdose death of DJ AM, a young man who had been somewhat influential on the Los Angeles music scene and had recently died in a New York hotel room. My first instinct was to type in the url of a website called “the Cobrasnake”, a photo website that has functioned as a gung-ho gallery of clubby scenester nightlife. I expected to see some photos.

Reviewing a few pictures of the product catalog I am building for a new client website, one of my colleagues interrupted to say ‘Wait a minute. I don’t know what I’m looking at!”. She explained there were a lot of things going on in the picture and that the merchandising side needed work. The elements of the catalog were to show