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...During Advent, I am obligated to wear purple, the color of penitence but also the Minnesota Vikings," he says. "If we play them at that time, you can bet the players will have a bit of fun with me and call me a traitor." (See pictures of John 3:16 in pop culture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: God and Football: The NFL's Chaplains Give Advice | 10/30/2009 | See Source »

...what kind of artist was he in color? The same kind as he was in black and white: a man attuned to nuance, rustling surfaces and gentle modulation, even when he was working in the most muscular natural settings. In the same way that he was turned off by harsh contrast in black-and-white pictures, he disliked strident color. What he was after were tones, colors you can't put a name to, indeterminate registers that shift in the retina and brain. Even his sunsets were powder-puff pink. (Read "The Old Master of Majesty Ansel Adams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ansel Adams: The Black-and-White Master, in Color | 10/28/2009 | See Source »

...Digital color correction now allows us to make fine adjustments in Adams' pictures to produce prints with subtleties that weren't possible in his lifetime. But can we be sure that pictures printed after his death give us just the colors he would have wanted? Of course not. He was an exacting man, and there's no way of knowing precisely what shade of gray-green or yellow-beige would have worked best for him or whether he was sure of what it should be until he saw it. He was smart enough to know that pictures are just fictions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ansel Adams: The Black-and-White Master, in Color | 10/28/2009 | See Source »

Adams once wrote that "I have yet to see - much less produce - a color photograph that fulfills my concepts of the objectives of art." Actually, he produced quite a few. He just never got to see them as he wanted to. Can we? Maybe we can get pretty close. It's worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ansel Adams: The Black-and-White Master, in Color | 10/28/2009 | See Source »

...student turnout in the absence of a big name artist? Please! Everyone knows to show up for the review session the night before the big test—how else would we ever learn the players, team color, and mascot name of our football team? It’s going to be crucial to act all knowledgeable and football-ey at Yale the next day, while trying to act really drunk in front of that girl in our section who was impressed by how drunk we were at the pep rally that one time...

Author: By Alexander J. Ratner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Love it: Pep Rally | 10/28/2009 | See Source »

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