Jean-Baptiste Oudry, "Belphagore" (1734), brush and black ink, gray wash, heightened with white gouache, on blue paper; 12 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches (image via public domain, all images courtesy Getty ...

In an age of sophisticated apps and devices, the simplicity of paper can actually help remind us to think outside the box. There are definitely many things that apps on our computers and mobile ...

What's your guess? Is that a photograph? The face is so close and specific. Did the photographer hold the camera in one hand, and an umbrella in the other? Maybe want to hold the umbrella over the ...

Back at the end of May I wrote about a great Kickstarter project which updated the Camera Lucida. The Neo Lucida is a prism on a bendy stick that you can use to superimpose the scene in front of you ...