6×6 is the blog of editorial and commercial photographer Tait Simpson. Brooklyn, New York creating artistic environmental portraits and landscape images.
Mother and Son
I learned this morning that my grandmother, the last remaining of my grandparents, died last night. June Simpson had suffered the loss of a son, her husband and Alzheimer’s. Yet throughout she was a faithful and loving woman who brought a sense of joy to everyone who knew her. She [...]
There is a great article in the May 11th issue of the New Yorker by Malcolm Gladwell about the full court press, the art of unconventional war and how David beat Goliath. Statistically in a lopsided battle, the weaker foe wins roughly 28% of the time, but when an underdog recognizes their own weaknesses [...]
As a former student of Philosophy, I found this summary on the NYtimes website interesting reading over breakfast. While pornography and tobacco aren’t really breakfast table conversation material, the comparison between the two struck me. Mary Eberstadt, of the Hoover Institution, compares the two in a fascinating piece about what she calls “reversal [...]
