John Sykes Jr.
Recent Photos by John Sykes Jr.
Recent Stories by John Sykes Jr.
Proceeding legally through a traffic light is hazardous to your health
posted: 11/13/2012 2:54 a.m. Comments 2
We’ve all had that moment when time seems to stand still, when the seconds ooze out like drops from a slowly leaking faucet. Most times it’s when the message “Your call will be answered in the order it was received... your call is very important to us” has drilled its way into your head.
ARTBEAT: Vintage Disfarmer prints inhabit Thompson gallery
posted: 04/08/2012 3:16 a.m. Discuss
The people populating the warm-toned vintage photographs hanging at Greg Thompson Fine Art in North Little Rock stare back at us like a nearly forgotten third cousin, the one we met once but never got to know.
Guide sharpens photo expertise
posted: 03/26/2012 2:15 a.m. Discuss
National Audubon Society Guide to Landscape Photography, Second Edition by Tim Fitzharris (Firefly Books, 2011), 192 pages, $24.95.
EXHIBIT: 40 Disfarmer photos in show
posted: 03/13/2012 2:44 a.m. Discuss
Simple is a word often used to describe the work of photographer Mike Disfarmer. His stark portraits, produced during a long and very strange career in Heber Springs, are indeed simple. But not simplistic.
A tale of Two Rivers
posted: 10/18/2011 4:10 a.m.
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On a recent Friday it rained, surprisingly, slightly annoyingly, pattering down onto the Two Rivers Park well-dried landscape. The drops that missed me splashed noisily onto the leafy canopy that covered most of the paved paths that wind through the park.
All hot and bothered
posted: 07/19/2011 3:44 a.m. Discuss
In case you haven’t noticed, somehow forgotten or are new to the area, Arkansas summers are pretty hot. If you haven’t noticed, you’re probably a victim of thermophilia, a completely made up malady wherein the sufferer cannot feel excessive heat. These lucky people, if they existed, would not be experiencing the fiery heck the rest of us are going through.
Exercism
posted: 07/04/2011 3:11 a.m. Discuss
There comes a moment in our lives when it becomes vitally important to exercise, to slow down the inevitable effects of aging. Unfortunately that moment is seconds after birth.
No loafing
posted: 05/04/2011 4:15 a.m. Discuss
What to say about this day? A day of early spring, brisk and crisp, windy and sunny, only just removed from indifferent winter. It’s cold here still with a bite that snaps at exposed skin.
Rock solid
posted: 03/09/2011 4:30 a.m. Discuss
We received the news via e-mail. My daughter had been given an engagement ring. I assumed this meant she would be married, sooner than later. Sure enough, they announced a date a few months hence.
Mangled tangles
posted: 02/08/2011 3:20 a.m. Comment 1
I approach language like that judge who said he couldn’t define pornography, but he knew it when he saw it.
