Tim Barrus Blog

  1. Physics of Photography

    The physics of photography extend to more than just what light does or what light is made of. Photography is a time machine through which travel is the necessary optic. Photos tell stories that have to do with time as we see it in a linear way, when time is…

  2. What is Time

    It is hard for human beings to understand that a thing might exist in the same moment it does not exist. It is an enigma. Electrons, too, can be in different parts of the universe even as they exist individually in totally different locations. How does one thing exist in…

  3. What the Selfie Really Is

    The selfie is just another tool in the repertoir of mating behavior that reminds the person who is the subject of the selfie that they are real. A selfie is a take on verisimilitude in that the subject understands that this image is of him and yet there’s more where…

  4. Tim Barrus: New York Times

    Abolishing the police is the only way to go if we desire going forward. The police are killing us. Who said they were allowed to murder people with impunity. Very few people discuss the inhumanity of operating prisons filled with people who have been condemned for minor drug offences. America

  5. silence the voices

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  6. train

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  7. what we love

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  8. Sitting on Cars

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  9. Flag

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  10. Catch a Boat

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