September 25th, 2025
Wow. An “About” update after 15 years! Why? Well, many of those years are ones that the locusts have eaten…the locusts being Facebook and Instagram. It is not that I did not post here in those years, but less and less with more and more posting there. I am attempting a new/old thing here by having bought a domain and consolidating most of my creative efforts here without connection to Facebook and Instagram. Why? Well, while the reach and connectivity to far-flung friends on those platforms is certainly impressive, increasingly there was too much additional baggage. Perhaps I will explore that in a future essay. It may take a while to see what this resurrected site becomes. In the meantime, the descriptions below do a pretty good job of describing what you will find.
On the personal level, I am still a librarian living and working in the city of St. Louis.
April 20th, 2010
The Dassler Effect is, in a word, chiaroscuro; dark and light-not yin and yang, but fall and restoration, brokenness and beauty, longing and fulfillment, groaning and revelation-a little now, much, much more later.
If these words resonate with you, stay a while.
September 16th, 2008
Hello, WordPress is the third platform for the The Dassler Effect.
The Dassler Effect consists of photo posts and wide ranging reflections on topics ranging from media to aesthetics to relationships to theology, often with a fair dose of playfulness. If that is your sort of thing, come along for the ride.
The author of The Dassler Effect is Neil E. Das a reference librarian and amateur writer, photographer, and cook who lives in St. Louis, Missouri.
Hey for your next two Photo contests you could keep the seasonal theme and entitle them “Sights of Summer” (Due last week of August) and “Flavors of Fall” (Week following Halloween)
Adi
I’m enchanted by your perspective.
Thank you, Ann-Marie, for your words and for stopping by. By the way, are you related to the famous Dassler brothers by any chance?
Hi, nice to meet you !
it’s been awhile, but i still love your exquisite photos! thank you for sharing. hope all’s well.
I stumbled upon your blog when I searched wordress for Richard Haas – glad that I stumbled 😉
I like your photo work and good to see a local artist.
Excellent photos 🙂
Hi Neil — I would like to post something about Melanie Blunk Dolan on my blog as I bought a piece of her work and would like to showcase it. Would it be okay with you if I use the Artist Statement and picture from your blog?
Gorgeous pictures!
Beautiful, beautiful photographs!
My dear fellow blogger, I have nominated you, in very good company if I do say so myself, for a Versatile Blogger Award. Now, I know perfectly well that some of you have previously been recognized with this particular honor, and I will not require you to follow the acceptance “rules” to the letter; frankly, on this my third receipt of this very welcome recognition it has taken me a couple of long days just to respond properly, whereas I don’t struggle quite so much to write a fresh post a day under normal circumstances.
What I would like to suggest to each of you in response to this is that instead of doing the usual, you make a post one day soon that tells us what fed your drive to express yourself in a blog and your personal flexibility and versatility. Was it in your training to try to diversify and strengthen and deepen your skills and interests, were you born curious, or was it serendipitous? Is your family or educational background particularly creative, or were you the unique artistic one in the bunch? I’m interested in our sharing what shapes us as creative beings, and I think this VBA recognition is an appropriate time to take a breath and consider it.
With my deep admiration!
Kathryn
The Bard on the Hill
Year-Struck
Not Quite Old
The Dassler Effect
Kreativ Kenyerek
Sweet Caroline’s Cooking
The Seven Hills Collection
Patridew’s Perfect World
Aspire. Motivate. Succeed.
cfbookchick
Nine Lives Studio
Daily Nibbles
dnobrienpoetry
The Valentine 4: Living Each Day
A Cup of Tea with this Crazy Nia
And here’s the link to your award conferral!
http://kiwsparks.wordpress.com/2011/11/14/highfalutin-company/
Fascinating perspective – thanks for sharing it all. Your creativity appears boundless.
I found you via kathrynIngrid’s blog. Wonderful pictures and writing.
Good morning! I’ve nominated you for the Versatile Blogger Award. If you would like to participate, you can go here to see the rules. http://gluten-free-zen.com/2012/01/20/the-best-things-about-blogging/
And you have yet another nomination, from me this time, for the Versatile Blogger Award! You are a popular guy and so very talented! Since you have had the rules before, I am sure that you don’t need them again!
I love your blog! Just nominated you for the Reader Appreciation Award…details can be found here: http://www.iwantgreatthings.co.uk/2012/04/reader-appreciation-award/.
Look forward to seeing your next images 🙂
MissFeebs
Good shooting.
Hey Neil,
Thanks again for letting me use your photo as a header in my website. I’m excited to inform you that we just launched and you can see your photo in http://www.momentmatters.com!
The headers in the website comes in random so you might want to visit a few pages in the website to see yours.
All the best,
Justin G. Bautista