Showing posts with label photograph. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photograph. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
I been gluttonous
I wanted to listen to a song but couldn't find the right kind of song. My gluttonous binge–of homeless, phone calls, bill paying, waiting, unproductivity, to dos, lacking, leaches, let downs, and disappointment–is in transition to an expulsion of bile and partially digested food from my oral cavity. One such projection is a new commodity.
Monday, January 21, 2008
Sunday, January 13, 2008
Self Less Portraits
These next couple of images fit into a body of work I am just beginning or more an idea I am beginning to toy with. I don't know if it will ever turn into a full body of work. Any, its tentative name is Self Less Portraits. Let me know what you think.
Abacate, 2007
Magenta, 2007
Does anyone know how I place an image caption directly under my images? I have seen it done on other peoples blogs.
Abacate, 2007
Magenta, 2007Does anyone know how I place an image caption directly under my images? I have seen it done on other peoples blogs.
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Art works
I have aquired some art work recently that I am happy about. The least recent was the Brian Ulrich print from 20x200.
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More recently are some drawings by Jason Polan. This first from his Drawing Project. It is a great project where he gives away a drawing each day to the first person to email him after the days drawing is posted on the project blog. After many tries and one mistaken win I had a real win. Drawing #38, Line Plant. I also came by a couple other drawings and other goodies by Jason, two of which are featured below.
I am excited for the day that I get all these puppies framed and up on my walls. I hope to amass museums worth of prints, drawing, paintings, and what have you. Being broke though sure isn't making that easier. However!!, anyone interested in trading photographs or anything else hit me up. I love trading.
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More recently are some drawings by Jason Polan. This first from his Drawing Project. It is a great project where he gives away a drawing each day to the first person to email him after the days drawing is posted on the project blog. After many tries and one mistaken win I had a real win. Drawing #38, Line Plant. I also came by a couple other drawings and other goodies by Jason, two of which are featured below.
I am excited for the day that I get all these puppies framed and up on my walls. I hope to amass museums worth of prints, drawing, paintings, and what have you. Being broke though sure isn't making that easier. However!!, anyone interested in trading photographs or anything else hit me up. I love trading.
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Hiatus no more
So after my brief hiatus I am back with news, pictures, other news, and some other stuff.
The first mindblower...I am engaged! Hooray! I purposed on New Years Eve after a surprise, romantic, candlelit, vegan dinner. After dessert I pulled the old slide across the floor on your knees bit and presented the ring. She said yes. More news on that will follow in the coming months. Please email me your address if you would like to receive an invitation.
As I mentioned in a previous post, I plan on showing more work here on the blog ranging from outtakes to new work to work in progress. Expect a lot of that in the following days/weeks. I am excited about this featured piece because it is my first triptych. I have had a bit of an obsession with diptychs and triptychs but have never really had a good application for them in my work, until this piece that is.
Courtyard, 415 E 73rd St New York, New York, 2007
The first mindblower...I am engaged! Hooray! I purposed on New Years Eve after a surprise, romantic, candlelit, vegan dinner. After dessert I pulled the old slide across the floor on your knees bit and presented the ring. She said yes. More news on that will follow in the coming months. Please email me your address if you would like to receive an invitation.
As I mentioned in a previous post, I plan on showing more work here on the blog ranging from outtakes to new work to work in progress. Expect a lot of that in the following days/weeks. I am excited about this featured piece because it is my first triptych. I have had a bit of an obsession with diptychs and triptychs but have never really had a good application for them in my work, until this piece that is.
Courtyard, 415 E 73rd St New York, New York, 2007
Friday, December 7, 2007
Friday, November 30, 2007
Photocrappy
Photography has got me down a bit these days. I am frustrated with all the post production work involved in taking a picture.
I prefer to shoot transparencies on a 4x5 for a couple of reasons. Principally, because it is slow. I like having to previsualize an image, to have an idea, and then to set about to make it happen. I like to work meticulously and deliberately, making each shot worth the five dollars it costs to make. I love the quality of the materials. I love holding a transparency and seeing it's luminous translation of an idea to a palpable object and seeing the way glows on a light table. That, unfortunately,is where my excitement peaks, that moment when I pick up my transparencies from the lab, lay them on the light table, and relish in the glow. From there unpleasantries abound.
To do anything with a transparency you have to scan it and either you buy a many thousands of dollars scanner, computer, etcetera and do it yourself or you spend hundreds of dollars turning emulsion into pixels. Not only is scanning costly it also quickly amasses gigabytes and by thus requires mass storage space plus mass back up storage space. You then have to run it through the whatsits and whizzles of the computer world, on your expensive, hot rodded computer to get it to be print ready. Then finding a printer, deciding on a framing method, size, quantity, etcetera, etcetera, and on top of that find a venue to show the final product. Ugghh, the magic wears thin.
I guess most of this revolves around having money, which I lack. I end up doing most everything myself on equipment borrowed or by providing services on trade. With the remaining bits I research excessively to get the best bang for my buck. I suppose if you have money you can pay the bones to get a beautiful scan made, a large print produced and framed, and own the equipment to do and store everything in between. If only...
My loves for the medium still greatly out weigh my frustrations so I will continue to photograph and struggle to get those images up on a wall. I am however, beginning to dabble in other media. I have been drawing, planning sculptures, and thinking of painting. I want quicker turn around times. It is a misconception that photography is fast. A painting is fast once you finish it you never have to think about it again. While the gallery wall eludes me I plan to show more work on screen, here and on my website of works or series in progress, individual shots, or works in other media.
Like this,
The Abominable Snowman, 2007
So until I strike it rich, any tips on scanning, printing, and framing with no money and no equipment will be graciously accepted. Any advice on exhibiting is also welcome. So stay tuned as I begin to pull more work from the hard drives, dvds, portfolios, and elsewhere (if I ever get them scanned) for your viewing pleasure.
I prefer to shoot transparencies on a 4x5 for a couple of reasons. Principally, because it is slow. I like having to previsualize an image, to have an idea, and then to set about to make it happen. I like to work meticulously and deliberately, making each shot worth the five dollars it costs to make. I love the quality of the materials. I love holding a transparency and seeing it's luminous translation of an idea to a palpable object and seeing the way glows on a light table. That, unfortunately,is where my excitement peaks, that moment when I pick up my transparencies from the lab, lay them on the light table, and relish in the glow. From there unpleasantries abound.
To do anything with a transparency you have to scan it and either you buy a many thousands of dollars scanner, computer, etcetera and do it yourself or you spend hundreds of dollars turning emulsion into pixels. Not only is scanning costly it also quickly amasses gigabytes and by thus requires mass storage space plus mass back up storage space. You then have to run it through the whatsits and whizzles of the computer world, on your expensive, hot rodded computer to get it to be print ready. Then finding a printer, deciding on a framing method, size, quantity, etcetera, etcetera, and on top of that find a venue to show the final product. Ugghh, the magic wears thin.
I guess most of this revolves around having money, which I lack. I end up doing most everything myself on equipment borrowed or by providing services on trade. With the remaining bits I research excessively to get the best bang for my buck. I suppose if you have money you can pay the bones to get a beautiful scan made, a large print produced and framed, and own the equipment to do and store everything in between. If only...
My loves for the medium still greatly out weigh my frustrations so I will continue to photograph and struggle to get those images up on a wall. I am however, beginning to dabble in other media. I have been drawing, planning sculptures, and thinking of painting. I want quicker turn around times. It is a misconception that photography is fast. A painting is fast once you finish it you never have to think about it again. While the gallery wall eludes me I plan to show more work on screen, here and on my website of works or series in progress, individual shots, or works in other media.
Like this,
The Abominable Snowman, 2007So until I strike it rich, any tips on scanning, printing, and framing with no money and no equipment will be graciously accepted. Any advice on exhibiting is also welcome. So stay tuned as I begin to pull more work from the hard drives, dvds, portfolios, and elsewhere (if I ever get them scanned) for your viewing pleasure.
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Emmett's Bloody Nose
by Sally Mann makes me want to do nothing but photograph portraits of people with bloody noses.
I have spent the last several minutes thinking about how I could do that. Self-inflicted? Volunteers?
I have spent the last several minutes thinking about how I could do that. Self-inflicted? Volunteers?
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Sunday, May 27, 2007
some new
Here are the humble beginning of a new project I have in mind. I shot them about a month ago, but probably won't continue the series for a little while cause I don't have a studio to use.
Blender
Television
Blender
Television
Monday, April 2, 2007
Polaroids
Here is some photers from my recent trip to Cool New York. Thems were with a Minolta Instant Pro, a new addition to my camera library. It is a pretty sweet polariod camera with such features as multiple exposures, times exposures, etc.
Friday, March 16, 2007
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