Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Monday, December 28, 2009
Saturday, December 26, 2009
my photos.
a couple of unshared beauties taken by me (off of a.stride's and j prince's flickr pages).(ok, updating my flickr = my next project.)
Thursday, December 24, 2009
copyright infringment.
I stole this off btown.'s flickr because it's the bomb and needed to be seen.
The Fashion Police.
Even with love in our hearts
we rob from our own.
sorry for title page change!
I was trying to play around, but couldn't get the other photo back up. Didn't mean to remove it like that. My bad. Please re-post it from your computer, j. Thanks!
(I was looking around for other images to mix it up, but haven't yet found one I like more than the j's sneaks.)
(I was looking around for other images to mix it up, but haven't yet found one I like more than the j's sneaks.)
a thought.
"A photograph is a secret about a secret.
The more it tells you the less you know."
(Diane Arbus Allen)
Worth pondering...
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
the road book.
This week, while running my Santa's Elves Sweatshop out of my living room, I started on a scrapbook for myself that I'm calling the Road Book. I'd like to record some of the drives I've taken in the last few years, both to sort through some photos and also to do a breakdown of some thoughts I had while I was on the road.
That is my intent, but I'm already starting to feel wrapped up in the loneliness I feel when I look at some of these photos. Wow, driving. To think that there was the invention of the automobile, the invention of the mass production line, the construction of the modern American highway system, and as a result I happened to get one of the biggest containers of my life-- a metal-clad compartment on wheels where the only things I need to occupy myself with are music/silence and a compass direction.
That is my intent, but I'm already starting to feel wrapped up in the loneliness I feel when I look at some of these photos. Wow, driving. To think that there was the invention of the automobile, the invention of the mass production line, the construction of the modern American highway system, and as a result I happened to get one of the biggest containers of my life-- a metal-clad compartment on wheels where the only things I need to occupy myself with are music/silence and a compass direction.
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Friday, December 18, 2009
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Monday, December 14, 2009
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Friday, December 11, 2009
Studio portraiture project- brainstorm.
One.
I picked up the latest issue of Esquire last week because Robert Downey, Jr. is the cover story and I love him. I think I probably love him the way men love... maybe Helena Bonham Carter. I don't know. Christina Ricci? There's something very crazy about him- he has the LOOK OF A CRAZY MAN- but he seems like a thinker too, and in every interview I've ever read of him, he just talks and talks and talks, pours forth a river of words like he might actually die if he stops talking. I say all of that because I was fascinated by this photo shoot and would like to think about doing a similar project- http://www.esquire.com/the-side/robert-downey-jr-photos-1209
That project would be:
Take a bunch of random props. Say... a Christmas stocking, a dinner plate, a dictionary and a hammer.
Set up a white backdrop and some lighting.
Have the photo subject improv poses using the different props. Anything they can think of. As many different variations as possible.
Kind of a fun, spontaneous way to capture personality, which I think comes through in that Esquire photoshoot.
Two.
People as fine art, like Dan Winters' portrait photography-
http://www.nerve.com/photo-features/winters/celebrities-as-fine-art/
This would be an interesting project for me because I tend to err on the side of candid photography, preferring the idea of capturing people as they naturally are in the everyday. But there's something to be said for looking at people's faces reverently, as fine art, like they're sculptural pieces. That was part of the humor of Owen Wilson playing a male model in Zoolander, right, but I bet you could take a portrait of him where he would appear unambiguously beautiful- crooked nose being just a part of the detail that makes him beautiful and human in the way that he is.
Three.
I finally caught the Richard Avedon exhibit at the SFMOMA on its closing weekend and was just blown away- photos of people that are simple, stark, black and white, highlighting every possible startling detail of face and eyes. Where Dan Winters' photo subjects have makeup and lighting to heighten beauty in a more traditional way, this documentary stuff seems to go in the opposite direction- heightens freckles, wrinkles, all of the interesting contours of the face.
I want to keep thinking about studio portraiture because this is a realm I've never done before; I don't know anything about studio lighting techniques, I don't own a tripod or a shutter release cable. It'd be a neat challenge to take on. (You with me?)
I picked up the latest issue of Esquire last week because Robert Downey, Jr. is the cover story and I love him. I think I probably love him the way men love... maybe Helena Bonham Carter. I don't know. Christina Ricci? There's something very crazy about him- he has the LOOK OF A CRAZY MAN- but he seems like a thinker too, and in every interview I've ever read of him, he just talks and talks and talks, pours forth a river of words like he might actually die if he stops talking. I say all of that because I was fascinated by this photo shoot and would like to think about doing a similar project- http://www.esquire.com/the-side/robert-downey-jr-photos-1209
That project would be:
Take a bunch of random props. Say... a Christmas stocking, a dinner plate, a dictionary and a hammer.
Set up a white backdrop and some lighting.
Have the photo subject improv poses using the different props. Anything they can think of. As many different variations as possible.
Kind of a fun, spontaneous way to capture personality, which I think comes through in that Esquire photoshoot.
Two.
People as fine art, like Dan Winters' portrait photography-
http://www.nerve.com/photo-features/winters/celebrities-as-fine-art/
This would be an interesting project for me because I tend to err on the side of candid photography, preferring the idea of capturing people as they naturally are in the everyday. But there's something to be said for looking at people's faces reverently, as fine art, like they're sculptural pieces. That was part of the humor of Owen Wilson playing a male model in Zoolander, right, but I bet you could take a portrait of him where he would appear unambiguously beautiful- crooked nose being just a part of the detail that makes him beautiful and human in the way that he is.
Three.
I finally caught the Richard Avedon exhibit at the SFMOMA on its closing weekend and was just blown away- photos of people that are simple, stark, black and white, highlighting every possible startling detail of face and eyes. Where Dan Winters' photo subjects have makeup and lighting to heighten beauty in a more traditional way, this documentary stuff seems to go in the opposite direction- heightens freckles, wrinkles, all of the interesting contours of the face.
I want to keep thinking about studio portraiture because this is a realm I've never done before; I don't know anything about studio lighting techniques, I don't own a tripod or a shutter release cable. It'd be a neat challenge to take on. (You with me?)
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
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