Diptych 2zdayz: black, white, & blue

Diptych 2zdayz: open space

from The Mission, SF.

twinkle. (the friday photo)

tk & em  (inyo county, ca)

The Friday Photo

one from the film files

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film.

Diptych 2zdayz: JM

portrait : tfp

PhotoShop 1 final project

Diptych 2zdayz: melody hands

Images by JM.
(I didn't spend time on these- just wanted to throw them up.)

upon suggestion: LOST FOCUS

Aran had an idea to do a series of images where the main subject is out of focus. I liked the idea and realized that I had a few of these in my library, so I took a second look at them. It is an interesting aspect for sure. I hope he adds his to this post. Here is my first installment.

I love JR. (part 2)

The Friday Photo.

(casey on 'waterboard', indian rock)

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one I liked based on the light and line.

I love JR. (shanghai)

guerrillas.

One from the memory banks.

JM & 510iso.

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The Road.

(A little something I tried.)

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Fa Sho Sho!
(west oakland, ca)

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PHOTOSHOP...first attempts.

this is my first crack at graphic design. So far I have been using photos, brushes, filters, and fonts.

I can really see the potential here to do some interesting things (including designing our new logo!) These images I guess would be posters. The phone one is kind of personal, and the 'how do you see...' one I thought of as a flyer for the class at RYSE. Let me know what you think!

the final project....wow.

here is a quick look at the final project for the artschange photography class at RYSE, fall 2010!!!!

accomplished in 5 hours, with the hands/brains/eyes of aran, tim, manuel, david, and myself. came out beautiful. after tim and aran left, david said 'we should get a door knob" and manuel said "we should all sign the door knob!" brilliant ideas, so i went to omega salvage and picked up an old door knob....and a key! we sat around and just stared at it for about half an hour before I left to get the knob and key...the fellas said that they wanted to go find more doors, I suggested other found objects that would go well in a series. they were very inspired. I felt proud of my work with them, i hope to see the piece on a gallery wall soon.

the piece is stunning, as nice as anything I've seen out in the photo/art world.

The Friday Photo

7am day one with the m8.

The Friday Photo.

One from the files...  afternoon, Fridays!

btown, we trade spots...

I noticed that as soon as I came back to the site, you were gone! Maybe that happened before, and/or in reverse. This threesome is not always the most comfortable system to function in, eh!?

Onward, forward, comrades.
With love,
510iso

sampler from the white mountains

Hi Fridays,

I'm working on two small essays to post, but wanted to share the latest from the bristlecones (more up on flickr, but I'll post 'em here with some thoughts. I miss the essay aspect, that is the words and images together. I just re-read some of our longer posts, including my 35L lovefest, and remembered how enjoyable that was. Hope to take some time this holidays to really write somethings and share some projects. I would absolutely love to see some similar from you both, as time and desire allows.

my lightroom crashed just now...

my catalogue is all f'd up. I may have just lost every single one of my photos.

I will find out tomorrow when adobe cust. service opens up.

I am understandably so upset right now. so fucking upset.

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man and tree.

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fence links and paint spills

The Friday Photo

The Friday Photo.

diptych 2zdayz (on wednesday)

From our trip to the mission on saturday. Manuel and the chair builder. artisans at work.

new thread : diptych 2zdayz

whose watchin'.

graf/montreal

("I've been gone for a minute, now I'm back...")

Finally (finally!) had an afternoon off with nothing to do. It's been a very long time. Took my new little device out around the town as I explored the streets of Montreal. Man, Quebec has some serious graf writers: creative and prolific. Shooting with such a tiny camera (size and sensor) w/out using a viewfinder was a totally different experience, something I feel perfectly ambivalent about. The grainy, high depth of focus pocket experience is disappointing when thinking of portraits or landscapes, and just super awesome for the city. Anyways, enough of the ramble, here's a little sample.


 

version 2....hmmm

yeah, I can't tell...now I think I'm leaning toward this one with the two gazers...(same guy, different shots..)

photoshop project 1

wow. Okay, slowly but surely we are getting to some interesting things in photoshop class. The graphic design stuff is coming slowly, but I am now starting to learn collage using gradients, filters, and opacity/luminance. Sounds more complicated than it is. But this is what I really want to do first with photoshop; collage images together like multiple exposures to tell a story...or more like convey a feeling...it is a feeling in this image that I went for...I will also post an alternate version soon with a fourth image in it. for this one, I had like 5/6 images working together..but I ended up liking the three here. This will be the one I hand in. Pretty exciting new world/tool. let me know what you think!

two new diptychs: 'artist at work' and DaKiddaob'

These are two new diptychs from the field trip on saturday...

one is a long exposure of a graffiti artist touching up a piece. the others are two photos that I think work well together of the ever-ready Xavier Polk aka DaKiddaob...

artist interview with Remedy cafe...

hey all, here is a quick interview with Remedy Cafe in Oakland about the piece I did for them...
enjoy.

-JM
http://iartremedy.blogspot.com/2010/10/asking-artist-joseph-mintz.html

rich

retrofit (sneak preview).

I did a fashion shoot for my friends Jenny and Julia a few weekends ago... J&J have started a sustainable vintage clothing store called Retrofit Republic, and they wanted photos for their "look book" and website. It was an awesome, ridiculous, slap-dash photo shoot at the Botanical Gardens in Golden Gate Park- me the photographer, Jenny the artistic director, and two of Jenny & Julia's friends whom they'd recruited to model their outfits, 12 outfits in all.

It was a chilly, overcast morning whose highlights included (1) Jenny slamming her thumb in my car's trunk door before the shoot even started, and then carrying on by wrapping her bloody thumb in a tourniquet made of a napkin and a hair tie, (2) Julian, The Male Model, changing outfits and standing around in his underwear right out on the walkway in front of innocent passersby who just wanted to look at flowers on a Sunday morning, (3) Melissa, The Female Model, who just fucking carried herself and looked like a professional model despite the fact that she is a currently-unemployed financial analyst in Real Life, (4) a photo that I snapped of Melissa's terrorized expression as I nearly toppled off of a tree branch while taking a photo of her, and (5) coffee. And laughing our asses off. And being treated to a breakfast, including bacon, afterward.



























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