It's a Start!

Class at the Arb

2009-01-27T05:25:00.000-08:00

Smoke bombs, Disc reflectors, and Cameras oh look!

Utopia: The Distant Dream

2008-12-13T05:11:00.001-08:00

Utopian Delight
Utopia is an imaginary place or society with perfect laws and politics. Although I do not believe that such a place exists, societies are in constant pursuit of the utopian ideal. Throughout time, civilizations describe their cities as ideal places by its efficiency and structure. These photos, shot during the night time capture a more distant and dreamlike quality that usually surround this ideal of perfection.

Persona Project

2008-12-13T05:01:00.000-08:00

No one picture can capture one's identity.

Persona"a second self created by the author and through whom the narrative is related.""The persona is also the mask or appearance one presents to the world. Importantly, the persona, used in this sense, is not a pose or some other intentional misrepresentation of the self to others. Rather, it is the self as self-construed, and may change according to situation and context."
The idea of this project never seemed to land on solid ground. Often times I found myself split in many directions which got me started on the idea of layering the images. Like Dada art it is noisy and all over the place. We experience the world around us through many different channels. I hardly think in a linear pattern, instead my thought patterns emerge as a chaotic asymmetrical rhythm. In this process, I gave the models the freedom to choose their persona, this way it was up to the subject to choose the appropriate identity.

Classical Paintings

2008-12-13T04:51:00.001-08:00

Caravaggio, Gentileschi, Klimt, Monet, Mattise are usually the first artists that come into mind when I think of Classical paintings.

Source Book 11.25.2008

2008-11-25T01:44:00.001-08:00

The first three are taken by Andy Frazer. These were all taken during the night using quick burning torches as the only source of light. I stumbled upon these while searching for help with night time photography. http://gorillasites.blogspot.com/2007_09_01_archive.html

I've not confirmed the photographer on this photo but what I do know is that the anomoly was unintentional and proved to quite interesting.

These photos were taken by Bill Swab, who was referenced in Andy Frazer's blog.

Source Book 11.15.2008

2008-11-15T07:56:00.000-08:00

Shot by Michelle V. Agins, the series of photos is called Night Shift, of the Coast Guard.

TV Stills

2008-11-15T06:38:00.000-08:00

Note these screen captures do not play, I provided the link if you're interested in looking at these short film. [They're well worth lookin into] I realize they are not actual TV captures since I do not have access to a TV at the moment.

This is a capture of the music video by Michael Franti and Spearhead - Say Hey. Musics important and a friend refered this song to me, I have to say, its growing on me. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoaTl7IcFs8

Things of things are always interesting to look at, This is a still captured from a video capture of a game called Little Big Planet. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2Tkg9JJbiY

I look at fonts more closely since I have to get more intimate with design. Heres an example of how font can really punctuate a scene, the scene is taken from Pulp Fiction. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqc4FqvXlKs

This is a capture from the Halo Live Action Project which shows a series of shots we'd associate with military applications and surveillance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Wfm5KFjDXQ

Boxing, can be really fast and with a trained eye you may even catch a glimpse of a punch. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmaPxa-eZss&feature=related

Heres yet another example of how text can be graphical.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RInr1Lq9LxI

Now heres a piece that I can strongly relate to. There were too many good things going on so I condensed it into 3 scenes that hit close to home. The capture is of a documentary animation of an Animator Ryan Larkin. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvfgLBMmtVs

Ryan Larkin 1943-2007

Emulation

2008-11-15T06:34:00.000-08:00

In this project I emulated Lichtfaktor, an Artists' Collective from Cologne, Germany. VJ $ehvermögen (photographer and VJ) and JIAR (communications designer and graffiti artist) experimented with the possibilities of long-term exposure and painting, thus creating light writing or light graffiti. To achieve a similar effect, using a digital camera and a tripod, the camera was set to 30 second exposures at 100iso with the smallest aperture setting. The sites chosen, indoors in a studio or outdoors on a wall or in a public setting, helped to show the different effects light has on various spaces and environments. The photos I have chosen help me to understand the effects of light within different settings and to create a dialog between the light graffiti and the surroundings.

Site Mapping

2008-11-15T06:33:00.000-08:00

In this projected I wanted to take a look at the effects of light on bodies of water. These were selected from a series of shots at Lake Erie in Vermilion and the waterfall behind Loomis in Elyria. I took a couple of photographs with varies exposure times with a tripod. The two photos of waterfalls were taken during early sunset, these shots were taken on a balconies that were setup to look over \ two levels the water flowing down. The lakeside shot was a shot taken during the morning on the edge of the shore elevated by rocks.

Pictures of our time

2008-11-09T22:32:00.000-08:00

Coldplay tops the charts worldwide

Enron

Stock Market Crash in Asia

Bombing of the Cole in Yemen

US -Somolia conflict

9/11

Iraq

Katrina

Tsunami

44th President-Elect Barack Obama

Gas Prices

Space Shuttle Columbia - Disaster

Fidel Castro Resigns

Taiwan's push toward independence

Favorites - Check them out!

2008-11-09T22:16:00.000-08:00

http://erikaraberg.blogspot.com/
http://bentepler.blogspot.com/
http://agauntphoto.blogspot.com/
http://jessicamonnerat.blogspot.com/
http://thedustoflife.blogspot.com/

Source Book - Persona Journalistic Photography

2008-10-29T09:42:00.000-07:00

Walter Astrada Agence France Presse

Ramzi Haidar Agence France Presse

Peter Morgan Associated Press

Narendra Shrestha European Pressphoto Agency

Kevin Frayer Associated Press

Karel Prinsloo Associated Press

John Moore

Hussein Malla Associated Press

Chrisophe Simon Agence France Presse

Cherl Ravelo Reuters

Source Book - Thinking of Persona Projects

2008-10-29T09:40:00.001-07:00

Luis Mallo Passengers

Luis' Project Passengers are photographs taken of his fellow passenger on New York Subway. Taken with a hidden camera in his coat his photos define New York in the early 1940s, a lot of which can still be seen during the colder days in New York.

Source Book - Thinking of Persona

2008-10-29T09:38:00.001-07:00

Sourcebook, looking into the light

2008-10-20T14:23:00.000-07:00

Offensive images

2008-10-06T16:52:00.000-07:00

Strangers

2008-09-28T01:15:00.000-07:00

People I know

2008-09-28T01:13:00.000-07:00

People I'd like to meet

2008-09-28T00:40:00.000-07:00

Emma De Cannes (Sabine)
Alexander Schneer (Viktor Vogel)
Rowan Atkinson (Mr. Bean)

Source Book - Photographers 2

2008-09-28T00:33:00.000-07:00

interesting photos

2008-09-28T00:20:00.001-07:00

Composition

2008-09-15T20:35:00.000-07:00

Source Book - Photographers

2008-09-07T21:19:00.000-07:00

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Hmmm... Important photo. I guess I would have to say it was this National Geographic photograph taken by Steve McCurry. I found this photo looking for subjects to mimic for an Art Course a while back. I didn't actually take the picture out for drawing but it did spark a shift in perspective whenever I look at photographs.

1. Xie Mo
2. Tore Hagman
3. Raya
4. Luciano Monti
5. Lennart Olson
6. Laurence Laborie
7. Herdis Maria Siegert
8. Gregor-Halenda
9. Frederick Bertin
10. Francisco Gomes

A. Steve McCurry