Kittens!

"The Private Life of a Cat" is originally a silent film by Alexander Hammid & Maya Deren. I recommend renting the Maya Deren DVD from the FIT library, because the DVD version of this film is crisp and high contrast.

Surrealism

Inspiring: Earthy tonal values with colorful highlights and subjects which flow into one another and illustrate the collective unconscious. Looking for a page turner by Carl Jung... Suggestions? Recommendations?

Photoshop cats

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Photo Polygon

Photo Polygon


Some Russian photo site I found. I think they collect from different places, but it's good to see some work from other places.

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Videogames and podcasts

This goes out to Evan.





Oh, and subscribe to this podcast.
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Another Radio Link

This is the original radio link I wanted to post about Polaroids.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=19344432

Seconda vita

"It's tough to teach a college class when your students are constantly flying around the room.

Just ask any professor who has opened a classroom in the online world of Second Life."

Brian, Allison, is this true?

That quote is from an article about a Second Life island, set up for instruction on teaching in Second Life, that is in development by Georgia University.

Also you might find this interesting: A book on Second Life! I think it's kind of crazy I hadn't even heard about this virtual world until a few weeks ago and now there's a book coming out about it! It's like book coming out on MySpace and Facebook, I think it's a little soon for that. Buy it here

Polaroids R.I.P?

It seems like there has been a lot of talk about the death of Polaroids lately. This has probably been going on for awhile but none the less I wanted to post a few Polaroid related items. Below is a link to a radio broadcast talking about Walker Evans late fascination with the Sx-70 Polaroid camera...I hope the link takes you there because it's worth listening to.
http://www.wnyc.org/stream/ram.py?file=studio360/studio051102a.ra&start=%225:02.7%22&end=%2210:41.9%22

Also semi related is an article in the most recent Vanity Fair featuring Robert Frank. He too is admittedly at 'the end of his career'...he is in his mid 80's and recently made a trip to China to support a new retrospective on his work. What I found interesting about this article was Robert Frank's stance on digital photography. Frank states simply, ".....digital photography destroys memory with it's ability to erase." Granted, Robert Frank is known to be a little bit of a curmudgeon. I personal feel like photography is a constantly changing medium so digital vs. non is really a non issue however I still find Frank's statement on this a bit startling. Polaroid's are probably the one photographic medium that gives immediate 'memory' without the choice of being developed or erased. Here is one more link, it's another radio podcast on memory...go to it, it will be worth your time, an experience you won't forget.
http://www.thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=351

Whitney Biennial 08

This is a great article in the NY Times which includes an interactive image section. Go the the 3rd or 4th floor installation view tabs to zoom around the artworks.


AND GO SEE THE SHOW!!!!!!

Now that we are graduating, it is more important than ever...

Maybe we already go to galleries and show openings or read the books or go to tons of websites but we can always do more. I think as a teacher, you Brian are a little better at it with each artist or show that you see. This is how we can enrich ourselves as photographers. So I have a list of galleries that the photo dept at my internship asked me to compile. It's a work in progress so it will continue to grow but here's what I done so far. Take a look at Silverstein. Their exhibits rarely disappoint.

PS. Sorry I didn't get around to posting yesterday on my normal day. I don't want to steal the spot light from any of the Tuesday posters. j/k

http://www.silversteinphotography.com/

2nd fotos

Hello folks,
Well, i've totally been slacking on this blog. I've been putting it off because i wanted to post new work, but i keep losing my picture time to other (work) obligations (have I ever mentioned how much I miss being a student, by the way?) Anyways, I am going to at least post a link to a collection on flickr of some snapshots. This whole technology and education topic has been of great interest to me and you folks have been a great group of guinea pigs! Anyways, along with filling my brain with endless articles and you-tubes on learning in SL, i've been wandering around in there from time to time, trying to figure out how to build stuff, and how to make it a useful learning environment.
Anyways, hopefully I'll have some new work to post after break. Until then:

Thesis

Two steps forward and 1 step back still gets you ahead right? I keep saying I am going to just do what I need to do and then I do a little, I get ahead, and then I fall backwards every time into the same rut.

Anyhow, here is some stuff I'm content with:

I love those two images. However I've been looking at these lately from the same shoot:


The video- Vis1 (Vis meaning Vision in some language I've now forgotten) feels more like a trailer to a not-yet existent longer film. It's a work in progress as is everything else.

I realize I have a hard time narrowing down my selects from shoots and creating a story. The last shoot I did I'm really happy with but I can't for the life of me decide on the final selects. What to do?

This week.

Jon Huck - Breakfast





I will have my photos up soon. I'm still doing some work before I post stuff that I want for the show.