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.

<3 Jack

Videogames and podcasts

This goes out to Evan.





Oh, and subscribe to this podcast.
<3 Garrison Keillor
News from Lake Wobegon



<3 Jack

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.

Bring on the Flowers

March 8 is
International Woman's Day !

Schedule of a headless chicken

It's Friday, which sounds like a long weekend, but the schedule is:
Go develop film NOW... 4 rolls of 1600 Neopan + 2 hours + freshly mixed gallon of Xtol = Polar bears + old Televisions + nude yoga
I planned to go to a Djimbe lesson (Djimbe is a deep sounding African drum) but decided to use my coupon another time...

Saturday
Contact + print = work in studio = paint a piece of wood gold and stick a few photos on + lacquer seashells + copywork + video
Meditate with friend who knows Dreamweaver...get tutored?

Sunday:
Update my current website and apply for a million and one steady and freelance jobs.


Now: tea and cake with my mommy!

i'm back?

So I am finally getting back into the editing process of my documentary... In the past I would sit down and stare at about two hours of raw footage in my timeline and cry.

(side note - I capture most of my footage to my timeline)

But finally yesterday all my tears were dry and I actually was able to sit down for an extended period of time and start sorting. Now... the sad part is I actually barely am showing any new footage here. It was just too much of a pain to create a "trailer" (it required too much clip movement) at this time and even though most of you have seen this... I think its on the way to being a fluid scene. All the new footage is at the end.


Background for anybody who has no idea what my documentary is:

Virtual Worlds are computer simulated environments. Today millions of people "log on" to these worlds and socialize. I use the word socialize loosely because experience varies depending on you and the other players. Some games require player to player interaction on a larger scale then other games in order to get things done. The most popular virtual worlds are MMORPG'S (massive multi player online role playing games).

My documentary will focus on the different motivations of players, the transcendence's to what is considered reality, technology, money and addiction.

This particular scene is of one of my main interviewees Richard and his fiance Allison. Richard otherwise known as Nighthawk has been running a website since the beginnings of his gaming career and a guild (see social interaction) of 20 friends (according to him at one point peaked at over 150). He is still infamous in the MMORPG world still today.

Richard is an example of a person who uses these games as a vessel, in his case he uses it to compete (he is an avid pvper/pk- "player vs player" or "people killer"). His fiance Allison also "pvps/pks" but unlike Richard tries to take the game in stride. At this time the game they play (World of Warcraft) had recently released their new material which allows users to "level up" and be able to access the new content.

This clip hopefully illustrates the complication..

The Business of Business...

So I'm in the midst of shooting some new still-life stuff but haven't edited through anything so I am not putting that up quite yet...but very soon so wait with baited breath.

What I have been working on lately though is the idea of having a logo, which I think i have settled on, and creating a few examples of a series of business cards. Ideally the new stuff I'm shooting will be the images on the cards so keep that in mind...but essentially I think I like the concept.

I'd love to hear some feedback from you guys, likes, dislikes, things you think I should try changing, or even places you know that do good printing, etc...

That's all from me, folks!

hil <3

look.

The Brooklyn museum is having a crowd juried photography contest:

http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/register/verify.php?i=151&x=f47b97ea68b1f6467a76504c62ff7133

The Whitney is having their 2008 Biennial:

www.whitney.org

I should've posted this on sunday but I guess it's better late than never, right?

I can't say I know for sure if I want to use this video for the show.  I have some that I have begun working on which I feel will be more successful and I will post soon.   I'm embarrassed.  

Hello everyone, I took a few new photographs this weekend using my new slide projector(shown above).... The Telex 4480 Caramate Sound Projector.... it is amazing, I don't know why these things ever went out of style. The slides are projected inside but you can also project them onto a wall, surface etc. For the show I was thinking of having three of these projectors working together. The most amazing thing about these projectors is that they have a tape recorder on the side, microphone attached and headphones. Seriously why don't they make these anymore?

Below is a new photograph I took using this amazing new technology. Please let me know what you guys think.

Here's my related video clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXCWf4w_h5s