Photo Contest!

Hey Everyone...I came across this photo contest in the free 'L' magazine...They are looking for any New York City based photographers to submit "a cohesive series of photographs with a central theme to be published in their May issue" They want 7-15 low resolution images jpegs and a written artist statement about the work." Both black and white/color will be accepted...and submissions should be unpublished....the deadline is really soon..April 1st......you send submissions to: photoissue@thelmagazine.com
Let's give it a try, it will be a good chance to practice our artist statement writing abilities...plus you could get famous!

Splash Page

I liked Jack's mailer design, I like the one with the date written in yellow better. His design reminded me of the splash page I worked on which I guess I'll post.

My idea of the lines all over is supposed to be like the rhizome image that Allison showed us. Sort of like our class being a collective of artists and the whole idea of the internet connecting us and all.


The colored shapes are supposed to be "buttons" and when one of them is pressed, all the lines collapse (this is a Flash site - don't think I can do this in Dreamweaver?) and then turns into a more current kind of looking splash page.

Rollover Buttons:

Lines collapsing:

Any thoughts on what people think? Still not sure how we should present the web pages to the public, i.e. we use everyone's splash page. I think it could be funny/interesting if we use everyones and it's a different looking site every time someone visits. However I would like to know that people are interacting with a page that I have created so maybe each splash can also have it's own url, and I could send that to the specific people that I want to?

How much wood could a woodchuck chuck?

I picked up some wood today, and wheeled it home on a hand truck for about 1.5 hours underneath the train tracks. It was between that and carrying it up numerous flights of stairs to get on the train. I feel like a certifiable pony and/or superhero.

I now have 3 chunks of solid-esque wood, which was to be thrown out by the wood shop until I salvaged it to make pretty things. One man's trash is another woman's treasure. The wood is really beautiful, and I have a few tints of lacquer, and a wood burner. Right, the wood burner. The man at the lumber shop mentioned that many people take wood scraps to carve and burn, and I've been longingly eyeing my wood burner pen for a while, about 2 years to be exact.

So many ideas, so little time.


Whenever I think of a pony I think of:

Break? What break?

Didn't get to do quite as much shooting as I would have liked over the break because my niece was born literally the day I got back upstate so everyone was baby crazy...but I did get to shoot a little and the following is what I've worked on a little bit and like so far.
As per some people's suggestions, I took some blurred in camera and others more focused and then blurred them in post. Can you tell which is which? I can, and tend to prefer the natural look of the blurred in camera but I know that for the final show the images will be a mix of semi blurred in cam and additionally worked on afterwards...this way I have the best of both worlds. sure? sure.

Other than that I worked a little on rigging up a lightbox, Ill post a picture of what it looks like soon.






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Possible Photographs

These are some images I'm thinking of using. I didn't really fine tune these within photoshop, just within lightroom. I know its a little different from my original idea of putting my face onto other people (which i have been trying out, but still need to do more, so wait for a post about those). What do you guys think?

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Version 2 ?

A little different.

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Postcard

So I decided instead of going out that I'd be productive..
Click on it to see a larger version. I think I hate the color of the date info,
maybe it should be white too. What do you guys thinks?

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Adobe Light Field Camera

This is amazing, I can't wait for them to become available.. and cheap.
PopScience Article



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2008 Whitney Biennial

Hi all,

I went to the Biennial at the Whitney yesterday and it was AMAZING!  You should go during the break, but be sure to get tickets online because the line was down the street (however I did go on a Saturday so during the week should be a little better).  There were many rooms set up with painting, photography and videos.  I saw so many creative ways to display my work, which is exactly what we need to be looking at for our show.  

I highly suggest you all go.

Brianna

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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News from Lake Wobegon



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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: