clearing my head

Thinking and talking a lot today about work, making work and how it all comes together for me. It was kind of nice to speak out loud about my internal process. I felt like the whole rest of the day my concept of self projection in terms of my BFA series was lingering in my head, so much so that when I shot tonight it felt right like a gut feeling kind of right.

"A photograph is a subjective impression... it is still what we see that comes out in the images, it is our reaction to the subject and in the end, the whole corpus of our work becomes a portrait of ourselves."

Marilyn Silverstone

Fromex

Why oh why do they have to be the only convenient place to get c-41 processed in L.B.? You'd think after constant scratches, gunk and weird temperature spots- not to mention countless hours of meticulous photoshop corrections to fix all the problems they put on your emulsion- we'd abandon this joke of a lab! Maybe we should have a L.A. day where we bribe someone to collect and take our neg's to a professional lab (oh and A&I your totally dropping the ball too) free pinks anyone? I'm just sayin...

Kiel can we be friends?

Look who's I stumbled upon on Beautiful/ Decay...

Remember how ya'll photo geeks were ooogling over Kiel and Theo's cardboard twins lens reflex in the lab the other week? Low and behold, there's a video! Good job Kiel (totally gonna steel it if I ever see it unattended again. lol )

Kiel Johnson's Cardboard Twin Lens Reflex Camera Time Lapse from Theo Jemison on Vimeo.

kudos on the video Theo!
So the "camera sculpture" is actually a giant pin hole here are some of the images they worked all day to get.

Photoshop superheros

Dibs on lens flare...

Bobby McFerrin

Using the Audience as an instrument
oh the power of the pentatonic scale

World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale from World Science Festival on Vimeo.

so talented it hurts

"My paper works have been based around an exploration of the relationship between two and three dimensionality. I find this materialization of a flat piece of paper into a 3D form almost a magic process..."

Peter Callesen

Oleg Duryagin

Oleg Duryagin is a Russian Photographer working with the human figure/face.

"...his aim is to question post-human identity. All that is flesh goes through a kind of digital metamorphosis; it is erased, smoothed, and rendered to extreme precision. The finished portraits look very sculptural, non-human, surreal, inanimate, and in many cases, you can see a transparency of the porcelain skin underlining the fragility of every portrait."

Talk about serious skin retouching skills. I pulled images from 3 of his series; Toy story, Tears, and Paper and Paint. There is sooo much more on his sight. What I really like in many of his images is his ability to eloquently strip gender down to an almost androgynous feel.

Is CMYK really that much cooler?

Michelle This one's for YOU!

Enjoy Mon Cheri!


From the series Milky Way

you me and every color we need to know

From the series Supervision work in progress..

Eye candy! Would love to give you more on this and her other bodies of work, unfortunately I can't find anything. (FYI her sight is made with indexibit. Just sayin...) So in the true nature of consuming images we must learn to not rely on artist statements haha what a novel concept.

Kerstin zu Pan

left unfinished

"To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture."

Pablo Picasso

Wooah...

Alexey Titarenko.
Works from his Time Stands still, and City of Shadow series.

Hiroshi Sugimoto

Wim Wenders on photography

...just re-thinking my life/ bfa project. Mark suggested I look into Wim Wenders. (Thanks)
"I think that analogous photography has to do a lot with the vanity of life."
Maybe I am a romantic, but it doesn't negate that fact that he is brilliant.

Check it! Its a sweet Interview

Torrance Meeting

After shooting Wednesday, a couple of shop owners turned me on to a meeting of the minds. Which was basically a pow wow open to discussing ideas for "revitalizing" the area. It consisted of about 20 people, mostly store owners with a sprinkle of community members. It was a little surreal being the youngest person there, but then again i think that's probably just a reflection of the interest of the area. Origionally I decided attending would help give me a feel for some of the personalities on that strip and boy did I.

What I learned from the meeting
a. All the store owners are unhappy. (most are disgruntled and want you to know it over and over again)
b. They are open to the idea of injecting the area with art/ artist, but have no idea what that entails (my idea)
c. I need to keep my mouth shut or I end up committing myself to wonderful things and making my life really really hectic...