Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Onion Dance.

I have moved to the next step on my house project. Ive created many a digital neg for each of my images and contact printed them on several different kinds of silvgel paper.



In crits today i think people were torn between the usage of warm tone paper, and a more cooler toned paper. I think i lean toward the warmer paper rather than the latter but i can always tone things later if needed.




Lydia and I are ordering a large role of Pictorico and paper about 24 inches x65 feet. this way we can print exponentially larger and really push our images to become something more.



large prints for midterms is THE PLAN.


Oops, i forgot my camera.

Last week a freak snow storm happened. The flakes were pouring down like volcanic ash and floated down like bubbles to the ground, where the immediately evaporated. These snow flakes were about the size of tennis balls. THEY WERE HUGE i'm telling you. About 5 of us were in the photo department at the time, and we all decided that we should definitely document this, but none of us had a camera.

WHICH IS DEPRESSING BY THE WAY.

But anyway, we all whipped out our cell phones and started taking pictures of one another playing in the crazed snow. After i regained feeling in my fingers from the cold, i searched through my phone and started looking at all my images. Then it dawned apon me how i ALWAYS have a camera on me, because i always have my phone.





On my phone i have an extra memory card to hold images or music or whatever, resulting in my phone having a SD capacity of about 8 gb. HOLY MOTHER. that's a lot of room on a tiny 1 megapixel camera.




It turns out that i had about 5 gb worth of pictures on my phone already. And some of these babies were pretty darn interesting. I mean i think i underestimate the full epic range of composition, and formal image quality in some of these tiny pictures. FA REAL. I document with out really knowing pretty much my whole life, Kind of like Helio does. I have metaphorical rolls and rolls of "film" smashed into my camera of poorly exposed photographs that have not been respected like they should have.





So here are some images that i collect and document life everyday. As mundane as they are they hold more baggage then most images i compose with my SLR, and i think that is something to be noted.


Monday, February 22, 2010

daily

for Lydia

She mentions in her blog that she likes the change of her self in photos. and i do too. I've taken a picture of myself pretty much everyday for the last 3 years on my mac. Lyd decided to post some, so i think i will as well.



11/15/08

12/29/08

2/24/09

5/11/09

6/5/09

7/19/09

10/22/09

11/22/09

1/10/10

2/11/10

2/15/10

2/22/10

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Julia Fullertontonton

So Lydia found this lady that reminded her of me, I'm diggin it.

http://juliafullerton-batten.com/

Here are some of her images i liked.







Thursday, February 11, 2010

Playing House

Currently i'm working on a series called 'playing house' (its a working title.) Its referent of memories i have growing up with my sisters, and the adventures we had while staying at our grandma's house. Here are just a couple images that started the lil project off.







...to be continued...

today

today i woke up and taught 12th grade. then i had a frozen pizza and played with my dog. following these activities and i drove to school and sat in a community arts education lecture located at the Kemper Museum. when the lecture came to a close, i continued to the East Building and created this blog.