Playing House Video

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

Janet and Keats

The very last sonnet that John Keats wrote before he died at age 25 was this,

Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art! -
Not in lone splendor hung aloft the night,
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like Nature's patient sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priest-like task
Of pure ablution round earth's human shores,
Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask
Of snow upon the mountains and the moors -
No -yet still steadfast, still unchangeable,
Pillowed upon my fair love's ripening breast,
To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,
Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,
Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
And so live ever -or else swoon to death.

I was reading some of Keats' work, and got inspired to to watch an Australian film in correlation with the BBC that was made about his life called Bright Star. Besides the fact it was EXTREMELY sad, it was a very beautifully made movie.

As i was watching it, the nerd inside me started to realize that the composition of the scenes reminded me of my work and how i have been choosing to lay out my narrative pieces I've been doing.









Janet Patterson was the fashion designer and set designer of the film. She also did movies like The Piano and Oscar and Lucinda. Janet has a beautiful natural way of dressing actors and film sets that i really admire. I feel that in order to make my images more successful i need to look into more cinematic way of looking at things. It was suggested to me during crits that people view my images like a film and the off screen information, or lack of information kept each of my pieces independent as well as linked. Ive been trying to research films that i like the space and design of and follow their creators.


(Here's a shot from the Piano that i really enjoyed.)


So Bright Star with good ol' Janet here was my first endeavor. Comments, or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

babies

according to MakeMeBabies.com

me and a giant squid would have a baby that strangely resembles a pedophilic old man.

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Ive been getting some really great PictureMail from people lately, and I'm really grateful for it.

I read in the winter issue of Aperture, about how civilians in the middle east are able to identify terrorist members by images that they capture on their cell phones. As well as certain members of gangs and other organizations have been able to be arrested through cell media. Who needs photo journalists when anyone with a cell phone can document on a whim?

I feel like the way "us kids" operate now we are constantly attached to some kind of electronic device be it ipods, or cells, or laptops ect. we have a constant contact with some kind of network that we can wireless-ly send information. We can take in so much more information through our eyes as well as our devices, that in bulk it creates a fantastic database of current culture. We live in a fast pace society, but we can document it in a fast pace method as well. HOW CrAzY!

i like to think of all these images as some kind of digital view master...


Brandon Frederick

Steve Lewis

Travis Williams

Alicia Foster

picture mail.

You all should send me good picturemail. INSTANT fun.

like my good friend Austin here.


Austin Buckingham

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Steve Lewis

thank you Steve.

HOUUSEEEE

New photo.




"If it weren't for the floor boards, it might have actually worked."





"Sunday Afternoon"

think about this for 2 seconds.

If you keep scrolling, all the names make a pretty picture.


when you see all the names in mass, it becomes hard to swallow.