October 6, 2009

Pieces by Skye Gilkerson from her series Punctuation

“I turn my attention to places and objects from everyday life that are often unassuming and easily overlooked. From this baseline of common experience, I use subtle interventions to ordinary, often ubiquitous materials in order to unfold our awareness of our surroundings and destabilize familiar structures. Space, time, light, and language, as well as household dust and the pages of a newspaper all become the materials for this exploration.”

See and read more here


And so it begins

I started working and sketching for a new project this weekend, and I’m feeling really good about it. I won’t go into too much detail about it just in case it decides to fall apart and suck hardcore, but so far it involves plaster molds, hot glue and colored sculpey.

Woohoo!
I do wish, however, that there were more hours in the day so I can get more work done. C’est la vie; hopefully I’ll make more of a dent in it this weekend than I have during the week.

Expect process photos soon!


October 2, 2009

Untitled 2009

Untitled 2009

from Glory Holes 2006

from Glory Holes 2006

from Glory Holes 2006

from Glory Holes 2006

from Instructions for Flight 2006

from Instructions for Flight 2006

Works by Angela Malchionno

“Therein in lies the goal of my work: Learn the plans and variables, use your intellect to dismantle, rearrange and refurbish. I am an advocate of the potential suspense of form in favor of free play in relation to viewer subjectivity.”


September 29, 2009
thomaswheatley: meghanelizabeth:wearetheweirdos: The sculpture “What You see Might Not Be Real,” by Chen Wenling, was displayed at a Beijing gallery Sunday. The artwork is a critique of the global financial crisis, with the bull representing Wall Street and the man pinned to the wall representing Bernard Madoff. (via)

thomaswheatley:

meghanelizabeth:wearetheweirdos:

The sculpture “What You see Might Not Be Real,” by Chen Wenling, was displayed at a Beijing gallery Sunday. The artwork is a critique of the global financial crisis, with the bull representing Wall Street and the man pinned to the wall representing Bernard Madoff. (via)

September 24, 2009

Probably the coolest thing I’ve seen in awhile. Human Tetris with 36 skateboards on some hill in San Francisco. Unfortunately, I don’t know anything else about them other than this except I found it on Geekologie


September 9, 2009
lorenrochelle: Los Angeles Edible Restaurant Los Angeles based Sander Architects recently unveiled their design for a restaurant with an edible facade. Grace Restaurant will be located in the rectory of the decommissioned St. Vibiana’s Cathedral, LA. Sander Architects explored the idea of  ‘a building you can eat’ via ‘vertical garden’ outer walls covered with fruits, vegetable and herbs that the passerby can pick at.  An open street-side counter will also cater to walk-up orders. With this edible idea, the building becomes both environmentally and people friendly. more images here. via

lorenrochelle:

Los Angeles Edible Restaurant

Los Angeles based Sander Architects recently unveiled their design for a restaurant with an edible facade. Grace Restaurant will be located in the rectory of the decommissioned St. Vibiana’s Cathedral, LA.

Sander Architects explored the idea of  ‘a building you can eat’ via ‘vertical garden’ outer walls covered with fruits, vegetable and herbs that the passerby can pick at.  An open street-side counter will also cater to walk-up orders. With this edible idea, the building becomes both environmentally and people friendly. more images here. via


September 7, 2009
Downtown Nashville and hotel room, TN. Easter 2008/9.

Downtown Nashville and hotel room, TN.
Easter 2008/9.


Hotel windows, TN Easter 2008/9

Hotel windows, TN
Easter 2008/9


Lake day, AL July 3rd, 2009.

Lake day, AL
July 3rd, 2009.


Shelton Fireworks, AL July 3rd, 2009

Shelton Fireworks, AL
July 3rd, 2009


August 25, 2009

Modern Art in Three Paragraphs

somethingchanged:

Impressionism — painting outside of a studio with quick, loose brushstrokes to capture an evocative impression of their subject. Van Gogh was an Impressionist but wanted to express how he felt about what he saw so he distorted the subject. This helped to lead to Expressionism practised by artists from Edvard Munch through to Francis Bacon. The Fauves (wild beasts) expressed themselves by painting with bright colours. Jackson Pollock did it by throwing or dripping paint on a canvas. His paintings were abstract — Abstract Expressionism.

Cézanne was very important. He began as an Impressionist but then started to look at a subject from two different perspectives to represent how we see. Picasso and his friend Georges Braque were very impressed and started to paint subjects from lots of different views. This is Cubism. Marcel Duchamp was a Cubist but then changed art for ever. He said the idea is more important than the medium and refused to stick with the limited choice of canvas or stone. So he chose everyday objects and called them art because he had altered their context. This led to Conceptual Art where the idea becomes the medium.

The Dadaists were very cross. They blamed the horrors of the First World War on the Establishment’s reliance on rational and reasoned thought. They radically opposed rational thought and became nihilistic — the punk rock of modern art movements. Dada plus Sigmund Freud equals Surrealism. The Surrealists were fascinated by the unconscious mind, as that’s where they thought truth resided. Piet Mondrian thought he could paint everything he knew, felt and saw by using two lines placed at rectangles and three primary colours. This was called Neo-Plasticism and was inspired by Cubism. So was Futurism, which is Cubism with motion added. Vorticism is the same as Futurism, but British. The Minimalists might represent the real truth because they weren’t trying to represent anything. Performance Art is Dada live.

By Will Gompertz via Kottke


August 24, 2009
Get organized! So I suppose I’m posting this out of sheer boredom, and also because I amaze myself sometimes with the amount of crap I seem to collect. Basically, I had two giant plastic tubs, two fairly decent sized cardboard boxes, and one smaller box filled to the brim with art supplies, extra/old prints, etc. I decided I had enough an wanted to actually go through every little thing I own. As you can see now, I got rid of/better organized so much, that all but my art bin fits perfectly into ONE plastic tub. STOKED! Anyway, I thought I would share, even though this doesn’t really have much to do about art, let alone photography. It’s my blog, I’ll post what I want. :)

Get organized!
So I suppose I’m posting this out of sheer boredom, and also because I amaze myself sometimes with the amount of crap I seem to collect. Basically, I had two giant plastic tubs, two fairly decent sized cardboard boxes, and one smaller box filled to the brim with art supplies, extra/old prints, etc. I decided I had enough an wanted to actually go through every little thing I own.

As you can see now, I got rid of/better organized so much, that all but my art bin fits perfectly into ONE plastic tub. STOKED!

Anyway, I thought I would share, even though this doesn’t really have much to do about art, let alone photography. It’s my blog, I’ll post what I want. :)


August 23, 2009
So here’s another one of those images I mentioned before. Since I haven’t been posting much, let alone doing anything other than work and pack/unpack lately, I figured I’d post another one. My idea book is starting to get filled up and I’m pretty excited about that. Now I just have to finish unpacking and get a break from work so I can actually follow through. In time.

So here’s another one of those images I mentioned before. Since I haven’t been posting much, let alone doing anything other than work and pack/unpack lately, I figured I’d post another one.

My idea book is starting to get filled up and I’m pretty excited about that.
Now I just have to finish unpacking and get a break from work so I can actually follow through. In time.


August 22, 2009

10 Photography Pet Peeves We’d Throw Down a Black Hole

hunsonisgroovy:

“As photographers — who rely on light — we’re usually terrified of black holes. But we enjoyed Underwire’s black-hole list so much that we and everybody at Wired.com decided to get in on the action. Gadget Lab tossed annoying gear, Autopia banished bad cars, and Wired Science ousted hideous scientific clichés.

Now it’s our turn. Here are our top photography pet peeves that we would like to throw into the abyss.”

  1. Trite Flickr Comments
  2. High-Dynamic-Range (HDR) Photos
  3. Shutter Lag
  4. Watermarks
  5. Wide-Angle Vertical
  6. The Megapixel Discussion
  7. Oversharing
  8. Rock-Concert Strobage
  9. The Arm’s Length Self-Portrait
  10. Cameras?
Read the full article.
god, it’s so true.

August 16, 2009

Things have been hectic lately

and I don’t mean that lightly.
My job has been crazy busy lately, which has left me both utterly exhausted and almost unable to function properly during the week.
On top of which, I’ve been spending the weekends slowly moving out of my apartment and I haven’t had much time for anything else.

This is starting to suck some, and hopefully I’m not letting anyone down other than myself.