Cross Processing

This assignment was a simulation of true cross processing. MPI wouldn't throw our film into slide chemicals and so we had to make believe in photoshop with our film, to try and visually get the same result. Whether I did it right or not, I'm not sure. We will find out tomorrow. It's been a long day.

Artist Intent

    Currently I am playing around with idea of taking the image myself completely out of context and putting myself into another environment. This is done by making cutouts of myself and then photographing these characters instead of simply shooting myself in reality. This process takes a bit longer then my previous undertakings, but after I began doing this, I have finally found excitement in photography again! I want to use the image of myself the same way that a painter uses water and pigments. I want to put the creation back into my art.

    This series is starting to try and address the disconnect of my generation and the addiction to self-entertainment.  There is nothing wrong with music, but I have noticed in in my own life and in the life of my brother, that it’s an odd compulsion that needs to be addressed more.  Why do we feel so lonely all the time? And does this have anything to do with our need to always be diverted into some physiological place?  

I have glue all over my hands

"The way we make pictures, is we make pictures for people that are interested in specifics. They are not going to be interested in everything. They're going  to be interested in that scene. "I love that scene". Somebody else going to say, "I hate that scene." It's because it has something to do with their life. And in that sense it's not like a movie. It's Ahh... A movie tries to pacify people by keeping it going for them so that it's sheer entertainment. I hate entertainment" John Cassavetes.

    It's the second half of the semester people! And it's a awake call with mid term grades...

    Today, after oversleeping and missing church, I groggily drove to school to pick up a battery that I ordered for the camera, and then hit the ground running trying to start and finish a couple projects that are due for Tuesday. I know I've showed these, but today I had to shoot with film.  I was trying to meter with my digital camera since my film was acting weird and telling me strange things that I didn't believe. I still enjoy looking at these characters, but I feel like it's gosh darn time I moved on to different ones, and a different backdrop.

I'm using characters who are indifferent of each other, 
who live in mental bubbles, 
but yet share the same space. 





    My dear mother sent me a lovely dress today, with a note that implied its potential photographical use! I didn't wait another minute. I'm becoming addicted to using flash during sundown. It's a nice combination of lighting.

    And of course IPC!  I'm creating an old western facade with drinking straws. Who would have thought I would be doing this today. (You know as a kid I used to think that straws were a treasure. Now I after touching and gluing around 500 together, I think pretty much the opposite of that).

  We'll see if the class gets what I am trying to say at all. Context will really bring this deal to life.

Trying to think like John Cassavetes

    "Nothing that you plan is ever on the film - something else may be on the film but nothing that is planned will ever come to life." Cassavetes

The Minnesota Sand Dancers!

I have never played around with ocean and sand in photographs. I've always thought that such natural materials were abused in cliche ways. But this morning was quite fun!

I wasn't too worried about the direction of the sun for these shots. I simply wanted figures to cut out and project later, but as I was looking I realized that it might be fun to take a few with correct lighting. So we're calling this a test trial for tomorrow afternoon. So for every family member... if you want to look silly dancing in the sand, tomorrow might be your day!

Ego

                                                           

                                                                             Lone Star

                                                                          Oblivious

                                                                          Jealousy

                                                                            Forerunner

Mindless

Been around two years right?

So maybe I'm just excited to see my family soon, but I was humored when I remembered that it is closing in on two years since Caleb and I traversed the seas of Wisconsin and Illinois to audition at Visible.

 And now to find myself sitting at the Keith's kitchen table making cutouts, of me acting like a fool for my next photo assignment, is quite funny at eleven pm.


                                                

                               








Never would I have guessed  that this is where life was taking me.  I have no regrets!

And there is another thing, I have never been able to do homework in living room or in any other part of the house but the kitchen. It has been this way ever since I was a youngster sitting at the table with my sibling doing Saxon math and breaking pencil lead.

Always the kitchen... always.


I'm really excited about these cutouts. There are so many times when I see some kind of human interaction in real life that sparks my interest and  I think to myself, "That would make a great skit!" Now if I use this idea wisely, I might be able to pull some pretty cool ideas into reality.

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