Hands Full

You might of noticed I’ve been away. Well our hands have been very full with this bundle of awesome. She is my little muse and born lover of style.

24 Clicks Update

Exciting news about the 24 Clicks collaboration! The book is finished and I have 6 photos in it! I’m very excited to see the final printed copy!

design whimsy

 

It started by stumbling on to a whimsical blog with assembled with a great wishlist of found items on

http://mostlyuselessthingsiwant.blogspot.com

which lead me to jessica hische.

i could spend hours on her site! its a fun time for anyone who loves design

http://jessicahische.com

24 Clicks

I had a fun time participating in the 24 Clicks photography project. I wish I had found it earlier so that I could of had more time. It was amazing to me how much we become dependent on the digital conveniences and the amount of control we have now as photographers.

The process of 24 Clicks was such a release of that. The only control I had is when and where I clicked. No histograms, no post production, hell, short of trying to line up the correct frames with the words that I intended to, I barely had control over the concepts. Some photos didn’t turn out how I wanted, some didn’t make it at all. (Did they get missed?  Did they not expose? I have no idea.)

I did give myself some backup, I shoot two disposable cameras, one for the project and one for myself to play with later, which I was glad I did because one of my favorites didn’t make it on the site.  (Did the camera not work? Was there enough light? I have no idea.) I’ll be posting those soon but here are two of my favorites, raw, unedited from the site.

Check out the site, there are some amazing shots from many of the artists!

24 Clicks

Limited Space

Reinvent

Worker

Because I work in the studio, on location or in front of a computer, I have a great deal of respect for hard labor workers, those who are covered in their work. This was taken this summer after breaking up a concrete driveway.

Connect and Disconnect

Boy Breaking Glass by Gwendolyn Brooks

I came across this poem today and it really spoke to me so I thought I’d share it. Its about a boy who vandalizes a school. The boy said that he just wanted to create.

Whose broken window is a cry of art
(success, that winks aware
as elegance, as a treasonable faith)
is raw: is sonic: is old-eyed première.
Our beautiful flaw and terrible ornament.
Our barbarous and metal little man.

“I shall create! If not a note, a hole.
If not an overture, a desecration.”

Full of pepper and light
and Salt and night and cargoes.

“Don’t go down the plank
if you see there’s no extension.
Each to his grief, each to
his loneliness and fidgety revenge.
Nobody knew where I was and now I am no longer there.”

The only sanity is a cup of tea.
The music is in minors.

Each one other
is having different weather.

“It was you, it was you who threw away my name!
And this is everything I have for me.”

Who has not Congress, lobster, love, luau,
the Regency Room, the Statue of Liberty,
runs. A sloppy amalgamation.
A mistake.
A cliff.
A hymn, a snare, and an exceeding sun.

“And that’s the aspiration of every human being — to create, to be seen, to be noticed, to make a difference, to leave your footprint in the sand. And if we don’t provide that for kids, if we don’t open that creative vent, then we for sure open the destructive vent.” – William Ayers