Sunday, November 29, 2009

Photo class trip to New York

Getting ready for the drive included jumping Sophie's car, losing keys and a backpack, cleaning out Sophie's car, etc, all of which delayed our departure!
Sophie, Victoria, Leah and Sophia in Chelsea. Cute!
Meredith on the phone through a gallery window.


Pipo with Sophie, Leah and Jimmy buying empanadas in the background.
Sophia in Topshop!
We made a quick stop at B&H on Sunday before heading back to Oberlin- I took one picture (trying to capture the little green bins rolling around on the track!) but then was stopped by an employee.

Friday, November 6, 2009

Yu Jinyoung


A Family In Disguise
These are beautiful! A Korean artist represented by Union, a gallery in London. http://www.union-gallery.com/content.php?page_id=3063

Daniel Eatock

week 25
Colour Coordinated: week 25

Daniel Eatock is a conceptual artist I really admire. He keeps a website where he establishes a train of thought, an aesthetic via humorous photos, and then asks his readers to contribute photos they take of similar ideas. Here is his introduction to the Picture of the Week series:

Picture of the week

This is an ongoing project originally started at Foundation 33 that was open to submissions from friends, colleagues and people passing through the studio.

Since starting Picture of the week, I notice myself looking for incidents, alignments, coincidences, view points, temporary situations, small things that go unnoticed that should be recorded. I see the work as conceptual observations and ideas not as photography. The image is not as important as the content, the title is as much apart of the work as the photograph.

An equally important part of this project is the submission from others received via email. These pictures are displayed in the Thank You section, and credited to their maker.

week 36

Door From The Car in Front: week 36

He has many different series of his work; the largest is probably the Thank You series, submitted by others. Other projects of his include drawing perfect circles by hand on many, many sheets of paper, covering a fruit bowl with fruit stickers (I'm currently making my own at home, haha), and generally searching to create an archetype which will become so widespread and well-understood that people will stop noticing it's there (this is the definition of an archetype). He designed a webpage layout that he hopes will become the standard for visual artists' online portfolios.

Display Book Shelf
MDF shelf, 6 feet long, 1 foot wide, 3/4 inch thick, resting on two metal brackets displaying books borrowed from Belk Library. The shelf sags under the weight of its contents in a graceful arc, the top edges of all the books are perfectly flush as a result of a conscious selection of volumes chosen to accommodate (or compensate for) the arc of the sagging shelf.


Alex Bank
Bus Stop: Thank You Alex Bank

Check out www.eatock.com . I'm a huge fan.

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Theora Fits In part VI

Tower City. Only had about 20 minutes to shoot, and since it was my first time 'performing' Fitting In in a busy, public space, it was a little weird and most of the shots didn't turn out. We actually got in trouble for this shot; Thank You Ally Sterman. If I have time I'd like to go back and work on this more.

Theora Fits In part V

Theora Fits In at the construction site. Thank You Pauline Zaldonis.



Just my hair! It's a character all by itself, I think.

Theora Fits In part IV

Theora Fits in the Art Department! Need to edit down more.
On one hand, I want to make these more 'performative' with more people in the background, but on the other hand, today in my Senior Studio critique of Theora Fits In, people seemed to respond more to the photos with simpler backgrounds and fewer distractions/ figures/ etc. They said that my framing and color choices were stronger in some of the simpler ones where I'd thought it out more.


Today I just tried to think less about what I was doing, and just DO it. Just FIT IN, take pictures. I did a bunch more locations than this, but these ones were the best.

Tomorrow, if it's not raining, outside on the playground and the construction site. If it's raining, grocery store. Regardless of weather: Tower City, in the suitcase, indoors and outdoor locations, art library.