For Kate

I feel masculine when I am home, I can take care of myself. I often feel emasculated when I leave the apartment though, with everyone asking me if I need help. I don't need any help.

I discovered the work of Chad States today and I thought of Kate's project when I viewed his series Masculinities. I just thought I would share it with everyone, as we are all going though the process of relating text with image.

Here's the link to his website:

Chad States

Individual Meetings

Please arrive AT LEAST five minutes early.

1145 Kelsey

1157 Jamie

1209 Alexis

1221 Kate F.

1233 Lauren

1245 Adrianna

1257 Mark

109 Kate C.

121 Hali

133 Augusta

145 Ravi

157 Diego

209 Mel

221 Sam

233 Soo

For Mel

They have the entire text of The Pit and the Pendulum online if you're interested! good stuff yo
le link
http://www.literature.org/authors/poe-edgar-allan/pit-and-pendulum.html

Potraits

A video on choosing an aperture while taking portraits.

Some Light Reading...

Found this really convenient blog/article/collection of words on the internet that lists really helpful photography books, if anyone is interested in that sort of thing.

enjoy

Australian star trails by Lincoln Harrison. It's so beautiful!!

Natural Expressions in Portraits

Check out this article

article is the wrong word. Blog, I suppose. It's a portrait photographer talking about how she gets natural expressions from her subjects. Could be helpful to some who are doing portraits.

Movie Monday!

Gran Torino

click the link and watch the trailer. Clint Eastwood calling someone a 'puss cake' and drinking PBR and just generally being a badass. Also, transcending racism and vigilante justice are very important.

Response and Recommendation

First of all: Thank You Kate for that posting on Ivan and the Moon...very cool and to Sam for sending us that link You Are Not So Smart; I've perused the site and love it- great ideas Also: I wanted to tell Augusta that her work reminds me of the first seven or so images of Doug Dubois 's series "Avella". You might want to check him out umhmm

We should all shoot this much.

The Edit from Ed Wargin on Vimeo.

Help Please!

Hey guys,

Do any of you have black velvet or black velveteen (or a black backdrop of some kind) I could barrow? I would so appreciate it!!!

Thanks

ivan and the moon

For Adrianna:

http://www.burnmagazine.org/epf-2011-finalists/2011/05/daria-tuminas-ivan-and-the-moon/

ivan and the moon..

I'm not sure why people are suggesting films for "movie monday" (I must've missed out on this on Friday..) BUT! If we can just suggest any film, I've got a few!

Persona (amazing stillness that accentuates the distance between two people)
Frankenstein (amazing sets, amazing lighting, brilliant story..AMAZING!)
Susperia (amazing use of symbolism through color)
Days of Heaven (Incredibly strong compositions, amazing utilization of natural light)

Lemme' know if this is not what you wanted! Enjoy, Adrianna..

a herp for your derp

HAI can we watch Amelie please ?

Why? it is just so happy :) it seems we all could use a little more happiness right now. and look kids! Amelie presents an interesting idea for a conceptual series with the incorporation of the photobooth storyline, har har. could perhaps argue that it's class related...hmm


ALSO: in this blog post, I've included a completely irrelevant video:

Movies for next week:

I only have a few proposals:

The Tree of Life, Terrence Malick, 2011

Terrence Malick's latest film, which was really hard to find in theaters, has finally come out on dvd. It's one of the best films I've seen in a long time. It very successfully straddles the line between a non-linear art film and hollywood entertainment, somehow.

What Remains: The Life and Work of Sally Mann, Steven Cantor, 2005

I know we've probably all seen this many times, but I am always in the mood to watch this documentary.

William Eggleston in the Real World, Michael Almereyda, 2005

I got this documentary during his Democratic Camera show at the Corcoran two years ago. It is an excellent look into the rather strange life of William Eggleston.

Alec Soth, William Eggleston in His Music Room, Memphis Tennessee, 2000

For Kelsey - Sara Winston

Sara Winston graduated from Corcoran last year and is currently pursuing her MFA at Columbia in Chicago. I thought it might be helpful to look at some other student's work concerning their own personal space.

"Worn Out Joy is a testament to domestic life. The photographs convey a view of home, its value, and comforts. Over a period of 9 months, I have investigated the developments of my apartment. Growing up, I was told that the respect and order one shows their living space is directly linked to their self esteem. Do one’s habitats reflect the values of its tenant? This pursuit confronts dilemmas of a fleeting domestic space in the form of personal documentation. "

Here is a link to the rest of her series:

Sara J Winston - Worn Out Joy

For Sam - Vito Acconci

Vito Acconci. Blinks, Nov 23,1969; afternoon. Photo-Piece, Greenwich Street, NYC; Kodak Instamatic 124, b/w film

Holding a camera, aimed away from me and ready to shoot, while walking a continuous line down a city street.
Try not to blink.
Each time I blink: snap a photo.

Explosions in the sky - First breath after coma

For those of you that need some mind-numbing relaxation listen to this.

A Hilarious youtube clip

This is for Shane. Risque 7 year olds, how do you react? Laugh? Weep for humanity?

Answer: laugh. Because this is utterly ridiculous.

Movies!

So here are my following recommendations (with little snippets as to why I picked them) for our movie monday:

Batman The Dark Night - The Joker.
The Goonies - Treasure and Pirates.
Inception - A maze of physiological goodness.
The Shawshank Redemption - Morgan Freeman.
Vernon, Florida because its one of the best documentaries about the lives of some pretty off-beat people. I think most people have already seen this one in Elements of the Moving Image.
The Great Escape - Steve McQueen and an amazing motorcycle chase through Switzerland.
Havery - Its my favorite James Stewart movie ever. Its about an imaginary 6 foot rabbit.
Donnie Darko - Another giant rabbit and time travel.
Little Miss Sunshine - A Yellow Bus and a Beauty Pageant.

For Adrianna, Alexis, those focusing on the self etc., etc.

Feel free to check out the blog You are not so Smart: A Celebration of Self Delusion, which was recently published into a book (you can also check out wikipedia's List of Common Misconceptions). Debunking the myth that coffee stimulates you, when in actuality "You become addicted to caffeine quickly. After a while you are drinking coffee to cure withdrawal more than for stimulation." I digress. I found this really interesting piece on the self:

"Hopefully by now you’ve had one of those late-night conversations fueled by exhaustion, elation, fear or drugs in which you and your friends finally admit you are all bullshitting each other. If you haven’t, go watch The Breakfast Club and come back. The idea is this: You put on a mask and uniform before leaving for work. You put on another set for school. You have costumes for friends of different persuasions and one just for family. Who you are alone is not who you are with a lover or a friend. You quick-change like Superman in a phone booth when you bump into old friends from high school at the grocery store, or the ex in line for the movie. When you part, you quick-change back and tell the person you are with why you appeared so strange for a moment. They understand, after all, they are also in disguise. It’s not a new or novel concept, the idea of multiple identities for multiple occasions, but it’s also not something you talk about often. The idea is old enough that the word person derives from persona – a Latin word for the masks Greek actors sometimes wore so people in the back rows of a performance could see who was on stage. This concept –actors and performance, persona and masks – has been intertwined and adopted throughout history. Shakespeare said, “all the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” William James said a person “has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.” Carl Jung was particularly fond of the concept of the persona saying it was “that which in reality one is not, but which oneself as well as others think one is.” It’s an old idea, but you and everyone else seems to stumble onto it anew in adolescence, forget about it for a while, and suddenly remember again from time to time when you feel like an impostor or a fraud. It’s ok, that’s a natural feeling, and if you don’t step back occasionally and feel funky about how you are wearing a socially constructed mask and uniform you are probably a psychopath." (remember Ram Dass' "You are not who you think you are?")

Want to buy a nice flash?

I found a coupon online for a LumoPro LP160, so if anyone is trying to buy a new flash or anything like that, you should check this out.

City-Street-Documentary-Night-Cool-Stuff

This is a really cool project, and definitely worth looking at for anyone interested in street photography, night shots, or NYC. Sorry I keep posting a lot, but I keep finding cool stuff while procrastinating in class.

Technically Brilliant Photos

So, no one is doing anything quite as aesthetically based as this, but it still was something cool that could be applied to later projects, or just something nice to look at while taking breaks from being completely stressed. Also, on this link there is an image of his set up (and these aren't digital images!). Just thought I'd share.