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[Jul. 12th, 2009|08:26 pm] |
Ideas, ideas, I'm out of ideas...
I am hoping taking the summer off will help me refuel my imagination vault. Bright sunshine does not inspire me, neither does sweating. It is currently raining and that is good.
I must make a list of objects that would translate well to the literary industry (keys,bones,tea cups, knives,broken things,lockets,letters), things that speak of nostalgia and mystery and murder. Unfortunately these iconic images have been shot a million times and then some, it leaves me uninspired as well.
My house is full of such nonsense, I just need to walk from room to room (old bottles, tin toys, broken dolls, crumbling books, sacred icons, dried flowers) and take note.
I've asked my husband to make me a new series of masks. I am hoping that will inspire me. The time involved to make the whole series will have me starting in the new year though. Still, they will be wonderful to see. |
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| Goals |
[Jun. 16th, 2009|04:50 pm] |
One of my goals is to have 1000 images on file with Corbis (currently I have 417) as soon as possible. This should be a large enough selection to produce a regular part time income.
Using a crude mathematical calculation based on the fact that my editor selects approximately 16% of the images I submit I would have to shoot almost 3700 submittable images to reach my goal. Each photo shoot results in about 15 final images of which only 3 to 5 are sent for editor approval. Therefore I would have to complete 925 individual photo concepts. I probably average about 10 successful concepts a month since there are months where I don't shoot at all and some that are very busy and of course photo shoots that are utter crap. That would mean it would take me almost eight years to reach my goal. That is a very daunting number. I will be 50 years old before I reach that goal at my current rate.
Ugh.
This reminds me I must check my lottery ticket. |
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[Jun. 13th, 2009|11:11 am] |
Yesterday was so lovely - the little one was with her grandmother so the hubby and I started the first day of Operation Tennis whereupon we are going to try and play tennis as often as we can to get some exercise together. I like to run which he does not and he loves to play basketball which I suck at so we are hoping tennis will be the glue that binds.
We then had a lovely lunch of mango and avocado and green onions with lime juice and fresh bread, cleaned our selves up pretty and headed downtown. We spent almost 2 hours at the library pouring over landscaping, cooking and gardening books and then moved on the Portland Art Museum to see the M.C. Escher exhibit. It is alway so wonderful to see the artist's sketches and plates. It was a great exhibit and included many pieces from concept to completion with the wood cuts and everything. It also had his "Creation" series from his college days that represents the first 7 days of creation and they were really amazing to see.
While admiring the beautiful printwork of Beth Van Hoesen in the basement gallery I told Phillip that if he wants me to start drawing again he should leave me daily love notes when he leaves for work with an idea or phrase on them and I will have to draw it before he comes home. We'll see how well that works out but it could be a fun exercise.
Then to balance out the day of health and high art we bought a dozen donuts for our dinner from Sesame Donuts and watched Jason Statham in "Death Race" which was AWESOME.
A good, good day. |
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[Jun. 12th, 2009|10:58 am] |
Go see my husband's latest paper creation, a steampunk mech based on an old train. All paper, glue and paint, it stands about 11 inches tall. The really amazing thing to me (besides the knobs on the pipes) is that fact that he hand embossed the wood grain into the paper to make the barrel.
He has shots from all sides on Flickr, it's really amazing! |
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| Toads and Diamonds |
[Jun. 9th, 2009|09:47 am] |
"This gift I make you," continued the fairy, "that with every word you speak, either a flower or a jewel will fall from your mouth."
-"Toads and Diamonds" by Charles Perrault
I always found this fairytale fascinatingly awful. Although the bad sister was punished with toads and snakes falling out of her mouth I can't imagine that flowers and jewels falling out of your mouth every time you open it is all that much better. |
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[Jun. 3rd, 2009|11:30 pm] |
There will be lots more of these, they all turned out so beautifully. She stepped right out of a Rossetti painting. |
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[May. 30th, 2009|04:09 pm] |
I have recently signed with a local agent, Tryst Artist Representation who will be representing my botanical series as well as the "Forms in Nature" projection series as fine are pieces for use as decorative art. I am resistant to gallery shows which are for the most part fruitless in this town and am more interested in connecting with art buyers, collectors, interior decorators, boutique hotels and so forth. I love shooting floral subjects, love love love it. The natural world holds endless fascination for me. |
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| Nothing is New |
[May. 29th, 2009|08:27 am] |
I was asked recently if people ever copy my work and how I feel about that. I believe two things - "Nothing is New" and "Circumstances Can Never Be Duplicated".
I know there are oodles of photographers out there who shoot painted and textured nudes using the exact same materials I do and we are all unaware of eachother. I also know I will do something that someone else already shot a hundred times over (bunny mask, for example; people wrapped in fabric for another) but you can never ever duplicate the date, time, weather, mood the model was in, mood the photographer was in, how the fabric fell, how the water dripped, the position of the earth, the level of humidity - all those variables. You could even shoot with the same model and perhaps duplicate the lighting circumstances and camera equipment but the model will be a little older, the photographer is different and stars are in a new position.
This photographer's work is a perfect example. If you were to describe what I do on paper it would sound just like what he does. But we are nowhere close to eachother in final concept execution! I don't think I would do anything with worms though, I don't consider them very aesthetic.
I remember taking a random photo of the light refraction on the wall from a crystal door knob in my hallway. I thought it was quite beautiful and interesting and rather unique. Two months later I came across the same shot in a biography of Ruth Bernhard taken in the 1930's, and her shot was better. |
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| Tentacles V |
[May. 28th, 2009|08:34 am] |
New shoot, old concept.
One of my personal favorites from the shoot. |
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[May. 27th, 2009|11:01 am] |
Hee - I have a guest appearance in a comic by the talented and bendy Erika Moen! Check it out here! You can see my photo concepts in comic form too!
No seriously, check it out, her comic is brilliant and funny and touchingly honest.Go now. |
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[May. 20th, 2009|08:07 pm] |
I felt the models skills needed to be honored here for being able to create different stories and moods with her body language, thus the many many bunny pictures. Plus I love all the images from this set. Click through to Flickr to see the rest.
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