bloggin

I don't think I'm addicted to blogging but I got scared today. I read this article from the nytimes magazine about this girl who is my age and has become so immersed in the blogging world that it is her job, her social life, her religion. That led me to examine my own blog to see if I was guilty of any of the same patterns or things she was writing about. That led me to examine my fellow photog's blogs to see if they were doing anything or all of the above. Well, it turns out, we all are. And some of us thrive off of it and others like me, well, I don't care much... yet.

On that note, here's a link to a fellow artist's blog/site/whatever thing that I think is the quintessential style of a certain 90's-html-nightmare design (for art nerds). I was made aware of this style last summer by brian ulrich whom I was so fortunate to have as a web design teacher. I've picked up on it ever since. It's kind of extraordinary and weird. It's so engaging, I looked at everything. I just wonder about making things for and putting things up on the internet (by things I mean fine art).

Being discovered via the internet is not how I ever envisioned becoming famous in the art world... google having a stake in everything you put up, i don't know, it seems fishy. I put a copyright stamp embedded in the metadata of my images but wtf does that mean to google? probably nothing.

colorado II

Here's the latest images I've been working on from my Colorado trip. I've been a little slow to post them because a lot of them needed, and still need, a lot of work. I had a little light leak that burned the bottom right side of about a 1/3 of the negs. I've worked with them though and I think I've overcome the problem.

The critiques I've had recently with these photos has revolved around where to go next, literally. I'm gonna stay in the midwest for right now (to find some more "puny" landscapes) but I will be taking at least 2 trips this summer. hopefully one to the new york area and one out west again... maybe wyoming- maybe california, i don't know. I know one thing, traveling is the least of my worries for this project.

colorado I

space

the final frontier...



-from the nytimes recently.

starved rock

rocky mountain pics coming soon...

I want one

I was watching the election coverage on CNN last night and something really amazed me: John King's freakin awesome magical touch screen wall that he used to zoom in and out of states with close votes. They used it famously on super tuesday in february too. When Missouri's race was so close, Hillary had the lead all night but King could tell that Obama was going to take over because of where and how many votes were still coming in, instantly. Not only do I want one of these things, if I had any money and if it were public, I'd buy shares today. here's the demo video from the co. Perceptive Pixel

new landscapes