It's almost comical seeing customers fight over something that will become nothing in a few years. Kind of like some of the wars that were fought before. No matter. A $30 tablet and a $80 tv is something to fight over.
A couple of days ago Darren Wilson of the Ferguson Police Department was not indicted for the murder of Mike Brown. Since August of this year protests have risen in Ferguson in hopes to have Officer Wilson be charged for his actions. Since the judge's decision to allow Darren walk away with no punishment hundreds of protesters vandalized property and raised havoc. There's no telling what the future may hold for the people, the police department and the city itself.
Tannen Maury, photographer who shot the first image above, composes the image of a man who stands in the middle of the street putting his arms up in peace. 25 years earlier a man named Jeff Widener composes a similar shot of a protester standing in front of an army tank in the middle of the street. What are these photographers telling the audience when they see such frames appear in front of them?
I like to think that these images will provide some idea of what our world undergoes in intense situations. And as these images surfaces through the interweb, through blogs like these ones, and retweets of many public journalists this is what we will be seeing for years to come.
I haven't taken the time to understand why these situations occur in the first place, but I know that people are frustrated and are acting on the emotions of a pointless murder. All I can do is witness the moments occurring on my screen. Let's just hope things get better. But I'm certain it'll stay worse for months to come. Happy Thanksgiving
I've been friends with this guy for years. We've parted ways in different points in our life, but managed to find time to talk and catch up on a lot of things. But these last few years I've been able to talk to him quite a bit. Most of our conversations are nonsense, but we seem to get off the phone with something to think about.
So, for this post I wanted to say thank you Jordan. You've been such an awesome friend all these years and I wanted to let you know that it's a blessing to be part of your life. Hope to see you again soon.
Today and tomorrow I will be exhibiting some work along with some friends of mine at the Colt Gateway building down in Hartford, Ct. This is probably going to be the best installation we've done and will be the last one till next year. Hope to see you all there.
And coming from Tuesday's post this is what had me interested in the format. If you look at the color, the grainy texture and just the orientation to it it's almost as if you're looking at cinematic postcards. I love these pictures because the scene looks alive. It was taken by a fashion photographer under the moniker Photonic.Syntropy who has some decent images in his profile, but nothing like the images he took with this format.
I'm most likely going to get this camera when I have everything straight with Christmas gifts and such. For now I'm going to just salivate on getting this piece.
Upon doing loads of research with Polaroid film and photographers who had experimented with the medium I happened to stumble upon another size format that's kinda interesting: 110 (cartridge film). Lomography had recently started selling this film making it easier for 110 format users to break out the crappy 110 cameras start shooting with it again.
But the appeal is not only the format size, but the size of the device. Lately new cameras have been undergoing loads of change and I happened to have acquired a good load of them in my collection. I have point and shoots, two Polaroid Cameras (finding a newer land camera to replace the broken one), a half frame, a rangefinder (my favorite), medium format (another favorite) and am soon getting the large format camera. The formats are awesome, but something about the 110 is unique and would bring a lot of flare to what I want to produce. I think getting this would want me to work on something fun for a specific exhibit. Don't know what it would be, but I definitely would love to make it happen.
I'm currently doing research on photographers who had experimented on Polaroid photography. So far much of what I gathered are pictures of direct portraits, landscapes and still life. I love that kind of work, but wanted to look at Polaroid work that drives a concept. I remembered watching a documentary on Andre Kertesz and being so fascinated on his compositions and his eye for light. A short segment showed work he's done on a Polaroid camera and has managed to gather them all in a book. Watching it gained a new perspective on how I want to work the idea of next year's project. The research still continues.
The Intrepid Camera Co. have just released a kickstarter to fund a project to mass produce a new 4x5 type camera.
I like the idea of this camera being light due to the heavy materials of a 4x5 camera, but I have my doubts. It looks like if you drop it the whole thing would completely break. Maybe even susceptible to warping if it goes through heavy weather conditions. I would totally own this camera if I could afford to throw away that kind of money. Not sure if this would be something that could be used long term. But I'm here blogging about it to let everyone know that you can get a good priced 4x5.
