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| Tuesday, 23-Dec-2003 00:00 |
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Happy birthday, mom!
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| Sunday, 21-Dec-2003 00:00 |
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Motes
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Tree and ladder
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Gas tank
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Reworked images from the hinterlands of north-central Arkansas
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| Tuesday, 16-Dec-2003 00:00 |
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The grass is greener
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Lakeswimmer
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I'm a perpetual whiner, I think. In the summer I can't wait for the cold briskness of winter. In the winter I dream of sweating days at the lake dozing in the sun after a swim. Now that it's (almost) winter, I find myself drooling over summertime photos as I come across them.
This is S. paddling around beside our favorite cliffs at Greers Ferry Lake near Heber Springs, Arkansas. It's so lovely during July and August that it breaks my heart to have to wait another nine months for the same kind of access.
At least I have a vehicle with which I can vividly recall the light and colors unique to the setting during that time of year. That's what pictures are for... enjoy.
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| Friday, 12-Dec-2003 00:00 |
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Elastic bands on panties make for great shots
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Happy Halloween
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A fresh memory from a couple of months ago. Girls are fun people.
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| Tuesday, 9-Dec-2003 00:00 |
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An evening with Red Octopus
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| Sunday, 7-Dec-2003 00:00 |
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Helical staircase and cylindrical lift at Musée du Louvre
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Paris Ferris
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C-130s take Prague with a window full of someone else's skivvies
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Last night before going out I spent some time getting un-sobered with my friend S. We had a good excuse: he, having just completed the LSAT, became the first of the C-130s to finally take a graduate exam. He has just moved in to a new apartment, so we of course ended up lolling through photos from our 2001 European Transit. S. maintains that he is not an artist, but going through these snapshots, some of them struck me with strength of composition, palette, selective point-of-view, etc. At one point we got excited and put together his 9-photo collage of our Alpine view in Leukerbad, Switzerland. I begged him to let me scan some of them and he obliged.
We all found the access architecture for the Louvre stunning--walking up or down that helix-shaped staircase while looking laterally outward at walls covered in art is beautifully disorienting. Our only regret is that none of us had the balls (Å?ufs?) to ask the attendant for a ride on the central elevating column that was generally reserved for the handicapped. Damnit.
S. also has a paranoia of heights, so of course M. and I coaxed him onto the Ferris Wheel in front of the Louvre. Incredible views of the city (la butte Montmartre is an interesting sight from above), better views of a blank-faced and trembling S. Notice the rainbow reflection of holographic stickers that S. caught superimposed over la tour Eiffel in the glass of our booth.
In Prague the three of us shared a room with two sorority types who eagerly explained to us that they loooooved hanging out in the Jewish ghetto. Whatever. We spent a good deal of time mocking their celebrity-status skivvies, which they loved hanging in the wondow between S. and M.'s beds.
In Vienna we stayed in a hostel that had been stowed away in a narrow belltower of a (relatively) modern church. The boys' floors were incredibly high, so we got amazing views of the sunlit city. Steven and I furiously snapped pictures of this amazing sunset that took place as storm clouds from a brief downpour were rolling out. Droplets of water that had hit our window became tiny prisms.
Finally, we had the best time in Amsterdam, predictably. Our room was a cramped one: it was the topmost part of the building so the ceiling slanted inward dramatically over our heads, leaving only a thin line in the center of the room where we could stand up. It was hilarious. We met Francisco here, an amazing roller. We also had a balcony of sorts (in reality it was simply the covering of the window beneath our room) accessible by carefully climbing out of our window. Beautiful.
We didn't plan well (at all?) so by the time we got to Rome we sort of had to make a few touristic concessions. It's all good. Lacking the time and money to actually walk around the interior of the Colosseum, S. took an interesting three-paneled photograph of the external structure, causing interesting perspective shifts when the images are aligned. He caught me unaware: I'm the white guy in the bottom left corner of the far left image. He caught half of M. unaware, as she is the black-haired figure sliced in half by the bottom left edge of the central picture.
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| Saturday, 6-Dec-2003 00:00 |
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Happiness is a Fistful of Green
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Quel beau vert...
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M. at the press
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Sun, trees, and sky
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Unfortunately I don't get to keep it for long... medical bill collection agencies are pretty picky about that. It's so pretty, though, that I had to scan it before I give it away. Goodbye, Franklins.
M. got me to help keep her plates moist last night (seriously, that's not an innuendo). It was frightening to sit in on someone else's anxiety as the semester draws to a close. It's been over a year since I graduated, so this was an interesting perspective on the tensions that arise amongst art students: did you realize that UALR only has one press for twenty students? Jesus... I left at 1 a.m. when another printmaking student arrived to help, but M. says that they didn't leave until 5 a.m.
Waking up this morning (this noon?) to a cloudless and radiant sky, I was compelled to quickly register the way the light and blue sky were interacting with the red oak outside my bathroom window. So pretty...
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| Wednesday, 3-Dec-2003 00:00 |
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Manipulation experiments
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From figure study by B. Forrester
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| Friday, 28-Nov-2003 00:00 |
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Stickyfilm
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Sassy!
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Bleary but beaming, post-Europe
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M. and I love Polaroid's stickyfilm format. The images are small and remarkably precise, especially in range of color and subtle shading. A finely dithered grain lets these photos be enlarged significantly with a nice, television-like luminosity. They're also simple to manipulate--try heating the emulsion at various stages of development (carefully) with a lighter for unpredictable articulation.
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| Tuesday, 25-Nov-2003 00:00 |
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Some pictures from this past spring and summer
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Today was the first day of autumn to drop below the freezing point. Out of nostalgia, I looked back at some of the photos that I've taken (or gathered) since the sun came back out last spring.
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