Hello

So I'm working on setting up my blog but the first week of school is taking place so yeah....we'll get there. I'll update it here for any that are reading....if any. Lol.

Final Post (but like, not really!)

The internet could be quite suffocating, in ways only outer space may be suffocating - claustrophobic in it's vast expansion. The awareness that it grows faster than we can grasp or count, knocks the air out of me.

So when I thought I would become part of this expansion (you know, beyond Facebook and all) I choked a little. And yet here I am, some 30-something posts later, realizing I've developed a sense of self assurance and perhaps even some discipline I spited not having, only months ago. In short, it was a growing experience - it still is. And yes. Yes it will continue to be (hopefully).

It feels a bit meek to the point of being absurd, to write and think people are actually reading (and to my relief people were - so thank you very much). But it became something about myself and with myself. The permeable thing - I think it played out well, and has actually been a thread in the work I've put out in the past 10 weeks, particularly.

But I did fail in some regard. I wish I could be more consistent with the way the blog turned out. No matter. I'm thinking up another one, and one that will be prompted by self motivation (it's still in the works, right along with my personal website!). Blogs are interesting mediums in that they're like individual soapboxes, and if by chance someone stumbles on it through Google or a erroneous link, as I have come across a great deal of things myself, you can be heard and engage in an interaction that is unique to the internet society.

I've come upon countless strangers - to no full regret, I've accepted the ways I divert my own life by diverting it into the life of others. Not fearlessly. In full suffocation and gasps, hoping to get my voice out there so that I can expand and feel my mind too expand, like a universe of its own. Sagmeister said that keeping a diary promotes self development. I hardly think of this as a diary, and yet I guess it's no more different. And neither are the results.

People keep telling me I've changed. The scarier part is realizing it yourself mid shower with shampoo in your eyes and suddenly being thrust back into the day at the airport, when you felt all the change, and did not know in which ways it will manifest. I only hope it keeps coming, and keeps me in this comfortable (and sometimes all but) nook of creation some dare call creativity.

Thank you for reading! Here are some unpublished images haha.

Edward Steichen in Fla.? Just in time for the break.

Steichen and Fashion --- I think yes.

The Museum of Art in Ft. Lauderdale is having an exhibition on Steichen during his "Conde Nast Years" as the exhibit has been titled (Edward Steichen: In High Fashion, the Condé Nast Years 1923 - 1937). I was looking at some exhibits to attend while being at home - the Miami museum scene is just recently picking up. I realized the other day talking to a stranger that I had taken a lot of the energy of the place for granted.

Not that I could ever be truly immersed in it since I was always 30 minutes from downtown Miami (where all those shots you see in movies and tv shows really are). I hope to reacquaint myself better with the place that has been home for the past 9 years of my life.

We'll see what this does for my over the break assignment. Finding home all over again hahaha. I'll delve into Calle all over again and see what I get out of it. Wish me luck!

(All photographs gathered from MoA Ft. Lauderdale's site).

Some art Reps

Nick Waplington

Christian Witkin

Rankin

Takay

Jeremy Kost

Anthony Costifas

Terry Richardson

Robert Maxwell

Mario Sorrenti

Walter Pfeiffer

Steven Meisel

I posted some artist agencies some days ago, but I found another one and thought I'd share some of the ones I know. I can spend hours on these, but they never compare to having prints! If only I could hold these. Nevertheless it gives for a nice exposure to different styles.

Mostly these are commercial photographers but that doesn't exclude talent at all! So hopefully you enjoy it.

http://www.art-dept.com/photography/

http://www.artandcommerce.com/

http://www.artpartner.com/

http://www.jedroot.com/

A failed attempt

For the final project, a project that is still untitled, I tried shooting an image in the studio. I'm still going through ups and downs on that project. This is particularly from a down.

The issue is that these are genuine "lessons" if they can be called that. So the photographs have to feel genuine to me. They have to feel earnest or else they draw the whole idea in bad light. I can tell this is going to be a long term one.

Good Advertisement

I have a particular taste in advertisement. I like ads that look well thought out. Ads with theory, with an expectation of reaction. Where things don't necessarily look good, but feel good. The notion that in advertising you make everything look so perfect that the audiences wants it, because of its flawlessness, is an old notion. Mostly we're past the idyllic and perfect, except maybe when it comes to cars. Mostly we expect more out of advertising, is it selling a good value to us? do we agree with the implications of the product being sold? why should we not by the other one?

I don't know much about advertising though. I look through a lot of it and analyze it and try to see how they wrap around our lives, how they flood our day-to-day actions and desires, how often, they become icons of something we want and work forward to and in some sense keep us in focus, and in line to making enough money to buy that product or something of equal value. Advertising is motivation.

Diesel has the best campaigns

Great Campaign by Levi's

A Doc. I've been itching to see since last summer.

Some Impromptu Portraits

Thought I'd share. I'm working with these LEE filters for the handheld flash. I got it at the Den for about 3 bucks so it's worth it. I used them for my still life photographs but yeah.

Let me know! :D