Thursday, October 23, 2008

Old vs. New



I forget where Frank and I were headed but he parked right behind this house. Something about the overgrown quality and the the boat give it an interesting feel. Im nto sure exactly why i like it or why i took the picture, but i took like 50 so i could photomerge them and get the perspective i wanted. Frank decided to shoot it as well, in the midst of my rapid fire shutter he causually got out his light meter and 120 film based camera and by the time i finish all my shooting he took one frame and out his camera away. I respect that in a way.

Friday, October 17, 2008

Beach...



i made dinner last night, The moonlight was so nice we absolutely need to go to the beach, the weather was perfect the amount of moonligh was perfect, the music was perfect the car ride was perfect. We could do that everynight and it would fit in perfectly. I am becoming more and more nocturnal. She like to fall asleep togethor, i usually abide by this then awaken and gaze at the glowing screen for a while. Im getting more efficiently productive in my workflow, everything is getting easier. Boy im really up or down huh? I geuss it makes for an interesting creative
process.

Alternate Reality...



There is more than one reality in this world or universe. The reality most commonly referred to is the one that we all subscribe to, the one where we all breathe air and feel the effects of gravity. What reality means more to humans? The one that we are all forced to subscribe to or the one that as individuals we put more of ourselves into? How many people do u think are sitting in front of a computer connected to the Internet right now? The more technology advances the easier it is to spend the majority of your time …..plugged in. A good example for what im talking about would be The Matrix Trilogy. A majority of the living human beings never even get to here the idea that this is a virtual world that they are plugged into. In the movie the ‘Real” world has gone to shit and now people are harvested by machines and never actually born, but plugged into a computer program, a virtual mockery of the world we all subscribe to now. My point is that “ who says which reality is most worth pursuing? Which reality will keep you living long a prosperous or short and terrible? The more that alternate realities like the Internet and videogames get easier and more instinctual to operate the more a divide is created in the species of man. The very thing we created to communicate more efficiently has or could be the very thing that divides us completely. A race of beings that only no contact through this electrical complexity known as a computer and a race of beings that know only the original senses that man evolved into having. Computer people and Pure people. I can see it all now…lol. The only way for this to work is if as individuals we figure out the balance between the realities that we are all apart of. I have a friend who admits flat out that World of War craft could have possibly ruined his life he wouldn’t have stopped playing. The more that he finds the balance between the reality that his imagination takes him into and the one we all see the happier he becomes.
Or maybe the ever-growing technological world is simply the new evolutionary level of man, maybe these alternate realities aren’t as dangerous as it may seem to us. Having millions of people subscribing to many different realities could really push the ideas of understanding the individual and collective perspectives. Maybe man will actually find a way to communicate even half way effectively.

Thursday, October 9, 2008

....i dont know

These are more from my visual journal, i wonder if i can take a picture of someone or something and then forget about it. I think if i take a picture of something, if i put a viewfinder to my eye and pull the trigger its emplanted into my mind for ever....i dont know.



Portrait

I was editing this diptic and realized this wasnt my art. I set the camera up and I handed it to her but, sarah decided when to take the picture and what it would look like, in a way im just the retoucher...this is sarah art work. I love her, she could be just as good of or better of a photographer.....hmmmmmmm.

Friday, October 3, 2008

Images from my video for Digital Storytelling

These images are from a silent video i had to make for my Digital Story telling class, the sequence images are from stop motion excerpts and the head phones are the first shot of the video.
The video was to illustrate the feelings that i get whe n ilisten to music, i cant really explain with words how impactive music is in my life....hopefully my images will be able to do that some day.

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