New Work.....End of Year thoughts.

Understanding In A Car Crash




I havent put anything new up in a while and i just finished Documenting my work from Alternative process class. My favorite one is the one etitled Understanding In A Car Crash. I illustrated one of my favorite songs called....well of course Understanding In A Car Crash. Its by the Band named Thursday. The song is about an experience the lead singer had when he was younger that i can kind of relate to. He was Driving in the car with his girlfriend/his love and his car was Tboned on her side of the car. She died and he has never recovered fully. And thats the idea, this bad horrible shit happens to us sometimes and alot of the time we never recover. We grow and we learn but your never the same person agian. After you get done reading this you'll never be the same person. Everytime you make contact with someone and they understand what your saying they will never be the same. Are bodies and minds go through a continious state of change. Think about it, you are not a solid, the matter in our bodies is simply made of microscopic atoms that are always in this crazy dance known as energy amd motion. Finding the balance is key to not repeating the same bad happenings from.....well happening all over again. We are both blessed and cursed with this thing called a memory. But we are also blessed with the ability to see the past in a differenet state of mind and make a bad situation a good one. Life is a constant problem solving game. What should i wear? How mood should i be in today? Diet coke or regular? We have a choice with how to deal with every situation whether it be in the moment or in retrospect. we have a choice whether to make or life positive experience. I knwo it sounds like im lecturing, well this is the only way i can lecture my self. This school year has come to an end and its Awesome and sucky at the same time. It means no pressure and deadlives but it also means lack of frined contact. The situation is awkward becasue im not sure how to feel. No school means more time with Sarah, Mom, Britt, Erik...and all my friends and family from home but it also means less sammy and alex and sabrina and all my frineds from school. The truth is i should stop worrying about it. I jsut have to get better at communicating not person to person. I plan on watching alot of movies and relaxing alot this summer. Recharge my batteries. I may take a small break from shooting and editing to get all my stuff organized and in line. Im sures theres more to say but....there always is but.....i got shit to do.

Google

Sarah decided for some reason to google my names. She typed: James Ryan DeL'Etoile
The result appeared to be number three on google. Thats pretty cool. Everyone uses Google. just needed to say that!

Concept of Time

These are for an assignment entitled " Concept of Time". I have many thoughts about time and the ideas in which dont exist enless time does. I could have done alot of cliche long exposure shots of traffic or something like ive always done. This idea kind of branches through a variety of time and time realated ideas. One shot is static and shows time been frozen the other shows movement and motion and the chaos in which TIME can bring. Time i believe is really ones point of view and understanding of the beginning and or end of something. One images show a living breathing REAL person, one who exists in the present, the second shows kind of the person starting to be absorbed into the chaos of life and love. Also, i tryed to give the images a vintage feel, I wanted them to be viewd in a Stereograph sort of way. Enjoy! Critique please!!

Picture A Day

Im going to try out and idea this summer. The official starting date has not been decided but, sometime after school ends I want to start a one picture a day. I tend to do my best work by walking, running, or driving around with sarah. I like to just find random naturally or man made events or things. I shoot them and then edit them to show the viewer how i see the world or that particular event in the world. Certain things i just find either very funny or just plane amusing that most people would just go by with out noticing.
Sabrina and I were walking back to class today and for no reason her Flip Flops just quit on her. They just decided that they didn't like her and more and she was stranded with one lonely sandal.






When I was leaving this morning I got alittle wierd/grossed out. Water was coming up through the man hole covers on our block. It was an interesting sight to see first thing in the morning. I didnt need coffee to wake me up. Just the smell.

Mornings

I really think that i am a nocturnal person. getting up in the morning is so difficult. I could swear the night before tha i am going to wake up and do a whole bunch of what not, when the time comes i reach over and hit the snooze button atleast 3 times. Is this another sign of procrastination? Or is it possible that humans are like animal some prefer to do there hunting in the heat of the day, some choose to wait till the sunsets and hunt in the blackness. Either way i am tired and cranky and i hate when people talk to much in the morning. Right now i think im cranky about pretty much anything, i really am just down with this semester, i wont be sad when it ends, its very challenging to keep the pace that i try to tell my self to keep. i feel that sometimes i expect to much of my self. Is that even possible, to achieve greatness one has to want it and work harder than everyone else who wants it as well, oh well this isnt making my morning better, I need caffine, I need a break.........

El Photo Grande

These are old Photos from the first ever completely student run show at Ringling. It's title " El Photo Grande" I got one piece in to this show. The people in these photos are Sarah Sammy Alex Josh Erik(Brother) and Mike. Erik and his roomate and his his roomates girlfriend came to the show then we all went out to dinner at Leroy selmons. This was all on the 23 of Feburary.

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Riverside At Night(duhh)

           These two images are the two images that i got into Best of Ringling this year.  Out of the 26 people who got pieces into the show 13 or them are sophmores from my class.  That says alot about my graduating class.  Last year i got one piece in and nun of my friends did sadly.  This year most of my friend and I got atleast one in.  They have given my class a lot more artistic freedom and i think it has worked. You can click on the images to view them bigger.

My First Blog

Hi,

  This is as the title suggests, my first blog.  I really want to use this program over others like LiveJournal or Myspace.  Cut out all the muss and the fuss and just write about my life my ideas and the things that piss me off probably.  I also want to able to share my art with my loved ones in an easier way.  Im always saying....ohhh you should see this or .....ohhh this new video came out great.  Well now I should be able to just say Hey, go to my blog and checkout my new stuffs.

    Other Stuffs:  Last night was the planitarium show that i was apart of.  The whole show lasted about 90 minutes. We ran it twice.  The second showing was to a crowd of standing room only.  it was a very surreal event.  Full dome video and imagery with live music performance and noise musicians along with magic tricks and and a supersoaker(we had supersoaker malfunctions).  Me and Sarah control the front stage projections.  two of the pieces envolved stop motion video that i made.  It was pretty hectic and we did it very low tech. but it all worked out and i think alot of people liked it.  I'll post the program and flyer as soon as i figure out how to do it.

Ps. Ima try to post a picture!