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Photography, film, surfing, and whatever else crosses my mind….
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Just a quick shout-out to everyone who attended the One-Case Auction on Thursday night. From the grapevine I hear my print went for $1400… all of which goes to a good cause. So.. thanks for coming out and I’ll post pictures from the event when I get a chance!
Please come out this Thursday, January 7th and support the One Case Silent Photography Auction. The shoe image from my burnt series will be up for auction.
Online Catalog…. although my print is not there I SWEAR it will be up for auction!
and check out the review here:
I’ve been reading quite a lot of poetry recently. Which, in and of itself, is quite odd for me. I recall hating poetry in high school actually, but I think that was just required. Maybe if they had suggested we read Rumi, or maybe David Whyte, or Mary Oliver, I would have been more into it. Probably not though. It takes time to have the presence of mind for words to mean this much. But, for the meantime, I thought I’d share one of my current favorites:
SWEET DARKNESS, by David Whyte
When your eyes are tired, the world is tired also.
When your vision has gone no part of the world can find you.
Time to go into the dark where the night has eyes to recognize its own.
There you can be sure you are not beyond love.
The dark will be your womb tonight.
The night will give you a horizon further than you can see.
You must learn one thing.
The world was made to be free in.
Give up all the other worlds except the one to which you belong.
Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn
anything or anyone
that does not bring you alive
is too small for you.
Well then. In the midst of all the current insanity running amok out there in my world, I decided to start shooting some film again. Good old color neg on the xpan.
Its gorgeous.
The pictures just have *something*. A certain… soul? All I know is my film and scanning bills are about to go up.
Check for yourself…
Same waves, different angle.
A couple of boys playing in the waves.
Dolce & Gabbana 2009 36x48 LightJet Print
Well, its 9:30 on a Sunday night. So much for the day of rest. Actually, I love sundays at the studio… its super quiet, there’s no phones going off, no questions. I usually don’t even put on any music (which is a rarity for me) The quiet time allows me to get more done in a few hours (if I’m not distracted by facebook or something of the sort) than I get done in several days during the week with all of the normal workday distractions. I can sit, think, drink a beer (shhhhhh!), brainstorm for the week, and generally be very productive.
Now the first thing people are going to say is that I work too much. Trust me, I’ve heard it before. And yes, I do work a lot, and it is a function of my creating the need to work. What on earth does that mean? It means I could just be a photographer with no overhead, just a camera and an eye. But that’s no fun. I want to see if I can build a studio, build another business, do all kinds of things at the same time, even if it drives me completely batty in the process. Don’t ask me why, other than the fact that I love a personal challenge. Sit still? Nah.. not me. Maybe watch a movie once in a while but you can rest assured I’m not wearing any ass-grooves into my couch!
But recently, a bit of a realization has hit. Ok, not really a realization, but more like a business manager slapping me in the back of the head. (Thanks Greg) You always hear about companies getting away from their CORE business. The car company who decides to make golf clubs and the such, when cars are what they do best, and where they make the most money. Not that money is the ultimate goal, but it definitely helps! So in a rather stern, rather fatherly, and very baritone voice, Greg says…. get back to taking pictures.
What a novel concept.
Really?
I guess it makes sense. And, while sitting here writing this blog (and setting the damn thing up for two days) definitely is NOT taking pictures, I hope that it becomes a good forum for showing them. I’ve always needed the motivation of a forum or purpose for following through with things. Would the burning series currently on display at the Randall Scott Gallery in dumbo ever have come into existence if it hadn’t been for the looming deadline? Who knows. I will be doing all kinds of things here… experimenting with video, playing with concepts and tests, showing personal work that has never seen the light of day since the film was exposed.
So, I hope you check back often, and of course subscribe to my mailing list and the blog via whatever feed you want (I still have no idea what a RSS feed is!) But stay tuned for some interesting shit!
