The only way I ever see music videos anymore is via YouTube. Here is such a great one...enjoy!
The Honey Trees - Moon River (The LoFi Sessions)
5/7/11
Before & After Fun Slide
I've been wanting to share a little before and after with this sweet Polaroid film, and think this shot makes a great example. I'm not really a peeler of shots. I've peeled some exposures from the first pack I shot with this film, and felt like I would have been happier if I never did anything to them at all. Of course, I could feel differently about this a year from now, when chances are the images could be totally faded, too faded to even make out any details. Peeling made me feel like I was destroying something precious, and it was not happy times with Polaroids for me.
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| Before & After 1 week time color shift, PX-70 Colorshade Push film. |
Little Women
After an hour or so of searching the Internet, I finally discovered the (not solid) date of the publication of this edition of Little Women. It was published by A.L. Burt Company, 1911. It turns out that the illustrations have all been torn out of the book, along with the publishing information. This realization made me sad at first, but I'm over it now. The fine old smell of the aging pages melted all the sadness away. It's just SO lovely, regardless.
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| The Elms Vintage |
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| My beautiful new old copy of Little Women. |
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| The binding was stitched, not glued... |
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| I really don't think that the book was published with a blue fore-edge, but I could be wrong. See, new book vocabulary-fore-edge, the unbound edge of a book opposite the binding. |
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| This is where the missing pages used to be-apparently they included photos of Katharine Hepburn, from the movie. |
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| I love it more and more, the more I look at it. |
5/2/11
Featured Artist: Liliana Porter
I recently compiled a set of 50 links to artists who influence me personally in this blog's sidebar. While it would be fun to let you go through them all by yourself, it's much better to talk about them a little, to share with you what it is about these particular artist's work that appeals to me.
Liliana Porter is an artist who works in a multitude of mediums including printmaking, painting, photography, installations, film and video. She was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1941, and has lived and worked in New York since 1964. Porter was a professor at Queens College, City University of New York, from 1991 to 2007.
I enjoy Porter's work for its charm and appeal to my sense of nostalgia. I also respond to the emotional quality and irony that seem to permeate the bulk of her work. Her quirky drawings of small objects are carefully juxtaposed within the starkness of a smooth sheet of paper, suspended in a singular moment, giving the viewer time to consider and question its relevance. Human nature persuades an attachment to objects beginning from childhood, and Porter takes what is deemed sentimental to create a message, even if it may be one that gravitates towards the absurd.
Liliana Porter's Current Artist Statement:
In the last years, parallel to photography and video, I have been making works on canvas, prints, drawings, collages, and small installations. Many of these pieces depict a cast of characters that are inanimate objects, toys and figurines that I find in flea markets, antique stores, and other odd places. The objects have a double existence. On the one hand they are mere appearance, insubstantial ornaments, but, at the same time, have a gaze that can be animated by the viewer, who, through it, can project the inclination to endow things with an interiority and identity. These theatrical vignettes are constructed as visual comments that speak of the human condition. I am interested in the simultaneity of humor and distress, banality and the possibility of meaning.
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Liliana Porter is an artist who works in a multitude of mediums including printmaking, painting, photography, installations, film and video. She was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1941, and has lived and worked in New York since 1964. Porter was a professor at Queens College, City University of New York, from 1991 to 2007.
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| Levitating Rabbit (2003) source |
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| Nail (1972) source |
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| Dialogue with It (1997) source |
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| Candle (2005) source |
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| Situations with Them (2007) source |
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| Triptych (1986) source |
I enjoy Porter's work for its charm and appeal to my sense of nostalgia. I also respond to the emotional quality and irony that seem to permeate the bulk of her work. Her quirky drawings of small objects are carefully juxtaposed within the starkness of a smooth sheet of paper, suspended in a singular moment, giving the viewer time to consider and question its relevance. Human nature persuades an attachment to objects beginning from childhood, and Porter takes what is deemed sentimental to create a message, even if it may be one that gravitates towards the absurd.
Liliana Porter's Current Artist Statement:
In the last years, parallel to photography and video, I have been making works on canvas, prints, drawings, collages, and small installations. Many of these pieces depict a cast of characters that are inanimate objects, toys and figurines that I find in flea markets, antique stores, and other odd places. The objects have a double existence. On the one hand they are mere appearance, insubstantial ornaments, but, at the same time, have a gaze that can be animated by the viewer, who, through it, can project the inclination to endow things with an interiority and identity. These theatrical vignettes are constructed as visual comments that speak of the human condition. I am interested in the simultaneity of humor and distress, banality and the possibility of meaning.
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4/30/11
Last summer, slide film and my Vivitar slide printer.
I sent five rolls of slide film off to get processed at Dwayne's Photo last week, and got some lovely surprises back in the mail this morning. I was happy to pick some of the slides to print on this expired 669 Polaroid film via my Vivitar slide printer. Both the slide film and the Polaroid 669 were expired, so it was interesting to see the faded colors that came out on these prints.
I'm hoping that we will be able to return to North Carolina this summer for vacation. It was the perfect getaway for us. Life here in the southwest can be awfully dry. I am definitely a beach girl, and it's always been my dream to live in a beach town. Someday~!
I'm hoping that we will be able to return to North Carolina this summer for vacation. It was the perfect getaway for us. Life here in the southwest can be awfully dry. I am definitely a beach girl, and it's always been my dream to live in a beach town. Someday~!
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| Steven biking down Kure Beach, North Carolina's residential back streets. I must have shot this while I was on my bike, too. My favorite place in the world so far. |
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| This is me at Fort Fisher Beach, happy. (shot by Steven) |
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| Hammocks are the best. You can see this image in it's original slide format on my Flickr: |
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