tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63627992011-07-31T00:02:46.978-04:00never trust a royal nosehypotheses, experiments, trial and errornanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03414166032452890753noreply@blogger.comBlogger191100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6362799.post-1677871522718639262010-09-13T23:05:00.003-04:002010-09-14T00:57:44.901-04:00I'm thinking about the relationship between self-portraits and the fact that as humans, we spend our life unable to look at ourselves as we can look at others.I know my own face far worse than I know the features of others. Noses, eyebrows, smiles, dimples, scars. Our eyes are like lids that open our self to the rest of the world, and they are at this border, the skin, that separates that self, nanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03414166032452890753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6362799.post-28900832682540703712009-07-27T03:05:00.002-04:002009-07-27T03:07:00.759-04:00Here's looking at you, kidnanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03414166032452890753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6362799.post-70902119765875276442009-02-18T03:12:00.008-05:002009-02-18T14:51:31.867-05:00Walk the back of the building, or "Hug the Wall"One of the aspects of commercial buildings that I always think about is how these places present the visitor a facade, an image of 'building' in which they will receive something in exchange for their money. Some of them have prosthetic pediments made of plywood, others, pretend surfaces in their walls simulating rock, wood and other nanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03414166032452890753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6362799.post-6917497644756160312008-11-03T18:53:00.006-05:002008-11-03T19:37:48.236-05:00At eight days until this project goes up, I keep trying to find ways to keep my motivation high...At times I feel so excited about it, things make sense, ideas fit together, images do too...but I worry of how people will respond to it. It's not a flashy, come-look-at-me-piece. Will they see it as a history lesson that will make them wanna go to sleep, or will they stay within it for some time, nanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03414166032452890753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6362799.post-40758949672789539972008-08-29T00:51:00.003-04:002008-08-29T01:12:15.429-04:00A return to the old blog...I heard an intelligent speaker on the radio today as I was driving to lunch. Benjamin Barber. I kept silently nodding with every statement. He spoke about people as consumers, and the prevailing conditions in our lives (built environment, etc) which help perpetrate this role in our society. He spoke of how, throughout history, town halls, squares, markets, etc. -tracingnanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03414166032452890753noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6362799.post-49736201189747417302008-05-07T20:08:00.004-04:002009-03-11T23:05:54.835-04:00Summer Art???I was driving home the other night, feeling the urge to do something. I remembered a set of watercolors I had bought a while back, and that it was still practically new...one of those things I keep putting off until I never do. nanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03414166032452890753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6362799.post-38427435326039945522008-04-23T10:29:00.003-04:002008-04-23T11:02:01.798-04:00This morning I woke up with the feeling that I have been working on the same image all semester. Yesterday I was putting them up in the case outside the photo classroom, and they started to all look alike.The audio tracks of the different characters are really interesting to me. I think that those could act in the way that some photographs do, as traces of a person that has been there, so in thatnanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03414166032452890753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6362799.post-67217676173285301032008-04-09T10:08:00.002-04:002008-04-09T11:43:34.147-04:00text to audio, first tryhttp://say.expressivo.com/nOy9G6Lqnanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03414166032452890753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6362799.post-64572739435792168122008-04-09T01:07:00.007-04:002008-04-09T02:13:40.067-04:00Todd HidoOn monday we began discussing our impressions of Todd Hido's visit. I believe one of the reasons I cannot really relate to his photographs of the houses is because I do not share the experience of growing up in the suburbs. I like that his work is an expression of the seriality of these places that have been fabricated, but at the same time this characteristic is disturbing to me asnanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03414166032452890753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6362799.post-9979543377232124982008-04-01T02:01:00.003-04:002008-04-01T02:21:53.711-04:00French architect Nouvel wins Pritzkerhttp://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/31/arts/design/31prit.htmlI was in a few of his buildings when I went to Europe, my favorite was the Institute of the Arab World in Paris, above. With some of his projects, though, I think he lost sight of the people that would use the spaces...his fame may have got to him...I read somewhere he's still paying off debts caused by nanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03414166032452890753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6362799.post-50044643310870943822008-03-31T14:05:00.007-04:002008-04-01T02:00:37.278-04:00Interactive Artso I became temporarily obsessed with finding out who had done the interactive art installation in the streets of Tokyo, it was SEMITRANSPARENT DESIGN (founded in 2003 by Ryoji Tanaka, Toshiyuki Sugai, Yusuke Shibata and Hiroshi Sato (who joined in a little later). Their main focus lies on exploring different types of networks and interactive projects as well as dealing with nanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03414166032452890753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6362799.post-41660201795115501692008-03-24T01:16:00.002-04:002008-03-24T01:30:53.575-04:00melodrama may be the least interesting aspect of set-up photography past and presentI just finished reading the article Mike posted a little while ago Wandering in a Forest of Poses...I kept thinking of parallels between my work this semester, and that which Smith wrote about.Last critique I kept thinking about how uncomfortable I was getting with my being in those pictures, and how if I looked nanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03414166032452890753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6362799.post-62046419069805110162008-03-24T00:42:00.003-04:002008-03-24T01:10:49.724-04:00SPE...Walking around the tables at the curator review, the work of the two following women artists caugh my eye:Toni Pepe, an MFA student from Rochester Institue of Technology, and Jane Tam, a BFA student from Syracuse.Pepe's work interested me because of her setups of space, using wallpaper and dramatic light...they do seem a little too much inclined towards fashion (I saw her Angle of Repose nanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03414166032452890753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6362799.post-77157061609130481662008-02-12T23:42:00.003-05:002008-02-12T23:51:21.992-05:00I'm nervous yet anxious about showing work to the visiting artists tomorrow. Here's what I'vebeen working on lately...nanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03414166032452890753noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6362799.post-7599862772291905712008-02-04T18:53:00.001-05:002008-02-04T19:15:49.090-05:00I was reminded today that if a people remain silent about injustice, they are only helping to propagate it.nanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03414166032452890753noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6362799.post-83366052399213945702008-01-23T01:04:00.000-05:002008-01-23T01:28:27.240-05:00Here are a couple of frustrated attempts: Tomorrow you'll tell me if the ones I present are any better...Recently watched film: Weekend (Godard, 1967)nanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03414166032452890753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6362799.post-11472548678146107852008-01-14T10:21:00.000-05:002008-01-14T11:21:43.245-05:00So you can see how diligent I've been with the blog, which I wanted to use as a way to make more work...This is the book that I have been reading about Sophie CalleI also found at the library one about her project Suite Venitienne , which includes an essay by Jean Baudrillard, Please Follow Me.recently watched films: Be with Me, The Bad Sleep Well, La Vie en Rosenanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03414166032452890753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6362799.post-60691131550341529492007-05-16T02:29:00.000-04:002008-01-14T11:02:42.443-05:00nanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03414166032452890753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6362799.post-39168618070461117462007-05-16T00:56:00.000-04:002008-01-14T10:04:22.786-05:00I imposed upon myself a list of things that I wanted to achieve this summer: reading more, writing more, taking more photographs, sketching more...basically, using this time to experiment, to come up with new ideas, new ways of working, by using my intuition and new knowledge I pick up...I'm forcing myself to read, because I want to learn what others before me have gotten to write, what ideas nanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03414166032452890753noreply@blogger.com0