Monday, April 28, 2008

RichardAvedon.com


I had to blog about this man. His portrait work, in my opinion, is the best in the busines. From medium format images of some of the most famous and influential people on Earth, to high end fashion photography, Avedon has set the bar way high. Influential indeed.

lichtfaktor


http://www.flickr.com/photos/lichtfaktor/show/
These guys make insane photographs. Lightwriting to the maximum. They use lights to make graffiti in the air. They are also shooting images for coca cola advertisements. There are images on this flickr site that link to a myspacetv site, where they have used the images to make a movie. Check it out.
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=15040640

AimeeBrodeur.com


Aimee's work can be seen in the advertising images of american apparel as well as high fashion ads. Her work is edgy and has a unique feel. She captures images bursting with emotion.

ChrisStraley.com


Chris lives in Carlsbad and shoots a lot of lifestyle shots for ad campaigns such as Spy, Hurley, Roxy and many more in the Surf Industry. I dig his work. It is clean and fresh. Looking at his work makes me want to travel and shoot more!
He also has a blog, chrisstraley.blogspot.com

JimmyFontaine.com


Jimmy shoots killer photos. He first started shooting in high school for the journalism program. Getting his photos published in the school paper created an addiction that has turned into a career. His style of shooting including lifestyle portraiture is very influential for my own work, as well as the fact that he too is from the little town of Fallbrook.

Monday, April 14, 2008

The Collection Art Show Ivy San Diego





The Collection is at it again. The show was Friday 4.11.08 and consisted of photography, paintings and visual art. I was lucky enough to be invited to shoot photos for the event and had a blast while doing it. Tons of people showed up, and with a hosted bar by 10cane Rum from 8 till 9 the party was rolling early.

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

The Collection



The Collection Art Show at Basic in downtown San Diego on March 18th was an intricate experience of art, photography, pizza, pool, beer and most importantly, local artists and FRIENDS. Some of our very own cougars from CSUSM were present and it was an overall good time.
http://www.thecollectionartshow.com/

Killer of Giants . COM




I have been following Angela Boatwright for a while now. Her work is interesting. She had a show on March 8th at the Pop Up Store Gallery in downtown San Diego. Her work was displayed all over the walls. The show was titled, "Sorcerers" and was a collection of images that she captured of kids/people at rock concerts. Awesome_

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Saturday, March 1, 2008

Friday, February 22, 2008

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"There is a brief moment in the process of taking a picture when the photographer forgets the existence of the camera, forgets that there is between him and his subject a cold, intricate mechanism. During that instant, he stands in a sense naked, unassisted, left to see what his inner eye seeks to see. Other creative tools in other mediums are sometime forgotten at the peak of creative work, but only the camera has the power to record."
Alexander Liberman
speaking of Irving Penn

Sunday, February 17, 2008

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

page.layout ideas




Oliver Herring


This man somehow gets strangers off the street to spit food coloring into the air and all over themselves while he photographs the odd display. Oliver plays with the idea of portrait manipulation and has done something very unique. The process between the stranger and the photographer is similar in each trial however different indeed. He has a way with getting people to trust him completely, and in some cases in a short amount of time.

"In the end people only do what they want to do. You just have to make them understand that that’s what they want to do. I think we all want to do stuff that we are too shy to really do, but deep down we have it in us. These experiences here in the studio, because they’re so unstructured, they allow for these things to happen. I really like the sense of adventure in the air when things are not scripted, when anything can happen. When a performer comes in here and gets that feeling that anything can happen, then it really becomes interesting and addictive, actually." -Oliver Herring

Reza Abedini


http://www.qoqnoos.com/body/graphic/r-abedini/master.htm






Arturo Herrera

This man uses an approach to his artwork/photography that I have never seen. He takes macro shots of his small painted illustrations and then soaks the film in water/coffee. Then he puts the submerged film into the sunlight. The result is astonishing imagery. He spoke of how emotional life, memory and desire are all important aspects of his work. He is interested in the ambiguity and fragmenting of images creating basic abstractions. This leads to a potential for images to communicate with the individual. I am very interested in his process and I would like to experiment in this medium.

Tom Scott


Tom went to the beach and produced beautiful pictures of tidal illustrations in the sand. These are all familiar markings that anyone who has visited a coastline has seen, however Tom took the time to look again. He scoured the beach over 200 times in search of stories created where the ocean meets land.

Sunday, February 10, 2008

ONE_art.event

Lux Boreal International Danza Contemporanea
On Wed 2.6.08 I along with others in the beginning acting class decided to attend the Lux Boreal International Danza Contemporanea. Two dance performers came to campus and informed us about living in Tijuana and some of the issues that are going on in their country. This included border issues. They showed us clips of their previous performances and ended the hour with a live duet of their work. It was very colorful and repetitious which got their point across.

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

myBook


I have a few ideas on what to include in my book for this semesters project in artist books class. One idea that I was thinking about would include images that I am creating for a portrait project I am working on. I would include the images along with writings describing the people in the images. Maybe I could ask the subjects I photograph interesting questions about their life or ask them what they want me to include with their mug shot. Questions from left field or ones not normally asked would be interesting to include.



I also wanted to create a book that included photographs of art pieces that I have compiled over the years. I would include mostly drawings, but some paintings as well. I thought about taking the drawings/paintings and altering them in photoshop and illustrator and adding what we have learned with text in indesign to make them more interesting. I want to alter the text greatly giving it an abstract form of communication. One that is far from the standard linear columns.



Another idea I thought about was to implement landscapes of downtown san diego and all of the interesting city street culture. I spent a large amount of time in the city this winter break and I found many stunning images within the architecture and city streets. I would love to shoot more photographs in the city and somehow apply it to the project and write something worthy of print.

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

stefan sagmeister


is one of the few graphic artists that still creates everything by hand. Stefan was in terrible rock bands when he was younger which ultimately led to his decision to go to art school, which sprouted from his thirst for creating album covers.

text.

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

beautiful mistakes


daVId caRsON changed aspects of communication whether the founders of the cookie cutter type faced fonts like it or not. He continuously pushed the envelope and ultimately started a new micro trend of visual communication using what many would call mistakes and displaced text carving his own niche in the world of imagery.