the idea: stop and take a picture I honestly should not be writing this right now. I should be writing the rationale for my master’s thesis which is definitely pressing the deadline. But instead I am on the phone with my sister and writing a blog post after having spent the evening at an open mic …
the idea: take photographs of natural abstraction For someone who has never taken a photography class, I love taking photographs. Maybe it’s specifically because I have no artistic training so for me photographs are just interesting ways to document ideas. Like this one, here. One of the many things I like to photograph is when …
Recently, the internet served up to me another interesting idea: Photograph centenarians, a.k.a. people in their 100’s. This idea was undertaken by the German photographer Karsten Thormaehlen in 2008. He photographed over 40 men and women who had reached the stately age of 100 and published them in the book, Happy at One Hundred. Their …
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While I was lying on the floor, listening to ilyAIMY, and outlining a series of orange drips in yellow I got distracted by the textures of my own paintings. I know that sounds a little strange, maybe egotistical, but the thing about my kind of abstract art is that only half of it is made …
Have you ever seen those pictures where a person is put next to a picture of their dog and it’s amazing how similar they are? I want to make a series of portraits of people next to their artwork. I doubt that the resemblance will be as uncanny as when a woman looks just like …
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I do many things, but photography is not one of them. Yes, I like to take pictures. Lots and lots of really bad pictures in fact. Once or twice I’ve managed to capture something that I actually like, usually after taking the same picture about ten times from slightly different positions. Today’s picture is not …