This coming Monday, we are packing up the Family Truckster (The Prius) and heading to The Grand Canyon for a week of good ol' American family fun. My parents are meeting us there, so it will be a full on Griswold-esque vacation complete with dog (The Baroness, not Dinky). Hopefully no one will get tied to the rear bumper.
Like many photographers, the desert is appealing to me, and I'm excited to spend some time getting my Misrach on.
A little over a month ago, the husband and I woke up at 5am to record and shoot a Transmissions session with Miike Snow. They wanted to do it at their house in the hills as the sun came up. Above are a couple portraits I took of them. Below is a shot of the actual session, and here is where you can download the music for freeeeeee. It's good. I also recommend browsing through the Transmissions archive. The husband knows what he's doing.
Coming to you from the Salt Lake City airport this Friday the 13th, to share with you my picture on today's Flak Photo! I love this photo. Thank you so much to Andy Adams at Flak Photo for his continual support and exposure of my work. Another big thanks to Elizabeth Avedon for her post today as well. Their compliments mean so much to me. Stuff like this makes me happy. Time to go home now.
Today is my mom's birthday and a big birthday at that. I thought this would be a good excuse to post a picture I took last weekend while out shooting more for my project. This picture has nothing to do with the project itself, but it was too good to pass up so I shot a couple of impromptu sheets of film. My mom loves pink and is very young at heart, so this image is my little tribute to her.
My Bust cover of Amy Poehler was hanging in Liz Lemon's office on last night's episode of 30 Rock! This is one of my all time favorite shoots and all time favorite subjects. The original is here:
Last night the husband and I got to see Devo perform Freedom of Choice in its' entirety, front to back, at The Fonda. Pretty cool. It sounded surprisingly good; like no time had passed or taken any sort of toll on the musical abilities of the band. And how cool is Mark Mothersbaugh...I mean, seriously.
Anyway, they played a few videos before the show, one of which was Whip It, and it got me to thinking about my generation...MTV, technology, people's vision of what the future will be, how it will look, how wrong we usually are, stuff like that. The project I have been working on is kind of loosely related to these concepts, and I actually now have a good beginning of an artist statement going on in my head.
Before last night, I never realized how random and creative the video for Whip It is. The dude ranch, the cross eyed Asian lady, the Norman Rockwell color palette. Awesome. I really enjoy color when it looks this way. It seems everyone, including myself, has been on a muted, sort of pastel kick lately. I love a soft and subtle image, but last night I remembered how much I love bold color as well.
Here is round two, again in no particular order. I'm not in love with all of these, but I thought I'd post everything I scanned in hopes of getting some feedback. You never know what people will respond to. Well, at least I don't. Thanks very much to everyone who commented on the previous "rough scans" post. To make things a bit easier in terms of commenting, I numbered these images as well as the images in part one.
