July 2009
9 posts
"STREET STUDIO" as Inspiration
Ok, I have already received several emails regarding the previous post about the free photographic omnibus. It seems that seeing some sources of “street portrait” inspiration strikes a cord…
Einstein said, “the secret to creativity is hiding your sources…” so maybe I am blowing it by showing you some of my sources of inspiration. But honestly, I don’t...
Free Photographic Omnibus
Just in case you need some proof that “street studios” have been around for a long, long time, then take a few minutes to watch this video. (sorry, can’t embed it)
If you don’t feel like watching the video, then at least glance at these images:
A photographer named Daniel Meadows spent a lot of time criss-crossing Britain in his “omnibus”, stopping whenever...
“the book of love
is long and boring
no one can lift the damn thing
its full...”
– The Magnetic Fields (via Peter Gabriel)
A Street Portrait Session cut short...
practice, practice, practice…
anne’s older brother, brian, called me a couple of days ago to see if i would be interested in coming out to the “scream the prayer” tour and daylong event to shoot some promo for a band that was swinging through town. brian is pretty connected with several of the bands on the tour and he has a screen-printing shop in the admin offices of the club that was...
JEZ Promotional
I recently shot promotional work for an artist named JEZ…
Some images:
I invited my friend Trae to come out and shoot some video while we were shooting the stills…
I have some loosely formed concepts for multimedia promotion, knew the location would be great for it, and thought we could kick around some ideas. The footage looks great. I am not sure how much I am going...
“A tape recorder with microphone in hand…can be used to capture the voice of a...”
– Studs Terkel
Another Street Portrait endeavor
I know that I mentioned that I went out and set up another portrait station a week or so ago, but I haven’t had a chance to share much about the experience. It has been a busy last few weeks and for that I am grateful.
Anne and I live in a neighborhood called Montrose… It is a lovely part of town. We live right on a light-rail line which Anne uses nearly every day for work and nearly...
Happy Birthday to Anne (the small things)
For my wife, on her birthday…a few words:
We spent last weekend out of town at a friends house for the 4th. It was mid-afternoon and we had returned from running errands and getting things ready for the big meal later in the day. Everyone was kind of on their own, taking it easy. I was in the kitchen, rummaging around, and I looked out the window to see Anne outside, by herself,...
Fireworks!
So, this was one of my twitter posts just before the July 4th weekend:
Now part of the reason that I don’t like to take concert photographs (very often), as I have said before, is that I cannot really enjoy the music if I am focused on capturing the images. I cannot multi-task when it comes to creating visual media. Good when I am working, but not necessarily good when I am just...