Richard Misrach on "Destroy This Memory"
Photographer Richard Misrach describes photographing the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and discusses his book about hurricane-inspired graffiti, "Destroy This Memory".
More Still Life studies
Painterly Encaustic Techniques
I have experimented with various encaustic recipes, some worked, some didn't. Now I stick with the traditional recipe of beeswax and damar crystals. Note that this *very different* from damar *varnish* which contains solvents. Damar varnish should not be used in encaustics as it is highly flammable and can give off toxic fumes when heated! I have also had good luck with a mixture of beeswax and a colorless synthetic hardening wax (lustre wax from www.fineartstore.com) in about a 12:1 ratio of beeswax:synthetic.
Making a note here.
Dead Flowers and the Dirty Leaves
Leaves Fall and Crows Flee
Portland Vs Hawaii
HOW TO STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST (AND 9 OTHER THINGS NOBODY TOLD ME)
Soon after, you learn that most of the world doesn’t necessarily care about what you think. It sounds harsh, but it’s true. As Steven Pressfield said, “It’s not that people are mean or cruel, they’re just busy.” If there was a secret formula for getting an audience, or gaining a following, I would give it to you. But there’s only one not-so-secret formula that I know: “Do good work and put it where people can see it.”
Good read.
Number 10 is really good as well, "Creativity is subtraction."
Thousands of Screws Make a 3D Portrait
Short interview with the artist. Andrew Myers' main site.
A Conversation with Nadav Kander - Conscientious
NK: I think it’s a universal Western truth that we have a real problem thinking any lower than our head into how we feel about things. I think when we are always trying to make our brain do the work and separate a picture into why I like it or why I don’t and what are the reasons for it, it’s often as simple as that it touches me in an emotional place, in a place inside me that responds to this for whatever reason. Maybe the way I was brought up, maybe the way my parents were brought up. Who knows how far these things go? We all have a problem in knowing that.
Good art works on that level very, very well. Think of Rothko as an excellent example. There’s almost no information on the canvas, and people can sit in front of them for hours, with very, very strong feelings. So composition in itself and weight of composition and colour can give you very strong connections to you and your past. I think that probably explains it.
Cables
Sunrise
Here is a shot of our lovely garden shed filled with all sorts of wood and dirt. The morning light hitting it with the green and reds and whites and blacks.... had to get a shot. This could be a lot of fun to blur the crap out of and make a color field print of.
Wysteria is wild and crazy stuff. I am training this bunch to run down the length of our fence. It follows those "T" bars I make out of cedar. I was messing around and made this sepia toned image and really enjoyed it as this graphic piece.
In Memorium
P.S.A.
Yee Rustic Circa 2001
Hibernation
Winter rolls on here at pixelrust and slowly I am getting out of my winter funk / work busy period. Starting to feel the creative itch again. Set up a new bay for table top shooting so I no longer have to break it down to shoot green screen work related stuff. That means I have an area I can leave up and tinker with without work getting in the way. Excited about that. One of the things I always wanted was a table top zone I could just build things in. Here is something from almost 20 years ago I dug up while upgrading to Lightroom 3.
So fun stuff like this is in order I think. Don't have as much crap laying around as I did back then though... lol!
Diptych after a morning walk.
When shooting landscapes
When shooting landscapes what I enjoy is that to do it right you have to frame up your shot then breath for about 15 seconds to take it in. See what else will show itself to you in the frame. Maybe it will change a bit and be better and maybe not. But it's a great time to stand still for 15 seconds and just take it all in none the less.
Surfing in bullet time
Thoughts on Post production....
This always comes up that So and So relies too heavily on Post Production to make their images look good and it always gets under my skin. The darkroom and photography has been about manipulation since it's birth. Here is the master of manipulations himself, Ansel Adams.