abeautifulrevolution
Showing posts with label inspiration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label inspiration. Show all posts
Monday, December 28, 2009
Friday, October 23, 2009
Friday, October 16, 2009
No pretty pictures on this post
But it's still inspiring if you read.
I wanted to share a site that I found to be an instant intrigue for me.
I'm the type of person that forms an opinion very quickly, possibly too quickly. I have no attention span, if it were up to me to hire designers it would be rough for anyone to get through my judgement. I wouldn't even make it. I'm not saying I dislike most everything, just that if you don't put the best thing in front of me before any other visual image, then I'll move along in less than 10 seconds. That first impact is everything!
But, I think with the computer age - more and more people are equally as distracted.
So at the same time, I'm not sure why I instantly love this. Because there's not a whole lot of very mature and organized design going on. Maybe that's exactly why it draws my interest.
1. It's called Barstool Romantic. the name itself already scores a few cool points.
2. The about link reads "The Barstool Romantic celebrates the wanderers, explorers, vagabonds, beats, carousers, rebels, hell-raisers and originals of the world. Those great ideas of freedom and the open road; drinking, laughing and loving like hell; getting out there and into it."
My thoughts: Right on... amazing.. this is what I'm dreaming, living, and striving to live like daily. I value freedom and curiosity for the world way too much.
Scroll down a bit.
3. “ I am sending you
postcards from a place
where I am not.
We’re not tourists, we’re travelers
a tourist is someone who
thinks about going home the
moment they arrive
whereas a traveler
might not come
back at all.”
Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky
BAM!
i love you.
4. oh but wait.. there's also a Diane Arbus photo further down the stream... affirmed!
p.s. I found it through Joanna Goddard's blog.
I wanted to share a site that I found to be an instant intrigue for me.
I'm the type of person that forms an opinion very quickly, possibly too quickly. I have no attention span, if it were up to me to hire designers it would be rough for anyone to get through my judgement. I wouldn't even make it. I'm not saying I dislike most everything, just that if you don't put the best thing in front of me before any other visual image, then I'll move along in less than 10 seconds. That first impact is everything!
But, I think with the computer age - more and more people are equally as distracted.
So at the same time, I'm not sure why I instantly love this. Because there's not a whole lot of very mature and organized design going on. Maybe that's exactly why it draws my interest.
1. It's called Barstool Romantic. the name itself already scores a few cool points.
2. The about link reads "The Barstool Romantic celebrates the wanderers, explorers, vagabonds, beats, carousers, rebels, hell-raisers and originals of the world. Those great ideas of freedom and the open road; drinking, laughing and loving like hell; getting out there and into it."
My thoughts: Right on... amazing.. this is what I'm dreaming, living, and striving to live like daily. I value freedom and curiosity for the world way too much.
Scroll down a bit.
3. “ I am sending you
postcards from a place
where I am not.
We’re not tourists, we’re travelers
a tourist is someone who
thinks about going home the
moment they arrive
whereas a traveler
might not come
back at all.”
Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky
BAM!
i love you.
4. oh but wait.. there's also a Diane Arbus photo further down the stream... affirmed!
p.s. I found it through Joanna Goddard's blog.
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Tostitos
There are about 5 of these, and I love them all. When I saw this one on TV, I stopped everything I was doing (I'm usually multitasking when watching TV) and dropped my jaw. There is a website going along with the campaign. I LOVE!
If anyone knows who created these, I really want to know. See what else they're creating as well.
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Day 366 - End of Year One.
So here it is. The end of year one of electric lion. Part of me doesn't really want to write much but I feel obliged to myself to have some words written down for future reference, so like this entire project, here is another self-indulgence.
I may never have mentioned why I started this project. There isn't a clear reason, as such, but Stephanie likes the photos I take and had on rare occasion requested i send her photos. I.e. take a photo for her and send it to her on a consistent basis (a simple and symbolic way to stay connected when living far away). The desire to do that mixed with a sudden fire inside me to work...and work Hard started the idea. I grabbed my camera and took mister toad over to bryan's house and ended up photographing his kid noah. I arbitrarily chose a name, arbitrarily decided to host it on blogger.com instead of my normal site, and randomly decided to host the images on flickr because I wanted to be a bit more involved on that site. And that was electric lion's start.
I set up rules for myself. Let's see how I did.
1_ must take a photo on any given day - pretty sure i did this. if i missed a day, i'll give myself a break since its a leap year.
2_ photo i post isn't necessarily the shot for the day - this happened the majority of the time.
3_ film + placeholder stuff - this happened a lot too, but mostly after I amassed enough images i'd just post something else. rule 2 took a life of its own. i never made a rule that i HAD to note what i shot that day...i just had to shoot.
4_ goal = classic photos, not gimmicks - at a glance, i think i actually pulled this one off. really all that means is I didn't create a photo with a technique that would embarrass me later in life.
5_ not internet = not an excuse - check it...i went back and made up for all the days i missed from not having access.
6_ day missed = project over - this puts rule 1 more in stone. i feel good about 1 and 6.
7_ self portraits okay, if a touch lame - i count only 4 i'd really call a self portrait in the whole project. there are a few more than that with me IN the shot, but they weren't s/p technically speaking. i may have taken a couple more than this over the course of the year as well, but it looks like only 4 of 366 qualify. nice.
8_ enjoy the process, push yourself, don't be an asshole - check, check, and i HOPE check. i dont feel like an asshole, so lets hope thats how it translated to everyone else too.
I'm pretty happy with it. The idea was simple enough. Take a shot, try not to make it suck, be honest. I think this project serves well as a glimpse into what my life looked like this year. Lots of [the same] friends [over and over], some family, my sister going through chemotherapy, delving into the world of 4x5 finally, which lead the way to developing said 4x5 film, a LOT more travel than i expected this year (the job at the beginning of the year took me all over the southeast and I actually followed through on a whimsical joke-promise about taking a trip with john yam, as well as an impromptu visit to portland to visit garrett and helen), a lot of fun work for mental_floss, some time in new york, a lot more time with steph, reconnecting with people, and of course, taking pictures no matter how mundane the day may seem. There were quite a few shots that turned out a lot more interesting than i'd ever have expected which is encouraging to me to continue shooting all the time. There were plenty that didn't come out how i wanted them too but that's just how it goes. The serendipitous joy of finding photographs I love in unexpected places far outweighs the disappointment of the failure of a single idea.
Here are some favorites and some notes on those images (remember, these are notes for me...I don't expect you to care):
Day 028 - this is a perfect example of a shot I took for posterity because I was in the village in the winter and it was snowing. it is a shot I would be happy to find in a shoebox at an estate sale, as weird as that may seem. It ended up being slightly more special (in an additionally morbid way) because I photographed Taylor Shaw while I was up there and he shared with me a song he'd just written that contained a line "spread my ashes over manhattan".
Day 060 - I really had fun photographing Matthew. Not much else to this...I just like the shot and enjoyed making it.
Day 071 - all I need is to see Jamric in this hat, metering a llama, in the snow. it is really all i need to see.
Day 110 - This represents to me a particularly good example of learned adaptation mixing with instinct and style. The setting for this photo was Way less than what par should have been but it ended up fruiting (fruiting?) one of my favorite images from the regions campaign. I'm proud of this image on a number of levels. It also makes me appreciate having a stylist on hand to make choices about color. the red shirt was by way of chatham.
Day 150 - Not sure what to say about it. Just love it.
Day 219 - an especially successful 4x5 polaroid. alan with a hairicane.
Day 232 - despite the lomo being in its last gasps of breath, this shot came out to be very pretty. pretty for pretty's sake. I wish I had taken it from the beach.
Day 286 - Lush + Alabania. Shot that makes me happy.
Day 337 - Come on. It's kevin with a huge bomb. Also it was a very fun shot to create.
Day 351 - More shooting with instinct. Really this one is on this list because I think its beautiful but more importantly it tells me I worked hard the whole year and even in December I produced photographs I love.
So that's it. End of year one. Any requests or ideas for Electric Lion Mark II?
Here is Steph and David. It seemed appropriate to post a photo of stephanie. Now to go take a photo for today.
I may never have mentioned why I started this project. There isn't a clear reason, as such, but Stephanie likes the photos I take and had on rare occasion requested i send her photos. I.e. take a photo for her and send it to her on a consistent basis (a simple and symbolic way to stay connected when living far away). The desire to do that mixed with a sudden fire inside me to work...and work Hard started the idea. I grabbed my camera and took mister toad over to bryan's house and ended up photographing his kid noah. I arbitrarily chose a name, arbitrarily decided to host it on blogger.com instead of my normal site, and randomly decided to host the images on flickr because I wanted to be a bit more involved on that site. And that was electric lion's start.
I set up rules for myself. Let's see how I did.
1_ must take a photo on any given day - pretty sure i did this. if i missed a day, i'll give myself a break since its a leap year.
2_ photo i post isn't necessarily the shot for the day - this happened the majority of the time.
3_ film + placeholder stuff - this happened a lot too, but mostly after I amassed enough images i'd just post something else. rule 2 took a life of its own. i never made a rule that i HAD to note what i shot that day...i just had to shoot.
4_ goal = classic photos, not gimmicks - at a glance, i think i actually pulled this one off. really all that means is I didn't create a photo with a technique that would embarrass me later in life.
5_ not internet = not an excuse - check it...i went back and made up for all the days i missed from not having access.
6_ day missed = project over - this puts rule 1 more in stone. i feel good about 1 and 6.
7_ self portraits okay, if a touch lame - i count only 4 i'd really call a self portrait in the whole project. there are a few more than that with me IN the shot, but they weren't s/p technically speaking. i may have taken a couple more than this over the course of the year as well, but it looks like only 4 of 366 qualify. nice.
8_ enjoy the process, push yourself, don't be an asshole - check, check, and i HOPE check. i dont feel like an asshole, so lets hope thats how it translated to everyone else too.
I'm pretty happy with it. The idea was simple enough. Take a shot, try not to make it suck, be honest. I think this project serves well as a glimpse into what my life looked like this year. Lots of [the same] friends [over and over], some family, my sister going through chemotherapy, delving into the world of 4x5 finally, which lead the way to developing said 4x5 film, a LOT more travel than i expected this year (the job at the beginning of the year took me all over the southeast and I actually followed through on a whimsical joke-promise about taking a trip with john yam, as well as an impromptu visit to portland to visit garrett and helen), a lot of fun work for mental_floss, some time in new york, a lot more time with steph, reconnecting with people, and of course, taking pictures no matter how mundane the day may seem. There were quite a few shots that turned out a lot more interesting than i'd ever have expected which is encouraging to me to continue shooting all the time. There were plenty that didn't come out how i wanted them too but that's just how it goes. The serendipitous joy of finding photographs I love in unexpected places far outweighs the disappointment of the failure of a single idea.
Here are some favorites and some notes on those images (remember, these are notes for me...I don't expect you to care):
Day 028 - this is a perfect example of a shot I took for posterity because I was in the village in the winter and it was snowing. it is a shot I would be happy to find in a shoebox at an estate sale, as weird as that may seem. It ended up being slightly more special (in an additionally morbid way) because I photographed Taylor Shaw while I was up there and he shared with me a song he'd just written that contained a line "spread my ashes over manhattan".
Day 060 - I really had fun photographing Matthew. Not much else to this...I just like the shot and enjoyed making it.
Day 071 - all I need is to see Jamric in this hat, metering a llama, in the snow. it is really all i need to see.
Day 110 - This represents to me a particularly good example of learned adaptation mixing with instinct and style. The setting for this photo was Way less than what par should have been but it ended up fruiting (fruiting?) one of my favorite images from the regions campaign. I'm proud of this image on a number of levels. It also makes me appreciate having a stylist on hand to make choices about color. the red shirt was by way of chatham.
Day 150 - Not sure what to say about it. Just love it.
Day 219 - an especially successful 4x5 polaroid. alan with a hairicane.
Day 232 - despite the lomo being in its last gasps of breath, this shot came out to be very pretty. pretty for pretty's sake. I wish I had taken it from the beach.
Day 286 - Lush + Alabania. Shot that makes me happy.
Day 337 - Come on. It's kevin with a huge bomb. Also it was a very fun shot to create.
Day 351 - More shooting with instinct. Really this one is on this list because I think its beautiful but more importantly it tells me I worked hard the whole year and even in December I produced photographs I love.
So that's it. End of year one. Any requests or ideas for Electric Lion Mark II?
Here is Steph and David. It seemed appropriate to post a photo of stephanie. Now to go take a photo for today.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Friday, November 7, 2008
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Friday, September 26, 2008
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
YouWorkForThem
I once had to do a presentation in college, for my professor Kate, on a place called YouWorkForThem. I couldn't tell you anything about it now, because i was extremely lazy about doing the project. I'm sure Kate would not appreciate..
Nonetheless, i stumbled upon their blog today (i am always behind on the internet world, since i have no internet at home). And I have been reading it for the past hour and a half, completely consumed by all the eye and brain candy.
I wish it was thanksgiving day, because I would be thankful for them, but also very thankful for google reader. because there's a million blogs out there with such great things.
Why am i blogging? for my own recording of thoughts and inspiration i suppose.
Nonetheless, i stumbled upon their blog today (i am always behind on the internet world, since i have no internet at home). And I have been reading it for the past hour and a half, completely consumed by all the eye and brain candy.
I wish it was thanksgiving day, because I would be thankful for them, but also very thankful for google reader. because there's a million blogs out there with such great things.
Why am i blogging? for my own recording of thoughts and inspiration i suppose.
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