A blog about the following:
1. The recent changes throughout the landscape in post-industrialized America, specifically
the areas you call home, and how these intimate structures and personalities
are being sacrificed due to globalization, simplification, and complications, the inhibition of expressing oneself, and placement of incompatence within public elementary schools. This is a place for posting photographic findings--ramblings about art, life, social structure, and the interruptions of such things. We are to wade through most of the 21st century
blind to the past, or awaken to a new day of conservation of what
little precious spaces we have left. More posting to come soon
reflecting on the situation at hand and feet.
2. Special types of cheeses across Europe.
Gasp! You're afoot, go out in the blogosphere and make something of yourself.
Meet Waradise: a temporary venue for things to happen. Directed by Alice Wells, with a forthcoming exhibition curated by Karen Archey, and design by Caroline Askew.
17 Orchard Street New York, NY / www.meetwaradise.com / meet@meetwaradise.com
Meet Waradise – Fjord is a one-night exhibition in which the general expectations of a photography exhibition will be broken and the viewer will be able to directly interact with the photographs. This exhibition features the work of 66 photographers from the Fjord collective. The photographs will be displayed in an un-mounted, un-bound fashion in order to promote direct interaction between the viewers and the work.
Exhibiting photographers are:
Dustin Aksland, Nicole Akstein, Mary Amor, Michelle Arcila, Daniel Augschöll, Mikaylah Bowman, Coley Brown, Alana Celii, Céline Clanet, Gerald Edwards III, Jon Feinstein, Bea Fremderman, Dana Gentile, Gustav Gustafsson, Jessica Hans, Paul Herbst, Nicola Kast, Clare Kelly, Jonathan Knobel, Andrew Laumann, Shane Lavalette, Bryan Lear, Miranda Lehman, Seth Lower, Sophie Lvoff, Michael Marcelle, Alexander Martinez, Lydia Anne McCarthy, Andrew McComb, Mark McKnight, Ye Rin Mok, Chad Muthard, Erin Nelson, Erika Neola, Jennifer Niederhauser, Kaarel Nurk, Grady O’Connor, Ulijona Odisarija, Nils Orth, Cristina Maria Oswald, Justin James Reed, Jessica Roberts, Lazaro Rodriguez, Tamara Rosenblum, Bryan Schutmaat, Daniel Shea, Brea Souders, Jake Stangel, Will Steacy, Tim Steer, Sean Stewart, Joseph Tripi, Brad Troemel, Jesper Ulvelius, Elo Vazquez, Kamden Vencill, Corrie Vierregger, Greg Wasserstrom, Shen Wei, Alice Wells, Ian Whitmore, Mark Wickens, Jessica Williams, Grant Willing, Sarah Wilmer, and Davin Youngs
Curated by: Alana Celii and Grant Willing
Fjord is a project that showcases the photography of young, up-and-coming photographers. The drastic shift in the way work is being presented today has become especially noticeable in the more technologically adept generation. Fjord's goal is to bring together a collection of notable photographers from the Internet and showcase their work in physical form. This transition from Internet to physicality will allow a different audience to experience the work thus bringing emerging artists into the public's view.
www.fjordphoto.org
Isolated converation, Oct 23 approx. 2:50 pmJust a few thoughts on thesis and other things:
Fish Burger, October, 2008
Ray-banwich, October, 2008
Meadville, PA, October, 2008
Epson Flatbed Scanner
Katie, Slippery Rock, PA. September 2008.
Letom, Near Quakertown, PA. October 2008
Van Gogh, Meadville, PaI'm currently in Meadville, Pennsylvania dealing with post-food sickness, time, and a brief history of neo-mindlessness with a 4x5. But still, there's no thesis work in sight.
Map of Meadville, Google Maps
Here's some history for you youngin's:
Continue reading Maybe it was the food..
I'm pleased to be apart of 0_100's summer issue along side a list of wonderful photographers.
The new issue is out now and you can reserve yourself a copy at www.0_100editions.com. A presentation will follow this September in Milan.
Lush, Brooklyn, NY. Summer 2008While packing my things into boxes, I found a book beneath my bed and turned to a page that read the following poem by Galway Kinnel. I'm leaving Brooklyn on my dad's birthday, August 27th.
1In the eveninghaze darkening on the hills,purple of the eternal,a last bird crosses over,‘flop flop,’ adoringonly the instant.2Nine years ago,in a plane that rumbled all nightabove the Atlantic,I could see, lit upby lightning bolts jumping out of it,a thunderhead formed like the faceof my brother, looking downon blue,lightning-flashed moments of the Atlantic.3He used to tell me,“What good is the day?On some hill of despairthe bonfireyou kindle can light the great sky—though it’s true, of course, to make it burnyou have to throw yourself in ...”4Wind tears itself hollowin the eaves of these ruins, ghost-fluteof snowdriftsthat build out there in the dark:upside-down ravinesinto which night sweepsour cast wings, our ink-spattered feathers.5I listen.I hear nothing. Onlythe cow, the cow of suchhollowness, mooingdown the bones.6Is that arooster? Hethrashes in the snowfor a grain. Findsit. Ripsit intoflames. Flaps. Crows.Flamesbursting out of his brow.7How many nights must it takeone such as me to learnthat we aren’t, after all, madefrom that bird that flies out of its ashes,that for usas we go up in flames, our one workisto open ourselves, to bethe flames?
Galway Kinnell, “Another Night in the Ruins”
Trees at night, August, 2008.As the we turn the last corner of summer, I've been wondering what to base this blog around. For now, it will just pertain to updates of me. Fall is almost here, and it's time for wandering blindly down highways with a view camera, looking for a glimpse of something oddly beautiful and strikingly normal. Intermittently, I might attend a class or two (or six).
Fall class list:
The American West
Platinum & Palladium Printing
Thesis I
History of Contemporary Photography
Jewish Literature and Civilization
Photography and Business
What a line up. It's going to be a long fall. Currently I'm packing up my apartment in Brooklyn to make a small jaunt back to beloved (and somewhat malevolent) Philadelphia. With one week left in New York, I hope to see some of your friendly faces once more before trading one urbania for another. Thank you for all of your kindness and company this summer.
something or other, photographs from the U.K.
Here is a small (lulu) version of a book I made while I was in London. You can buy a copy here.
Printed: 61 pages, 9" x 7", perfect binding, full-color interior ink
Glassport, PA. Winter 2008Excerpt from last years potential blog, The Democratic Landscape:
Continue reading new york is the place where.
