Forgotten

In lieu of Josh Kirschenbaum's visit, I set out to find the dark crevices and lost worlds in my life that go unnoticed in the jumble of every day. I spent a few days back at my parents house and reconnected with thoughts and feelings that sometimes seem forgotten.

But is it that I have really forgotten or am just forced to move on with what we call this life? Either way these are moments and memories that go untouched way too long and should be revisited more often.




My mother is a kind lady but never was one to have a lot of friends. A few years ago a lady popped up and spent many days, outings and laughter with my mother. I was so grateful. In 2005 my mother's friend went in for brain surgery. My mother planted these roses after she died and named it after her. Auntie Aida.




My dog was the love of my life. Still is and always will be. I still have all of his favorite bones, balls and toys. I put him down 4 years ago but it feels like yesterday.




My mother's father and my first family dog passed on during the same time in the year 2000. Shortly after my mother returned from the Philippines I saw this little statue in our yard. I think its her way to remember.


Juliette

WEBSITE

Hi everybody!

We spent a lot of time last semester talking about websites, livebooks (pros and cons), webdesign, and all these internet issues; I guess things have not change that much and that it's still a key issue for all of us! So I just wanted to write a quick note about my friend / ex-roomate / webmaster Kevin, who helped me build up my new website. I worked on the layout, typeface, general architecture, and he dealt with the whole html / technical part of it.
As you'll see I belong to the "minimalist" family; and it might still have minor issues/problems to solve. But Kevin is patient, smart, and great to work with; he is freelancing now, and is WAY less expensive than upgrading with livebooks. His contact is here. Oh and yes, I have a little "admin" page, just like in the good old livebooks system...




A bientot,

Agathe

published in 7x7

Check out this month's 7x7. Some images of a new bar I shot interiors for (the Bloodhound in SOMA) got published in the Eat & Drink section. Not a big feature/ big deal, but they look nice :)-chrissy lynn

Lisa Wiseman's Solo Show This Thursday 4/2 at Gallery 645

Hi All

Please join me this Thursday (April 2) for the opening of my solo show, "Something Like Home" at Gallery 645 in San Francisco.

In addition to drinks and live music, we will be raffling off a framed/signed print. I will be giving a short talk from 5-5:30pm and the reception will last until 8pm.

The invitation is below with more details - feel free to contact me (lisa@lisawiseman.com) if you have any questions. Please check out my website for more of my work.

I hope you can make it!

Lisa Wiseman
415-999-6145

"El Abuelo" now online

Hi, everybody.   

Just wanted to let you know that "El Abuelo" is now online, hosted by a website devoted to short films shot in Texas.  The film is near the bottom of the page, after a bit of Director's Diary they asked me to write.

Here's the link:

http://www.shortfilmtexas.com/2009/director-dino-dincos-directors-diary-on-the-making-of-the-san-antonio-texas-short-film-el-abuelo/

I also understand that Throbbing Gristle (a precursor to Psychic TV, etc.) is playing in SF on the 23rd April and there will be an afterparty in the space where my exhibition was.  If you like noise, I highly recommend this show and crash the party, for sure.  TG hasn't toured the U.S. since 1981.  Several generations of diehard freaks will be out for this one, full tilt boogie.

Wishing you all the best.

D/NO

tuesday ART live!

In these trying economic times, art budgets are the first to get cut. I am curating a Live Art event at the Double Dutch on Tuesday nights to help keep affordable art alive! Live artists, DJs, $5 raffle tix for a chance to win an original piece of art that comes to life before your eyes. Drink specials all night.. come see and support our local artists!

* tuesday ART live *
When: every Tuesday night from 10-1am
Where: the Double Dutch on 16th @ Guerrero
Why: because we love art!
& stuff: $5 raffles, drawing @ 1am. Beer and whiskey shot for $5, Buds and Bud Lites $2.

~chrissy lynn

Paper Airplanes Event

Hey guys, after a couple of meetings with Will Mosgrove and a lot of brainstorming, the Paper Airplanes event is going to happen. This is the poster that we designed for the event. Any suggestions, ideas or feelings are more than welcome!

Rosanna and Carmen





Why the Paper Airplanes Event?

Everyday we waste a lot of photographic paper in our projects, so we were thinking in different ways to reuse these materials. Within that context and with the goal of gathering a photography community to participate in a sustainable cause, the idea of the Paper Airplanes Event came to mind.

What is it?

Is an event where everybody who is environmentally engaged can participate. We will get together in a specific day, time and place and make paper airplanes out of photo waste paper. Each person will write a message with his or her thoughts on sustainability. At a specific time, all the participants will throw the paper airplanes all at a time. Our task here will be to collect all this paper airplanes and install them in a gallery with a video, pictures of the event and an art statement.

Boston.com's Big Picture runs some very powerful images documenting the massive violence in Northern Mexico tied to its drug trade.

From Boston.com:

In December of 2006, Mexico's new President Felipe Calderón declared war on the drug cartels, reversing earlier government passiveness. Since then, the government has made some gains, but at a heavy price - gun battles, assasinations, kidnappings, fights between rival cartels, and reprisals have resulted in over 9,500 deaths since December 2006 - over 5,300 killed last year alone. President Barack Obama recently announced extra agents were being deployed to the border and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton heads to Mexico today to pursue a broad diplomatic agenda - overshadowed now by spiraling drug violence and fears of greater cross-border spillover. Officials on both sides of the border are committed to stopping the violence, and stemming the flow of drugs heading north and guns and cash heading south.

There is a lot we can do with our craft. As visual communicators where does this responsibility begin and end? These questions have been on my mind more than ever lately.

-Jon Snyder

Above: A body lies on a stainless steel table waiting for an autopsy at the morgue in Tijuana, Mexico, Monday, Jan. 19, 2009. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)

ARTHUR RIMBAUD / VOYELLES

Since we are talking about letters, the short movie by David Lynch (amazing!) made me think of one my favorite poems ever, written by my favorite poet ever, Arthur Rimbaud: "Vowels". Remember, Rimbaud wrote everything he had to write before he was 20 years old. At 17 as a provocative and brilliant kid he left his middle class, provincial environment and went to Paris, to write, travel, drink and have a stormy relationship with Paul Verlaine -who shot Rimbaud in Brussels after a fight, but did not kill him.
At 21 Rimbaud gave up writing (he had already changed what is called "literature" forever) and traveled to Ethiopia; he got sick there and died in France from cancer, after his right leg was amputated, at the age of 37.


I am really not sure if the translated version is as powerful as the original one in french, but:

VOWELS

A Black, E white, I red, U green, O blue : vowels,
I shall tell, one day, of your mysterious origins:
A, black velvety jacket of brilliant flies
Which buzz around cruel smells,

Gulfs of shadow; E, whiteness of vapours and of tents,
Lances of proud glaciers, white kings, shivers of cow-parsley;
I, purples, spat blood, smile of beautiful lips
In anger or in the raptures of penitence;

U, waves, divine shudderings of viridian seas,
The peace of pastures dotted with animals, the peace of the furrows
Which alchemy prints on broad studious foreheads;

O, sublime Trumpet full of strange piercing sounds,
Silences crossed by Worlds and by Angels:
O the Omega, the violet ray of Her Eyes!



(Rimbaud is the young one sitting on the left, with big hair)


Agathe
www.citiesandlights.com
www.agathephilbe.com

"Please Remember, You're Dealing With The Human Form"

After viewing the last few posts I got this bug in my head and couldn't place it, and finally! I realized it was this Lynch film I hadn't sen in forever. sounds, the colors, the notes, the lines and dots. GIven a name with letters. Or giving a name to letters? hmmm. Rad

Charlie M.
friendoflemon.blogspot.com
meridaphotography.com

DONT BUST ON HELVETICA

its #1 with a bullet. point.

JC

Hi everyone, this sounds like a good plan for a monday night:

"The film follows the lens of photographer Edward Burtynsky as he travels through China, Bangladesh, and other regions around the world, taking large-format photographs of factory workers so numerous they look like uniformed ants."

WHEN: Monday Mar 16 (7:15 & 9:15pm)
WHERE: Red Vic (1727 Haight St, 415.668.3994)
PRICE: $9

Enjoy...

- Carmen

Something to think about....

Interesting stats here...

Taylor

THANKS JULES

Fantastic dialogue everyone, special thanks to Julian Quayle for all the insight.

Stay tuned for the next assignment/project and class details via email.
Have a great holiday break!

James

Juliette's recent work...

I said I would do more portraiture right! Here goes.

Some fashion that I did last week, can anyone recognize where?

MATT SARTAIN FEATURE IN DPI MAG

great work! see/read the full interview here

james

JULES IS BACK

Julian Quayle is back this saturday 3.7.09

you don't want to miss this one. all are welcome.

James

Stephane Sednaoui Acqua (Natasa Vojnovic)

Acqua Natasa by Stephane Sednaoui

I was inspired by Chrissy Lynn's post and was reminded of one of my favorite videos by Stephane Sednaoui, Acqua Natasa . He's an amazing director. Check more of his work out in the Directors Label box set (2nd edition,  I think) if you are curious about his stuff.  Enjoy:)

-Francesca

Fuerza Bruta!

I saw an amazing show on the 22nd in NYC called Fuerza Bruta. The music, conveying message through dance, the intense ways the movements were displayed from busting through walls, getting shot, running along the walls and swinging through the ceiling.. even an immense water stage that suspended above our heads while dancers slip and slided above us.. check out this link, it was amazing and so inspiring! http://www.fuerzabrutanyc.com/




& the above are some photos that I snuck
http://www.fuerzabrutanyc.com/
-chrissy lynn

GREAT GALLERY & WRITE-UP BY JON SNYDER

congrats to Jon;

check it out here

James

Laura Laine

I fell in love with Laura Laine’s work when I saw one of her illustrations in an article on New York Times Magazine last year. Her beautiful and amazingly detailed drawings really caught my eye. I hope you guys enjoy them too.






www.lauralaine.net


Rosanna

Classic! Thanks to WM for passing this along!

Taylor

i'm in!

finally! thank you Carmen. a link to my blog has now joined the rest of yours. i posted something relevant to class with Dino a couple weeks ago on my blog.. check it out!
thanks
chrissy lynn

On the topic of sustainability, here is a link to Anned Hamersky's blog. She's a SF based photog and is very involved and concerned with topics of the green variety. Her blog has some links that we might find useful as we move forward on our projects.
http://annehamersky.blogspot.com/

chrissy lynn

OneShot Part One

OneShot Part Deux

Transform :: A short film

Atlanta based editorial photographer Zack Arias gets deep. Enjoy.

- Jon

One Shot viewing tonight

Following an epic 9 hour class / session, please join us tonight for an informal, non-school get together with friends.
It'll be great to see the images! All are welcome.

thanks everyone, James

monday feb 23rd, 6pm
Victor Wang Studio
1661 Tennessee St, Suite 2M
Studio Tel 415 282 2000

one shot contribution

I went to photograph my friend Vanilla. Her nephews came out of the back door just as I had finished setting up my camera. I took this one frame of them.

One Shot - Adam

Hey everyone!  Thought I would join in on the fun of this assignment.  Love the concept and cant wait to see everyone at the presentation today.....

This is Adam.  He is a musician, plays keyboards and rhodes. He's a good friend.  We shoot together when I visit home.  I like collaborating with other artists.....

Taylor

One Shot

I just moved to a new apartment and I didn’t have the opportunity yet to meet any of my neighbors. I thought that the “One shot” assignment would be a good excuse to get on with someone of the building.  A lot of times I hear someone playing music in the apartment next to mine. Sometimes I hear the piano and other times someone playing the guitar.  I had no idea if the musician was a man or a woman, a young or an old person. I didn’t know either if he or she was a multi-skilled artist or if there was more than one musician living in the same place. So I decided to ring the bell of the apartment number 5 and for the ten seconds that I was waiting in front of the door, thousands of questions came into my head: Is this person living alone? Is her or him obsessed with cats? Is this person really a professional musician or does he/she play for fun? If she is a woman, do I have something in common with her? If he is a man, is he the man of my life? …

Anyway, someone open the door and I could see Michael, a charming old man with an indelible smile. We were talking for a while and it was so funny to discover that we have more in common that I could imagine. He never traveled to Spain, my country, but he is a huge fan of Flamenco music. We were talking about Camaron and Paco de Lucía, Billie Holliday or Stan Getz, while he was playing the guitar in his living room.  

 

Rus

 

One Shot - Happy Day

Today was a great, exiting, happy day. I bought my first snowboard! It involved a processes of numerous questions, chit chat, talk about where have you been and where you are going.... and, this is Sean, "the one". Attentive, patient man responsible for this great moment of satisfaction. My first board!

- Carmen

One Shot

I was helping my friend to move to her new apartment couple days ago and saw her new roommate, Lee, smoking in the balcony. He then passes me a cigarette and asks me to join him after we done the moving stuff. He shows me his Nikon D90 after he notices that I am photography major. I didn’t bring my camera with me, so I use his camera to take one shot of him smoking. I ask him to hold and release the smoke slowly. He says he smokes one pack per day. Is it too much? I ask. He then immediately answers” I don’t think so!”

-Andy

One Shot

Robbie has lived in California her whole life but in a few days she is moving to the East Village in Manhattan. Her soon-to-be roommates are looking for the apartment while she finishes up work in San Francisco. The decision to move was impulsive. She thinks not having a real job for a while could be a good thing.

-Jon

One Shot

Like every semester, I look for interesting people to shoot. I sent out a bunch of emails to circus performers, troupes and schools hoping they'd be willing to let me take portraits of them. This is Gregangelo. He's the owner/founder of Gregangelo's Velocity Circus here in San Francisco. He was the first to reply to my email. He said he's more of an 'in-person' person and would rather meet me first to talk and see his place. I could easily say he is one of the most interesting and creative people I've ever met. I was real nervous and wanted to make a good first impression. After spending the day with him, I couldn't be any more excited to shoot and work with him further. This image was taken in between all the action in his busy home. Thank goodness he stayed still for a moment just for this one shot. 

-Francesca