In Honor of Earth Day 2015 I wanted to share some images that really spoke to me. Out of Madrid Spain graphic designer and photographer Lucas Pigliacamo created a few images called “Preserve the World.” When I came across these a couple months back I knew I wanted to post on an important day that emphasizes the impotence of mother nature and how important it is that we conserve what’s left of the world that’s already been destroyed by greed, trash, laziness and ignorance.
There’s a lot of jobs that come through the door, all of them special in their own way of course. Sometimes I have to get jobs out so quickly I don’t have time to take pictures or document how they are made. But this time I decide to make the time to snap a few photos to show what goes on behind the scenes before art work goes on the walls.
This job was brought to me by a client who keeps me on my toes. He always seems to have a new photography project rolling in, on top of his full time job at UNH. He’s attention to details and professionally makes it a pleasure to work with him.
Take a look for yourself. VisitChris Keeley’s website and Facebook page. Chris is available for hire from cooperate shots to weddings. Browse his landscape collections, find something that will look nice framed in your home.
Well, Here are the snap shots for Chris’s Project that included 5 canvas wraps and a fine art print framed. They are displayed in Richardson’s Ice Cream in Middleton, Massachusetts.
“This was part of a yearlong project documenting the sights of this fantastic family-run farm. They have over 400 cows and a tremendous variety of incredible ice cream and farm fresh milk. Go check them out!!!” -CKP Facebook Post
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The first image to be printed
canvas hanging, getting ready to be UV coated
making the frame to stretch the canvas around
96″ long… print hardly fits on the work table
one done, four to go
close up of canvas
fine art print on velvet rag paper
fine art print mated on fine art paper
Chris loading up the Uhaul
the Hanging begins
lookin’ good.
Nothing is better then seeing the finished project. Photo By Chris Keeley
Lanakila MacNaughton is a Portland based photographer and motorcyclist. Involved in many outdoor sports from a young age, Lana began documenting her experiences through photography. After developing a passion for motorcycles in her early twenties, she started documenting many facets of motorcycle culture through her lens. Lana shoots in medium format on a Hasselblad CM.
Lanakila MacNaughton speaks to her influences and mission for her latest project, “The Woman’s Motorcycle Exhibition: The Real Woman Who Ride.” Spend a day with a few of these woman as they cruise the wooded backroads of Portland, Oregon.
The Women’s Motorcycle Exhibition documents the new wave of modern female motorcyclists. The goal is to reveal the brave, courageous and beautiful women that live to ride. TheWomen’s Motorcycle Exhibition is a traveling show. The mission is to discover and present female riders from all different communities, riding backgrounds, and styles, and maybe even influence some connectivity amongst riders from these different areas. Different communities and venues are invited to host the photo exhibit to aid in this discovery.
Lanakila is always looking for women to shoot. Above all, she hopes to illustrate, and really present, the freedom, independence, excitement and personalities’ of “the born to be free” woman motorcyclists.
FILM CREDITS:
Director // Austin Will
Producer // Lanakila MacNaughton
Woman featured in this film // Letizia Maria aka. Zia – Stormie Lynne Ray – Ginger McCabe – Jenny Czinder
Interview Audio Editing // Andrew Grosse
Music // Courtesy of Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside + Partisan Records
More Info // womensmotoexhibit.com/
Austin Will’s Seleted Works // cargocollective.com/austinawill
The Falcon is a steampunk stop-motion film starring Professor Weston (ISO 50), Silly Patty (+2/-2 EV) and 'Howell' the Owl (f/256) during the Age of Argus as they journey throughout the Focal Kingdom.
Composed entirely of macro-photographed hardware pieces from disassembled vintage/antique cameras, 'The Falcon' features music from eslmusic.com artist Thunderball with sound design by Bret Johnson.
From A.gfa to Z.eiss, and whatever your (small, medium or large) format, The Falcon has a perspective for everyone. Visit thefalcon.tv for the full story/synopsis.
Special appearance by: the Aperturians; Howell's wife Bell.
Partial list of parts: Falcon Minette, Argus AF & C3, Mercury II, Yashica TL, assorted Weston Light Meters, various Polaroid Land Cameras.
Hal Lasko, better known as Grandpa, worked as a graphic artist back when everything was done by hand. His family introduced him to the computer and Microsoft Paint long after he retired.
Now, Grandpa spends ten hours a day moving pixels around his computer paintings. His work is a blend of pointillism and 8-Bit art.
Meet 98-year-old Hal Lasko, The Pixel Painter.
See more work at hallasko.com
Director: Josh Bogdan (joshbogdan.com)
Director: Ryan Lasko
Editor/Writer: Josh Bogdan
Director of Photography: Topaz Adizes (topazadizes.com)
Original Music: Jarrod Pedone (JarrodPedone.com)
Original Music: Tyler H. Brown (thbproductions.com)
Copyright Notice
All artwork images used in this video are the exclusive property of Harold Lasko. All rights reserved. Any other use of these artwork images, without expressed written consent is strictly prohibited.
The blind photographer explains the improbability of his vocation and how the eye is not always the most important thing in taking a picture. More on www.theavantgardediaries.com
Produced, Filmed & Editing by Oddiseefilms / Associate Production by Julia Wilczok / Music by Bunnystripes
“The origins of the cameras we use today were invented in the 19th century. Or were they? A millennia before, Arab scientist Alhazen was using the camera obscura to duplicate images, with Leonardo da Vinci following suit 500 years later and major innovations beginning in the 19th century. Eva Timothy tracks the trajectory from the most rudimentary cameras to the ubiquity of them today.”-TED Educator
click on this image to view the lesson from this video
Photographer David Murry will lead a post film discussion
Levenson Room 175 Parrott Ave Portsmouth NH
Fantastic I just found this in the mailbox. Is it an invite for myself and Michael Winters? I might have missed it otherwise.
How exciting for Photographers and Movie makers. A Film based on Gregory Crewdson. A Film by Ben Shapiro. I posted the movie trailer, along with an interview from NPR from 2006. It might help to get some discussion going.
GREGORY CREWDSON: BRIEF ENCOUNTERS follows acclaimed photographer Gregory Crewdson’s decade-long quest to create a series of haunting, surreal, and stunningly elaborate portraits of small-town American life — perfect renderings of a disturbing and imperfect world.
*OPENS OCT 31 AT FILM FORUM IN NEW YORK*
CHECK WWW.GREGORYCREWDSONMOVIE.COM TO FOR OTHER CITIES.
@CrewdsonMovie
“Gregory Crewdson doesn’t so much take pictures as make them. Some critics say the photographer and artist is reinventing the genre by using film techniques to stage pictures.”
click on the image to read more from the interview
A Facebook friend brought this lady Angel Olsen to my attention. I’m posting this for her use of 16mm film to create her videos. She has double and triple exposed her film. That’s no easy task. I hope you enjoy. Did I mention she has an old soul voice that I can’t place, she’s unique and beautiful. I wish her the bests.
“A transatlantic collaboration between four friends.
Two songs were written and recorded in Chicago and then sent to Vienna.
A song transformed into a film score and mailed across the Atlantic Ocean.
The score interpreted using an intuitive approach and a single roll of 16mm color negative film. The film exposed, rewound and re-exposed many times, developed and sent back across the Atlantic. These images were collected with the foreknowledge that the film would be extensively manipulated in the darkroom. An archaic homemade contact printer was used to create the final look and that film was hand-processed, and rinsed and repeated all in the same room in which the score began.
Time passing. The feeling of time. Collapsing space. Collapsing time. Collapsing time and space.
*16mm print available and recommended for screening purposes. This is the digital version.
“Sweet Dreams” available on Angel Olsen’s “Sleepwalker” 7 inch from Sixteen Tambourines
A transatlantic epistolary exchange between four friends.
A song transformed into a film score and mailed across the Atlantic Ocean.
The score interpreted using a single roll of tri-x 16mm film. The film exposed, rewound and re-exposed many times, developed and sent back across the Atlantic. A response was filmed and the two spliced together.
*16mm print available and recommended for screening purposes. This is the digital version.
This video is part of an ongoing series of photo and video portraits of contemporary inventors from all walks of life. More can be seen here.
It’s been way too long since I’ve posted one of these. This is my portrait of Steven Sasson, inventor of the digital camera. He was the 32nd inventor in my project. I shot him in October at Kodak’s headquarters in Rochester, just a couple weeks before President Obama awarded him the National Medal of Technology.
When he initially mentioned that the first digital camera held 30 pictures, I assumed that was due to the storage capacity of the digital tape. It was really interesting to hear that he picked 30 as an artificial limitation, and his explanation why.
Update: A lot of people have asked what the subject of that first photo was. It’s an interesting story, but the short answer is that the first digital photo was a picture of a lab technician named Joy. And he didn’t save the image.