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Salutations! You have stumbled upon day 344 of my already completed but not yet posted 365-day self-portrait project.
Sometimes I take my camera and my babestar to go out exploring trying to find the next best picture that nature can provide me. Or I’ll go on an urban exploration via street shooting with a friend. Other times I’ll bring props for a theatrical shot, similar to a movie. These are times when a lot of the fun goes into taking the actual picture.
What you’re looking at here is a perfect example of something where all the fun was in the post-edit.
This was just another day that I had to take yet another self-portrait for what seemed the billionth day in a row. So before bed I went outside and snapped a couple pics of me sitting on the bench in front of my apartment. Some in-focus and others out-of-focus.
One.
That is the number of stars between 1 and 10 I’d give to the ingenuity that stupid ass idea. I was tired, cut me some slack.
So when I finally got around to editing, I had to improvise. I started to mess around with combining the images to see what I could come up with. I think it looks like the paranormal. Or like I’m a magician. Or my spirit is being whisked away into another dimension.
Actually it basically just looks like something you would find from some stupid fucking scene on a low budget sci-fi film.
pimptastic!
The photo creation at hand? It’s an experiment gone right, I think? I took the two photos as pimp is presenting to you in the comments and combined them into one. No stupid cloning or anything along those lines. I just took the in-focus shot and slapped it on top of the out of focus shot. Then from there I got messy on purpose with it while trying to retain other parts. Moved around an eye or a leg or two in the process. No textures or elements were taken from any outside sources.
Location: my apartment complex; Alameda, California
Taken: November 16th, 2009
Posted: April 18th, 2010
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Portrait of Naomi I took this afternoon as we took our usual walk around (three times around) the apartment complex for exercise and companionship. It takes almost exactly 15 minutes per loop so we got a nice 45 minute walk this afternoon. (She's wearing a hoodie I got from work - it fits her well.)
I proudly present my photo tonight as my unintended tribute to “The Thinker”, one of the most important and influential pieces of art ever produced since humans began making “art”.
I wasn’t thinking this while I was posing for this self-portrait. It was actually pointed out by somebody when I showed them the outtake before I edited it.
But it got me to thinking how it does resemble in some ways that insane piece of art.
And it got me to thinking that I have seen that statue all over my life in various forms of books and pictures and magazines and billboards and commercials or wherever else. I never realized that the artist Auguste Rodin made it nor did I realize where, when, or why it was created.
It’s captivating how art that was created hundreds or even thousands of years ago can remain permanent parts of our culture current day.
I was sitting in line at a 7-eleven the other day.
Some guy’s phone rang.
Beethoven’s eighth symphony began to play in full blast over his fuck-ass cell-phone.
It got me to thinking how bastardized we have made this brilliant mans hundreds of years old art into a piece of elevator trash 8-bit cell phone ringer piece of shit at a convenience store.
Seriously.
Beethoven must be rolling in his grave right now half laughing his ass off and half offended by the masses at his magnum opus being overcome by a fucking cell phone ringer in a 21st century convenience store.
The shot at hand? Me sitting outside my apartment complex on the one lonely chair that always sits there.
Every time I walk outside my apartment complex to go wherever I am going or leaving to, I always spot this chair and imagine myself how photogenic it is against the one forlorn window and the fantastic backdrop of the stones and brick of my apartment building.
Location: in front of my apartment complex; Alameda, California
Taken: August 29th, 2009 (about 1 hour late)
Posted: September 10th, 2009
Album of the Day: Exit Decades by Cut City
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May 29, 2023 - "The skyline of downtown Columbus has been transformed with this monumental artwork by internationally recognized sculptor Janet Echelman. "Current" is a stunning, ephemeral, sky-high sculpture that will inspire wonder and imagination in all who see it. As it dances gracefully in the wind, this awe-inspiring work of art will become an emblem of Columbus’ culture and innovation.
The design and installation of "Current" was funded by Jeff Edwards. He has graciously donated the work to the Museum. We will oversee the care and maintenance of the sculpture as part of our permanent collection." Previous description of "Current" from a Facebook post by the Columbus Museum of Art.
Article about "Current" including its mean can be found here: dispatch-oh.newsmemory.com/?publink=04d385aae_134abf4
More Flânuering around town.
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Former Roosevelt Mills; Minterburn Mills (originally erected in 1906; restored in 2015 as an apartment complex)
The visually intriguing bend of 'The Emery' apartments in 'SoWa' (South Waterfront) breaks up the rigidity of right planes of its surrounding neighbors.
Soon to be demolished!
This photo shows the interior of the 1960s-era apartment complex that's in the photo I posted yesterday. Yesterday's photo of the abandoned pink couch sitting in front of the entry area can be seen here: www.flickr.com/photos/mollyblock/15110001835/
This apartment complex, which is now vacant, is expected to demolished in the coming months so that a new, larger complex can be built in its place. (Per this Swamplot blog post.)
Location: 1920 W. Alabama Street, Houston, Texas
"C’era Una Volta (“Once Upon a Time”) is one of the final and most monumental artworks created by internationally recognized artist Lawrence Argent (1957-2017).
"A 92-foot tall polished stainless steel sculpture at the center of the courtyard is a whirling abstraction of the famous Venus de Milo statue. "
ccartadvisors.com/trinity-place
"Venus’s swirling profile is meant to suggest a figure bursting from the ground, like a liberated geyser. “I wanted it to look as if it’s emerging from the rock—pretending for a second that there’s not a six-story garage underneath us,” {Mr Argent} says." sf.curbed.com/2017/5/19/15659600/venus-san-francisco-mark...
architect: Bernardo Fort-Brescia
project begun 2008 by Angelo Sangiacomo, the developer (d. 2015)
Trinity Place
San Francisco
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The Barbican Centre apartment complex in the British capital of London.
22 June 2019
Les appartements du Barbican Centre à la capitale britannique de Londres.
22 juin 2019