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First of all . . . it is apparent that I managed to forget to take a picture for Day 137. I won't get my panties in a bunch over this because we all have to give ourselves some grace once in a while.
This was the hubby's bike. Us girls called it Bumblebee after the Transformer action figure but the he refused to call it that. Of course that didn't stop us from calling it Bumblebee the whole time he had it. :-) My husband was in a serious accident a year ago when someone lane changed into him on the freeway. Long story with a long recovery and a thankful heart he is alive and well. Bumble looks a lot better than the hubby did last year as you can tell from the damage in the picture. I took a few pictures of it before it was sold.
To mark the final year/month/day combination this century 12/12/12 I decided to embark on a mini project......
Project 12: 12 images taken on the 12/12/12, all 12 seconds in duration and all square crop 12x12 (or 1x1) depending on how you look at it.
Given I am doing more work with film, especially 120 format which has 12 images per roll coincidently I wanted to process the images to have a very filmesque feel.
So please have a nose around 'Project 12'
YN560 1/16 Power, DIY box Right
YN468 1/2 CTB, 1/32 Power. DIY box Left
Strobist setup: www.flickr.com/photos/59420681n02sets72157626261564500/61...
Camera info:
Canon 550D | Tamron 17-50mm 2.8 di VC @50mm | F9.0 | Speed 1/200 | Iso 100 |
…And it hit me like a fright train.
Around about this time a year ago, one of the big hips in my life had revolved around the idea that I was finally going to see one of my stories become a comic book series. As you can see, a year later. That never happened. Not only did my story, like so many before never leave the pages of it’s original manuscript, the aforementioned comic book company never even managed to spread its wings and get off the ground. Bad management sealed our fate, and it was over before it had even begun.
I can’t say the experience was entirely heart braking. I figure any opportunity that arises worthy enough to get my gears grinding out a new story is always a plus. The comic book, maybe dead (at least for the moment) but the story is not. And in this case I feel like it was a double plus, considering I decided to run with an idea my wife had been quietly sitting on for a good number of years. Odele, isn’t dead. She’s just been put on the back burner. Actually I get to call it a triple whammy. During that time frame we’d also befriended a fellow writer, and have since stayed in touch. We still have aspirations of working on a project together one day. And we’ve both been patiently hunting for an opportunity since.
That was a year ago, and opportunities. Well they just don’t seem to be there. That got me thinking today. Well, actually like I’d mentioned before. It kind of hit me like a freight train. “Dude, I should just make my own damn comic book.” Then I remembered that I couldn't draw worth a shit, and for a second I kind of pushed the idea out of my head. Till I thought back on Sin Blanca. I’ve done three installments now. Each three panels long. Each a little more intricate then the last. Sort of like character development. Or early storyboard concepts. And that’s when it really hit me.
“I don’t need to find an artist to make a comic book. I already have one…Me.”
I’m not even sure it’s ever been done before but that is my plan. I’m going to start a new story (there’s a reason for that). My aim is for a short forty page graphic novel. Dark, dry, dirty, and left wide open for the opportunity to further the story. Simple. I already have a new protagonist. Sin. To turn it into a graphic novel, I’m not going to call on artists to draw me up pages though. I’m going to rally a few friends, pass a script around, and create the entire thing with my camera.
I’m gonna make a comic book with processed pictures. Hence the reason for a new story. I can think outside of the box, but only as far as what my camera lens can feasibly capture. A ten story building blowing up, and then collapsing. Cool as that might sound. I’m pretty sure I’m not going to be able to get a picture of that. I have limitations. But this isn’t the first time I’ve had to write under scrutiny, and really I’m limited only by what I think I can shoot, and post process. Beyond that. The sky is the limit.
If all goes well I hope to have a decent story in the next few months. Rally a few friends to enlist as cast, and hopefully shooting will begin on schedule early to mid spring.
I have a feeling this is going to be fun as hell.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrzvOEcizRo
Monday, January 17th. 2011
This car competed in the 2¼ hour long Gentlemen Drivers GT and Sports Endurance Race at the HGPCA's International Historic Grand Prix meeting at Donington Park in May 2004. It's shown in the programme of the event as a 1961 3.9 litre Aston Martin DB4 GT to be driven in the race by Wolfgang Friedrichs and David Clark, but it is actually Wolfgang Friedrichs' replica of the Aston Martin Project 214 cars that were built in 1963.
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Germany - Lubeck: Market Square - Lubeck's "parlour" with the Marienkirche and the Rathaus - town hall.
The Market Square of Lübeck is very nice. It’s surrounded by nice buildings. And a church, the Maria church. The whole block is probably very old. Lübeck was the very center of the Hanseatic League, 700 or so years ago. This organisation was a very strong power, ruling the better part of the Baltic sea. Probably many a thing took place at this very square. Markets for sure. Maybe executions.
www.traveljournals.net/stories/2087.html
The Hanseatic League (also: the Hansa) was an alliance of trading guilds that established and maintained a trade monopoly over the Baltic Sea, to a certain extent the North Sea, and most of Northern Europe for a time in the Late Middle Ages and the early modern period, between the 13th and 17th centuries.
For more information see:-
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanseatic_League
The Radhaus - (Local Name: Rathaus) In the Markt, in the center of Lübeck's old town, stands the Town Hall, one of the most magnificent in Germany, built in the 13th-15th centuries in dark glazed brick, with a Renaissance addition of 1570 fronting the building.
The Dom.
Many of Germany’s historical city centers were bombed during World War II, and Lübeck was no exception. The Romanesque and Gothic Dom, for instance, Lübeck’s cathedral, was severely damaged. The Dom was begun in 1173, was taken over by the Protestants during the Reformation and re-emerged after World War II with the magnificent Triumphal Cross (1477) by Bernt Notke still intact. It hangs high over the pews, a reminder of the church’s Catholic past.
www.travel-wise.com/europe/western-europe/germany/lubeck....
This didn't work out quite as I liked, the ice container was almost empty, not sure if I'll get another chance this week so here it is.
Andrew W.K. plays at The Holland Project last Saturday (10/19).
He came. Kicked his singles' asses. Gave out four shirts, one to a cute little girl. Jammed a little.
Then walked out through the crowd, head to the ground, face covered by hair, to a white mini-van. He was gone while the crowd was still yelling "ONE-MORE-SONG"
Photos by: www.TonyContini.com
This is a project that is very personal to me. With a goal to reflect about things in my life by going beyond my comfort zone and understanding todays world view through the life stories of others.
I will this time not only interview strangers but also people I know to have a larger scope of interviews.
Hope you enjoy it.
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Ross is a 37 year old musicien. His favorite color is turquoise and his favorite food is steamed fried vegetables with fish and white wine.
When I asked what his dream was, he replied: "I don't believe in dreams, they put too much pressure on people and gets people to worship others for their achievements, they can become delusions and unhealthy."
Two words to describe himself was "Introverted" because he needs to sometimes spend time with by himself to figure things out, and "Forgiven" because " it's what I feel when I think of my relationship with God."
Ross's best childhood memory was when he was 6 and sitting in apricot tree eating apricots. His worst childhood memory was when he had recurring nightmares of a tractor weel chasing him and on another occasion him being forcibly separated from his parents at a conference.
If Ross could change anything in today's world, it would to make himself more helpful to others as possible.
For him, "Happiness" is being in the presence of God.
Birmingham, England - April 2012
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Please check out Ross's music! alonetone.com/ro55spencer/playlists/ego-mute
Have a great day!
Nathan
#50 of 365 Daily Drawings
Inspiration: Portait of Marjorie Ferry by Tamara de Lempicka ~ 1932
Result: Portrait of Marjorie Furry
Materials: Pentel 0.3 HB, Micron 005 & 02 pens in a Moleskine plain journal
Location: At home
Note: It's overcast, wet & chilly weather... and I have a head cold ...so I am falling back on fanart and shamelessly using Tamara de Lempicka's work as an inspiration while my own imagination just sits there like old porridge in my skull. It was fun....between sneezes. Is it just me, or do all her women have feline faces? Probably me....aaaanyway ...going to go pass out now.
200m of boards with Brave, Ekto, Kak, and 3 other guys. hotest weekend of the year but the kids were great and produced some really nice work.
A small project consisting of setting up a shoot with random passersby and getting them to pull a face.
All participants where informed of the project and asked if they wanted to be a part. To see the rest of the project you can visit cambrils.tumblr.com/
Lighting is provided by a softbox umbrella camera right and a bare strobe for hair light.
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Barbarella Project - Noemi
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barbarellaphotos.tumblr.com/
Today I had lunch with my friend, Jae, who has spent a long weekend in Dunedin and flew back to Welly just before lunch. So we met at The Churchill pub across the road from my office. This was their ceiling.
Monday, 26th June 2017.
The ANZ ATMs are often decorated for special days or seasons: Daffodil Day, Gay Pride, ANZAC Day. This is the first time I have seen it done for Maori Language Week.
Friday, 8th September 2017.
this is from my "project in process" and i shooted this weekend and today i finished some of the pictures. Enjoy
A assingment that later became a project,
A lot of the inspiration i got from a wonderful photographer named Francesca Woodman.
((A young girl, who used her naked body, and created soulfull photographs whithout a sexual feeling.
Dark, beautiful, mysterious. i think at least.))
Anyhow, I wanted to take pictures, with inspiration from her, but still me, and here is some of the result.
I Photographed everything with a Hasselblad, Tri-X 400 ISO film, developed by my self, and spend quite many hours in the darkroom until i was satisfied. There pictures, are SCANNED pictures from the finished picture. So the quality ( because a quite crappy scanner) aren't as good as it should be..
Project spectrum fire challenge blogged here kaizenjourney.blogspot.com/2008/03/keeping-fire-burning.html
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Germany - Lubeck: Marienkirche - St. Mary's Church, built c1250 - c1350
There is no denying the fact that on the night of Palm Sunday from the 28th to March 29th 1942, the church was almost completely burnt out during an Allied bombing raid along with about a fifth of Lubeck city centre, including the Lubeck Cathedral and St, Peter's Church (which we saw earlier!).
(Let us not, however, forget the tremendous loss of so much within this church as a result of the bombing. This bombing was supposedly meant for the dockyard and the spires of these three places of worship were mistaken for cranes.
Coventry Cathedral was bombarded by the Nazis in 1940. "I am thinking of Coventry - and I have no objection to the doctrine that everything has to be paid for," Thomas Mann announced on the BBC after the raid on Lubeck, giving his fellow countrymen a certainly bitter moral lesson.)
That is the down side, but the flip side - for me right from this point it was an absolute "Wow!"
For two reasons:- in England most of our churches and places of worship were white-washed completely inside during the Reformation. So, immediately I could see something of what our places looked like pre-Reformation!
Secondly, the phrase which I just wanted to shout from the housetops was "we took away your present, but, we restored to you your past!' This place of worship was, like ours back home, completely changed.
The heat of the blaze in 1942 had dislodged large sections of plaster from the walls and ceiling, revealing the original decorative paintings of the Middle Ages, some of which were documented by photograph during the remainder of the Second World War.
It was a really wonderful revelation to see painting from the mediaeval period there on every wall and every column! I just hope that I may have been able to capture some of this wonderment in the work which I shall be sharing with you!
Giornatina a Nuoro con ALL CAPS quasi al completo, e gli amici PENER da Parigi e NOEK da Perugia. Avevamo altri progetti per questo muro colossale, ma causa caldo bestiale e defezioni dei soliti noti abbiamo fatto una murata a caso, nello stile di questo agosto rovente.
Come sempre è stato comunque un gran divertimento.
Un saluto ai nostri carissimi ospiti!
I still have a bad cold, although I improved quite a bit after lunch. So I'm home today. It's too cold to sit in the garden and I don't feel up to standing and ironing (I'd be well enough for work if I were). So I sat on the sofa with my laptop and wrote up some of my holiday notes from this pretty notebook that I carried on my travels.
Monday, 24th September 2018.
a hat for e.
a patchwork ball for a friend's baby's 1st birthday.
clean floors, bright light reflecting off the snow outside, a warm fire in the stove, and bare feet.
so nice.
The first late night at work after the clocks have gone back. I stay late(ish) on Tuesdays before going to the pub quiz.
I'm disappointed with how blurred this is.
Tuesday, 3rd April 2018
A small project consisting of setting up a shoot with random passersby and getting them to pull a face.
All participants where informed of the project and asked if they wanted to be a part. To see the rest of the project you can visit cambrils.tumblr.com/
Lighting is provided by a softbox umbrella camera right and a bare strobe for hair light.
I really wanted to get out and take some outdoor photos this weekend, enjoy the fresh snowfall we had in Pittsburgh. BUT the cold that my wife and daughter had during the week finally caught up with me and I'm feeling pretty crappy so I was taking some pictures of Lily and my dog and I looked out the window and the sun made an appearance. This was taken thru my not-so-clean window and the screen. Rather than post another Lily or dog shot, I posted this one instead.
Week 29.
So I still have tons of catching up to do, and I'm doing these all out of order... But here's week 29 for Project 104! This is in the downstairs of my house, currently it's being redone, and repainted so there's all this creepy plastic stuff over everything, and it rustles when you walk by. So I felt like I was in a horror movie... Not really the best feeling. And I would come back to my camera to look through the photos, and I was fine for a while! Until I started thinking about Insidious and how the creepy old lady is in the back of the photos, and that's when I had to stop and go back upstairs where it's light and not creepy.
Anywhoo (I obviously use that word too much...), hope you enjoy it! And comments/feedback is always helpful to my growth as an artist! Thanks! :)
Mandy, her boyfriend and I went for a walk today. They fed some ducks and geese and other manner of winged creatures. This is the best picture I took, but I wasn't able to have one of this particular duck just as he grabbed the piece of bread. Other than that, I like the picture, which, by the way, was achieved with manual focus. The ISO is 3200, but that's only because I wanted to freeze the action and it was pretty dark thanks to the thick clouds overhead.
For this project I decided to focus on my childhood memory of always practicing soccer in my backyard. Basically my entire childhood revolved around playing soccer almost everyday of the week wither it was for leisure or for an actual team. Throughout these set of pictures you can see the things that went in to me playing in my backyard as a kid, whether it was eating snacks, tying my cleats, or accidentally kicking the ball in my moms plants. My work focuses on the different aspects of one main idea. Although my main ideal through this project playing soccer, I also tried to show what needs to be done in order to play whether it be take a water break or put on bug spray etc.