Monday, February 14, 2011
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Blog Response 3: Inspiring Photgraphs from the Stacks!
Leibovitz never fails to inspire me. But something about the compilation I found in the library of her photographs of women was particularly fascinating to me. It was an interesting study to flip through the pages and see so many different versions of the same breed. All the women featured were led very different lives. Yet there was a similarity between all the women--a common thread of self-empowerment and individuality in all of them that I'm sure Leibovitz recognized. It made me think of my own female heroes and the women that inspire me to be the same. I smell a new photo project....
Some of my female heroes:
Carole King, singer/songwriter
My Mom, Carol, anesthesiologist
Maya Angelou, writer
Stevie Nicks, musician
Blog Respon 2: Bergamont Station
Ron Jude's "Emmett"
The "past" is like a magical beast.
At times, it makes me want to cry and a pit overwhelms my stomach, coming on like the weight of a ton of bricks. At other times, I want to grin and smile - I want to scream and howl like a hyena at those visions that flood my head, pouring out from my memories. The "past", yes, I can see it in my minds eye and who I was then, something different, another me in third person, frozen forever in my head. In these versions of wide awake dreams I see my youth and the powerful will to think for myself and I see the magic contained in my innocence and in the absence of everything that I had yet to know. In my youth I could only look ahead but now, here I am and increasingly I see so much that is moving behind.
Perhaps it is then a ghost of me that I see. There he stands, a partial figure or symbol of something, distant and fading... rapidly moving away.
Ron Jude's use of color was particularly appealing to me at Bergomot Station. Jude overlays images to create dream like effects in his photographs. Jude wished to create a sense of the past in his photographs, mimicking cloudy memories that we recollect throughout our lives--perhaps better than the actual events themselves.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Assignment 1/18: Eggleston LACMA Exhibit
There is something about Eggleston's use of yellows in the LACMA exhibit that was particulary striking to me. Throughout his photographs, Eggleston makes an effort to make his subject matter brighter than life. If we were, for example, standing in front of the woman above in the yellow dress, our eyes would auto focus the colors she wears. His work is both a reality and a fiction in that he presents the grittiness of the American life, while simultaneously manipulating the colors of the scenes to project a glamourous mood.
I like that the collection at LACMA is called the Democratic Camera. Eggleston emphasized that no subject was off limits for him. Everything was equal in his lense. By the photographer allowing himself such freedom, the viewer takes another look at the classic American scenes Eggleston presents. The vibrancy of his palette suggests beauty in all his subject matter.
n.
Monday, January 10, 2011
RHYTHM MAKERS
I've always been in awe of drummers--they're always the first people I'm drawn to on a stage. Nothing is more primitive and real than a drummer hitting the shit out of drum kit. And they're always placed in back! Not fair. There should be a national drummer appreciation holiday. Who can set this up?
I'm definitely no percussion expert, but these guys never fail to give me chills:
Patrick Hallahan
Ginger Baker
Chris Tomson
Something would be missing if I didn't mention John Bonham
At least watch what happens around the 14th minute....
more to come....(I mean, maybe)
n.
Monday, January 3, 2011
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