My brother sent me this video of a group called Mumford and Sons singing a song called Little Lion Man. I had never heard of them, but I love this song. This group has what the Spanish call duende. It’s soul. It’s authentic emotion. It’s tough to find, and when one finds an artist with it, you should support it. I’m going to buy this music right now. Also, it’s a simple but cool video.
My wife sent me this story from the Rumpus that loosely fits with a few other posts I’ve written about photo manipulation in the 19th Century. There is a show right now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York featuring collages made by women in the 1860s. This is 50 years before Picasso and Braque are credited with inventing the form. I love the colors in these old collages. The one below is by Constance Sackville-West. It reminds me of a song (Jerusalem) by Dan Bern in which he sings:
She believed collage was the greatest of all the arts And was busy pasting pictures of horses Next to ads for laundry soap Next to Mohammed Ali
We received about a half foot of snow back on January 30th. In an effort to get a new portfolio picture or at the very least a stock image, I coaxed my wife into walking our dog in the snow storm. We gathered some colorful, though not completely weatherproof clothes and set out.
I’m going to mail a promo to Art Buyers for Valentine’s Day with this photo. Hopefully, most people will find it humorous or odd and not offensive. What do you think? Feel free to add a caption or dialog. Whoever makes me laugh the most will get a 5×5 print, and I may ask to use your text in the promo. I’m not kidding. The MOMA captions were really funny. And Cluadia Mazur truly will receive the Grand Prize (I’m re-gifting the $10 Chili’s Gift Certificate my dentist sent me for a client referral) for best MOMA photo caption. Share this with your friends. It’s time for me to add some buttons to this site for making sharing easier.
I was in New York City recently with my wife, and we visited the MOMA with a friend. We had just been joking about some of the art (see Gabriel Orozco’s shoebox on a floor) when I came upon this couple. This photo is ripe for adding one’s own caption. When I see it, I imagine the guy saying, “Yup, that’s really black!” Feel free to add your own in the comments.
Blend Images featured one of my photos in the January Newsletter it sent to clients. I’m told it goes to about 50,000 contacts to show art buyers new work in the collection. A screen-capture is below (my photo is bottom one), but you can see the full promotion here.
I woke up this morning to a thick fog. I don’t often take my camera with me while walking our beagle, but today I decided it was a good idea. We walked about half a mile up Colley Ave to a bridge that crosses over a finger of the Lafayette River and there I found a few good photo opportunities. I tied Moe up to a tree and took a few photos. I tried both a blue and sepia tone for this image, and decided on the sepia you see here.
I was a featured contributor in the Fall/Winter 2009 issue of Distinction Magazine. It’s a relatively new, high-end magazine in Hampton Roads. It’s a beautifully bound, glossy that will be inserted in newspapers quarterly. It seems to be very targeted, which I think is the only way for a magazine to be successful. I photographed two well-known, local chefs during a convivial interview. You can see more at distinctionhr.com
I met Jarrell at a party here in Norfolk. In addition to having great style, he was super easy to talk to and I thought it would be fun to photograph him. This was my favorite from our shoot. For anyone interested, Jarrell also does some clothing design when not studying at ODU.
Farah Nosh shared her powerful photos of Iraq and Lebanon last night as part of Old Dominion’s Literary Festival which had a Peace and War theme this year. Given that I am married to one of the organizers and suggested Farah as a presenter, I had the privilege of introducing her to the crowd and also interviewing her for a local publication. The full interview is at altdaily.com. Also visit her website to see photos. Here is an excerpt from the interview:
“When we look back on Iraq, we’ll see that there is a huge part of the history that is missing,” said Nosh, the only photographer speaking this year at ODU’s annual Literary Festival. “Even with my intimate personal experience, I feel that I don’t fully know the story. I don’t think the world has the slightest sense of what happened during those last couple of years.”
You can tell she is pretty humble. She was also kind and generous with her time after the presentation.
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