Summer Update 3

We walked/biked/drove-when-Heather-got-heatstroke from Minneapolis to Chicago. I'm so proud of us. The 16G card I bought specifically for the trip corrupted on the second day, but I ran file recovery on it and got some really really neat stuff. I'm very excited about it! Thank you again to everyone who donated. You're all marvelous!Here's my favorite one:


Pretty neat, huh? Since I have nothing to do for the next three weeks until school starts, I'll most likely be starting a daily blog with a photo and a story behind it on our Squat Gallery blog as soon as I sort through all of them.

My internship with Heidi is quickly drawing to a close. Check out the sweetness that is my editing skills on one of her recent photographs in these screencaps:

(before)

(after)

Fixing that cymbal was really hard (due to the circular pattern), and gave me the greatest sense of accomplishment I've had all summer. The sense after the walk was very much tainted by ligament pain.

I've also been researching for my senior project tarot deck. While I was browsing the internets and collecting inspiration for my own deck, I came across an artist named Carvin Rinehart, an Indiana painter and photographer who apparently has all the same photographic interests as me. He did his own tarot deck, and also does tableaux based in mythology, both biblical and classical. I'm so excited that I'm not the only one! Below is his St.Lucy the Martyr.


And this is the book I've been doing most of my research in. It's great. It's got sections explaining the Major Arcana in depth, the entire deck in depth, the tarot in relation to mythology, and all sorts of nerdy stuff. It's really helping.

I think this week I'll do a really quick photo series. I'll get back to you on that.

Summer Update 2

So, summer's been going by faster than I had hoped. The sports/group photography job has pretty much died out for the summer, leaving me tons of time to work on my internship and train for the walk from Minneapolis to Chicago, which is actually a bike ride now. We start that on Wednesday, and hopefully will not die.

I've been documenting my family this summer. No one that I know has as bizarre and versatile a family as I do and I thought I'd follow in the footsteps of pretty much everyone and do some documentary work about them. Here's a sample. I'll hopefully have a tab for it up on my website too.

I need to update my website so badly...

I also wrote a post for a music blog called Marching With Six about Harry and the Potters in Chicago. Check it out here: http://www.marchingwithsix.com/2010/07/harry-and-the-potters-chicago.html

Summer Update 1

Finals FINALLY ended. I'm home for the summer now. I got a job photographing groups of ballerinas (ages 2-17). I love it way more than I should. I always wanted to be a dancer and I get along great with kids. It's awesome. It's also on location, so it's not cooped-up and boring, and requires much less cleaning in the long run.

It's also kind of like walking into a Degas sometimes:


I'm pretty sure I'm going to take adult ballet classes when I get back to Minneapolis.

Our Kickstarter project is going really well. We're past 75% funding as of today. Hooray! If you'd still like to donate here's the link: KICKSTARTER - Impressions of the Midland: A Photographic Walk from Minneapolis to Chicago.

I started my internship with Heidi Norton. It's super fun and there's tons to get done. She's great person and a wonderful photographer.


I'm also considering options for my senior project, and I think I want to make a Tarot Deck. Below are two fabulous photographic tarot projects:

"Mountain Dream Tarot" by Bea Nettles.


And "Vertigo Tarot" by Dave McKean.

And finally, I'm pretty sure I worked out all the bugs on the website this time. There were a bunch of pictures not showing up in Firefox, but hopefully everything is well now. Also, I removed last names from the web text in "The Best Evidence is in Black and White" due to subject request. Apparently the page was showing up pretty high in the Google search, which is good because it means people are going to the site, but not so good because it means that people's horrible angry moment selves could be revealed, with names. But I did it, even though I'm fairly certain that Sophie Calle wouldn't take down the last names....

But the names are still there in the pictures. So I guess it's a good compromise.

Impressions of the Midland

So, we're walking from Minneapolis to Chicago, incase you missed that memo. And we got a Kickstarter page!

DONATE!!! Even a dollar will help the dreams of three young photographers!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1034168593/impressions-of-the-midland-a-photographic-walk-fro

Making of Terrain

So these are a few pictures from my phone that are from the shooting/processing of "Terrain", my series about scars/disfigurations.



This is my set-up. That is David's beautiful Mamiya RZ.



These are all 17 rolls of 120, after hand-processing. My record was 8 in one 4 hour period. I felt like such a beast. I wound up scanning 70 of them on our Imacon and then editing and printing about 35 of them. I think they'll be a Blurb book pretty soon...

Historical Art Work, yayyyyy

David Maisel's series "History's Shadow" presents X-rays of classical sculptures from various museum collections. He says that, "through the x-ray process, the artworks of origin become de-familiarized and de-contextualized, yet acutely alive and renewed."

I think they're awesome. I'm a huge history buff.

100 Abandoned Houses

http://www.100abandonedhouses.com/

This is pretty amazing. Kevin Bauman documents a fraction of the beautiful abandoned houses in his hometown of Detroit. I thought it related slightly to that O'Hare project I mentioned a few times, but never actually got around to doing anything with.

That will be my summer goal. I need to get all the projects I shoot on a whim edited and up on here and my site.