Alright today was super productive. I did a presentation on Paul D Miller this morning and ya'll should check him out at www.djspooky.com his work and even more so his ideas on creating, deconstructing, and remixing arts of all kinds are very inspiring. Tomorrow I will be one step closer to finishing my website, and one of the most difficult layout decisions I have is choosing the main photo for the main page. I am debating like crazy since it is the first exposure that people visiting the site will have to my art. Input and ideas are welcome. Here are some ideas:

I don't know I want something that has a instant impact right now I am leaning toward the second option just because it takes a longer look to decipher what is going on in the picture. It is a difficult decision because i am marketing myself to common people who want portraiture in austin, bands, people looking for potential editorial work, etc all at the same time. Those of you that are familiar with my work if there is another picture you think should be an option let me know.

Im tired and my ears are ringing from a show last night, but I can never sleep in now, no matter how hard I try. No theme-ing or life and emotion updating today. Only pictures. More from Marfa at Balmorae just a girl jumping off a diving board into the cold pool (The pool stays just as cold or colder than our Barton Springs because it too is a natural spring) but she does it with such determination.


How did all the pictures I have taken before now become so ominous in the present tense?


Just jump

Day 3

What a productive day!! I met with Eli and have only good excited feelings about my Mexico project. This weekend I will be going to Houston and I will bring my camera in order to put some things up here for us to enjoy together. Eli wants me to look into grants so if anyone has any resource ideas I am open. I am willing to write extensively for grants for this project so that is not a deterrent. I am updating some photos from today that Eli felt especially carried some impact. These are from a different barranca than the others. These are of a woman named Elena's home with her four children. When she was pregnant with the youngest she ran from her husband to start a new life in Cuernavaca. She came from nothing and terror and built her own home with her hands everything you see in the background was constructed by her with little outside help. Her children and her are amazingly close they live in a one room house with a bunk bed that sleeps them all. 

This is just a small taste I am hoping to make these into a complete show. Now that we have finished the first round of edits, on to round two.

This is Elena washing dishes in the sink she made outside from a water basin that she collects water in.

This is the youngest daughter

Tomorrow I have another meeting with Eli Reed so expect more Mexico edits. There are new opportunities opening up for that project and I am excited. I want to put these pictures to some use, real use, for change or at least for awareness. Today I am flip floppy and hopelessly hopeful. Today I am sorry and giddy and covered with paint because I am working on a film that I will figure out how to show ya'll pieces of. And today a cool front moved in and I am welcoming change for better so lets see if I can find something that fits into that hodge-podge of ridiculousness. 
So here is another of the recent Marfa trip pictures. This one I over looked in the first round of edits but there is something omniscient and wistful about it on second look especially with the light streaks from the clouds in the top right and the road opening up directly to the viewer.

 
I have a new project idea I am going to have to recruit people for so those of you that frequent the blog I am going to be calling on you and your friends for help. I want to make a fake documentary collection of shots from the "Greater depression" (I am coining and copy-writing that phrase so don't think about it!) that didn't pan out from this stock wall street crisis which has subsided for now. I want to make some high fashion fake documentary photo pieces that will show the way my best friend and I hypothesized we would survive. This project is going to be big with equipment rental costuming and large sets so I am going to need to call on all people who have random things to contribute to be there. Excited.

Day 2

Ok start of a new project today. Give this photo a double take because it is compiled of the past and the present. Its my bed as I left it this morning and found it when I came home. More of these merges later. All the merges will be hard to disern unless the pictures are familiar to the viewer I think that is a sweet dichotomy between the artist as open and on display to the viewers and the artist and product as human, with vanity that makes them unable to be fully naked to the unknown viewer.

Day 1

So today is the first day of my big change and I was doing well until my loved ones made me watch the Sex in the City Movie and I fell all to pieces. Currently I am wallowing over a broken and confused relationship so today's theme is loss. Our subject today is this precious little fabulous kitty, barbara streisand. She was always graceful and tender even when she was annoyed that she was being smothered and teased she was loving. Although she brings up good old memories that are painful to me now, I thought she was appropriate for my start of letting go. All of these pictures were taken the day before she died thus proving how graceful and lady-like she was every day no matter how hard.

New blog campaign coming for yall soon I have a great idea.

Alright today's post is going to go over some of the things I had been doing last week. Since I just finished my work at the Blanton I figured I would give yall a peek at what has been going on in the museum.

This is the interactive first part of the NYC modern exhibit downstairs. The piece is constructed of thick blocks of paper intended to be torn and manipulated by the audience.

This is also an interactive piece where the pennies can be touched and a room is entered through sheer curtains it is a social commentary on religion and its hypocrisy.

This is my friend Rory checking out a modern piece that due to its material choice includes the viewer in what they see.