F as in Frank

That's the name of this vintage store on Main street. I was walking home one night around 1:00 after having finished another shoot when I saw the old VW lit up by the neon of the shop and I just had to get it. For the wide shot I ended up moving a large flower pot into the middle of the sidewalk just to get high enough off the ground. The goal for that one was to get the horizon square to be dead centre and have all the lines run directly into it, which I think I did, but I must have looked goddamn retarded standing on that flower pot in the middle of the night. I'm just glad I didn't have to explain that one to the cops, "You see, officer, I'm an artist, and...".

    

The first shot is definitely my favorite even though it was the Beetle that attracted me in the first place. There's something about how that boom-box glows behind those mini light-sabers in the fore-ground that really does it for me. Oooooohhhh, shiny things!

Let's see, what did I use on this? Same as usual, I guess: Fuji 400 H 120 film, Hasselblad, can't remember which lenses. Probably the 80mm 2.8 for the first two and I think the 50mm 4.0 for the last one. Riveting, I know.

Sofia Clothing, Winner of Generation Next 2011

Third post in less than a week, I'm blogging up a storm, I know. This is a shoot for String Magazine for the winner of Generation Next, Sofia Clothing. The cat just sort of came with the studio, which was fortunate because I felt like the story needed a cat anyway. Fashion is mostly about cats. You may not have known that, but now you do. Cats.

S-E-Oh No He Didn't!

The other day I was reading on my iPad 2 about how fortunate it was that Obama and Harry Reid and John Boenher averted a Government Shutdown while listening to Justin Bieber, and it occurred to me that I should post this photo I took in Seattle , home of Pike Place Market, the Space Needle, and of course Starbucks. Then, while I was watching Tiger Woods play in The Masters, I started wondering why Megan Fox wasn’t going to be in Transformers 3, and that I should probably watch some American Idol to take my mind off of it. Aside from all that completely relevant information, I hope you like the photo, I think it’s pretty okay, I guess. So, um, yeah......

Jersey Shore Rebecca Black Charlie Sheen.

Vancouver 2.0

This is an art project that I made for my submission to school. The objective was to create something inspired by one of a list of other projects, and from that list I choose this: http://nextnode.net/sites/emst/wp/?p=266
. My goal with this was to demonstrate how social networking sites like Facebook or Twitter (really just these two, unless there are people still holding onto MySpace or were all about Google Buzz), allow people the option of very deliberately grooming the outward appearance of how they live their lives. They can do this either by carefully selecting what movies or music they are listed as "liking", so as to indicate exactly how their taste identifies their personality, or by meticulously culling unflattering photos to maintain (or avoid) a certain image, or many other means of control. However, the point here is to demonstrate that no matter how judiciously someone manages their profile, these same people (i.e. all of us) give off the same subtle signals online that betray elements of their true, flawed selves, just as they do in the real world. It's a project I'd like to further expand upon in the future, but right now I'm kinda busy trying to make it through all of Battlestar Galactica.

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