World of One: Diffusion

I'm celebrating today. Today I have reached my goal of 8-10 World of One pictures by the end of the summer. I'm pretty happy with the way that the project has turned out. Although I still have some ideas to go along with this theme, I think I'm ready to start playing with some new ideas for a while.

This image is titled "Diffusion." Currently it is number 8/8 in the series. It looks a bit more complicated than some of the previous images in the series, but this one actually has less layers than a lot of the others which came before it.

It's been a wild ride, thanks to everyone for their love and support!!

World of Two

I'm now taking commissions!!! I can do composite pictures not just of myself, but of other people too!!! So if any of you loyal readers out there have ever thought it might be cool to have a "World of One" style picture of yourself doing x, y, and z, hit me up and we can work something out!!!

This is a sample shot I took of my friends Eddie and Katya, both of which are great dancers, friends and a couple, in addition to being awesome hosts while I was there. This shot was so much easier to do than the ones I've shot of myself, probably because I was finally back behind the camera where I belong puhahahaha.

Pricing for each commission is negotiable depending, on how complicated of a shot you want/how much work it'll take, but generally I'll be able to do it for about $300 with an average turnaround time of 2-3 days.

Anyone need some non-traditional (aka not boring) wedding/engagement/birthday/bat mitzfah pictures???

Travel Fail

I am really bad at traveling, and I just returned from a weekend trip to new york last night. I thought I was being smart by buying my boltbus ticket a few days early online. But apparently I suck at reading websites or something, because I bought a ticket for the wrong date. This was something I didn't even notice until I was the last in line for my bus. So it was on to plan b) the chinatown bus (or what we used to call the "SARS bus"). While I was waiting inline I looked over and noticed how almost all the people in the megabus line across from me were white, while my lucky star line was packed full of minorities. I took this picture when I finally arrived in chinatown hours later, after battling many hours of traffic.



On my way back I spent most of the first hour trying not to puke. I normally don't get motion sickness, but I was quite hungover from the night before and was discovering just how bad it was as the day went on. On the way back I read a book, drew a picture, and took this photo.

Fat Chair

It's been a while since I shared some straight photography here. About a month ago I tried to shoot a photograph everyday for an entire month. But like a fat kid on a diet, I was only able to keep up the regiment for about two weeks before I stopped. Instead I just got lost in my editing for the World of One stuff I've been doing. I picked up my camera again the other day however, this was one of the first things that I shot.

World of One: Trip

Somedays, I feel like I sabotage myself....

World of One: Ninja

I started this body of work around this time last year with "Dichotomy." At the time, I had no real intentions of making it into a series, I just wanted to see if I could do it. One of my best friends had suddenly up and died on me, and I was grieving. In my state, I wanted to create something just for the hell of it. Not because I thought it was clever or meaningful or anything like that, but because I knew it would look cool. In short, I wanted to make something I knew my friend would have been crazy about. A year later, I still don't feel the same, I still don't feel "normal" and don't believe I ever will. But as a byproduct of this event in my life, my artwork has changed dramatically. Since "dichotomy" my work has never been the same again. I am working very hard now to complete this body of work before the cold weather gets here.

All that being said, I think this is the coolest looking thing I've ever done!

I read a lot of manga (japanese comics for you n00bs out there), and one of my favorites hands down is "Naruto" (shush! you manga snobs!!). Naruto (the main protagonist of the series) has a signature move where he makes hundreds of clones of himself to help him fight. It's dawned on me just recently how much this body of work resembles some of Kishimoto's panels. Sometimes you just see things and internalize them without realizing it. Then sometimes it'll regurgitates itself into things like this.

I will be shooting another one of these today, and I promise this one will be a bit more...interactive than the pervious. I guess I've got enough of these out there now that people have some sort of rubric to judge them on, and a number of people have been telling me that they wish the figures interacted with each other more. These are sentiments I've had as well, and although I'm not sure how I'm going to achieve that, I'm willing to give it a shot.