It feels like I've waited my entire life to make this image.
Friday, July 8, 2011
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Sleepless Nights
The words of artist David Choe ring in my ears "You got to wok harda, you know? While you're sleeping i'm still drawing'. I'm on tour i'm drawing. I go home, i'm drawing. I wake up in the morning I'm drawing in the mirror. I don't have to, but I like to so, you have to try harda, you have to wok harda."
You see all kinds of cool shit when everyone else is sleeping. I myself have always loved night photography. As photographers we always remember that first picture we made that got us hooked. Most people in the world know what it's like to take a picture, but when you make that first image that becomes more than a social document, you will remember it forever. For a guy like me, one of my biggest influences in art are the surrealists (obviously). But in particular there was this one guy named Brassai, whose pictures showed me that the world can be surreal if you're looking for it.
I was looking out my window last night and I saw some guys working on the mass pike near my apartment. Whenever I pass by night workers on the highway at night, I always feel like i'm entering a strange and different world. Them big lights just make everything look so freaking cool. So as the world slept, I went out to capture what I saw, and I'm glad that I did.
You see all kinds of cool shit when everyone else is sleeping. I myself have always loved night photography. As photographers we always remember that first picture we made that got us hooked. Most people in the world know what it's like to take a picture, but when you make that first image that becomes more than a social document, you will remember it forever. For a guy like me, one of my biggest influences in art are the surrealists (obviously). But in particular there was this one guy named Brassai, whose pictures showed me that the world can be surreal if you're looking for it.
I was looking out my window last night and I saw some guys working on the mass pike near my apartment. Whenever I pass by night workers on the highway at night, I always feel like i'm entering a strange and different world. Them big lights just make everything look so freaking cool. So as the world slept, I went out to capture what I saw, and I'm glad that I did.
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
When in Doubt
Sometimes it's good to revisit old ideas with what newfound knowledge you might have earned. I've been working all weekend on some new World of One stuff, and failing miserably at it. This is the first time I've failed making an image for this series (and is also reminding me why I've been so adamant about doing more). I think I know how to fix it now though so that really just translates to more work this week. It's not even that the image came out bad, it's just that I know it's not as good as it probably could and should be. It can really suck knowing what you're doing at times, so I've decided that I'm probably over thinking it and am just gonna blast it with random elements.
All that is gonna have to wait until later though, mostly because i'm actually gonna have to reshoot that idea. So for today I decided to work on other stuff instead. I was gonna shoot my buddy ivan with my t-shirt on in an attempt to make it more marketable to dudes (it's suppose to be a unisex tee after all). But then again I figured you can't really beat a cute girl, so I'm not even gonna try. This is what we came up with kinda just fuckin' around with ideas.
Herro! Peekaboo!
Yo gimme a hand here!
All that is gonna have to wait until later though, mostly because i'm actually gonna have to reshoot that idea. So for today I decided to work on other stuff instead. I was gonna shoot my buddy ivan with my t-shirt on in an attempt to make it more marketable to dudes (it's suppose to be a unisex tee after all). But then again I figured you can't really beat a cute girl, so I'm not even gonna try. This is what we came up with kinda just fuckin' around with ideas.
Herro! Peekaboo!
Yo gimme a hand here!
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