Archive for the ‘Photography’ Category

Facebook Profile PICS

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

My Facebook profile image has become a digital canvas of sorts. My profile pictures are almost always doctored in photoshop. At times it’s just a traditional self portrait. In some instances I created a digital montage instead of the traditional self portrait.

Cindy Sherman and Lucas Samaras come to mind while looking at these portraits. They both utilized their own visage in their work. Cindy’s work was more of a cultural critique concerning women’s role in society and Lucas was more of an introspective artist, looking inside himself to explain existence in a sense.

I have a history of drawing and painting portraiture so this comes naturally to me. Below is a selected few of my ‘Facebook Profile Portraits’.

Head In The Clouds

Blending In

Space Travel

Pixelated

White Light

Intense

Pseudo Angry

Una Faccia Una Razza - 1

Una Faccia Una Razza - 2

Anima Vs. Animus

Music

Head In The Clouds Feet On The Ground

Surreal Football

POSTMODERN: I Take Pictures of Pictures

Monday, June 21st, 2010

I have noticed recently that I have been taking pictures of pictures (still or moving). Whether the pictures that I take are from a computer screen (Youtube + Websites), a street billboard, or moving images (theatre + TV), It seems like I have been reproducing reproductions. I am taking a picture of a picture and making a new image.

At times I don’t even use a camera, I use my Apple’s screen capture feature to take pictures from Youtube videos and other video websites. I then import these images into Photoshop and tweak them to my liking. I crop, color correct, and at times totally change their ‘genetic’ make-up and make them my own.

With the Internet, Youtube, and the blogosphere (there are countless of images that saturate the web) it’s easy to appropriate other people’s images and make them your own. It’s the age of digital and algorithmic recycling. At the same time, i don’t mind when my images are appropriated and are used by others; as long as a profit is not being made from this borrowing/appropriating/stealing.

I am just a small piece of the grand puzzle because my reproduced reproductions eventually will be reproduced by someone else and then these reproductions of reproductions of reproductions will be reproduced again and again, ad infinitum.

Favorite Books

Monday, December 28th, 2009

These are my favorite books:

assignement #2—–photo set #3

Sunday, October 7th, 2007





Motion night time ParkSlope

assignement #2—–photo set #2

Sunday, October 7th, 2007





Night time ParkSlope