Recently in photography Category
i just rode by the remains of the
james hook lobster company
downtown
it was still warm and smelled like cooked seafood
among other things
the only real association i have with the place is a
cold and damp day in october 2004
where i was struck by the torrents of water coming from the strange
wooden building surrounded by glass skyscrapers
i'd practically never noticed it before that day
it hasn't really been a good week for a lot of people
crashes and fires and things like that
i don't even watch the local news
but it nevertheless has an effect when you see something that
was some part of your life
large or small
in the newspaper
destroyed
it has been some time since i've undertaken one
but sh1ft.org's photo projects are a good time
and a fine excuse to go out and try to take some interesting pictures
with the weather getting nicer and me getting
fractionally less swamped at work
and back on my bike
there's no better time to take a hack
and i do mean hack
at 26things
check back at the end of the month to see how it comes out
it sounds awfully pretentious to say i have a favorite photographer, but i totally dig (and i’ve mentioned this before) edward burtynsky’s work since i saw it in a gallery in san diego a few years ago. suz would probably say that i like it because it’s the apotheosis of all the idiosyncrasies she accuses me of (which is to say, excessive use of lines, a love of large scale, and flashes of bright color), and maybe she’s right, but at the same time, i’m not the only one, either.
so i watched manufactured landscapes last night, and was really intrigued by it; i wondered how a movie about photography would really work, but it seemed to be to be more of a framework for a few parallel commentaries, as if the filmmaker just kept running into burtynsky while happening to make a movie about the same stuff. for one, it’s really ballsy to put one’s film up for direct, immediate comparison with the work of an acclaimed photographer, and to the immense credit of the filmmaker for coming up with images of her own that stand up.
the other thing that was interesting about it was to see the far far end of the work i do—manufacturing. it’s one thing to talk about contract manufacturing in the far east for this product or that, another thing to see what that actually entails. i’d like to say it makes me want to redouble my efforts to make things easy to assemble, but that’s not always an option. how do you say “sorry” in chinese?
i took a lot of other pictures too.
Also, here's an awesome picture of dan from last weekend:



































