Saturday, February 23, 2008

Guess I'm not the fighting kind

So the image is really low quality, my printer is out of ink and its only a low-end HP, but this is an idea I've got bumping around my head for senior thesis. Its a digital print on tracing paper. My idea is about commodity/disposable art.


The project would be highly reliant on digital photo processing because the digital means of photography has drastically changed how we take pictures. Images used to be exclusively film-based, and so each image, whether it was shot with care or not, was a permanent thing. The negative was saved, and a lot of people today have boxes of negatives in their attics or garages that are slowly moldering away in the shadow of digital imagery. So instead of making images that are shot with precision and care and printed with the same level of precision, the project would involve images that are shot entirely off the cuff, snapshots, and would be printed on cheap paper and trinkets, things that people take and then forget or lose, and don't trouble themselves over. Moreover, to carry this idea of disposability to the maximum, all of the images would be simply given away at the end of the anticipated critique.

Wednesday, February 6, 2008

I Can't Kill

So yeah, its been a while since I updated, I've been busy, and when I'm not busy I've got nothing meaningful to put up here. Hopefully I'll put more up soon. My mom got some inheritance from her uncle, and she's allotted me a decent chunk of it, which I am going to use to buy:


A Samsung GX-10 DSLR

An Epson V750PRO Perfection film scanner

A carrying case for the camera (ok, not as stoked for that, and I couldn't find a bigger picture, but its pretty cool 'cuz its like a messenger bag, but for cameras, and all the cool kids will want one).

Plus some spare change for pizza.