This is delightfully surreal!
a natblog: because there's too much stuff in my head keeping me up at night.
September 5, 2012
August 29, 2012
On Instagram
As you know, Instagram images are everywhere– as is the criticism of Instagram images (or at least the users of Instagram). It seems to be the favorite thing among the hipster crowd to wax ironically (how else??) over the ridiculousness of the thousands of images of one's first cup of coffee of the day, or of one's Boston Terrier gazing into the cam...um... lens.... (after all it was just National Dog Day) or of any of the more earnest attempts of art making such as the #lonely road image or the #abandoned gas station image or the #children playing in the park image... well you get the picture....
I recently acquired one of these image making devises (an Ipod Touch I think the kids call it) and the first app I downloaded was the much loved and maligned Instagram app– and what I found was– this thing is FUN! That's right I said F-U-N! You point the cam...um... lens at the subject, capture it, apply one of a series of nifty little filters, and wham you're tumbl-ing and twitter-ing away!! Is it ridiculous?
Maybe– but so what?
Is there a saturation of mundane and mediocre images floating around the cloud? Have I been guilty of such sins against humanity?
Maybe– but so what?!
Do Instagram users think they are passing any of these images off as legitimate attempts at making art? Some critics seem to think so– but I doubt it. Is a camera phone with the ability to add filters to an image going to replace any kind of traditional image making tools? I doubt that even more. That isn't to say there aren't many very beautiful images made by Instagram users. Users who not unlike myself are more than likely using what is just another tool for making images.
Now, there's always need for conversation of how the democratization of technology has caused a proliferation of mediocrity in art and humanities, but with the over saturation of ALL things in the media– news, politics, religion, trash celebe-news, etc., it's really quite refreshing how the general public enmasse are making a daily attempt at creating their own aesthetic moments.
At the end of the day a beautiful picture is just what we need!
August 27, 2012
July 6, 2012
Random Act of Poetry
Bring me the sunflower so I may transplant it
in my native soil burnt by the sea-salt,
let it display all day to the mirroring blue spaces
of the sky the anxiety of its yellow face.
Obscure things tend towards clarity,
bodies dissolve themselves in a weightless flow
of colors: these then into music. To vanish
is thus the supreme fate of all fates.
Bring me the plant that points to where
pale transparencies rise to the heights
and life itself evaporates like air;
bring me the sunflower crazed with light.
June 19, 2012
Wow– this may have been the longest span between posts in FM history! Well... maybe not, but it has been a while. It was a long winter/early spring at the W , and I'm just getting back into gear! Coming soon are a few posts I've been working on (sporadically at best) the past month or so. I thought though I'd ease back into things with a few photos I took while on the fourth grade trip to our state's capitol– where someone thought it would be a swell idea to allow me to chaperone!
The Capitol Building Harrisburg Pa.
Farm- Lancaster Pa. View From Bus
Power Lines- Lancaster Pa. View From Bus
Tattoo Parlor - View From Bus
G. (Are we home yet?)
May 1, 2012
Blog Update
© Giovanna Caccamo
Giovanna and I worked for hours this past weekend– scanning, retouching, and uploading new images to her photo blog. Please take a look! Above is a photograph she had taken a few months ago with an old Yashica Mat Twin Lens Reflex camera (see below) and 120 Kodak Tri-X film.
© Giovanna Caccamo
April 30, 2012
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| Irving Penn |
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