Archive for April, 2009

TOAST weekend artist tour

April 30, 2009

this weekend past 4/24- 4/26 was TOAST here in new york, tribeca open artist studio tour. i took some of my extra prints down to Soho Photo gallery where i am a member and sat around meeting and greeting some of the visitors who turned out on this lovely day.

maybe a hundred or more passed through the gallery. Some stopped and looked at my prints but mostly people moved on quickly. since i do mostly dance motion studies and they can be abstract my work isn’t for everybody. i had one query about a print from a couple, the woman loved the piece while the man had short arms and long pants. oh well.

someone talked about booking me for an arts center somewhere in mass but so far no contact. these things take time and i’ve found it’s best to be out and about in order to meet people.so if it happens fine if not keep moving,

the officers of the gallery got upset at my experiment because they had predetermined that no one person could sell images during a group show, hey it might have made the gallery more lively. i think the officers are afraid of causing some excitement in the gallery. lord knows there are so few visitors now without a special attraction like TOAST that very few people get to see ones work hanging in the gallery. that’s what they want so that’s what they get.

i should have gone to the car show and swap meet to look for parts to the car i am restoring a 1970 XR7 mercury cougar convertible, woo hoo.

so much happens in life it’s hard to keep up. as one of my teachers once said. ‘Life is like a wave and we are like a boat on the sea. the waves of life keep crashing against our bow, then recede along our body to pass along in our wake until another wave comes along.’

it just goes on until it stops. it’s the journey that’s important not the destination because to tell the truth i don’t know where i am going. had i kept to my chosen course in life i would have missed all this fun.

good day

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FWAB charity event monday 4/20/09

April 24, 2009
we've all been there

we've all been there

my girlfriend,mary wehrhahn and i participated in a fund raiser last night for Friends Without A Border – benefitting the Angkor Hospital for Children, their 7th annual Fundraiser, held at the NY Athletic Club.

this group was begun 10 years ago by noted photographer Kenro Izu’s to establish a children’s hospital in siem reap cambodia. kenro donates some of his prints to help raise money. He also has a much larger photography auction once a year to raise funds to support the operating expenses of the hospital, nurses, doctors, supplies and expansion.

we donated two prints which were enthusiastic received and bid on. my print when to a collector who owns some very impressive photographers,i was impressed with their names. mary’s went to just as impressive collector and got another sale of the same print to another curator. all together we raised $1000.00 for the hospital so far.

we met and talked with Kenro Izu after the auction to thank him for the opportunity to help the children of cambodia who’ve touched our heart on our last visit to their country.

it’s very nice to have ones work appreciated and bought for such a worthy cause. maybe our effort might save a child’s life. what a joy.

www.fwab.org
www.kenroizu.com

jene youtt
www.jeneyoutt.com

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April 9, 2009
what we hide we revel series

Adam wakes

today as yesterday is being spent searching for a web host. while i’ve a hosting and domain name www.jeneyoutt.com already my hosting service doesn’t have anywhere the templates i need. so i’ve checked out http://www.zenfolio,com, http://www.smugmug.com which i like the look of but is it me? http://www.photofleet.com which isn’t and http://www.ifp3.com which is way too rich for my blood.

my old web site was on http://www.musecube.com but geoff and i had a conflict with my goggle ranking, page 8, and my credit card being compromised so he deleted 4 years of postings without a warning. i was at a loss for all those files not having backed everything up in a folder, my mistake. i had done that early one but got lazy as time went on

a lesson to learn here is to back up all web files no matter what. the photographers who used Digital Railroad learned that lesson, when they closed shop giving their customers a shot time to download their files. I do have a way with words and sometimes they get me into trouble. lesson learned should be ‘keep my mouth shut’ but what’s fun about life not being involved

i am trying to finish up a series of my ‘What we hide, we revel.’ but don’t have the money to spend nor the time to create. does everyone else have this problem as an emerging artist? well here’s another image from the series.

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Soho Photo members show

April 8, 2009

while the show covers the full gambit of creative work of the members with some really outstanding photos what impresses the most is how it all comes together as a whole.

Paul Clamp of www.Clampart.com was the juror selecting the winners and honorable mentions but the real winners here are the viewers.

laying out the show took lots of time and effort from the hanging committee but the treasure is in the viewing of everything.

if one has the chance go down to Soho Photo , 15 white st, nyc,ny, www.sohophoto.com and see this show i think it will be a real treat.

it’s free as is the air.

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Soho Photo Members Juried Exhibit

April 8, 2009

well tonight we had another opening, another show. seems like the attendees are getting older and slower with a smattering of young blood here and there. we all are getting slower

the turn out was small, i guess passover had something to do with that, but maybe people are loosing interest what with spring coming and the weather getting nice.

congrats to the winners and losers although there are no real loser. we all won something. our pictures are hanging for all to see. the problem seems no one goes to see them.

this quaint group has a problem in learning how to reach out to people who’re interested in seeing art. oh well i’ve tried to help then but hey i am fuzzy and what do i know? see www.jeneyoutt.com for other samples of my work.

dance in motion

dance in motion

what we hide , we reveal

what we hide , we reveal

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