Archive for August, 2013

abandoned school………… but not lonely

August 21, 2013

Life is pretty wonderful at least mine has been so far yea there has been plenty of praise and blame in my life gains and loss but that is just the way life is. i don’t want to brag about because if i get snug something comes along a smacks me upside my head to get my attention.

these golden years i ask myself, walking up lying in bed taking inventory feeling new pains every day, oh that’s new ‘hello there’. maybe i should start giving them names as i did with my mental states that arose because pushing them away wasn’t working so i thought might as well get intimate with them. that seems to give them less power over me and they become less interested in bothering me.

i haven’t been doing much shooting everything seems to be the same old everything. i got tired of my lighting and no one seemed interested in working with me. had two different maternity women contact me/us to shoot some belly pics but never heard from them again. wtf

i always peruse craigslist looking for opportunities which are getting slimmer every day, but sometimes gold shows up. it’s just not polished and shiny, but if one is open one can scrape off the dross and find the jewel. so it’s been this week  i answered and adv for a bondage photographer that was a little off my speciality but i do dark pretty good so what the hell.

we talked and what he wanted it seemed interesting but you never know with craigslist people have been killed using that forum. there have been people whom i just didn’t feel right about so never followed up. he does have a portfolio on musecube where i stated but left them.

mark we will call him is an urban explorer working in underground environments and abandoned buildings. huh that’s something different for me can’t bring a lot of lights with me there.  so we agreed to meet uptown and i pack a camera along with an off camera flash, my Yongnuo flash triggers which are one of the biggest bargains i have, thanks david hobby from the strobist for the suggestion and  some spare batteries and off i went.

this is what i saw when i got there

scaffolding

hi mark this is the scaffolding you want me to climb? think you can do it? i am not sure. i’ll climb up first and show you how.

now mark wasn’t carrying a 20 lb backpack but all 6’3 of  him went up fine and i followed with all my 5’7 frame.  it’s right on a busy street  and we had to watch out for cops but i made up thinking now i probably won’t do that location again.

first walk up the crossbars then scoot over the horizontal one pull yourself up one foot on the building  reach up and pull yourself onto top. got it? sure

it’s an abandoned school and pretty dark on the ground floor. walking up the internal staircase was a challenge, flash light is another thing to bring along, oh stupid i’ve got one on my phone. we made it up to one of the top floors mark assured me he’d been in all the rooms and the floors were safe. best to be very watchful were you stepped lots of fallen debris all over.

he began to undress as we talked about the shot he had envisioned, you go up there on another landing, which i had to walk up a fallen flat wrought iron railing. before i did that i set up my 580 flash and wireless receiver on the landing below wrapped with blackwrap leaning on debrie pied on the floor.

here is our shooting area

shooting area

shooting area

my perch is up one landing.  this is a first one without flash firing

nude kneeling

nude kneeling

nude male tied to banister posts

nude male tied to banister posts

so now the lower flash starts to work not sure why it didn’t in the beginning but oh well.

nude on staircase

nude on staircase

i am sort of working in the dark as far as exposure or can you say guessing? the led display on the back of my camera wasn’t much help. seeing the bottoms of marks feet covered with ash really picked up the light. but i was beginning to feel relaxed and making pictures. so now i can move around from my perch,

i am a ninja photographer.

nude male on stairwell

nude male on stairwell

i love this shot with the sun light in frame left and through broken window mixed with strobe. so now time to move strobe and me back to my perch.

nude suspended

nude suspended

nude standing

nude standing

now with all the broken glass underneath our feet i’ve always wanted to do a broken window shot so here it is.

nude hanging

nude hanging

on our way up here well past this hallway which i fell in love with the lighting so down we went.

nude in hallway door

nude in hallway door

while mark wanted to show me this desk which he jumped upon and we did a couple of shots there using natural light from broken window

nude male on child's desk

nude male on child’s desk

but out of the corner of my eye i saw this other wall

hanging

hanging

hand

hand

then it was time to head home. peering over railing in search of the fuzz, none over we go.

mary was upset with me going off somewhere that was dangerous without her knowing where i was going and she was right, suppose something happen to us? now i am going to make sure she knows where i am. i am such a kid.

i was surprised not to find any crack vile’s broken on the floor but what crack head would climb that scaffolding to get high, just some dummy photographer.

jene

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Lenses most needing repair and their cost

August 14, 2013

LensRentals Lists The Lenses Most Often Needing Repairs

Over time, your lenses are going to start back focusing, become loose with age, and possibly jamming all together. This is all part of the maintenance of things, and will eventually happen, especially if it’s a lens that gets a lot of use. However, it’s nice to know which lenses have the biggest amount of failures, and lens rental giant LensRentals has finally given us that list.

Using weeks to failure as a guide, LensRentals has composited a list of lenses that fail most often in their inventory. Perhaps it’s no surprised, but budget lens brand Rokinon heads the lineup with four lenses, their 35mm leading with a pathetic 8 weeks average to repair. Other notable mentions are the much loved Tamron 17-50mm VC, Nikon 14-24mm, and the Bigma Sigma 50-500mm OS.

Broken Lenses Study LensRentals Lists The Lenses Most Often Needing Repairs

Perhaps the most surprising results from this study shows that virtually every lens brand of the 70-200mm lens has a high rate of repairs needed. While the focal range is among the favorite for zoom lenses, it also comes with a lot of problems it seems.

Also mentioned in the article is the turnaround time. Canon has their impressive 5 day turnaround, leading the pack, with Fuji, Tamron and Sigma close behind. Nikon is behind the race, averaging around 23 days, and Olympus slowing coming in at a 40 day average.

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Virtually every lens at LensRentals needs repair within 2 years of each other, many needing repairs annually. Is this because we’re beating up our rental gear, or that these lenses aren’t built like the tanks we claim them to be?

The highest repaired camera body last year? The Nikon D800, with an average of 65 weeks per repair.

For a full list and a further breakdown, check out LensRentals blog on the issue.

thanks to http://www.lensrentals.com/blog/

jene youtt

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artist/writer Residency in Paris, could this be you?

August 9, 2013

 

Winter Term of the Georgia Fee Residency will take place January-February, 2014 at the same location as our Summer residency in a beautiful apartment in the historic Montparnasse neighborhood. Applications for the Winter term of the Georgia Fee Artist/Writer Residency are currently being accepted until August 16th.

The Georgia Fee Artist in Residence will receive two months of lodging in an apartment in the 14th arrondissement, travel to and from Paris and a monthly stipend for living expenses.

 See below for more details.

 The Georgia Fee Artist/Writer Residency has been established in memory of ArtSlant’s Founder who passed away December 8th, 2012. Georgia was dedicated to supporting and investing in young artists and writers, and she had a deep connection with the city of Paris. This residency, which offers artists and writers the opportunity to create work in Paris, has been created in Georgia’s memory.

The goal of the Georgia Fee Artist/Writer Residency in Paris is to support and invest in emerging artists and writers, to provide an opportunity for them to advance their work and explore and engage with the cultural landscape of Paris, to encourage experimentation, and to increase exposure of their work to an international audience.

The Residency is open to visual artists of all mediums, art writers and critics, 24 years or older. Recent graduates are especially encouraged to apply. The selection will be made based on the merit of past work and the potential for future success, the ability to independently develop new work, and the proposed project’s relevance to the city of Paris.

Recipients will be required to maintain a blog, which will be posted on ArtSlant.

The Georgia Fee Artist/Writer Residency in Paris provides the recipient with lodging for 2 months in an apartment in the 14th arrondissement, travel to and from Paris, and a stipend to be used for studio space, materials, and other costs.

Submission guidelines

Candidates must submit:

  • A professional CV
  • A statement of intent
  • 2 references
  • A $25 administrative fee
  • All submissions must be made through the candidate’s ArtSlant profile. Artists can upload images of their work onto their profile slideshow for consideration, while writers can add samples of their writing as reader reviews on ArtSlant, or onto their profile blog.

(For information on how to start your free ArtSlant profile, visit our guide here ; Building your professional profile ; How to edit your profile, add blogs and images ; How to enter a review ; More FAQ’s available here)

For Frequently Asked Questions on eligibility, submission guidelines and materials, please check here.

Question can be directed to residency@artslant.com

Donations to the Georgia Fee Artist | Writer Residency can be here.

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GoPro’s killer new video is about sharing, not just surfing

August 6, 2013

 photos for Instagram, too By David Griner
surfer’s super-selfie

For years, GoPro has been synonymous with helmet-cam footage of skydiving, 
surfing, heli-skiing and other extreme activities that most of us prefer 
to enjoy by proxy while browsing YouTube and eating a cruller.

But as the technology and innovation behind the camera have evolved, so too has the company’s marketing strategy. And you don’t have to look any further than this new ad for the GoPro smartphone app to see how a once-quirky outdoor gadget has become a leading millennial lifestyle brand.

The two-minute clip, shot entirely on a GoPro HD Hero3 camera in the Mentawai Islands of Indonesia, features three popular pro surfers—Alana Blanchard, Lakey Peterson and Camille Brady—not only recording their day on the waves but sharing stills from the Hero3 directly to Instagram right from the beach. Instead of a tool for creating raw first-person video footage, GoPro is portrayed as the key to taking a super-selfie.

Justin Wilkenfeld, GoPro’s director of lifestyle marketing, tells Adweek that these features showcase how the brand has kept pace with modern life. Outdoors enthusiasts don’t just want to capture their experiences, they want to share them as quickly as possible. The brand’s WiFi-enabled Hero3 and smartphone app, both of which launched last year, have helped make immediate sharing a reality.

“It was a bit of a frustration that you had to go back to your computer to download that footage,” Wilkenfeld says. “There’s something lost there because we are so real-time these days.”

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While the ad shows off GoPro’s newest features, it also harkens back in some ways to the brand’s early days. Before it was known for helmet-mounted cameras, GoPro was a wrist-mounted camera that surfer (and recent billionaire) Nicholas Woodman created to take 35mm photos of himself and friends.

Now, the camera has come full circle, with GoPro becoming known as a source for some of Instagram’s most interesting photos, not just a tool for extreme YouTube clips.

“In the world of social media, you don’t have to take two minutes or five minutes out of your time to watch the full video and get immersed in that moment. You can just take snapshots,” Wilkenfeld says. “That’s kinda the way of the world now—short-attention-span theater.”

Meanwhile, GoPro is also trying to reach beyond its core audience of extreme athletes by highlighting the camera’s versatility as a tool for capturing any kind of experience, not just crazy outdoor adventures.

“It’s been a progression for us,” Wilkenfeld says. “We definitely started in action sports, extreme sports, but we found that if you follow that line of passion, the average person is passionate about the moments in their life, too. That might be playing with their kids. We do try to embrace the broad community and the lifestyle those people try to live, regardless of what it is.”

This ad, like all the brand’s videos, was shot and produced entirely by the GoPro staff without any agency assistance. The soundtrack is “Riptide” by Australian singer-songwriter

via ADWEEK

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Opportunities for Artist in New York

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LMCC’s 2014 Manhattan Arts Grants
 Application Now Live! Connecting artists and audiences from Inwood to The Battery
 MANHATTAN: ART HAPPENS HEREWe are currently experiencing technical difficulties with our website — apologies for any inconvenience. Please find relevant grant information on our Facebook Event Page. If you have any questions, please call our office 212-219-9401.LMCC offers direct financial support to artists and to arts and community organizations to share the experience of the arts with audiences on stages, in exhibition halls, classrooms, recreation rooms, public spaces, and unexpected locations across Manhattan. Each year we distribute approximately $500,000 to support hundreds of performing, literary, media and visual arts projects. We are now accepting applications for projects taking place in 2014.Visit our grant pages to read our application guidelines and join us for information sessions throughout the summer. RSVP here.


“Being an emerging artist, the MCAF grant legitimized the project for the artists involved. It brought me to a new a level of professionalism with my company, because I was able to support a group of artists for the time they spent with me. This grant has given me the confidence to continue finding more funding opportunities for my future projects to help achieve my true vision.” —Jesca Prudencio,  LMCC Grant Recipient











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Manhattan Community Arts Fund
 (MCAF) Deadline: September 17, 2013 
 City-funded grants of up to $5,000 for arts projects by individual artists and small nonprofit organizations in Manhattan.For more information, please visit our Facebook Event Page.









Young People’s Chorus, Credit: Stephanie Berger




The Fund for Creative Communities
 (The Fund) Deadline: September 17, 2013
 State-funded grants of up to $5,000 to artist-community partnerships and nonprofit organizations for arts projects that benefit Manhattan audiences.For more information, please visit our Facebook Event Page.









Apollo Theater and PS 154, Credit: LaRoche




Creative Curricula Deadline: October 15, 2013 
 Grants of up to $5,000 to teaching artists and arts organizations for in-school partnerships with Manhattan public schools to offer arts-education and integrated arts-in-education projects.For more information, please visit our Facebook Event Page.









LMCC Workshop




Information SessionsInformation sessions for MCAF, The Fund, and Creative Curricula are offered each summer in locations across Manhattan for artists, collectives, and nonprofit organizations interested in applying to our grant programs. Sessions include a review of the programs and useful information to help applicants put their best foot forward.MCAF & The Fund
 10 sessions offered through Sept 4
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 Attendance at an information session is required for first-time and returning applicants who have not attended in 2010 or later.Creative Curricula
 3 sessions offered through Sept 19
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