you can flood the city, fill the path tunnels with water, ruin almost everyones weekend without power but art walks go on. mary and i will be showing our work at the hoboken nj art walk and studio tour at the Monroe Center, 720 Monroe Street, Hoboken NJ on Sunday November 18, 2012 from noon to 6pm.
if you’re in the neighborhood do stop by and say hello.
be there or be square
jene
last week i met a dancer/choreographer Laura Ward/Octavia Cup Dance Theatre
through Linked-in about taking some pictures of her company. she replied that she was in rehearsals with a new piece ‘The Dreaming’ for The 15th Annual Fringenyc so we agreed to meet downtown at the rehearsal studio. it’s always interested to meet new people and begin working with them especially if none of us have expectations. this suits me fine as i never know what i’d be interested in either.
laura ward, octavia cup
as you can see i start off pretty normal just trying to get a feel of what laura’s work is all about. well today it’s not going to happen because only a few of the dancers are there and they are rehearsing only parts of. why not?
laura ward, octavia cup
as you can see this is a large space with mixed lighting sources which of me is always interesting. hey what are those funny shoes? ballet dancers………….. holy smokes i don’t usually run into these types of dancers.
laura ward, octavia cup
but i always like to see what would happen if i try this, so i turn towards the mirrors
laura ward & dancers
then back towards the window
dancer
lets try something different as the dance pieces are all different
so i attached my 580 flash with a grid attached for a couple of shots, sometimes the magic works sometimes it doesn’t.
laura and dancers
i am not sure i like this effect either or maybe i am just sick of using it. it really depends on the composition i guess.
another abstract experiment
laura ward
of all the images i took that day this is one of my favs and looking at the order i took them in it was one of the first so maybe i just need to take a fewer images in the beginning then go home.
most of the dancers i’ve worked with like my abstracts best yet i continue my people pleasing ways in trying to get good representational dance pictures. duh it’s not like i am being paid for this work, i do it because i love the art of dance and the ability of creating my own work.
laura’s octavia cup performances of ‘The Dreaming’are at the 4th Street Theater, 83 East 4th street on 8/13 again on 8/18-8/19, 8/21-8/22 and last performance 8/24. do check the fringe web site for specific time and place.
jene
and it doesn’t help that i find people to help me. last week i met admiral and interviewed her for an upcoming project of mine and we agreed to explore a session to see what happens, that’s one of the ways i work not really having a vision of where i’ll wind up at the end of the day, well since it’s art and most of art is a failure but it’s in the trying and failing that the real art is created. i am really not sure what’s going on here but we started doing some dance images and worked our way in or out, depending on ones outlook into some of the other images.
a simple dance image
with costume changes
nude dancer in dressing grown
i am using mixed lighting sources with strobes as the main light but adding some mr 16’s 50w units which add an awfully lot of light, i threw some color on them just of fun.
nude female dancer in dressing grown
and another costume change, well since she’s almost nude to begin with it doesn’t take long to slip from one thing to another.
female nude
odd color on that mr 16 very green and it’s a 3200 kelvin color temp, don’t remember what color it was but if you’re interested i’ll try and look it up.
female nude
what i liked about admiral during our interview was her,’ yes lets try that.’ she saw a couple of my gold face female images and was really up for trying that.
christmas past
don’t you just love the color of her hair?
we have a friend and gallery owner who’s always said he is looking for ‘edgy’ work. define edgy was always our reaction, but what he means is work that’s a bit different but sells. i look at this session and wonder what kind of person would want to look at this image everyday or this one?
bound female nude with gold face
now if you look closely, well you can because your eyes are open and not like the model whom i seem to have caught with her eyes closed all day. i remember shoot with a young japanese model doing some fashion, yea i know didn’t think i had it in me did you, neither did i, but she was always looking down. when i mentioned this to her she said,’ gee my teacher tells me the same thing.’ duh……….. but here it sort of works
this is all part of my non – communication series i am trying to find people to work on. interested ? contact me.
if you’re interested in working with me on any project of mine or have a suggestion of your own drop me a line as i am always interested in meeting interesting people
jene
today i am trying to finish up a Lower Manhattan Culture Council application for a workspace. this is my first time application for anything of this kind. seems collage people take classes in this or are born with these qualities. for me it’s a big push, not in doing my artistic work, just writing about it. glad i took those creative writing courses at the new school. i am sort of stymied at doing a resume, i don’t want a job, i’ve had too many of those. all i want out of this is a clean space to work.
so i needed to put together a cd of images and all the ones i selected are a few years old, lets dig through a HD and see what i can find, it’s always interesting.
Parul Shah Dancer
these images are part of a commission work for the Parul Shah Dance company advertisement but are my outtakes. originally they had me shooting in a dance rehearsal studio way too small and ugly background, but ‘all we need are the images and we’ll photoshop the background out.’ OK
Parul Shah Dancers
but i think listening to me and doing these images in a more controled enviroment is better for the images, but hey what do i know
Parul Shah Dancers
these images are from reshoot in my studio because my camera canon 20d at the time stopped working. it does that every once in a while oh well. so we did these the next day. but i can’t remember if they were happy with the other images or what but i got a couple for me.
Parul Shah Dancer
odd that some people come through my life briefly and i never hear from them again while others keep in touch, life is that way.
jene
well i’ve had one of my images selected for a c4fap Motion shows coming up this spring. i also have a cold as does mary, these things happen when we are out and about in the world.
Ascending
i’ve made a package for the image and have downloaded the forms needing to accompany the framed print. one really should never have to read instructions and understand them when one doesn’t feel good. it’s just too much to understand nor wanting to comply with. i’d rather lay down on the couch, turn on tv and see what’s going on in soap opera world and put my head gently down on a pillow waiting for oprah to come along and lull me to sleep.
i’ve time to think about all this and since it’s 23 degrees outside i don’t need to trudge off to UPS and send the package. besides they want an artist statement. do you think they accept a note saying i’d rather take a nap?
i’ve plenty of time as the show isn’t until march 19 thru april 17 2010.
busy week as i am going over to meet the people who run the 52nd Street Project tonight and see one of their shows. the project is about helping the neighborhood kids expresses themselves using theater and since we are living in the theater district capital of the world, arrogant statement for sure but this is broadway. i think it’s nice to give back to the community who supported me and i know that one person can make a difference in another’s life.
i’ll always be grateful for Joe coming into my life, a newark policeman who read my families dynamic and offered me friendship instead of telling me what i should do. me being a teenage i wasn’t too open for advice as i knew everything but he was there with a friendly place for me to go when i needed another perspective.
i think everyone needs places like that in their lives.
so i’ll just not do too much thinking today and maybe take a nap. we can all benefit from my doggie’s suggestion on this cold winter day.
but with the snap of a shutter and living with a photographer one can never relax completely
you want to do what on the couch?
jene youtt, nyc
well for those of you who would like to meet me i’ll be opening my studio during this event located at
Youtt, 427 51st Street, 3A, New York, NY, 10019 between 9th & 10th Ave., 212 664 1039
the tour actually begins on Nov 6 with an opening party at Bar 9 on Tenth Ave but i’ll be at Emmanuel’s opening that night.
as this is the first event of this kind in the neighborhood i am hoping to meet some of my fellow artists whom i pass on the street anonymously. so far i’ve met a few very talented artists, one woman had a postcard of one of her watercolors which i recognized immediately as the lobby of the Paris Opera house. how cool is that?
maps will be available at Fountain Gallery, 702 9 Ave, NYC on the corner of 9th Ave & 48th Street. beginning Nov 6, 2009.see www.artistinthekitchen.org for more information.
i am hoping mary will baby sit a bit so i can visit some other studios.
so if you’d like to meet me and say hello or better yet buy one of my prints, actual SALE of some odd sized prints returned from a show i had in Kyoto, Japan do stop by.
i had suggested we buy balloons to display aiding location for the visitors. if lost give a call.
see you then.
jene
hi gals & guys
i am somewhat disappointed with my 5D Mll especially now that the 7D is around the corner which seems to be a much better camera video wise at least.i do come from a film/video background so i am somewhat opinionated about this.
i moved up to 5DMll because i wanted a full frame camera and the people selling used 5D’s were asking way too much around here. the video component also was very enticing but 30 frames and no locked auto focus or face recognition software seems like they are just waiting for Mark lll to come out.reminds me of the epson 4000 & 4800 introductions.
to not be able to sync sound to video seems silly. i looked at some video i lit for some other shooter and i see how silly it looks. picture looks nice but since edison figured out how to record voices and made pictures you’d think canon who makes video cameras might have married the two together on this camera. but i guess it had something to do with turf wars.
one the plus side the sensor on the Mll gives great color rendition well it is an improvement over my 20D that’s for sure.the file size for my usage is over the top, i don’t shoot billboard art but some do. with genuine fractal’s i seem to be able to get the size prints i want. i might want to do billboards later in life so maybe having such big files will come in handy.i get a whooping 300 some odd images on a card now. lexar should be happy.
as far as the seals go i try and keep my cameras out of water etc but it would be nice to have it sealed well.
as far as the software is concerned i am still learning it. i shoot mostly 4 gb cards so i can back them up on dvds and the new 9999 images on a folder threw my backup workflow off. i am adjusting as i know others are. so it’s just not a matter of dragging and dropping a folder onto a drive. yes redundancy backups on hd and dvds.
oh did i mention battery size. if the 7D can use the same legacy batteries then why did i have to buy new ones for the Mll, oh the camera didn’t cost enough money, i see. at least i don’t have to get new lenses.
but hey nothing is perfect in this world and we all need to make a buck, well except me, i seem to be supporting manufactures of equipment while art sales have plummeted bouncing off the floor but hey we all got to eat. maybe i can crack open some 20D batteries and see how they taste.
well maybe my tune will change once i learn the new camera system. remember the old camera where there was a f stop ring & focus thingy that seemed to work pretty good, still have my F1 loved the look of that camera and the metering system, whew be still heart.
just my uninformed take on the subject maybe some day i’ll know more, but i do like fast lenses and cool cars.
last night we went down to hey hot shot print exchange. this is something i’ve always been interested in doing. i remember some online photo groups i’ve belonged to where some members exchanged prints amongst themselves. i always thought this was a pretty neat way of learning what’s out there. i even tried doing this when i was on musecube but nobody seemed interested i doing it except one fellow nik walking bear, but oddly when i left the cube he wasn’t interested in continuing the conversation any more. oh well
to me my photography doesn’t exist unless i have a print in hand. what else is there? we can see pixels on the screen but once the power goes out what’s left? not much. but a print is something solid, while the image just sits on the paper well maybe more in the nooks and crannies of the paper, i like texture on my paper but i print on matt papers, a personal preference. it’s the print that exist as the art form, that might explain my thin negatives.
hey i shoot digital now so don’t have to worry about that. i do miss the feel of wet film in my hands as i am a very tactile person and always loved handling film. but it’s so time consuming developing boring agitating looking at the clock etc. oh did i mention the smell of the fixer?
well i digress from the subject at hand. the print
now the people running the swap weren’t very organized, first set back, lost microphone, so communication with the crowd began with cupped hands moving later to a megaphone which wasn’t much of an improvement but at least they could be heard over the crowd noise. there wasn’t much of a plan, maybe they were overwhelmed by the number of people attending, the print i picked up was labeled 81 and my number was 67.
one of the things i learned touring theater show was how to make the venue i was in then work the best it could be for the show we were performing. it had to work, the producer wasn’t going to give back the money and the artist was there wanting to be paid after the show, so my job was to make the venue work for the production. i learned soon enough ‘no show no check.’ simple enough.
but some people seem to get lost in the details which this seemed to be the case. they put out the first selection of images and the whole heard swooped down like Harpies on the photos. both mary’s and my images were gone right away but i didn’t see who took them, i always like to see who likes my work.
i got to the front in time to see a small black and white print of the world trade center taken from the williamsburg waterfront and looking down the line at the only one other print struck my eye of a hood ornament but i can back the the simplicity of this print. it’s by a photographer Geralyn Shukwit whom i’ve looked at her web site and it works for me. while she and i do way different stuff that doesn’t mean i don’t like what others do. it really keeps me interested in the craft and art of photography.
we found this organization on our trip to cambodia thru another photographer’s gallery. one nite looking for a place to eat we wandered around town as we do so often in visiting cities and came across this photography gallery next door to the FCC in Siem Reap.
it was John MeDermott’s Gallery full of infrared photography which i love of Angkor Wat. we went in and i bought a small print, something we could carry. while paying for the item i told the salesperson that i was a photographer to which she replied that john liked meeting other photographers and did i have a web site. i gave her my card and off we when to dinner.
arriving back at our hotel, The River Garden, we were informed i had a call and they would call back. yes it was john, he invited us down to the gallery to meet and chat.
mary asked the question about a cambodian charity because as americans we have so much that others don’t have. that brought up Kenro Izu work and about the children’s hospital. so this is how we learned of this group.
here are two events that i am donating prints to.
one of my favorite motion studies
another from the same session
Night of the Apsara – Washington DC Night of the Apsara – Washington DC
The pleasure of your presence is requested at the “Night of the Apsara”, an evening in support of the Angkor Hospital for Children (AHC) in Cambodia. The night will include dinner, cocktails, music, dancing and a silent auction. All tickets and donations may be partially or fully tax deductible. The event will be held on Saturday, October 17, 2009, 6:00pm – 12:00am at La Maison Française, Embassy of France. 4101 Reservoir Rd, NW, Washington, DC 20007.
Tickets:
$80.00
10th Annual Fundraising Event – New York 10th Annual Fundraising Event – New York
Friends of Friends Without A Border New York invite you to join them in an evening of celebration to benefit the Angkor Hospital for Children (AHC) in Cambodia. The night will include Cambodian cuisine, music performed by the Monorom band, a dance performance, and a silent auction. All tickets and donations may be partially or fully tax deductible. The event will be held on Saturday, October 24, 2009, 6:00pm – 12:00am at Cathedral of St. John Banquet Hall, 353 E. Clinton Ave, Tenafly, NJ 07670
Tickets:
$75.00
i don’t know what print will be at what auction, i’ll leave that up to them to decide.
jene
well their at it again or should i say still.
Mary went down for a seminar yesterday and i asked her to pick up a firewire cable. same run around go to the back of the store wait in line, select the item, wait for the salesperson to print up an order form, then you take it across the store, wait in another line, see another clerk who then types the item into his computer, throws away the piece of paper you gave him, you and he wait, hopefully you have something to talk about while your item comes up from the basement, which he then scans into computer and prints out a payment statement.
now does this all seem like a waste of time and resources? it’s my personal opinion that B&H is trying to get rid of it’s ‘in person’ customers and just become the amazon of photography stores. it’s a jungle out there full of pitfalls and quicksand .
i for one have always opted for the personal touch, yes price is somewhat important but so is personal contact. i guess this comes from the artist in me, as i am not so much a photographer which captures something them moves on to the next. what is important to me is to be able to create in my images or have them express the feeling that others,my subjects create.
i work with dancers who’s art is so ethereal, gone in a puff of the moment, yet so beautiful in that moment. it’s hard to define as the perfect moment because so much work goes into it, all the class work, rehearsal, stretching and physical exertion, never mind the sweat and pain to achieve a nanosecond of form.
well i guess all this can be remembered as one stands in line after line waiting to spend your money and get on with your life. i could be reliving the ‘nutcracker’ before i get out of the store. well maybe only the first act.
hey made another store.
now if you’d like to express your opinion on this subject to B&H try here no purchase necessary.
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