Today's Grid

Today was sort of a hard day.

Grid for 2/15/2009

Mostly the flowers I got for Valentine's Day. :)

Grid for 2/14/2009

I know I haven't posted in a while, but a cold and a broken card reader have been holding me back. To make up for it, here are three in a row! Zowee!

These are pictures from my sister Anne's boyfriend Syd, who races bikes. Despite having a dude crash into him, Syd got 6th place! Also, he is a cool guy. It was fun to watch him race.

12

I really like the sticks. Also, that wasp's nest could use some revisiting.

So far--and I know this is two days in--I really like this project I've given myself.

First Contact Sheet

Here's the first one! Not sure how productive it was, but now you know what my shower looks like.

Unrelated: Maybe its bad to be admitting this, but I am watching RuPaul's Drag Race. It is amazing. RuPaul is out. of. control. ("Are you a Diana Ross? Oh heeeeyyy! Or are you just a supreme? Oooh!")

Attempts

I'm taking a class in the studio again this semester. I like working in the studio, but I'm awful at coming up with concepts for "commercial" photography. It is very difficult for me to think of making photographs in order to sell a product. Some people are great at it, but I would rather just get out some rocks or bugs and shoot those instead.



Here's another one I shot in the studio. This is me. I love the motion in this, the blur and the mess of hair. Hair monster.

What am I getting at? Something, anyway.

I think I'm going to start something new. I'm going to take pictures every day, even if they are bland. I'll make a little grid of 12 images and post them here. I'm sort of ripping this idea off from Liz Kubal (http://www.lizkuball.com/blog/) but my images will be so different I don't think it is a problem. Hold me accountable, my two readers! Tell me if you like what you see.

I'll start tomorrow though. These are tantalizing enough for tonight.

thinking

Sometimes I freak out and think that I am a terrible artist. Sometimes I take a picture like this and get cocky. Neither is productive.

I'm concerned with my output. Not enough work being made. I'm afraid this new job I'm getting will take all my time away again. At my old job I never had weekends. Rarely had a day off, I was either at work or school or both. I'm worried that this will happen again, hell, it will happen again. But its either work away all my free time or mooch off my boyfriend and parents. One of these is better than the other but both are awful. (In the UK they would call this whingeing)

Well, this blog was supposed to be about my art making process. I keep coming back to leaves when I shoot. They are so articulate. Well designed. Did you know that the way branches form--with one study branch that shoots off into thinner ones that eventually grow and produce even more branches--is the same way our veins form in our body? Nature is efficient.