In High Gear

I have a local friend who is taking a photography class. He’s got a few projects coming down the pike. The next one has to do with portraits (not the studio kind), and so now he’s on the lookout for subjects.

Actually these photos are all black and white, and the idea is not to make the subject look good so much as to….shit iunno it’s just really different from snapshots. I hate fucking snapshots. In the kind of photography I’m trying to do, you either catch something going on that’s real (incredibly tough because being there with a camera skews things) or you get a person or people to commit to something, as if they were performing…still tough. Iunno, i thought of you because i thought you might be into that whatever-it-is, i think of it as performance although it could be as simple as standing there feeling a single thing. Then someone like me needs to take like a zillion shots to try to luck out and get a decent angle/lighting/composition, especially since it’s very fucking tough for me to figure out what something is going to look like in black and white.

Also i’m into shooting shit at night. I have some “fast” film that does better at night and have been just driving around mostly shooting buildings and streets, especially when the streets are wet. The day is cool for photography at the beginning and end when the sun is casting decent shadows. At night it’s tougher because light is hard to come by, but the lights are less fickle and come from multiple sources…iunno it might be fun to get a couple people and just go around posing zany shit in silhoutte or whatever. But it sounds like yer pretty swamped between working and parenting and whatever else! Basically there are tons of great photographs to take all over the place, like i say i’ve been just shooting a bunch of night scenes empty of people and some of those are coming out pretty well.

This is expected to branch out into more still photography projects and then on into film. One thing he’s interested in is a series of scenes from films that were never made, and concept influenced by the still photography of Cindy Sherman.

There’s no scheduling yet, but I’m definitely in. Theoretically, how about you?

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Ten Rules for Being Human

by Cherie Carter-Scott

Via tryss and reposted entirely because I like it so much.

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NaNoWriMo is coming. Fast. I haven’t entirely decided that I will participate yet. I could look at the wildness of my life and say that there’s too much going on, but then I could say that about 05 as well, and did! Yet I did it. Last year I couldn’t get my brain in gear, obsessing over the issue with my kids and their father.

Some topics that have been knocking around in my brain, that I might use:

A near death experience for everyone, all at once
Migraines as ghosts of head blows past
The sun sucking energy from humans

I haven’t thought of an overarching theme yet, but then I don’t think I started with one that time either.

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Serendipitous finds while I was looking for big and tall ethnic wear:

Kikoys

Kanga

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In response to the entry in which I posted American kids are dumber than dirt, bunny42 points me toward this discussion that seems to indicate all is not necessarily lost.

What makes it so exceptional is that we had no way to communicate as we did not understand a word of Portuguese (except ‘cerveja’) or Herero. They did not understand a word of English or Afrikaans. Yet we spent hours and hours being thoroughly entertained. This trend was to repeat itself every where we stopped.

Via spc476 – Angola, it’s not like they said, a photo journal of a motorcycle journey. Which of course reminds me to repost another motorcycle journey, Elena’s trip through Chernobyl.

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We can has a flu.

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I caught myself snoring this morning. And not in a ladylike fashion, either.

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