I don't know if anyone is going to read this, but this is pretty funny

http://shine.yahoo.com/love-sex/watch-hold-hands-stranger-183400264.html

Check out 5 Pointz...they're main building is right by Moma ps1

http://5ptz.com/graff/

For Lindsey- Upcoming show

AT ICP

For Amy...Moma ps1 bookstore

Woman Attacks Painting

Although this isn't photography related Clyfford Still is an amazing abstract painter and this is incredibly hilarious!

http://news.yahoo.com/police-woman-attacked-clyfford-still-painting-202402949.html

How to Make it in the Art World

Here is a link to this article in New York Magazine, the rules are pretty funny!

http://nymag.com/arts/art/rules/

My website

Hey, posting the link to my website as it was suggested.  If people have more feed back, it would be welcomed.
http://www.wix.com/ericanj/ericavelascophotography

I'm also entering a contest that if I win or qualify I get to show some of my work in Times Square.
I'll include the link below.  If people are interest I would greatly appreciate people checking out the link and "collecting" the work so that I have a chance at this. =)
http://ericavelasco.artistswanted.org/atts2012

links galore!

Hey everyone, I have a bunch of links for you all.

First off, I changed a bunch of things on my website with the suggestions you all gave me, have a look.

tiny.cc/samfinephoto

That brings me to the next link which is the url shortener that I use, tiny.cc

it's very easy and you don't even need to make an account if you don't want to.

Next is mail list service that I use which is mailchimp.com

they are also very easy and have lots of tutorials to explain how to use their services and it is also free.

Augusta Wood: I have only what I remember

Also, here is an artist whom was referenced to me- her work directly relates to the concepts and subject of my final.
From my limited understanding of her work, thus far, she uses personal archived images and projects them into interior landscapes (I believe of the same location or similar ones) and then documents the installation having those photographs represented as the final work. [This is in her most recent series; I have only what I remember]

Augusta has also used text within previous bodies of work, and utilized classic analog B&W photography. Below is a link to her website.

http://www.augustawood.com/

Website

Though I didn't present yet, today in class someone suggested (I Think Danit) that we all post links of our websites- so here mine is

www.emilykohlmattingley.com

there will be more images both sculptural and photographic come next Wednesday when I present.

Sam Moyer

I wanted to introduce this painter and sculptor, Sam Moyer and her recent exhibition in NYC. If interested please read this related article. She utilizes painting in new and interesting forms, which relate to photography im multiple ways- including the idea of the negative.

http://trogg-blogg.blogspot.com/2012/04/sam-moyer-slack-tide.html

guerill art

DETROIT LIVES (3 Parts)

Visualizing Data

I saw this article and thought it has so much potential for visualizing statistics or any kinds of information!

Aaron Koblin

Aaron Koblin's New York Talk Exchange shows, in real time, the volume of telephone and Internet data flowing to other cities.

Here is the full article here:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303299604577323743008395060.html

Some professional development opportunities coming up

Hey Photo folks,
here is one such opportunity happening this sat...however it is $25!

Todays Airplane toilet pictures for you....

So, today I spoke about the NPR article about the Greek artist that likes to make images of Flemish Paintings..
To pass the time during long flights, artist Nina Katchadourian goes to the lavatory, adorns herself in tissue paper costume, and creates hilarious self-portrait photos in the style of Flemish Renaissance paintings. She calls the series“Seat Assignment: Lavatory Self-Portraits in the Flemish Style.”

Here is the link to the full article and more pictures! I think they are hilarious and pretty awesome!

Jessica Falco- Proposal for Final

I am interested in photographing young women roughly between the ages of 18 and 24. Simple portraiture would be best, photographing these girls horizontally with my camera from their shoulders up capturing an intimate gaze. I would like for the girls to be staring into the camera, making eye contact with the viewer to create a connection between these two people and the girls to claim dominance and confidence within the picture. I will be using a fabric backdrop for the girls to be photographed in front of, placing it in a way that drapes like a curtain behind them. 

           

My reason for photographing young women is because I feel this time in their lives is particularly special. They are out of their childhood stage, yet not completely into their adulthood stage, placing them in a kind of middle area of their lives. I feel women of this age possess a kind of beauty that therefore differentiates them between the two groups and this kind of beauty is what intrigues me most. Photographing the young women as simply as possible allows for the uniqueness of the girl to be the central focus of the picture and having a horizontal frame will allow more a view of the fabric behind them.

           

The importance of the fabric behind them was to add another element to the picture without taking away from the actual figure. I wanted there to be a romantic, feminine and gentle quality to the picture besides the figures and these qualities to me visually are found in florals. I feel the floral backdrop adds dimension to the photograph, an interesting element that compliments the figure in front of it and a way to introduce more colors into the photograph. When I think of flowers, I immediately think of women of this age as they too possess beauty and innocence.