can you tell that art school has deprived me of quality and well thought out work?
That is the most depressing question I've heard all week. Art school is supposed to be my light at the end of the tunnel!
Anyway, Curse my chubby cheeks and 12 year old face :( The chubby cheeks are a problem for this photo, but if they mean that I will still look this young when I am a granny, I think that's a fair trade off.
We actually thought of going the screenprinted sweatsuit road, but in the vein of taking performativity into account I didn't think I could perform that convincingly. I'd probably end up looking really uncomfortable and caricature-ish. We decided that there are really two kinds of grandmas. There's the kind who comes from modest means and is large and jolly and wears Northern Getaway sweatshirts. Then there's the "classy grandma" who is tiny, well-mannered, and wears neatly pressed trousers and smart little sweaters. I have one grandma of each type, but I felt I could more convincingly portray the one who is very English and VERY much of the second variety. She's not in a wheelchair and would probably find the pearl sweater horribly gaudy, but yeah.
I will keep you informed as this progresses. I don't want to ruin the surprise and I probably shouldn't even be showing this one now as we have all kinds of photoshopping to do. If you'd like, I'll definitely show you the completed project.
well, to clarify, the really shitty work is countered by really, REALLY amazing work!!
I love the classy granny! the Northern Getaway one would be a different type of shot, I think, as I usually picture them stirring stew or washing dishes while a drunken grandpa in the background is asleep in front of a hockey game with beer in hand. or making like 3 dozen ham sandwiches for their three dozen children and grandchildren and cousins and aww grannies :(
I would love to see the completed project! Because I'm one who has really enjoyed photographers who take "self portraits" as other personalities (hmm, hard to explain. Janieta Eyre would be an example), this has given me all kinds of interesting ideas! (plus I love that the natural light looks so candid and shapshot-y but still very planned and professional!)
Hmmm, it would definitely be interesting to contrast pictures of the two types of grannies! Or the sandwiches they make. My Northern Getaway nannie always made ham and cheese, while my English gram would make me lobster ones with fancy lettuce. Grannies in general are pretty amazing though. If only because they always have such delicious food around!
Not all of the pictures in our project will be self-portraits because we didn't think we could pull off things like "effeminate gay man", so I don't know if the lack of consistency in subject matter will be a problem or not. None of us are really artistically inclined, so we're just kind of having fun with things and not worrying too much about it being, you know, good. We've been using my six year old digital camera to take a lot of the pictures, so no art-school-level critique allowed!
can you tell that art school has deprived me of quality and well thought out work?
That is the most depressing question I've heard all week. Art school is supposed to be my light at the end of the tunnel!
Anyway, Curse my chubby cheeks and 12 year old face :( The chubby cheeks are a problem for this photo, but if they mean that I will still look this young when I am a granny, I think that's a fair trade off.
We actually thought of going the screenprinted sweatsuit road, but in the vein of taking performativity into account I didn't think I could perform that convincingly. I'd probably end up looking really uncomfortable and caricature-ish. We decided that there are really two kinds of grandmas. There's the kind who comes from modest means and is large and jolly and wears Northern Getaway sweatshirts. Then there's the "classy grandma" who is tiny, well-mannered, and wears neatly pressed trousers and smart little sweaters. I have one grandma of each type, but I felt I could more convincingly portray the one who is very English and VERY much of the second variety. She's not in a wheelchair and would probably find the pearl sweater horribly gaudy, but yeah.
I will keep you informed as this progresses. I don't want to ruin the surprise and I probably shouldn't even be showing this one now as we have all kinds of photoshopping to do. If you'd like, I'll definitely show you the completed project.
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I love the classy granny! the Northern Getaway one would be a different type of shot, I think, as I usually picture them stirring stew or washing dishes while a drunken grandpa in the background is asleep in front of a hockey game with beer in hand. or making like 3 dozen ham sandwiches for their three dozen children and grandchildren and cousins and aww grannies :(
I would love to see the completed project! Because I'm one who has really enjoyed photographers who take "self portraits" as other personalities (hmm, hard to explain. Janieta Eyre would be an example), this has given me all kinds of interesting ideas! (plus I love that the natural light looks so candid and shapshot-y but still very planned and professional!)
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Not all of the pictures in our project will be self-portraits because we didn't think we could pull off things like "effeminate gay man", so I don't know if the lack of consistency in subject matter will be a problem or not. None of us are really artistically inclined, so we're just kind of having fun with things and not worrying too much about it being, you know, good. We've been using my six year old digital camera to take a lot of the pictures, so no art-school-level critique allowed!
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