Shoot.
I have been updating in this a little more, but not as much as I'd like to. I find updating in here to be somewhat therapeutic. Is that such a bad thing?
I don't want to start saying things that are pointless, just to update. I want things to be important to me that I put in here. Now that we've started doing digital work, maybe it'll be easier to post some of my work in here. But who really wants to publicise their hard work on livejournal? So some jerk can steal it and pose it as their own? Nah. No thanks.
The other day in critique (and I got a really good review on my images, :D), we were discussing the whole 'myspace-facebook' revolution and how it's changing self-portraiture. Our assignment this week was to photograph our partners with various lighting techniques. People were saying that a lot of them looked like myspace photos, but ANYTHING can be a myspace photo. What it is, essentially, is a good photograph of yourself. So, I guess our goal when making portraits or self-portraits is to have it not be facebook- or myspace-worthy. But as long as it's a good image, then yeah, why not? The images I make, though, I don't want to see as someone's user picture. That'd hurt a little inside.
I've started to allow commenting a little more frequently. I don't know what brought this change about, but it might not stay for long. Not sure yet.
Speaking of self-portraiture, my final for this quarter is two black-and-white images: how you see yourself, and how others see you. One is to be done in studio and one is to be done on-location. I am done shooting, developing, reshooting, developing again, making contact sheets for all rolls, and scanning. Now I have to edit my images and print them. Oh, and make a CD. I also have notes I have to drop off (Monday morning, definitely), library books to return, and mount my 2D design art project that I've gotten good feedback from peers on so far. Aside from the art aspect of my life, I have to study for politics and art history (this doesn't count as art, I promise.) Other than that, things are looking pretty good academically. I guess I had my breakdown over last weekend, or a few days before that, and now I'm on point. One breakdown a quarter makes sense, during week 9. So, I'm past that point and breathing. Always a good feeling.
Shower now, edit images, throw laundry in while I'm editing, and read/study once I'm done. Sounds productive.
I don't want to start saying things that are pointless, just to update. I want things to be important to me that I put in here. Now that we've started doing digital work, maybe it'll be easier to post some of my work in here. But who really wants to publicise their hard work on livejournal? So some jerk can steal it and pose it as their own? Nah. No thanks.
The other day in critique (and I got a really good review on my images, :D), we were discussing the whole 'myspace-facebook' revolution and how it's changing self-portraiture. Our assignment this week was to photograph our partners with various lighting techniques. People were saying that a lot of them looked like myspace photos, but ANYTHING can be a myspace photo. What it is, essentially, is a good photograph of yourself. So, I guess our goal when making portraits or self-portraits is to have it not be facebook- or myspace-worthy. But as long as it's a good image, then yeah, why not? The images I make, though, I don't want to see as someone's user picture. That'd hurt a little inside.
I've started to allow commenting a little more frequently. I don't know what brought this change about, but it might not stay for long. Not sure yet.
Speaking of self-portraiture, my final for this quarter is two black-and-white images: how you see yourself, and how others see you. One is to be done in studio and one is to be done on-location. I am done shooting, developing, reshooting, developing again, making contact sheets for all rolls, and scanning. Now I have to edit my images and print them. Oh, and make a CD. I also have notes I have to drop off (Monday morning, definitely), library books to return, and mount my 2D design art project that I've gotten good feedback from peers on so far. Aside from the art aspect of my life, I have to study for politics and art history (this doesn't count as art, I promise.) Other than that, things are looking pretty good academically. I guess I had my breakdown over last weekend, or a few days before that, and now I'm on point. One breakdown a quarter makes sense, during week 9. So, I'm past that point and breathing. Always a good feeling.
Shower now, edit images, throw laundry in while I'm editing, and read/study once I'm done. Sounds productive.