I finally got myself to Chelsea. In addition to the Meow Mobile, I saw quite a bit of art, a surprising amount of which I liked.

The first show we went to was easily the best group show, Money Changes Everything at Schroeder-Romero. Although a lot of the pieces were a bit obvious with their criticism (Bush's face on a dollar bill with ( Read more... )

This question has kind of snuck up on me this summer, without me really approaching it. Today (just now) I watched Letters from Siberia, an early-ish Chris Marker film, which is something of a precursor to Sans Soleil. Appropriately, Siberia is "sans soleil," apparently called "The Land of the Dark" by Marco Polo, not entirely unlike the "Dark ( Read more... )

I went to see a lot of art today, but the most surprising "piece" was in the parking garage:


( Read more... )

Well, I did it, I got up at 7 am, got into New York at 9:30, developed my film (properly!) and then printed in the color darkroom. They let me print for free with the other grad students, so I saved a good $30. I look like a full-timer, only a bit more confused. Looking at what other people were doing, I don't feel very far off ( Read more... )

Today I ruined three rolls of film--the first ruined rolls I've ever developed. It was pretty traumatic, but at least I was able to reshoot most of what I had royally fucked up. I think I'll make a necklace out of the negs ( Read more... )

My class is moving at a snail's pace. Today we developed film and made contact sheets. I didn't feel so bad, though, because there was this girl complaining how basic this was and how far ahead of it she is, but her photos suck, she developed one of my rolls in her batch and destroyed two frames, and is just generally obnoxious. (Although, I ( Read more... )

I thought 5-10 rolls a week would be the death of me, but I did 5 rolls in about 24 hours. I primarily photographed the Bradlees building in New City. At first it started out being about the empty lot, the deserted store, etc. but it very quickly moved into the way the building has been reappropriated by nature (in particular, birds) and the ( Read more... )

Switching back to black and white is a bit jarring. My teacher wants us to shoot 5-10 rolls a week, which is significantly more than I normally would. But the nice part is he said my more recent B&W photos (from the fall) are mysterious and evocative. And my earlier stuff is literal and obvious. Well, I think he's probably right ( Read more... )

Class is over. I'll still try to be in the color darkroom at least once a week and hopefully a few hours in the B&W darkroom for my next class, which starts on Tuesday.


( Read more... )

The subtleties of the color are lost in these. But, you get the idea.


( Read more... )