Over 40 – April, 2008
Petting real dogs and fake cats this month. A little bit of beach time and much tree climbing. And another broken fucking hard drive!!!!! (Lost my damned honeymoon photos.)
“Big Bang” by Cursive
I love this video, “Big Bang” by Cursive. Great song and a great idea once you figure out what is going on. All you have to do is look at the title. Makes me smile every time I watch it.
Lawn Mower
This is a time lapse video of me mowing my lawn. Yep. That is all it is.
Music: “Hash Browns” by Dieselhed. (Man I miss that band…)
Partnership for the Umpqua Rivers
This is a redesign for the Partnership for the Umpqua Rivers. This site went live in May of 2008. This is in the Joomla! content management system.
Copyright©2008 Creative Images. All Rights Reserved.
Pinhole Photography by Bethany de Forest
Dutch artist Bethany de Forest creates her art by first building tiny models and dioramas. She then takes pinhole photographs of the models, capturing the look and feel of a truly imaginary world. The models she creates are meticulously detailed and are made with such materials as sugar cubes, twigs, cotton balls, fruits and vegetables, and meats. She also frequently uses mirrors to enhance the small spaces she creates. To hide the camera from the mirrors, she custom builds most of the cameras for each shot so, that when a shot is taken with a mirror directly in front of the camera, the cameras blend right into the scene.
Thanks to Joe Barr (also a pinhole photographer) for sending me this about three years ago.
Fiddler’s Dream
Design and concept for “Fiddlers Dream” by Greg Spatz
Music on the Halfshell
This is a redesign for the Music on the Halfshell concert series held annually in Roseburg, Oregon. I was responsible for the overall design, fonts and layout and all the graphics on the site As well as most of the band content and research. (I was also took the photographs in the portfolio section for the years 2006 and 2007.) The site was built using the Joomla! content management system.
Copyright©2007 Creative Images. All Rights Reserved.
Over 40 – March, 2008
Went to Bend where I ate a monster breakfast, went to Eureka and drank cocktails in a good friends backyard, and I found out that 50% of Simple Magazine is made up of ads. I did this by taking actual measurements from one issue. And puppies!
Lightmark.de
I wanted to share this site that I found. I really do not have much information on it. All of the information on the site is in German. If you click on the “Making Of” link you are just shown a photograph of someone loading film into the back of a camera.
But what I do know about the site is that it has some beautiful long exposure photography exhibited.
Battles – Tonto
The first post in my two post series about light is musical in origin but is just as much about light as it is sound.
Last years debut album by Battles seemed to go unnoticed by most. In fact, I nearly missed it but I am certainly glad that I didn’t. It has been one of the albums that I have been listening to quite a bit lately and I return to it regularly however it is so unique that I couldn’t find a way to include a track from their album on my yearly mix CD. I just couldn’t make it work.
The band is made up of members of the (now defunct) bands Helmet and Don Cabellero, and you can hear the influences of those bands in the music of Battles. (Video bio here.) I can anyways. You could call it Math Rock or Future Funk or whatteverthefunk you want to call it but, in my opinion, it rises above those categories.
What pushed me over the edge on these guys was the video they created for ‘Tonto’, one of the tracks off their album. They teamed up with United Visual Artists (UVA) who are know for their interactive light installations that they create for museums and galleries. (I highly recommend that you click on that last link and peruse their entire site. There are some amazing videos of their installations as well as photos on how they are are created. They are doing some very cool things.)
UVA and Battles took their ideas to a Welsh slate mine. They created a sound triggered LED light display to match the music. In filming this, Battles played for eleven hours. If you were not aware, that is a very long time to be playing the same song. But the results are beautiful and the intermittent light flashes complement the music perfectly. Near the end they use gorgeous time lapse photography that ushers in the dawn as the song slows down to a crawl (from the 4:30 mark to the end, which is about three minutes). I find it very effective.
I hope you have good speakers and I hope you enjoy it. This music isn’t for everyone but the collaborative art is.
The Art of the Modern Business Card
Here is something for the Frickin’ Creative department: an amazing collection of business cards on Flickr. These things make me drool. Most of these cards are for designers and artists because most regular folk wouldn’t want to spend the dough to get these things made with all the fancy die cuts and cards made out of metal and such. However, can you put a price on a first impression? Yeah, probably.
Seven Minutes to Bend
Here is a video I made of our drive Bend for Karen’s Birthday. I used my little Canon G9 point-and shot and added a little Beck. Good times.
The Vanishing Point
This is my new favorite site. it is called The Vanishing Point. It is a website all about exploring the man-made structures that are buried beneath our feet and abandoned like old power plants and abandoned mines. I have always wanted to be an urban cave explorer. I find the huge abandoned spaces filled with discarded heavy machinery fascinating. The site gives some great history of the places they explore as well as some great photographs. Sometimes the writing is a bit forced but the rest of the site makes up for it.
Well worth exploring. Pun intended.
(Via BoingBoing)
RACKA RACKA RACKA CD
This was the artwork that I created for a mix CD that I sent out to friends. It was SO FUN to create and I think it came out very successful. The music rocks too.
Over 40 – February, 2008
I turned 40 on December 25th, 2007. Since then I am making sure I am in one photo a day.
Month three. I work, I play, I snowshoe, and I pick up dog shit. And I get my photo taken by Jeffrey Lewis who we bought back to our house with his band after a show in Eugene. What a bunch of nice folks. Even washed their coffee cups out. I don’t even do that.
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