So I'm still in the process of constructing my Thursday shoot. On top of all that I am also trying to plan out my next project. I choose my paintings, but now I feel that a recreation of a painting isn't nearly enough. Should we not question what the painting was trying to say then contemporaize it?
For The Picnic on the Grass by Manet, I was thinking of doing a role reversal. Where the naked woman who stares at the viewer is a youthful boy or man and the ones conversing are women. That specific painting was about taking your secret lover out while your wife is doing who knows what. So now its more empowering to women, who can keep a secret agenda of having a boy toy to have picnics with.
For the Goya, I choose myself as a the subject and instead of bats and owls and cats being the monsters. I want to incorporate my own monsters. The piece is called "the sleep that brings forth monsters". And that exactly where I am going to go with that.
I have been weighing my options on the turkish bath but I don't know if I could successful orchestrate such a photo. If i did it documentary style I could just waltz into a YMCA into the women's locker room and secretly start shooting women showering. If only my shutter was silent. I could bring a group of girls in with me but none of us have YMCA memberships. I need to find my girls.. at least 6 and I can just photoshop clones of them.
if that doesn't seem possible then I have the swing. Florida doesn't have lush gardens like that. And this painting is the same thing as Manets just a commissioned piece to show a man and his misteress. I feel like that would be redundant.
I'm not sure whats going to happen with this project. I'm wishing myself good luck.
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Saturday, February 27, 2010
MORE PUPPUMS!!!
Puppums in a Shepard Fairey design
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Can you guess what part of Puppums this is?
Friday, February 26, 2010
New Project Ideas
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Our next project is to recreate a painting in the form of a photograph. So i've picked a few paintings that I wouldn't mind recreating in my own way.
I have choosen 4
1) Ingres- Turkish Bath
2) Fragonard -The Swing
3) Goya- El Sueno de la razon produce monstruos (The sleep of reason brings forth monsters)
4) Manet- The Picnic
I know that Goya's work is a etching but its still really awesome. Now to figure out how to pull this off.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Monday, February 22, 2010
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Friday, February 19, 2010
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Curious
Puppums is curious that I brought out my cell phone instead of my Nikon.Coffee+ Dog+ Getting Caged for 5 hours= CRAZY DOG
Sylvia Plath death plus some rambling.
Monday, February 15, 2010
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Saturday, February 13, 2010
2 puppums post in one!
On Friday, Puppums tried out for The Blue Man Group, so we are still waiting for news on that.
Early Saturday Morning, Puppums has become a big fan of Sumatra. He likes his coffee X-BoldThursday, February 11, 2010
New Artist- Rheana Gardner
I find Rheana Gardner's work really interesting especially her "To Carve & To Cave" series. She makes herself into the modern woman. Bares all to reconstruct old fine art paintings as she incorporates it with the aspect of self portraiture.
Indecisive Moment project, and studio project.
I was able to push back my studio date to March 4th. I traded with Darron. I need more time to constuct that air balloon. Its the one thing that is stressing me out. So far i cut down a big beach umberlla into a ballon shape. It was my dad's idea, but I'm not sure if I like it. I might have to extend it with plaster gauze and reinforce it. But this is what I get for being ambitious, and being poor. For my Indecisive moment project, I am going for the 3 different sucides commited by authors. So far I have Sylvia Plath shot. I am hoping to get Virginia Woolf shot this week sometime. And finally Ernest Hemingway which I think will be my most difficult shoot to pull off in such little time. I still haven't found a location, and my model isnt really as Hemingway as I like. I'm sure it'll work out. It always does.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Monday, February 8, 2010
Historical Stuff.
I've spent a lot of time thinking up ways to recreate historical events, I was bouncing around to misquotes, legos, food, then suicides. So I picked 3 of my favorite authors, Ernest Hemingway, Sylvia Plath and Virginia Woolf whom all commited suicide. I am going to recreate their death photos, I'm going for the flash of a blub for crime scene style photograph. I have my models now I need time to plan this all out (which I don't have very much of) and hope that nothing goes wrong, of course something always does. Meh. I'll stay positive.
^^this is not Sylvia Plath but more of an inspirational photo^^
Pup Wars
"General Kenobi: Years ago, you served my father in the Clone Wars; now he begs you to help him in his struggle against the Empire. I regret that I am unable to present my father's request to you in person; but my ship has fallen under attack and I'm afraid my mission to bring you to Alderaan has failed. I've placed information vital to the survival of the rebellion into the memory systems of this R2 unit. My father will know how to retrieve it. You must see this droid safely delivered to him on Alderaan. This is our most desperate hour. Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi; you're my only hope. "Sunday, February 7, 2010
New Artist.
This video shows the winner of "Ukraine’s Got Talent", Kseniya Simonova, 24, drawing a series of pictures on an illuminated sand table showing how ordinary people were affected by the German invasion during World War II. Her talent, which admittedly is a strange one, is mesmeric to watch.
The images, projected onto a large screen, moved many in the audience to tears and she won the top prize of about $130,000.00
She begins by creating a scene showing a couple sitting holding hands on a bench under a starry sky, but then warplanes appear and the happy scene is obliterated.
It is replaced by a woman’s face crying, but then a baby arrives and the woman smiles again. Once again war returns and Miss Simonova throws the sand into chaos from which a young woman’s face appears.
She quickly becomes an old widow, her face wrinkled and sad, before the image turns into a monument to an Unknown Soldier.
This outdoor scene becomes framed by a window as if the viewer is looking out on the monument from within a house.
In the final scene, a mother and child appear inside and a man standing outside, with his hands pressed against the glass, saying goodbye.
The Great Patriotic War, as it is called in Ukraine, resulted in one in four of the population being killed with eight to 11 million deaths out of a population of 42 million.
Kseniya Simonova says:
"I find it difficult enough to create art using paper and pencils or paintbrushes, but using sand and fingers is beyond me. The art, especially when the war is used as the subject matter, even brings some audience members to tears. And there’s surely no bigger compliment."
Please take time out to see this amazing piece of art.
The images, projected onto a large screen, moved many in the audience to tears and she won the top prize of about $130,000.00
She begins by creating a scene showing a couple sitting holding hands on a bench under a starry sky, but then warplanes appear and the happy scene is obliterated.
It is replaced by a woman’s face crying, but then a baby arrives and the woman smiles again. Once again war returns and Miss Simonova throws the sand into chaos from which a young woman’s face appears.
She quickly becomes an old widow, her face wrinkled and sad, before the image turns into a monument to an Unknown Soldier.
This outdoor scene becomes framed by a window as if the viewer is looking out on the monument from within a house.
In the final scene, a mother and child appear inside and a man standing outside, with his hands pressed against the glass, saying goodbye.
The Great Patriotic War, as it is called in Ukraine, resulted in one in four of the population being killed with eight to 11 million deaths out of a population of 42 million.
Kseniya Simonova says:
"I find it difficult enough to create art using paper and pencils or paintbrushes, but using sand and fingers is beyond me. The art, especially when the war is used as the subject matter, even brings some audience members to tears. And there’s surely no bigger compliment."
Please take time out to see this amazing piece of art.
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Friday, February 5, 2010
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
My earliest childhood memories.
My earliest memories are at mostly a blur to me.
I remember daydreams, and fears.
Thats about it.
Monday, February 1, 2010
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