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Zen

Posted on May 28, 2012 | Leave a comment

For me, the awareness of what could be a good photograph is both more relaxing and more exciting than actually taking the photo.* When I’m carrying a camera, I’ve committed to a certain kind of awareness and try to get into a mental state where I’m seeing and noticing my environment—whether it’s whatever I’m walking on or something I’ve explicitly gone to see.

*Something which severely hampers my birding aspirations. I’m much more likely to just watch something happen than react by pulling my camera out.

The process of photography is a process of seeing. Yes I enjoy getting a good shot as much as anyone. But I prefer to do so in a setting where I have at least seen the possibilities first. So I practice seeing and awareness and let what I encounter filter through my mind. Most of my photowalk time is spent in this unfocused yet aware state. Only once something sticks, do I focus and figure out how to make it work in a photo.

I’ve gotten to the point now that I don’t even have to be out on a photowalk. The practice of clearing my mind and seeing is sufficient in any situation where I don’t really have to think about other things. I leave the “does this interest me” filter running when I drive. Same thing with riding a bus or train.

Just because I’m not actively taking a photo doesn’t mean I’m not engaged in photography.

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Star Wars in a tweet

Posted on May 25, 2012 | Leave a comment

Looking through the rest of the #tnyquestion hashtag, I’m a bit disappointed in the lack of any Hidden Fortress references.

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Yesterday on Twitter

Posted on May 23, 2012 | Leave a comment

Yesterday was nerdy. Even for me.

And yes, I’m evilly tempted to train my son that red, green, blue, purple, and black can only be bordered by white or yellow. If he can recognize roundels, lozenges, billets, and mullets? Even better.

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TShirt Idea

Posted on May 7, 2012 | Leave a comment

This has to happen. If I can get a decent graphic of a JCII sticker, I’ll look into doing it myself.

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Mashups

Posted on May 7, 2012 | Leave a comment

I’ve been sitting on this post for a long time tying to figure out what to do with it. Do I start a series? Do I explain everything? Is there even a post here?

Given how Twitter isn’t conducive to well-thought-out ideas, my entire series of mashups isn’t that coherent. Some of these are jokes, others involve similarities in theme, and others are suggestions for projects which I’d like to see someone attempt.

It’s this last category which is most interesting to me. I even have particular images in mind.

I’d love to see a photograph of tunnel view which includes the scores of tourists taking the same photo.

I’d love to see an overlay of Every Building on the Sunset Strip in Google street view. Or failing that, a reshooting of that project (or Twentysix Gasoline Stations or Thirtyfour Parking Lots) using current imagery. Not necessarily a restaging of it, but updating the work to the digital age.

I’d love to see austere formal photographs of the next Disney pop phenomenon as he/she ages from debutante teen-star to young Hollywood veteran.

I’d love to see a gigantic print of a drive-in with the screen exploding in white and all the still cars waiting and watching while airplanes leave light trails overhead.

And yes, I would kill for a cat macro which converts to black and white, applies a coarse line screen, and then creates the text in red-reversed Futura Italic.

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