Hug a Tall Person!

February 11th is National Hug a Tall Person Day, and I only got ONE hug. That's right, one! So I decided that Hug a Tally Day (as I affectionately refer to it) needed a little more publicity.

In creative concepts class this term at school we had to create something based around the word "Movement". I decided to take the opportunity to incorporate movement into a 20 second spot advertising for Hug a Tally Day. Enjoy. :)

Katherine Winter

Right now and through the entire month of March Tastes Wine Bar (Located at 1033 E. 17th Ave, Uptown, Denver) is showing An Exhibition of Night Photography by photographer Katherine Winter.

I went to the opening reception and was literally stopped mid-step while looking at some of the photos! The work being shown concentrates on the colors of light at night that (at least I think) are so often ignored by photographers that have done similar work.

If you are in the Denver area I promise you won't be disappointed by popping into Tastes, having a glass of wine, and treating your eyes to the beautiful mixtures of light at night Katherine has captured.

If you aren't in the Denver area then you're missing out, but you can view the work online by clicking the link below:

Katherine Winter Photography

Absolut Ad Campaign

Anna Atkins and David Hockney. Two central figures in the history of photography. Which is why I decided to synthesize (I love it when I have the opportunity to use that word in a sentence.) their very specific styles into two Absolut Vodka ads for my advertising campaign class this quarter.

Anna Atkins was a botanist who developed an interest in photography (specifically cyanotypes) as a form of record keeping for her botanical samples. David Hockney began his art education as a painter, but found satisfaction in all sorts of artistic mediums. Most of his photo projects involved polaroid photography and gestalt panoramas.

Adverse Reality

I'm in a class called Creative Concepts this quarter. We pull random words out of a hat and then have to make something based on said words. Our first phrase of the quarter was "Adverse Reality".

The adversity within my reality is time. Not necessarily not having enough of it, but managing it. I procrastinate and then I panic hence the diptych. The top scene is meant to portray me all zen and calm even though time is ticking away all around me, and then (most often the day before a deadline) the bottom frame shows the panic. Nothing too fancy or complicated, but I had a little fun.

Black & White Magazine!

I got a Merit Award in this years B&W Magazine's Special Issue for one of my ice photos! 'Eff Yeah!

Ten quarters down two to go!

I had a really great opportunity to work with REpower Systems this quarter doing some annual report photography. These are some of the shots that couldn't be used for the annual report, but that I still really enjoy looking at!

Sabin world school photo club!

This quarter I volunteered for Sabin World School's photography club. Myself and several fellow classmates at AI have been working with kids from kindergarten to forth grade. We wrapped up a week or so ago with a photo shoot extravaganza in the gym. This is one of my favorite shots from that day.


Now we begin printing, framing, and hanging for the Emerging Exposures gallery show of the kid's work! The show will be some time in January; exact date TBA.

Emily Griffith's Opportunity School.

I lost these files in the great memory card mix up of 2009, but the book is still put together on blurb I've found! So, I'm a little nostalgic looking at my photo essay project from a couple of quarters ago.

Emily Griffith's Opportunity School in Downtown Denver is a very unique combination high school / vocational school for high school dropouts only. The facility is full of teachers who really care and students overcoming life's hardships at very young ages. I was really impressed with everybody I met while doing this project!

(You can click the image above to see all the photos on blurb if ya like.)

Haloween Time!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

I met this creature on the bus ride home from downtown after taking some street portraits of all the crazies out for Haloween!

Just the creepy crawler above for now, street portraits to follow.

Bus blogin'!

I've got a game plan for portfolio this quarter! I'm really itching to move on to new photo projects, but you've got to finish what you start before moving on to something new right? So this quarter my goal is to FINISH the secret series AND the bus series. I want to be finished shooting, editing, artist stating... I even want to know what kind of paper and size of print I want for final output. I'm talkin' DONE.

So here's where I stand with the bus images so far. I wonder what the collection of photographs will look like at the end of the quarter. I'm excited for expansion!

windows and mirrors

These images won't be fixed to actual mirrors, but I did get them printed on metalic paper from Mpix.com (very nice and VERY FAST printing, by the way).

During critique I think it was the general consensus that the double exposures might be a bit much for mirrors, but that they could still mesh well with the rest of the work for the series. I haven't made up my mind between window matting or flush mounting yet though. hmmm.

303!

I got to shoot the party photos for 303 Magazine's Gentlemen's issue launch party! I had a blast, and wanted to post a few.

Click here to go to the magazine's website to see more if you'd like.

Some New work and some OLD work!

I was going through very old photos tonight (instead of doing homework) and was able to put together a little time line of the secret series I'm working on.

The first series was shot in 2008! Say WHAT?! That's so long ago by now that I was literally still in Kansas (toto). I thought it was fun to actually see the progression over the years.