Her stuff is super cool. I especially like it because of the way in which it incorporates movement. I think that often sculpture is perceived as being relatively static in the sense that it captures an act, but not necessarily the motion.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3fvBdR1Sdc&feature=related

A lot of his stuff is pretty obscure/experimental/unsettling but its cool to see the different things people are doing with sound and art and actually being recognized for it!

I saw Gary Hill perform at my friends BFA commencement. His work is really interesting and he does a lot of unexpected things with mixed media. Unfortunately the site doesnt have video but it does have detailed descriptions as to how his performance pieces function. The performance I saw was, basically, a series of images–singles and grids—that were synced to his voice. Each syllable he spoke would prompt the image behind him to change.

http://ffffound.com/. This site is a cool place the poke around. Users can post their favorite photographs they have found on the internet and elsewhere. There is a huge variety of types and content of photographs. You can even make your own account annd the site will generate suggestions for you based on your interests or aesthetic.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KytJFyMHZl0] Here is a clip illustrating soviet montage. The basis of the idea is that you can juxtapose two seemingly unrelated images/scenes together to create emotion or meaning. I think it is interesting to look at photography in terms of early cinema (and even contemporary). I have always been interested in early soviet cinema. Dziga Vertov was a pioneer in Soviet film making and favored the “kino-eye,” the camera, over the human eye. He felt that the camera was an inncocent machine that recorded the environment without any biases–that it was an objective, more advanced extension of the human eye. Here is a quote from Dziga Vertov to his students.

Our eyes see very little and very badly – so people dreamed up the microscope to let them see invisible phenomena; they invented the telescope…now they have perfected the cinecamera to penetrate more deeply into he visible world, to explore and record visual phenomena so that what is happening now, which will have to be taken account of in the future, is not forgotten.

—Provisional Instructions to Kino-Eye Groups, Dziga Vertov, 1926

Here are some pictures I took recently hiking at Baker and some on the Olympic Hot Springs. We live in such a pretty state. [slideshow]

[slideshow] k, bye.

I think it is helpful, not only to look at professionals for inspiration and guidance, but each other too. Here is my friend Mia’s blog. She is a student at Cornish in Seattle. I love the variety of photography she messes around with and the various things she explores like using expired film, making her own filters, using whatever is around her as a tool for manipulation. Her blog illustrates a variety of types and techniques of photography, some very planned, some candid, and digital, 35mm.