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My good buddies Jason Liesge owner of OddBall Studios and Cheyenne Sawyer recently did a day of tattoos at The Portland Museum of Art called Art is Forever. All tattoos were based off of art in the museum.
You can see more in a HTML gallery here if you are interested.
And a Video from Jason Sturgill here:
Art is Forever from Jason Sturgill on Vimeo.
"Right now, Generation X just wants a beer and to be left alone. It just wants to sit here quietly and think for a minute. Can you just do that, okay? It knows that you are so very special and so very numerous, but can you just leave it alone? Just for a little bit? Just long enough to sneak one last fucking cigarette? No? Whatever. It’s cool.
Generation X is used to disappointments. Generation X knows you didn’t even read the whole thing. It doesn’t want or expect your reblogs; it picked the wrong platform.
Generation X should have posted this to LiveJournal."
- Prepare Your Coffin
- I set my face to the hillside - Live
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So here is what I was playing with yesterday. I should have tested with some more blacks in the wood areas, but this was a nice learning experience.
Big Thanks to the wife for dragging my butt into the studio.
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Without him, I would have no career.
A single mother with 53K in student loans, no assets, savings or insurance, I just lost my 3rd job in 3 years, and at 52 years old, am considered overqualified for the jobs being offered and cannot find employment at my age in my degree field - and don’t you DARE tell me you can’t live on 400K when I could manage to live with everything my son and I need on 30K! I am the 99%. Occupy Wall Street.
Little Skateboarding history for your morning.
A number of enhancements have been made to the MiniTT1 and FlexTT5’s HyperSync feature. These changes can improve the performance of HyperSync and make it easier to configure. This new method adjusts HyperSync timing in two separate places – on the transmitter and on the receiving ControlTL radio. The transmitting or on-camera MiniTT1 or FlexTT5 automatically adjusts HyperSync to compensate for changes made to shutter speed. Photographers can further refine HyperSync via the PocketWizard Utility.
New Pocket Wizard update 6.0for the MiniTT1 and FLexTT5
Oh man, I so want this sticker.
Nice breakdown of the lighting used in this shot.
VIA Dan Carr Photo. A nice listing of the differences of the x10 versus the x100.
I think that serious professional photographers who want a travel friendly camera will much prefer the X100 over the X10. Someone who shoots photos for a living will also appreciate the limitations of a fixed 24mm lens and know how to use this to their advantage whereas consumers who are used to point and shoots with a large zoom factor will look upon the fixed lens as a weakness. There’s no getting around the high price of the X10 though for a camera that is essentially a point and shoot. Whilst they have included a few nice features, like manual zoom and 2/3″ sensor, it’s still going to go head to head with the Nikon P7100 which contains the same amount of controls for $100 less. This certainly puts the X10 in the premium lineup so if you are budget conscious then I feel there are better options out there.
I have been thinking about a x100 for a bit now and it all seems to boil down to sensor size.
Photographer Richard Misrach describes photographing the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and discusses his book about hurricane-inspired graffiti, "Destroy This Memory".
To which I can only say.
Couple of studies yesterday. More branches which I am enjoying looking at and a strawberry leaf. I really find all the moss and things growing on the branches fascinating. So yeah, I am the strange neighbor walking around his yard picking up sticks and looking at them for waaaaay to long.
Just having some more fun with crap found in the backyard. But this shows my lighting set up.
That is a strawberry leaf on the table. I'll post that pic and another branch study later.
Very old painting of mine in back of the cutting table.
I have experimented with various encaustic recipes, some worked, some didn't. Now I stick with the traditional recipe of beeswax and damar crystals. Note that this *very different* from damar *varnish* which contains solvents. Damar varnish should not be used in encaustics as it is highly flammable and can give off toxic fumes when heated! I have also had good luck with a mixture of beeswax and a colorless synthetic hardening wax (lustre wax from www.fineartstore.com) in about a 12:1 ratio of beeswax:synthetic.
Making a note here.
Nice lighting. Not saying I am a fan of this overly polished style, but it's cool to see how he sets it up.
More of the same. I am really enjoying all these textures.
This morning I went out to gather my thoughts and what is all that crunching under my feet?
Really?
Summer is coming to a close and thought this would make a interesting image. I really enjoy the textures. Just printed it out 17x17 on Canvas and I could not be happier with it.