So I didn't end up shooting thursday night. We (my model and I) decided we should just shoot on monday that way she's fresh and it's not super late at night. Because of this I will have more time this weekend to build and complete the sets. I went to this place called Habitat Restore out in richmond and I found a bunch of cheap stuff for sets...I'm pretty excited. Hopefully by monday i'll have two, almost three sets complete and ready to shoot. I'll be shooting on two of the sets monday. What I really need now are some different models. I was supposed to be shooting all weekend but my models skipped out on me. Luckily Hannah always saves the day for me :)
I got both of the pieces that I submitted to Anderson gallery in which I'm excited about. I wasn't expecting to get anything in actually. I saw the word conservative and was immediately like "yep, i'm not getting in" haha. Hopefully these two prints will sell and give me some extra $$. The two prints I had in last year sold which surprised the hell out of me and i'd love to meet whoever bought them because those are strange pieces to have hanging on a wall in someone's home.
And on another note, i'm going to call around a few places tomorrow to find out about postcards. I was going to order through vista, but I took a look at the postcards Kathryn got back from them and I wasn't impressed at all. If i'm going to spend $40 on something it better look damn good.
That is all for now. I should be posting up some images soon!
Friday, April 4, 2008
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Alan Berliner
I'll just start off by saying that I absolutely loved his lecture. I enjoyed the fact that he didn't ramble on about his work in the beginning and just let his work do the talking.
The film was funny, emotional, and I think really rewarding to both Alan and his father. I really enjoyed the dynamics of their relationship and interaction. His father seemed like he would be an awesome grandfather. I love old men and ladies that still have a lot of spunk in them.
I think what I enjoyed the most about the film was how I was so easily able to relate to it. Even though my grandfather wasn't as spunky as he was, I still saw a lot of my own grandfather in him; even down to the red sweater (my grandfather ALWAYS wore a red sweater). The film made me think about a lot of things. Mainly it made me even more regretful that I didn't get to have a conversation like that with my grandfather before he passed this last January. Alan was very lucky to have this kind of relationship with his father and I never for a second thought throughout the movie that they had any sort of hostilities toward each other. I really envy people who can have relationships with their relatives like that.
I laughed a lot during the movie but more than anything it made me sad. I don't have any close relationships in my family and I really don't know any of my family history. Both my mother and my father were adopted strangely enough so I don't have much of an idea of where they came from. I know my mothers family is from italy, and I have no clue about my fathers family. I only just recently found out that the reason my father was adopted was because both of his parents were killed in a car accident. He's never been one to share those kinds of things. The only thing I know about my mothers family was that her mother was an alcoholic and she has a sister somewhere. I've always wondered about my real family. I envy everyone else because they can look at their grandparents, aunts and uncles and see who they resemble; see where they came from. I have no idea who I look like in my family and have always wondered because I don't look like my mom or dad.
I think once I graduate I am going to do a bit of research and see if I can find out more about my family. I had no idea there was a vault that has everyone's family history in it and knowing that there are actually places like that gives me more motivation to find out what I want to know.
I wish I was able to stay longer after the movie to hear him speak because I really enjoyed listening to what he had to say. I'm definitely going to check out some of his other work now.
The film was funny, emotional, and I think really rewarding to both Alan and his father. I really enjoyed the dynamics of their relationship and interaction. His father seemed like he would be an awesome grandfather. I love old men and ladies that still have a lot of spunk in them.
I think what I enjoyed the most about the film was how I was so easily able to relate to it. Even though my grandfather wasn't as spunky as he was, I still saw a lot of my own grandfather in him; even down to the red sweater (my grandfather ALWAYS wore a red sweater). The film made me think about a lot of things. Mainly it made me even more regretful that I didn't get to have a conversation like that with my grandfather before he passed this last January. Alan was very lucky to have this kind of relationship with his father and I never for a second thought throughout the movie that they had any sort of hostilities toward each other. I really envy people who can have relationships with their relatives like that.
I laughed a lot during the movie but more than anything it made me sad. I don't have any close relationships in my family and I really don't know any of my family history. Both my mother and my father were adopted strangely enough so I don't have much of an idea of where they came from. I know my mothers family is from italy, and I have no clue about my fathers family. I only just recently found out that the reason my father was adopted was because both of his parents were killed in a car accident. He's never been one to share those kinds of things. The only thing I know about my mothers family was that her mother was an alcoholic and she has a sister somewhere. I've always wondered about my real family. I envy everyone else because they can look at their grandparents, aunts and uncles and see who they resemble; see where they came from. I have no idea who I look like in my family and have always wondered because I don't look like my mom or dad.
I think once I graduate I am going to do a bit of research and see if I can find out more about my family. I had no idea there was a vault that has everyone's family history in it and knowing that there are actually places like that gives me more motivation to find out what I want to know.
I wish I was able to stay longer after the movie to hear him speak because I really enjoyed listening to what he had to say. I'm definitely going to check out some of his other work now.
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