Photo Project #2
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Click the above picture to view a video that Rachel Newell and I made for one of my songs “Pine Needle Beard.”
I’m not very video savvy. It’s a hi-res Quicktime file (which translates to “takes a little while for it to get ready before you can view it.”)
Here’s the idea: I had never really grown my facial hair out, but I was in a very introspective “I want to work on me” phase, and so I started growing my beard until it reached bushy mountain man proportions. I made this song “Pine Needle Beard” as I was thinking about my beard and what it represented for me and also the changing of the seasons; the brown pine needle piling up; the bare trees waving in the cold winter wind.
(The track features 2 tracks of violin played my friend’s younger sister, Vibha. She lived in my dorm last year and I knew she was a huge talent so I kept telling her that I’d find a track that needed her skills.)
Also for my photo project: an elevator appropriation. (We had to do something spatial, and something with duration.) So for spacial, I’ve stitched together
For this (hopefully) immersing photo, I was inspired by Joseph Bartscherer’s “Canal 13″ (seen below), a gigantic photo in the Harn Museum’s permanent collection. It dwarfs the viewer. If you stand close enough to it, the wall of the gallery is in your peripheral vision. The photo has a overwhelming, dizzying quality that I enjoy. It’s as if you could fall into the photo or start to float above the canal if you’re not careful.
Is this photo noteworthy for me because it’s big (yes, probably), but also because it chooses to take something not very special and give it a grand presence.
So…I’ve taken my new love of the Natural History Museum’s butterfly rainforest, stitched my photos together (not using CS3) and then I will hang the large image and some design-y butterflies in the elevator of FAD (the bldg. of my photo class.)
Why can’t elevators be more engaging? It’s a space that is both very public (and thus made drab and sterile) and private (disappointingly not very engaging or intimate).
So maybe I’m on to something. I hope I can develop this into a great portfolio piece. More pictures to come.
I love the Harn and the Hippodrome. Gainesville H institutions. Speaking of overflowing feelings of goodness, I have a great date to see “Night of the Living Dead” at the Hipp tomorrow. I’ve been reading alot of Walt Whitman lately. I love it. –walt quotes
“I celebrate myself, and what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease… observing a spear of summer grass. ”
“To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle. ”
XO
