The trailer for the new film by Pedro Almodovar. I’m exciteeed!! I’ve never been a fan of Penelope Cruz’s American works, but I’m glad she’s going back to her Spanish roots and doing more films overseas. Watching an Almodovar film always makes me feel like I’m sitting in one of those old movie theaters.
My children of the corn lazing about on their favorite window. A bunch of philistines if ever I saw one. Ahhhhh. Lazy Sundays are best when its rainy. Spent the day downtown at the Bayou City Arts Festival helping out at the creative zone making sun prints with HCP. Except, it wasn’t so sunny and so I spent a few hours watching the clouds descend upon the skyscrapers until I could no longer see them […]
The photos from my very first pinhole camera, which is basically a box with a whole lotta black tape around it. It was difficult to figure out the exposure time for the images, but I guessed as best as I could, and some of the images came out pretty awesome! Plus, we were shooting directly onto paper and not film, so the details aren’t too amazing, but I like the ghost-like qaulity in some of […]
In his East Meets West series, Tseng Kwong Chi dons a Mao uniform bought at a second hand thrift store and photographs himself in front of national and well known landmarks. In most of the images, he stands impassive and stiff in front of these landmarks, like an out of place tourist. It may just be that he is being satirical, mocking the notion of the “tourist,” or because you can see the shutter release […]
Gabriela de la Mora. You might want to adjust your monitor screen settings for this one. The images can be tough to see since they are actually made out of fine human and synthetic hair. Even in person, I had a hard time seeing the images. If I blinked, a line would fade into white. But, these are really quite beautiful pieces. I especially love his Memoria III series, in which he incorporates computer generated […]
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