what do you see like: 2012

ha, there was two & i can only see one off the top of my head, i know i've got it tabbed or bookmarked at home though, so, for now:

http://www.americansuburbx.com/2010/09/theory-interview-with-emmet-gowin.html

To be in the presence of our own first hand experience, is probably the only way we can save ourselves. See what I was saying about Robert Frank; what I had to give up was being answerable to Frank. What I had to become was answerable to what was happening in front of me and how I felt about it. That’s what you have to give up, the authority of an answer and replace it with the authenticity of the experience. And that’s why I want to emphasize and celebrate what Sommer was saying. We’re at the mercy of what we find. That’s the big advantage. It’s a big advantage.

so my dad offered to give me the m6 (like permanently) as a birthday present (he will never use it again) and i am srsly torn about how to deal with that?

totally ignoring any family dynamics that might make it ~complicated~, that just seems nice to me. & you'll use it. you will be helping the camera fulfil its destiny as a camera. & also you could always give it back to him (also as a birthday present, it would be very generous).

how has it been playing with it? i mean in the context of 'this is not my camera' but then also just generally, playing with it.

yeah accept the camera and love it! I think the best possible destiny for any camera is to stay in continuous and rigorous use.

schlump: I like those floral pictures a lot, btw

oh hey thank you! floral photz are just a good way to shoot colourfully i think. i can't remember if i posted this a couple of months ago, i feel like it looks like it came out of a tasteful home interiors store's fall catalogue but it is kinda nicely blurry & measured in a way my photos usually aren't. leaves. colours. goodtimes.

i am feeling self-indulgent by posting stuff btw so please everyone else address this by over sharing.

oh wow, the green/blue/orange contrast there is really striking

i mainly take blurry unflattering photos of friends btw, i'm just not so big on posting identifiable ppl here

xp why yes it screams AUTUMN, it just screams autumn at your face

idk - I think the contrast between green and red is very striking

ty man

just finished reading the interview w/ frank where he disses HCB. will try to scan it (and by scan I mean take shitty pictures with my outdated iPhone) but I will transcribe this quote

"I'm not interested in taking a beautiful photograph. I don't mean that there's no room for it; I just don't want to do it. For example, I live in a very beautiful place. I could get a camera, and make a very beautiful picture. It could be almost as good as Ansel Adams. But I don't want to take a beautiful picture, and I can't, really. It makes me feel good to look at it. It wouldn't make me feel good to take that picture."

Very bright day today, went up to the Lake District, got a few shots that I like, will upload after I've stared at them for a while to make sure I like them.
Here's one I like straight away, desaturated it and straightened it, then just added a little clarity to it.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7157/6697220533_7ac6402f3f_z.jpg
Coniston by carljgodwin, on Flickr

Oh man... that is breathtaking! And I do say that too because I was there just some months ago. But really, a spectacular capture. It reminds me of Phillip Lachenmann's Grey Study series, a series of photographs I adore:

http://images.artnet.com/artwork_images_114305_400857_philipp-lachenmann.jpg

http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/22f4d93e.jpg
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/0359b962.jpg
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/3fc26c08.jpg
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/d9b9c56f.jpg
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/eff21411.jpg
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/15711487.jpg

love the third one down

girls, table, glasses

it's the weeknd baby

both of those parties were terrible, btw.

Just like the texture of the paper here, and the oblique late-afternoon sun...

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7018/6695478081_6e171da1b1_z.jpg

love the third one down

reminds me v much of one of mine own, never knew I'd be ~influential~

gbx in there with "i wore them first"

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2767/4323475588_92700dbae5_z.jpg

more recent feet:
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/b911c704.jpg

i especially like it because those two ended up kind of getting together that nite (nye)
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/724bc289.jpg

oh they're both great
patterned tights, yellow shoes & decorated wallpapers all seeming like gifts from the photographees

btw two more recent plant & leaf pics that i forgot i'd taken, following my small ILP retrospective of floral shots in January 2012.

decided it was time to go through the archives again

http://ihardlyknowher.com/idiotcervantes/big

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7020/6705091061_cf37a4440e_b.jpg
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7147/6705089795_bba0e17c5b_b.jpg

i havent had any film developed in a while but i did one of those hardlyknowher things

http://ihardlyknowher.com/tiepoloceiling/big

decided it was time to go through the archives again

http://ihardlyknowher.com/idiotcervantes/big

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Damn homey

Damn homey

^^ dayo your phots are crushing, the first one is like sadder than bicycle thieves

& plax those photos are amazing, you are like a prism:

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3282/5722072294_2fbed4a700_b.jpg

ilp on fire

http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4150/5486972399_73b1bcdb78_b.jpg

agreed, plax making me really want to shoot color!

Everything's looking fantastic here... agreed wrt plax: the clothesline picture is great too.
and I really dig this one from dayo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/idiotcervantes/6705088945/

These are pretty much my recent two pictures:
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7168/6704020203_a2a371d1b0_z.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7151/6697727357_2d74636be8_z.jpg

I'm sort of becoming increasingly unsure of why in the world I'm spending so much time putting pictures online though. Anyone else?
Thinking I should maybe just take pictures, get them scanned, and like work on them out of view. Or just do *something else* with them.

yeah I mean that's why I'm getting into (or trying to get into) darkroom printing - remember reading something by frank where he said "always print your pictures. they should live" which ping pongs around in my head

yeah gotta at least get myself a printer

agreed wrt plax: the clothesline picture is great too.

yes. & another: http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5292/5493313659_33d4e9a8ba_b.jpg. i think this reminds me of like eggleston's dolls heads on a car bonnet, in terms of seeming like some weird dispatch from nowhere i have ever been.

i might chronicle this in some kind of private how-do-i-shot-book thread as it progresses but me & a friend are maybe going to put some of ours together, in a book, of some description. i was reading, i think about emmet gowin but maybe not?, & it mentioned that his first thing was a book he made six copies of. & photos having 'object value', & existing in a quantifiable form, feels sorta attractive right now, even as i work through the questions of 'what is the additional value of objects' (in comparison to them existing on the internet, should people end up looking at them) & 'does anyone need a book', etc.

good phots, also, cv. someone who is busy walking & smoking & reading is probably a sensible & oblivious target if you are gonna shoot on the street. there is a lot going on there.

one day I will stop taking photos of lonely people

Some sheep took an interest in the setting up of a tripod.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7148/6709439227_9916b7be2d_z.jpg
Watcha Doin' by carljgodwin, on Flickr
While setting up for this shot. I know it's another sunset shot, but i can't help myself.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7001/6709447359_bd4889527e_z.jpg
Sunset by carljgodwin, on Flickr

those sheep are awesome btw. the light is edward hopperishly directional.

A+ sheep.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inwAc-ZBpx0&ob=av2e

would like my entire life to be shaded in colors made pastel by fluorescent lights

lol try again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7yez4lXjBI

dayo have you ever heard of patrick mimran? i hadnt till my little brother gave me a book of his photographs for my birthday:

http://mimran.com/

no I haven't! he has a lot of obsessions

this is the first time ive looked @ his site, its kind of a letdown compared to this book i have

maybe one day I'll get a chance to look at his book! btw looked at all three aloha fridays, great stuff!

thank you, dayo. i am pleased to hear you finally looked at them.

I never ordered mine :(

sb'd u for that.

lol. I have like 10 photography books still in the wrapper ;(

I find that like, 10-20 pictures in 'serious' mode are the most I can do at a time without needing a break.

are they still available? xp

i've been basically defying zine convention and just endlessly reprinting them so its ok