Double Dutch, finally the ball rolls on getting the implosion pictures going, made the first trip to Jonesboro, Arkansas to catch the Arkansas State University TWIN TOWERS dorm buildings be imploded. Gnarly late night solo flight/drive with some good parking lot sleep PLUS the shattering of my ground glass in the 4×5 thanks to American Airlines lovely new baggage policy where they charge you for all checked bags, PLUS guarantee to break some of your stuff too. Sleep deprivation breeds etheral experience, and I was floatin on a hot, juicy, Southern Cloud for 36 hours of mayhem.
Olivia noted to me after I showed her the photograph that these shrubs by no means looked perfect, but alas hear me out. Colin & Greg live very near Paramount Pictures, and every day I was in Los Angeles we either drove or walked by the studios. Ringing the perimeter is a classic “living wall” or privacy shrub fence. I however not once, despite all of the linear feet of fence there is to maintain, one person trimming back the wild gates of nature. So my question is who, when or how does all of this take place? Total forcefield automatically zaps any wayward branches is my guess. Like the dog zapper for plants.
Super Rodney Staton Piercey, got one of the wildest degrees that I have known to exist. I hope he runs my Flight Simulator to Hell Piece before they totally kick his access out of that Aeronautical University by the Sea. But seriously so happy for Staton and D Wright and all the other tossers who have made it their life’s mission to graduate from school this year.
Not to mention the system that Bob Knigh Photography uses to ensure zero possible piracy of their academic event photography (unless you enjoy pixelation), a quick exerpt from HIS site:
Bob Knight began taking pictures in 1975, while he was a sophomore at Florida State University. His initial clients were mostly sororities and fraternities, and he soon expanded into other college campuses and high school markets.
Bob built his reputation one picture at a time, always striving to produce the best photograph at an affordable price. He recognized that a good photographer sells photographs, but a great photographer captures memories.
Now, three decades later, Bob Knight Photo is one of the leading commencement and special event photography companies. We take over 450,000 photographs each year in the state university and secondary school systems across the nation.
In 1995, our corporate headquarters moved into expanded offices that feature a dedicated customer service center, a research and development department and a photography equipment and training center. Coupled with our Los Angeles office that services both Northern and Southern California, Bob Knight Photo sets the standard for commencement and special event photography.
In 2003, Bob Knight Photo became the exclusive provider of GradTrak™, our unique image management system specifically designed for large commencement ceremonies. It is a sequence of over 100 integral steps of a digital workflow process, taking and tracking images through all stages. Having Bob Knight Photo and GradTrak™ at your ceremony provides you with the fastest, most accurate, and most convenient service in the world.
I wonder if the NSA has access to the database of recent relatively idealistic college graduates, and to what ends could this highly organized photographic database of mostly undocumented non-offenders could be used?
It certainly seems in the proper engineer’s hands you could extract a huge amount of visual social network information, supporting the text based demographic and network analysis that definitely goes on daily.
Includes: Optics Representative, Line Dance Instructor, Country Music DJ, Octogenarian, Military Intelligence, IT Specialist, Body Building Non-Profit Fundraiser, Master Craftsman, Philanthropist, Mack Trucks Representative, Elemtary School Teacher, Crazy Kid, and reflection of a boy taking a picture of his wacky family looking at photos from the past, of aforementioned mid-distanced relatives.
Let our mixed bag go into the night with strength and fervor!
So last week before the opening of Gregory’s show at Luhring Augustine, CBS Sunday Morning came to the gallery, and the studio to film a whole heaping bunch of intereviews, rad action shots, and all around deep insights into what goes on in this world of photography. Kylie sported her skills in the Photoshop, doing a staged demo of sorts about how the compositing process takes place, and I got to be the girl in the bikini showing off the sleek, monolithic Epson 11880 printer that we produced the entire show on, in Gregory’s undersized-for-this-task space. The CBS piece airs April 20, it’s pretty amazing to see how much makeup the correspondents wear on camera, and the day before coming to visit the studio, the film crew had been on the bus with Obama, and were totally stoked on him.
Pictures from Recent Photographs . See Gregory’s website for more info on the exhibitions
Behind the Scene - All of these pictures I have taken over the course of the last couple of years being on the shoots
There have been some completely magical moments over last few years in the small towns of western Massachusetts, the act of getting to witness such a beautiful confluence of light will be something I definitely won’t ever forget. Seeing these photographs come together from the camera’s point of view over the days of planning, construction, and finally shooting is unreal. That and I am constantly amazed by the brilliance of so many of the people I have had the pleasure of meeting while being on these photo shoots. Friends for life, and amazing educators if you can get them to slow down long enough to show you what’s up.
Another mind bending, friend loving, pilgrimage to my mecca of relaxation. The Bay promised and delivered again, as the Olive and I got to see a bunch of friends, family, hopefully did right by the Hamburger Eyes Clan & Christ Fitzpatrick on Psymulation, and even travelled to see the Google HQ. Sun drenched and begging for more I am now back in the hot/cold eastern control zone of NY. Big Love Andaja, Chris, Chris, Ray, Chuck, Chuck, Aldona, Hannah, Ivan, Ariel, Alex, JA RULE, and on.
Psymulation Installing with Ray & Chris
Final Countdown - Brendan Threadgill in the foreground
