So it seems as though I'm turning in to a hired gun for interior spaces. These images are from the George Lucas Center taken this past weekend for my portfolio for a commercial real estate company here in SF.
Just published in 7x7! Their Eat & Drink section features a new bar in SoMA called Bloodhound that I shot interiors for when they opened just 2 months ago. A link to the online section: http://www.7x7.com/eat-drink
In these trying economic times, art budgets are the first to get cut. I am curating a Live Art event at the Double Dutch on Tuesday nights to help keep affordable art alive! Live artists, DJs, $5 raffle tix for a chance to win an original piece of art that comes to life before your eyes. Drink specials all night.. come see and support our local artists!
* tuesday ART live *
When: every Tuesday night from 10-1am
Where: the Double Dutch on 16th @ Guerrero
Why: because we love art! & stuff: $5 raffles, drawing @ 1am. Beer and whiskey shot for $5, Buds and Bud Lites $2.
Some images I shot for a designer with her couture gown made of rose petals this afternoon for an event at the De Young Museum. Too bad for the fog and drizzle, but thank goodness for my Norman 400B to keep me portable and with enough soft light for the job. Thank you Margaret and Anna!
On the topic of handling a "bad" critique as discussed in class on Saturday, I was reminded of some very negative feedback that I received at an art show a couple of years ago. I made a ghost story responding to a 911 mural on a garage door in Brooklyn, NY. Well the exhibit was called, "the Ghosts of Brooklyn" and the guy in the Wine Bar, Embaracadero where my show was, had had some wine. He was pissed. Told me who the hell do I think I am to exploit the tragedy of 911 when I wasn't even THERE when it happened, and stuff like that. Come to find out, he was in NY that day, I was living 2 blocks from the Pentagon that same day, so I didn't make that image lightly. I too knew people that died that day and while none of my relating to him seemed to work, he cussed me on the way out the door. THis image touched him in a negative way. Being drunk seemed to heighten that, but I realized a bit after he was gone how intense it felt to be yelled at about MY work! I then realized that it didn't hurt. It felt true. So an image that evokes an emotional response, makes our images a success.
a work in progress. Exposure: 30 seconds in camera@ f 32. Post production time in photoshop: about 10 minutes. Might need some more time in photoshop to correct the levels just right.. looks a bit muddy.
My new favorite. There are many ghosts captured in the train when it paused for a stop. It took a couple hours, but I finally got the timing down to my satisfaction. Photoshop time: 2 minutes.
Spent some time in NYC this month. I was happy to have some snow to shoot in. 1 am in Brooklyn, there was a lot of moisture coming down so we had to act fast. It's a Christmas-wishing ghost.. She misses Christmas and is looking to this tree as if to expect it to sparkle.
So i took my boyfriend up north to Calistoga for his birthday for a surprise hot air balloon ride. It turned in to a "surprise, the weather isn't good enough so no hot air balloon ride for you" day. We decided to make the best of it so drove up to see California's Old Faithful geyser and some petrified trees. Here are some pictures I took on that rainy day.
