this is just a quick hello and goodbye…i just have no free time
to be here with another workshop just started etc….this could be the
last workshop i do here in my New York space for any number of
reasons…in any case, and you know me by now, i will put everything i
have into this one..as i do in everything i do connected with my
work…other matters are often a disaster, but whatever i do regarding
photography, i am all in…whether it is my own work or my mentoring of
others…two different "bodies of work" but both equally important and
both with an equal piece of the "whole"
so, allow me please this brief break with our forum so that i may
focus on your colleagues who are here in my home…by the way, everyone
in my home right now is a reader of this forum…most silent non
writers, but they know all of you who write and can recite me various
incidents, paragraphs, and all kinds of things from right here…
point is, we are all having an impact on each other..yes, yes , the
power of the net etc etc etc…well, by fate, or whatever, our online
community has turned into reality so many times, from my first meeting
with Rafal in Seoul to hanging with Patricia in Detroit…and a whole
bunch of stuff going on in between at Look3 and Perpignan and just out there on the highway..you know who you are…you remember
the good times and the truly sweet reality of what it feels like to
know someone before you meet them and then take off on another whole
new side of the friendship..and, you must admit, it has turned into
real friendships…i am sure we all agree that our beleaguered world
can use every drop of good spirit we can squeeze into it..but all any
of us can do is just make your immediate environment as good a place as
you can make it…
my life set of rules for myself: set up good vibes within a 20 foot imaginary
space created around me….give everyone in that space as much room as they want….make whoever is
right next to me laugh..
this weekend upcoming will be another one of our "forum family reunions"….i hope there will be many more….in that spirit it might just be the right time for me to show just a piece of my Off for a Family Drive work at the finale fiesta this friday night..seems like maybe we should look at some of these American families i met cross country just because of our times, not because i my pictures….i will think on it….Alessandra Sanguinetti and Paul Fusco will precede the student show, but i just might stick "family drive" in there somewhere….what do you think??
after all, it will be a family night…
more work by dah? always a plus..
one big ‘group hug’ (and picture showing) to remind everyone we are all ‘family’ in difficult times? priceless.
HERVE…
you had me laughing out loud….next time we are both in Paris, we will take d’Agata for a beer or two (or five in his case!)…please stop have nightmares…
BOB….
please know i have not forgotten you…just as i was ready to open your link, Kyunghee and Paola showed up at my front door and that started a chain of events which did not lead to my computer…
and i know that you know why i just cannot look at Bones right now..in two days yes, now no…
rest assured i will see Bones before your arrival on friday…are you sure you can’t get here a day before??? you will be arriving when i am in my most, shall we say, “intense mode”…but, maybe that is just right…in any case, our long awaited meeting is upon us…..
safe travels, peace, david
Posted by: david alan harvey | September 28, 2008 at 08:44 AM
PATRICIA….
i am totally ok…there are just many factors including that i might move my main “home” to the beach near my sons and just have my New York space as an office..i have my eye on a nice cottage with all the right smells…
if i do my family show on friday night, i would like to use one of the pictures of you and Ed…i would like your permission, but doubt i will have enough time or remember to send one to you first for your approval….what do you think??
cheers, hugs, david
What a wonderful idea to show your Family Drive work, or some of it…and the line up is exciting as well.
It really will be a meeting of the family, Bro Bob and I and Marina talked last night, and just hearing their voices made this sense of family even stronger..can’t wait to have all of you in one big embrace, and to finally speak with Panos and see Gina and all..
Am off NOW to shot an assignment, send me goodness all, I’ve had a rough couple of days health wise and want to bring my A game..
peace and goodness
PATRICIA :)))))))))
well, i guess i remember my dreams, and yes usually remember the details of them pretty well, always have since childhood for whatever reason, about 4 days a week…Marina has the same…and her details and intensity are even crazier…my dreams are not always so “literal of the present”, but i guess it was on my mind ;)))…and now worries, i’ll show bones (maybe today if i figure something out…and thanks again for the support…we’ll see my dear what dreams are made of, we’ll see…:)))))))
HERVE ! :))))))))))))))))))
GOD-DAMNED, THAT WAS HILARIOUS! :)))))…i think Patricia should start marketing her skooter as another “tool” for the “creative” photographer ;))))…i can just see Patricia and D’Agata goin’ to town in some god-lost run-down neighboorhood of Detroit or Marseilles shooting from the hip and blowing by folk :)))))))))….i love it :)))…more dreams please :))))
GLENN: :))))….got those Vo-Vo’s coming :))))…love love that story so much….
CARLOS :)))))))
I WILL TAKE LOBO ANTUNES :)))))))…just ordered “What Can I Do When Everything’s On Fire?” it was just published here…and this week he spoke/read in NY…i was so fucking bummed that i missed him by 1 week :(((…im praying he gets invited to Toronto for the October Festival of Authors…maybe :)))))))….fingers-crossed :)))))))…and i dont know what the damn NObel committee has been waiting for…i know Portugal is small and they already gave one prize to Saramago…but….enough already….Antunes is one of my heros ;))))))))))))))…and i ever get more money i’ll come visit u…Portugal holds a very special place in my heart and my wife’s heart :))))))))))
hugs
running
b
DAVID (harvey):
I am worried about you! You sound exhausted my friend…though I am not surprised in the least. i hope when i come you’ll listen to reason with me and just give yourself a break…after Mexico??….
Anyway, saw your note on the last thread and let me just assure you that in NO WAY am i worried about you seeing or reading or speaking about Bones. Please. Also, do not take personally my dream, it’s my psyche im wrestling with ;)).. It was just dump luck (fate?)…and in no way to I take personally or am angry/sad/disappointed that you haven’t seen it (who cares if you write anything about it, it’s already out of my system). I know the time and madness and pressure that you are currently under and i wish, as a friend, you wouldn’t act all heroic and shit and do this to yourself. but in the end, i hope that by the workshop ending, it will have made all well, you will have helped and changed the lives of some of those people and then you can return to quiet I hope and get your ass on your Family Project….
I’ll post bones later and if you dont see it, fuck it, no worries. Marina and I will arrive on Friday morning but we will see you at the Fiesta….maybe Saturday we can have some quiet time together, just to talk about life, forget photography….
concentrate on those people around you know…and be well….
hugs from the 3 of us…
love
b
DAVID (HARVEY);
P.S. YES YES YES, STICK PART OF FAMILY DRIVE IN….
IF YOU DO NOT SHOW US SOMETHING FROM THE SERIES, THEN I REALLY WILL HOLD IT AGAINST YOU THAT YOU KO’D ON BONES AT THE LAST MINUTE ;))))))))
Now, Marina and I didnt spend all that money to come down just for Bones shit…i want to see Family Drive!
can i give u an order?? ;))
b
BOB & ERICA – looking forward to seeing you both on Friday.
Email me your cell number…. gmartin@ngs.org
Hey David,
I wanna take d’Agata out for a beer, too:)
Alessandra Sanguinetti is one of my very favorites, she’s one of the top 5 photogs Id like to meet.
I updated some of my projects today, my favorite photo from today is from Park Life
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3088/2895314932_1317a4d800_o.jpg
Bob,
put Bones on flickr if you dont have any other place to put it, I really wanna see it. Do it after David sees it but PLEASE do it!
david…
sticking in “family drive” makes sense to me… recalling what i saw of it at look3…
…now i wish even more that i could be there!
good luck with the workshop… i’m sure some amazings things will come out of it yet again…
peace
anton
David,
I was considering attending your workshop, since I was going to be in NYC around that time. But finacially I just could not made it. oh well. but is the Friday party open for your blog readers? or closed to the student only? I am flying from the UK to NYC on Thursday to attend the Eddie Admas Workshop near NYC. Going to your party would be a cool start of my first American adventure :)
Gee, if I had known the fiesta would bring so many blog luminaries, I’d have made plans to attend. Not easy for me this year to leave on the spur of a moment.
PS1 Will D’ Agata be there? :-)))))))))
PS2: Maciej, do not miss it, and make sure you report here with some of your fine party/nightlife shots of which you have become master at.
Just the right smells. Perfect. I know exactly what you mean. My move back to London was intense particularly getting the boys settled in schools. Also my computer went down and then PhotoShelter Collection folds as I was in the midst of preparing a substantial submission. I was beginning to wonder whether Claire and I had made the right decision.
Then one evening late as I opened the kitchen windows after preparing a nice meal I smelled the autumnal air and knew immediately that indeed we had made the right decision. I cannot really describe the smell but it’s particular to this part of the world. It’s where I belong now.
Once you recognize that smell, you know where you’re supposed to be. Right?
DAVID,
Would have loved to be part of the “forum family reunion” this week-end, meet Bob, possibly hear about the edit of Bones but I cannot complain much as I joined a couple of reunions already. I am sure you all will have a terrific time… I hope that our best reporter so far ERICA :):) will do another one of these excellent reports….
ALL,
I have been pretty busy over the past week shooting, interviewing some boxers for my essay. Some of you may remember that I talked few months ago about watching a fight from Rau Shee during the Olympics together with some of his friends at the gym. Rau is a Cincinnati boxer who actually started at the small local gym I have been going to shoot part of my essay… Rau was a favorite going into the Olympics for getting the gold medal but unfortunately he lost his first fight…. I had a chance to meet him this week and spend some quality time talking about boxing, how he started, his life outside boxing, his disappointment after his loss, what is next for him…Rau in many ways represents well all these boxers that I have been following who all have been taken “off the streets”… Rau’s mother Paulette says that he used to fight all the time when he was a kid and he actually started boxing when he was 7 and had his first fight when he was 8… Three of Rau’s brothers could not stay out of trouble…all of them went to jail and two of them still are there. Boxing has helped Rau and Paulette move forward as a family… They are both hoping that this will lead to a more stable life as a professional boxer, a life without the pitfalls of crime and punishment… I have a long interview of Rau that I plan to use for the MM piece that I intend to prepare… After talking with many of these young boxers, I will also write as best as I can (not everybody is Bob Black :):):) )an essay to support the photographs that I have taken… I have also done 3 or 4 days of additional shooting this week as well, hoping to complete what I had started and shown to David in Perpignan…
Will keep you all posted.
Cheers,
Eric
PS: for those interested, Paolo Pellegrin did shoot several athletes going into the Olympics and he also took some pictures of Rau Shee the boxer I have talked about above. You may want to look at it:
http://inmotion.magnumphotos.com/essay/2008-olympic-athletes
ALL.
Heading off to Texas for the week. No computer.
I’ll be back Friday, just in time to catch up and hear about the Fiesta. Have a great week everyone.
ERIC…took a look at the Pellegrin piece. I think yours will be much better. What was up with the pace of that piece? I understand the “feel” he was trying to give it…to match the energy of the athletes but it seemed more appropriate for an MTV video than photography. I wanted to have at least a couple of seconds to see the images :((
BOB…
i “sound” exhausted??? hmmmmm, do not feel so at all….i WILL BE by the time you get here, but not now….
cheers, david
ALL-
Forgot to say that I attended a presentation by Paul Fusco this year the first day that Perpignan exhibition started. It was Monday morning, at 10am… when most of the photopraphers and “PROs” come later (mid-week). Hardly anybody in the amphitheater…very intimate… For the few fortunates that were there, Paul shared the work that he did with the kids affected by the radiation of Tchernobyl… Some unbearable pictures… Paul also showed the work on Bob Kennedy Funeral train that led recently to a new book… Some interesting images there as well all taken within a few hours the same day from the window of a train…I am sure he will be talking to the students about both pieces of work… Paul is not a very joyful man but it was very interesting listening in to him and I am sure the students will enjoy….
Eric
FUCK IT ;))), ok, here is bones…
i put it up on FLICKR…if you click on the images, you’ll have to look at the work in big size in order to see the grain or the entire image…the pics dont look great at flick and for some reason look really sharp/pointy…but whatever…im sick of them…i WILL REMOVE THEM ON TUESDAY NIGHT from flick…the size of the files are large since i kept that at the size i scanned, so, the quality is reduced ’cause i guess FLICKR sizes them to fit on the page, even in “full size” mode…whatever…
so, you can begin here and click, first picture:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/73821181@N00/2896320420/in/set-72157607559432969/
or see the set here: BUT START AT THE MOMENT, as i loaded them backwards…the picture of Dima with my HOlga SHOULD BE THE LAST PHOTO you see…
none, im really sick to death of these photographs….slinking away…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/73821181@N00/sets/72157607559432969/
bye…
see everyone when we get to ny…
no more blog for me until i return…
b
http://blog.ted.com/2008/09/bloggers_help_b.php
help james’ TED wish along..
BOB – can’t wait to look at it. Don’t forget to email me your cell…
DAVID…
OF COURSE show Family Drive! Couldn’t be more appropriate.
I LOVED what I saw of it in Santa Fe.
Can’t wait to see more.
bob
thanks for sticking them up.. flickr definitely has limitations.. even so, it’s good to see them getting the light of day
i really like a lot of the photos individually..
would it be possible to read the words to accompany?
it feels like i am missing something.. cannot find any of the assignment briefs on here and want to get the full point – i’m getting strong hints throughout and full effect would be great.
DAVID
I wondered where everyone was! I seem to hang out at former threads way after everybody’s left…
Yes, yes, YES please show some of “Off For a Family Drive” at the Fiesta on Friday!!! I’m going to be there and want to see what you’ve been up to.
Yes, I’m coming to Friday’s Fiesta!!!
My friend Pat Kolon and I will be driving to Brooklyn on Thursday, arriving that night, and staying at the Nu Hotel (85 Smith St. in downtown Brooklyn) for three nights (Th, F, S). We’ll take off early Sunday morning and travel the 630 miles back home. I’ve just been printing out the Mapquest directions…
Regarding the accessibility issue, I’ll be bringing two portable ramps that should be able to handle the steps up into your building, and then I can use the elevator, right? I’m assuming there will be street parking for my minivan on Kent Avenue.
I’ll call you this week to firm things up just in case there are unforeseen problems. Or you can call me when you’re free.
I am beyond excited…ECSTATIC is more like it ;=)
Patricia
BOB BLACK….
now everybody knows i like you..at least, for someone i have not met..and they may think that i would be prone to like your pictures just because i like you…nothing could be further from the truth….
but that set of Bones is just one dynamic twisted it will take me forever to fit all the pieces together work of art..not meant to be a novel “read” quickly…you must have loved Faulkner more than Hemingway…
i like the individual photographs, have no immediate desire to cut or edit at all , but more importantly, kept looking and looking and looking at it as a “set” as presented on line….i saw it as a WALL in a museum with that collection as shown about 40 feet wide…horizontal rather than vertical as it is on the screen..hard to show a large vertical…but, anyway view it as one giant essay, as one picture, as one almost filmic trip…you may or may not have thought of this, but surely this essay is meant to be viewed as a narrative whole one way or the other…yet, i believe i have read you that pure narrative is never your goal..well, there can be a very broad interpretation of narrative and we can talk about that in person….
i do not think your work is for everyone..and i do not think you give a damn either…you will be rejected by many and become an acquired taste by many others…
so ironic that Kyunghee Lee had a similar affect on me today…she presented 69 pictures from a one day shoot..at first i told her she was presenting way too many..then i looked…the whole class was pin drop silent…that woman killed us….amazing work…i have no idea how to edit it down at the end of the week..and that is just her first day!!!
so no first edit for you or Kyunghee….am i getting soft?? there are 12 other people out there right now who went through the critique of their first day and they would tell you an emphatic “no”…i have two totally blocked students…and they earn their living as working pros….blocked big time…anyway, it has been a “heavy” day…
thanks for putting up your link…made it easy…helped make my day…
cheers, david
patricia
i can imagine the car and the driving tunes..
amon tobin.. carl craig.. some cuts from intec perhaps..
safe driving and respect for the effort..
big up’s
ai..
Make that “travel the 6300 miles” back home. Wishful thinking that…
And David, of course you can show any pic of Ed and me that you like. That will be totally surreal for me though ;=o
Patricia
GINA :)))
yes, looking forward to seeing you next week. marina and i do not have a cell phone…(our son has one, but not us)…you cant get to us through Erica, with whom we’ll be staying…have fun with bones…wish i could show it here with music and black border, but flickr will have to do….
DAVID BOWEN :)))
thanks…the essay i am writing for it is long…and well, yea, i would love to share it…story is complicated (or not) but well…it the pictures dont sting enough, than i have failed regardless of what i write ;)))
as to FLICKR, yea, it totally sucks…and some folks here (PANOS, KATHERINA, ANDREW) OFFERED GENEROUSLY to house the pics for now, but i didnt want to both them and their time…the images at flicr are sized at 1500 x 1000, so they look absolutely ridiculous at flickr, but well, i dont care anymore…you gotta look at them when you’re drunk, stoned, happy, sad, late at night, lost, sleepy, all the above ;))))))))))…
PATRICIA :))))
wow, that’s brilliant! :))))…that will be lovely, i am so happy and so looking forward to seeing you….:)))))…will be great…will be lovely lovely to finally hiss/hug in person :)))))…
ALL: again if you look at bones, make sure you start with the 2nd page (picture of museum shot with pin-hole camera into the sun)…the last photo is the photo of dima…i loaded backwards ;
http://www.flickr.com/photos/73821181@N00/sets/72157607559432969/?page=2
from here (last image), go backwards until you get to HolgaDima ;)))
ok, running away now for real…family is calling
/\
bob
what david said..
after reading his perspective it is clearer for me – i did look at the photos individually.. and then as contact sheets, which i found a lot easier.. though did not think relevant to mention.
david suggesting one wall.. perfect.. would be an overwhelming wall .. bringing about a stunned silence.. and demanding time be spent in front of it to ponder our own reactions and bones..
one wall with many images.. other walls with single ones blown huge..
well done on the achievement..
PATRICIA…
maybe i missed a comment, but are you really coming here?? am i supposed to know that???? great, fantastic, unreal!!!!
yes, all you need is some way to get up those first steps…they are steep but short..can’t i carry you up those steps and put you in a chair?? after that , really easy…get here early ..no later than eight..to my place 607..the show is down in 402, but we can get you there easy as well…
call me…this is going to be unreal…
hugs, david
DAVID (harvey)! :)))))
David, thank you very much….thank you so much for taking the time to take a peak when you’re swamped….and yea, it’s a wall, all around :)))))…no doubt :)))…funny: i like both hemingway and faulkner ;)))…but yea, my mind’s a sloppy mess like William F ;)))…
and I am so so happy to hear about Kyung-Hee’s work :)))))…as i’ve told her from long ago, that it doesnt matter if people get her stuff or not, but that she has something that no amount of dilligence can get:
the belief in the hunger that lives and gnawls away at the heart…we (she and i) share a similar believe:
speak what bites you and it will feed you :)))
tonight, when you are alone, look at bones again when you have had your cornpipe…it will make sense then ;))))
marina and I cannot wait to see you and hug you…fuck the rest ;)))
love
b
bob..
i’m probably understating, and so i apologize..
i’m struck with the photo – certainly.. they have hit with me.. asking for the words was simply because i knew there were words..
it’s midnight and although i’m not drunk, stoned, speeding, tripping or even high on a sugar rush from cola i can see them and you..
no need to talk of failure, bob..
Friday night is looking to be a FUN time! Can’t wait to see everyone… xo
BOB – glad you are staying with erica – i am sure we will all be in contact.
DAVID BOWEN :)))
no worries amigo…i totally understand…:)))…i’d love to show you the work (there’s more, but i cut out so much to try to get David something manageable) in a dark room with music…a slideshow…as i showed dima…someday :))))
DAVID HARVEY )))))
ok, so like i’ll go back and add some of the images (not many) i took out last week….but my mom is coming for thanksgiving, and i will shoot more of her (since she is a ghostly presence in this story)…
just remember; THIS ESSAY WAS BORN OF YOUR INSPIRATION FOR ME TO DO AN ASSIGNMENT FOR YOU…this essay (and there is more to it in pics, maybe 100 that i can live with) is for my father, my son and for YOU….we’ll talk about that in person…
i hope Doug is doing well :))
running
hugs
bob
BOB BONES
Well, what words are left? I can only say that Bones is even more powerful than I’d anticipated. After three images my heart started pounding like a drum. Further on I started shaking, and later still I found myself gasping for breath. And these were my just visceral responses. Bob, I am speechless.I’m sorry but any words I’d say would seem trite. Let me go through it a few more times and try again to speak of this work. I now must go take a friend to dinner for her birthday but I shall return.
in awe
Patricia
BROTHER BOB
I definitely get to claim kinship here now… Everything DAH says and more!!!!!
I did say ages ago that when you had good bones they always passed the test of time and these are the most beautiful bones ever…
Of course I have favorites, ‘Subway Glasses’ and “Portrait of my Father’ and ‘Bear, Fear’ but I agree with DAH that they are a body of work, a whole and should only be edited if there is not enough space in the book…
And I also agree with David B. I have always felt that your words and images come from exactly the same place, there is no disconnect which is the rarest of things and that your words should stand besides your photographs with staunch and proud equality…
When I did ‘Shadowlands’ (unfortunately its not all on my site) it was a departure for me in a way, but at the time I was in a very hard place and I couldn’t express my world in sharp clear focus and the words for it came from the same place the pictures did and it was the first time I had ever been able to do that.
I didn’t manage as you have done, your work is an art and deserves to be acknowledged as such.
All I can say now is WELL DONE and apart from adding the text I wouldn’t (to quote from my favorite Poet/ Performer from Oz, Nick Cave) ‘Touch a hair on their head’
‘Bones’ are just beautiful Bob, now leave them alone and stop worrying them, I think they are just perfect as they are….
BOB,
Well my friend…many of us have been waiting for this chance to look at Bones completed… You can tell that many have been waiting as your essay has been seen already 161 times when I just checked on FLICKR… What can I say that has not been said already above…I have told you this before Bob that I do not like all the photographs you make but there are so many that have touched me… You have a unique vision for sure…importantly, you have been able to create the BOB BLOCK univers, a pretty dark univers it seems that at times gave me a rather uncomfortable feeling, as if I was right in the middle of a nightmare rather than a dream…. This boy with a skull seems a bit scary… All I can say Bob is that I have loved many of the photographs and especially the “Missing child”, “Boy with a Skull”, “Wedding”… I look forward to reading the text together with the photographs…well done sir!!!! I was happy for you that David also responded so positively to your essay although I was not very worried :):):)…
Unfortunately, will not be able to meet the man behind the photographs just yet but soon I hope.
PATRICIA and ALL TRAVELERS to DAH land!!!!!
This is indeed promising to be unreal… Bob sleeping with wife and family at Erica’s place, Panos sleeping in a bag by David’s…Half of the blog tribe seems to be crossing the country to get there….SHIT IS ALL I CAN SAY!!!! WHY DO I HAVE TO WORK THIS WEEK!!!!
I envy you all and wish I could be part of this with you!!!!
Cheers,
Eric
BOB…
Simply amazing. Bravo. And visualizing as a wall, as suggested…wonderful.
ALL
So sad that I am able to travel this week but am already committed (and, indeed, am now int he low country of South Carolina). I wish greatly that I could be there to experience so many of you in one place at the same time….at least know I’m there in spirit and hopefully will meet all of you (singularly or perhaps at another fest) in the future….
AKAKY IRL: go!
Patricia and Panos: you must BOTH document…it will be so enlightening to see the coverage from each of your perspectives….
best to all,
A.
LEE
Not sure if I answered your question about emailing….send me an email (link on the page attached to my name, below) so I have your email.
best,
A.
could someone shoot some video at DAH’s? perhaps the slideshow /talks?
:o)
DAVID
Yes, this IS totally unreal. It’s like I dreamed it into being last night, woke up early this morning, and as the day went on, somehow managed to find a way to make it happen…in large part due to the enthusiastic response by my friend Pat who LOVES to drive and looks forward to meeting all these folks she’s heard so much about!
We’ll do whatever needs to be done to get me up those front steps. Hopefully my ramp will work but if not, I’m OK with being carried like some African Queen! But be prepared–I’m heavier than I look. Must be all that muscle from working out at the gym ;=) Pat and I will be at your place before 8 p.m. on Friday night. I’ll call you when we get to the front door.
I’ve got jury duty tomorrow–they better not pick me!–but can call you either tomorrow (Monday) night or sometime Tuesday.
This is going to be SOME fiesta!!!
ALL
I promise to be snap-snap-snapping away as best I can. Only thing is I’ll have to wait till I get back home the following Monday to post the photos. But post them I will. I promise!
And please know I’ll be carrying ALL of you nestled comfortably inside my scooter basket. Just close your eyes and you’ll be there…
Patricia
Patricia? can I eamil you regarding a technical issue with our camera/lens combinations? You seem to be successfully avoiding/solving an issue I keep having…
thanks,
A.
Loving Bones Bob!
Somebody be sure and get a photo of David and Bob meeting for the first time—I’d be all over that but I doubt I can make it. Terribly disappointed to be missing this family reunion!
That would be email, not eamil. I believe eamils are small, furry creatures commonly found in dark, sandy dune-like areas near ocean sounds.
VIDEO!
Who, that is going, has a MAC or another PC with a web camera attached or built-in? We could have multiple Skype video feeds of the fest!
that would be pretty cool. and free. and reletively easy, I think.
ANDREW
my email (eamil?) is croneart@comcast.net
I’d be happy to share anything with you. But me helping with a technical camera/lens issue? God, that’s a new one!
Patricia
Bob,
you certainly have your own vision. Its a ig set and some photos are more powerful than others but surely as a whole they create an interesting project, a strong aesthetic, very unique, personal, yours…youve found authorship the rest, like acceptance, isnt important, because acceptance will come from somewhere for sure. Not all will like it, but it will be liked. I like it because its so different. Even if you dislike it now, I think that will change later.
Bob,
I am too without voice, I love your very personal and unreal essay…
I love your Portrait of My Father, Portrait of Marina, Dinosaur Dream, Portrait of My Father, Boy with Skull, Dinosaur Dream, Flight… there is too much that I like… Portrait of Firebrand, Reflection, Bear: fear, Son’s Dream… it is stunning!
Lee,
I hope that you will make us share very soon your work, I am very impatiante!!
All,
I wish you all a very beautiful family meeting…
Amitiés, audrey
MR. BB-
I started to write to you about photographs, individual images, but realized that is pointless. There’s no editing, no singling out, no dissecting this one, it is a uniquely personal journey, a story you are telling, and no one can tell you “this is right” “this is wrong”…I do love the images mentioned about though…
what struck me is that I see it as a big massive wall, a collage that moves and rearranges itself, but even more, I see it in the order you placed it…the themes that keep surfacing, the photos that reference previous images but grow and blur….like a dream that keeps coming back to the same, then moving on to a new place, only to find yourself back again…
How lucky am I to attend this Friday? What a meeting of the minds this will be!
(and yes, the launch of Nacthwey’s TED project, hopefully someone can clue us in from the showing at Lincoln Center!)
PATRICIA-
Unbelievable that you will make it all the way to Brooklyn! I always mean to ask where in Detroit you live (though I’m usually in hiding on here)…I’m a Michigander myself, spent my early years in Detroit….look forward to meeting you…
WOW!!!!
DAH’s Fiesta visited by the blog ‘luminaries’ of BOB, PANOS, ERICA, PATRICIA and DADAKAKY and MR N’s TED wish all in the one weekend…
I must be psychic, ‘cos it was MR N that I was thinking of when I said about a week or two ago that one of the greats was going to be showing us exactly how to do this multi media business properly…
Wish I was in NY right now…
I should have waited a year before leaving NYC, then I could party with you all. Damn!
Have a hooley. A web feed would be weird but v. cool.