michelle smith – monkey do
Lombok, Indonesia iPhone photo by Michelle Smith
is paper hot, or not?
“Color , grace, gesture. Slipping and sliding through nights humid and intimidating. I am both lost and found in a simultaneous rush of primal feelings and needs.” These were my words for a Bravo paper promo for their paper and printing. A commercial use of my photography but the whole concept, design and writing was …
righteous (as in bob marley def)….
(interview with Alec Soth , above, coming soon…..stuff you never knew) I have had writers block for the last three weeks, yet I am not a writer. Which is no doubt the whole of the problem. I can do ok with pictures on demand. Not so with pen and paper. Surely it isn’t that I …
Emerging Photographer Fund 2011 – Call for Entries
[slidepress gallery=’epf_2010_sampler’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls play the EPF 2010 sampler We are now receiving submissions for a BURN grant of $15,000. Deadline for entry is May 15, 2011 Funding is designed to support continuation of a photographer’s personal project. This body of work may be …
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holiday lights….
i am always telling my students and those i mentor that the most obvious and best projects are just at your front door….so it is a concept i endorse and have indeed lived…yet, i need to re-learn it all the time and the subtleties therein…so sure, it was clear and obvious that i would two …
the corn state…
nobody goes to Iowa for vacation….if you go to Iowa it is for a very specific reason…you are either driving to Colorado from Illinois , or to enter a Presidential primary, or to grow corn and the animals that eat it….i can tell you for sure that Cecil and Wilma above were not responsible for …
who is this?
if you have Skyped with this person you may not play….if not, you may guess who this is…honor system please….first correct answer receives my slightly used Timbuk2 messenger bag with camera insert adaptation…ok, ready set go!!
letter to friends..
Normally comments do not end up on the front page of Burn…however, as we get ready to move into a new year and are looking at a new design to better display the work of our audience photographers, i thought it would be interesting for those of you who do not read comments here to …
viva freedom….
Oaxaca 2010 this was originally a comment i posted about the value of comments on Burn…i decided to post it here since i think it is important as we start looking at a re-design of Burn for 2011…what does the picture above have to do with it? absolutely nothing… 6:24 am Edit ALL… i need …
fast food….
for Americans tomorrow is a day for a full on meal….no fast food….an actual sit down relaxed meal with your family is what Thanksgiving is all about…..and for me a more enjoyable holiday than Christmas since it is minus a whole lot of pressure and a whole lot of commercialization….i cannot really think of anything …