How dry. How geeky. How rife with potential: http://lpvmagazine.com/2011/12/top-photography-websites-of-2011/
101 Things…
…to Learn in Art School, by Kit White. Get one copy for yourself, and another with whith to sthuff a sthocking.
Here are 9 of the 101 chapter titles to whet your appetite:
Art is the product of process.
Composition is the foundation of image making.
Art is not self-expression.
“I want to end with something that will baffle me for some time.”
Abstraction comes from the world.
“Conception cannot precede execution.”
For every hour of making, spend an hour looking and thinking.
Time is an essential element in all media.
Meaning does not exist in the singular.
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=12600
An fbook link
I respectfully suggest that you hook up to the Columbia College Photography Department on fbook. Weeks may go by without a peep, and then a flurry of posts will appear, at no charge to you; you have nothing to lose, and a lot to gain.
News from the Forte front
…from April, if one can call that news; it arrived today via Clumber Spaniel (okay, it’s on the Polywarmtone blog):
“Unfortunately the whole construction in the factory was delayed due to more complicated than expected financing paperwork.
But now things are cleared and construction is going on.
Once we have the second story built in the middel hall, the cooling cycle is up and running and all darkroom blinds and safelights are installed the kettle could theoretically go live.
But now things are cleared and construction is going on.
Once we have the second story built in the middel hall, the cooling cycle is up and running and all darkroom blinds and safelights are installed the kettle could theoretically go live.
The only burden to take now is the silverprice to drop. At the current level making monochrome papers makes no sense but we are in good mood that it will keep dropping.”
An Illustrated Version of Tuesday’s 2-D AP Field Trip Handout
We’ll meet in the “Alena Laube Lobby” of the Richard C. Johnson Auditorium at 7:30, so that we can hoof the attendance down to… Attendance, and board our bus by 7:35.
Show your student ID whilst you buy a round-trip ride (2 one-way tickets) to Ogilvie for half-price. At some point, gimme yer $2.25 for the rapid transit ride card (or make your own, to keep and to use in the future). You get to read preparatory material on the train, so that you won’t be confronting work cluelessly, and to give you a start on the assessments and reflections that will account for your day.
We’ll walk to the Gage Gallery on Michigan Avenue. After that visit, we’ll ride the Brown Line of the “L” (that’s the elevated train) to the River North area, to see work at the Catherine Edelman Gallery and the Schneider Gallery. Also in this neighborhood, we’ll bolt down a little nourishment…
…before bolting to the West Loop to visit the Tony Wight Gallery.
At 12:55, we sprint back to Ogilvie. On the return trip you may work on your cleaned-up notes and responses to prompts on the ride home (your epiphanies will be posted here). We arrive in our home town at 2:32. Hitch me a ride back to the Huge School; thanks!
That’s gallery hoppin’: hoofin’ & boardin’ & ridin’ & walkin’ & boltin” & sprintin’ & http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14Dgw_LSJ5w&feature=related
Goodbye.
http://sofobomo.org/blogpost35-SoFoBoMo-is-closing
“Twas a swell format and a useful prompt. Let’s create a replacement for ourselves, hmm?
Community Darkrooms in Chicagoland
Good news! This place opened in May. It’s a few feet from the Kennedy, just before downtown, a great location: http://chicagocommunitydarkroom.org/
This is the only one of the places listed here that I’ve seen: http://www.norris.northwestern.edu/recreation/artica/ It’s in the Norris Center on Northwestern’s campus in Evanston (right below the cafeteria!), and parking is problematic (but I can explicate it for you). For everyone’s benefit and safety, one takes a short quiz the first time, so they know that you know what you’re doing.
These are located in Park District fieldhouses: http://www.chicagoartistsresource.org/visual-arts/node/8398 The practical ones for you to consider are the 2nd and the 4th.
(I came across a nice older apartment building for students near Loyola that features studio space, rehearsal space, and darkroom space, but upon further investigation the word “bedbugs” appeared. ‘Nuff said.) (As well, many of the rehearsals were scheduled in mid-night.)
If you are aware of a darkroom on your campus, especially if your major is not Photography or any sort of art, please let us know about it so we can spread the word. Also, the offer still stands: all the technical information you need in order to set up or restore a campus/dorm darkroom is yours for the asking.
What’s a chweek?
You probably are aware that we “heart” Paris (and you thought this blawwg was only about fo-do & jazz). Follow along, won’t you? BHS alumnus Matt Kluk is digging into the City of Light: http://3frenchweeks.blogspot.com/ and then put this into your rostromedial prefrontal cortex: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs_DD_7C8_A
*above: alleged photo of M. “Alain” Kluk
Good news!
Oh, sure, I read “After Photography” when it was published, and I’ve been to seminars and panel discussions… now,
this just in: http://www.youtube.com/user/jmcolberg?blend=2&ob=5
PhD Summer Project
There is pleasure in the promise of the “endless” summer, with its formlessness and its possibilities.
Sometimes, however, this sort of situation ends up feeling as though it all just… slipped away… with nothing left to show.
That’s where SoFoBoMo comes in.
Check it out right away. We have six weeks (as of this writing) to complete a virtual book, online. This is bonus karma personified.
Creative Camerawork 