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this is really hard for me. just fyi. it doesn't help that i cannot concentrate today.

all for now

Format

I don't know if you guys follow The Selby, but he rocks my world every time he posts a new photo, and I've been trying to figure out why. He does tons of cool, creative stuff with his shoots, so it's not just the pictures that make it work. But the pictures are strong, and I think it's the format that makes it so. And that's gotten me thinking about format in general. It seems like format can make all the difference, taking good pictures and making them remarkable. I think we should consider format very seriously, whether it's photos we take, films we use, how we crop, how things are laid out, etc. That's not to say that the work Bob has done doesn't accomplish what we want it to (I honestly haven't studied the web design, or the book in depth). But if we can forge some new direction and create a unique product, then we stand a better chance of getting some attention and having our work viewed.

Rob

Time to Start

Fellas,
I think we need to start. Let's meet, figure out where we're going, and set a deadline by which we want to each have a piece or two that is ready to go. I need the pressure of a due date to drive me, and maybe you do too. Then, we publish, maybe just online at first. We work to get it out to the people. I say we make it as local as we can (I'm suggesting we each shoot a local story) with a global story (Uganda?) for a wider worldview. What do you say?

Look at the definition of Analogy (a word akin to Analogue):

Analogy
1. a similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based: the analogy between the heart and a pump.
2. similarity or comparability: I see no analogy between your problem and mine.
3. Biology. an analogous relationship.
4. Linguistics.
a. the process by which words or phrases are created or re-formed according to existing patterns in the language, as when shoon was re-formed as shoes, when -ize is added to nouns like winter to form verbs, or when a child says foots for feet.
b. a form resulting from such a process.
5. Logic. a form of reasoning in which one thing is inferred to be similar to another thing in a certain respect, on the basis of the known similarity between the things in other respects.

Rob.

funny you should post, rob

funny you should post rob. i've been thinking about analogue and my general photo experience lately and was planning on coming up with something to say.


i was going to ask you guys if you can think of larger themes in which my trip to africa could fit. it seems to me the work SHOULD be able to say something about a bigger picture. ie HIV/AIDS, hope, survival, how positivity can bring great change, nutrition, common binding factors for unrelated people.

any ideas? i'd love to process this trip in a way that could serve / be served my analogue.



speaking of that, i was just thinking about my roll as a photographer and where i fit in the larger scene of the arts.

i just got in a few books and one was just various photos by various people, one of whom was Angela Boatwright. seeing her work always reminds me of two things. Anthem (the magazine) in which she was featured within issue 6 (its on issue 37 now) and vaguely related/unrelated to this old photo board i used to post to called the paper brigade. its long since dried up, but i loved the idea of interacting with other people who were good at what they did though hadnt yet hit it yet. one person who posted some back then was jeremy weiss of day19 who, with his wife, has certainly gone on to be seemingly successful.

anyway....in this book i see work thats good and fresh and i see no reason why i dont fit within it, at least in terms of style. this of course made me think about if my work is "fresh" anymore and other such lovely thoughts, but more importantly, it made me wonder about how i am connected, or rather, totally DISconnected from the photo world i used to participate in so readily. flickr has that to some degree but at the same time it doesnt. the paper brigade was people posting photos for fun to a forum, getting feedback, crit, asking questions..that kind of thing.

living where i do doesnt help the feeling of being marginalized by my contemporaries but the bigger issue is that i dont exist. not really. i dont live in LA, SF, NY. i live in alabama. i live in alabama and post in alabama and talk to people from here.

i want to branch out, even if i stay here.


i had another conversation while over in uganda about contemporary art and about how i loathe matthew barney and how the person i was talking to at the very least appreciates him and that of course led to how ignorant i am to the current scene and where NOW fits into art history and why why why and context this and blah blah blah blah.

just another reminder that i need to plug in. i've got the work, but no one sees it.










so there is that. reply. i guess this is addressed to rob, as i cant imagine bob even reads this. little bitch.

Semi Sweet

From Too Much Chocolate

"It’s definitely a strange time to be a photographer, especially an emerging one, with the state of the economy, digital everything, the death of Polaroid, and the changing of media as we know it. It’ll be interesting to see what the immediate future holds."
-Elizabeth Weinberg

Where do we fit in?

I feel like we need more images. Look, it crops:

Inspiration

Inspiration is just what we need right now...I've been thinking about Analogue and what it will become. I'm still committed to it, whatever it is.

From The Selby on his shoot with Seth Gordon and Bootsy Hollar.

Q: "Seth, what is the best advice you have for aspiring documentary makers?"
A: "Keep it cheap, Don't seek investors, Do as much as you can yourself, Don't Surrender."

Let's not surrender, ever.

The Great American Detour

i think you guys will appreciate this

http://current.com/items/89466450_the_great_american_detour


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