There is no way to escape the doing of our world, so what a warrior does is to turn his world into his hunting ground.
As a hunter, a warrior knows that the world is made to be used.
So he uses every bit of it.



You don't want to throw out the baby with the bath water.



I wanted to show the face and the butt.



That comforting thought, to know it's there.



aesthetics of pain.



What may be subtle to you, could be invisible to your viewer.



You increase the assurance.



I just adore many of his pictures, they're stunning.



I want to tell you about this toilet, actually.



Through one's eyes, not with them.

The life of a photo major :)
3.Nov.09



It's a journey without narrative climaxes.



Reproduce slices of Reality.



They insist on speaking their own language. They Require to be read differently, reserving the right to leave questions unanswered. They embody intensely individual ways of thinking.



Images are dependent on their context.



What makes images based in the world into instruments for interpreting the world and thinking about it? Why do we need images of the world in the first place? Why do we need images of the world in order to think about it? Why don't we reflect on the world directly, in straight confrontation with it?



The image's isolation from the world as a whole turns it into a transmitter of reality.



Perhaps it's time we trusted images again. With all due awareness of their context and their constructed nature, we might try engaging with them directly, with their content , their messages and their effect. Our thirst, our need, for information about and experience and knowledge of the world only if we trust images. Images also speak of what lies behind appearances, encouraging a depth of understanding that relates to more than the things reproduced in their pictures.



A man of knowledge is in control without controlling anything.



It was as if something became crystal clear again, something that a moment before had been opaque and numb.



The advent of my usual self also meant the advent of my usual fears. Strangely enough I was less afraid of being afraid than of being unafraid. The familiarity of my old habits, no matter how unpleasant they were, was a delightful respite.



Sometimes if you look behind you it's a more interesting photo.



We were going from past to present in a straight line.



and in the mean time, life happens.



Small things become markers for something else.



"I'm falling in love." -Me
"So am I, and I'm a man." -Daniel



Photography is about fast exposures. I wanted to see what would happen if I slowed it down.



This day and time, how important it is to live in this day and time.



We don't know what happened to these people, but that they're gone.



What we did was what we knew how to do- Find photographs.



Points in space and moments in time.



His look was like "What do you want from me??"
He was like Clint Eastwood.



The caffeine is nestling into my veins.



Pictures are simultaneously about form and content. Depends on what you want to emphasize.



Single pictures don't change the world; They're all lies anyways.



Nostalgia- does it fit under form or content?



These pictures are so banal.



Westonian vs. Egglestonian



It's not just about lines and shapes, it's about something else. Go talk to the painters.



His head is sort of eclipsed.



You have this dial phone, tape player; if it was in this time period, you'd just have an iPhone.



Form becomes Content.
The plot picture.



Amorphous glob.

"I just don't know what to do at openings. I stand around and shuffle my feet." -bill jenkins



A photograph cannot lie, or tell the truth. It can only transform.


Well, today was, just That Day.
You know, That Day that everything hits you and just lose it.
However, I did get an A on my understanding photos test. woowoo
But, tonight in my color photog class, urgh, i just lost it.
Like I talked about before, I've been really relaxed on what I am doing, and i thought it was just mainly printing.
But no.
I've been relaxed about this whole "school" situation.
School is not just school. This is the chance that I have to absorb, learn and steal knowledge from people that Know.
This is the time to shoot constantly and create work, whether it be a piece of shit or marvelous, just shoot.
This, I have been doing. But...
I haven't been doing ANYTHING with it, besides turning the stupid pieces in for critique.
Give me the grade, and then the prints go in a folder.
WHen they're really screaming, "PRINT ME LARGE!" "SHOW ME OFF!" "TAKE ME SOME WHERE ELSE!!"
I need to.
I really do.
This semester, I've just been at this dead end. I'm creating work, but it's just there, I don't have that connection to what I'm doing.
I'm shooting, printing, turning in.
Needless to say, I've dove back into Castaneda.
I need to find inspiration
I need to find stabilization
I need to be challenged
I need to be fed these ideas
these concepts of seeing

I felt so stressed, and unsuccessful, when in all reality, I have nothing at all to complain about.
Everything is going great, and yes i do have a full school schedule, but for real, so what?! my classes for the most part are amazing. What else could i ask for... all art classes, right?
I put it best this way: I've been stressed by my laziness.
I haven't got shit done
i need to get it together and realize, that I am a student, but that's not all I am.
I Am An Artist.
I Create.
That's what I do.
I am worthy of exhibits, and people need to know that.
But they only way they'll know, is if I show them.

When I see the list of shows Andy's been in, the shit that Brandan shoots on a weekly basis, I get so frustrated like faaak, where are my photos? On my hard drive and in that big silver bag in the corner of my room.
I need to be taking full advantage of my resources Like I said I was Going to at the Beginning of this semester.

The other huge thing that made this all real is, I have 9 more credits until I graduate, and I feel so Far Behind.
I've made the realization that this is what I want to be doing, this Is My Life. This is what I want to do for the rest of my life. I Create, and that's the bottom line. I don't have to know What I am going to create in 10 years, as long as I am creating is what counts. Anything is possible.

"Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best." -Henry Van Dyke

9 more credits, but you know damn straight that I'm taking way more than what I need.
12 credits, 15 credits, I'll take what ever I can get my hands on.
I want to continue with classes after graduation, money is an issue, but, how could I afford not to? These people will feed me so much information and knowledge that it is for sure worth it.
Grad school, Sign me up.
Where? When? How? and Who? I don't know, but it will happen.

I need to get my priorities straight, and stop creating work for a grade.





"Out there, there is only knowledge. Knowledge is frightening, true; but if a warrior accepts the frightening nature of knowledge he cancels out its awesomeness."




"Let's not call it thinking then. It is rather the habit of having the world always conform to our thoughts."



"That's the flaw with words. They always force us to feel enlightened, but when we turn around to face the world they always fail us and we end up facing the world as we always have, without enlightenment."