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New Landscape - Brent Townshend

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I want to do this

Blogotheque - Take Away Shoes

Vincent Moon is this cool man in France who makes a new genre of music video. Here's one from Fleet Foxes

Fleet Foxes - A Take Away Show from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.

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I made another

Fox

I have no idea what I'm doing, but I'm just going to go ahead and post it.

Next project: Text

This is all I can think about. Jasper Johns. These are not photographs.

Post Crit.

Crit went well. I feel like my piece was interesting. People seemed to like it - I only heard good things. I found myself wishing again that people would be more open about their criticisms. Most people in the class had nothing to say - did they think it was a hideous mess? was it not compelling? I wonder if I printed it bigger if I might have had more of a response; although there was definitely a crowd around my image during the break at one point because I was trying to get by and I couldn't (not a bad thing I suppose).

I dunno. There's not really much I would have done differently. I picked up Geffelers Supervisions on the way to crit. and afterwards I gave it a good look through. I realized the way he handles walls is very different that what I did. I angled the camera to get more-almost 6 feet of wall in some places. Geffeler it seems does not. When one looks in detail at his images one can see how little of the walls he actually captures. maybe 12 or 18 inches in some 2-3 feet in others, but either way it's much less than I did. Capturing less wall gives the impression to the view that he/she is higher up than when lots of wall is captured. Its like I was using a wider lens so I was only about 8 feet above my room, where if it had been done with Geffeler's wall style it would have looked more like 40 feet. Next time.

Changes

Originally I had planned to print this like a diagram. The print needs to be big i decided. I've also taken out the labels that I put in initially. The work is too cluttered with them included. Here it is. Very tiny.

I've been amazed at how complex this project ended up being. Shooting while the camera is looking down from 5 feet in-front of you makes it hard to get perspective. Working with a 1.6 GB image is slow too. I didn't quite achieve my vision, but I'm certainly happy with it. All the seems are great. The changes in tone from all the light changes are beginning to draw me in. 

I realized today that Geffeler uses a 35mm lens on a digital camera, so that's more like a 50mm lens for an SLR. I shot mine at 26mm, so I wonder if I would have had fewer problems fitting the perspectives together. I'm still debating whether I should stick a white box between the rooms where the closet is. I think I will. I'm looking forward to hearing what everyone else thinks of it. I can today see people thinking its a hideous beast.