available bilberries make me a berry monster

Up on OS X again. With lot of space for more silly content.

Disk named hyemalis. [ hiems ]

Nízke Tatry

Link: Nízke Tatry

taken by Romana, processing by me

Wind struggling butterflies. Many of them. Standing right in front of you.

Windy fields to drown in, just 2 hours up.

Far behind the ‘Dreamworks’ moon and sky.

Take me back.

Space and time is divided by effort.

V sedle Ďurková

I see those cut hands too, but I was concentrating rather on to make ANY shoot, not just jump around focusing with the lens and grumbling

pozor, padá omietka

warning, the wall is falling

[how the hell can be omietka translated?]

záhradka

Higlighty (doplniť):

• V Liptovskej Lúžnej vypadnú z krčmy asi 3 totálne na šrot dedinčania. Je 11 hodín, miestne deti netušia o žiadnej turistickej značke.


• 37 US vojakov je zrovna v tú noc v rovnakej útulni kde spíme my. Pri blížení sa k prameňu, jedinému zdroju (pitnej) vody, od skupiny vojakov len počujem : Oh, no, civilians.

• V Brezne sa výpravca v služobnej uniforme pýta v staničnom okienku “koľko to tuná stojí? 10-20-40-áá-60”. Následne dostane priesvitný poldecák a počas putovania jeho obsahu dolu gágorom sa obzerá vpravo vľavo, kto ho vidí.


• Na Hlavnej stanici sa rozhodnem ísť na wc, aby som si cestu busom užila. Vedľa niekto masívne grcia. [to tie vecká sú spoplatnené a vcelku použiteľné, predstava, že tam grcia chudák normálny človek z akéhokoľvek dôvodu je ešte horšia]

Náš hike-plan [hikeplanner tu]. A po ňom strašne dlhá cesta domov vlakom z Brezna, pri ktorej som už začala posmutnievať, Bratislava to už len dokonala. Pred dverami sa mi chcelo plakať, že je tam to isté čo pred odchodom, ale tentoraz nie mojou vinou.

[+ clanok o medvedoch]

bought a new sunglasses (and first ever)

Listening to some new music these days, but it’s not that interesting all alone.

Planning to leave for few days for hiking in mountains, I’m not in very good physical condition, but I’m not even when going to High Tatras for slightly more serious trips.

Nearly-favorite Lush closes down its businness in Slovakia - from now on I will have to buy everything in Vienna…

If everything goes well, we’ll spend one night here one here and here.

Listening Lectures @ Radost // Obchodná 48, Bratislava

I lost daydreams. I’m craving for associations, but they ain’t coming // I don’t arrange them. It makes me anxious. Without communication with anyone else, without interaction, it seems too hard for me. I need a wall to face and reflect.

I have plans how to boost it again, but noone to accompany me.

I have this constant need to DO something, but are too lazy or too fantasy-less I’m unable to devise something. [and usually when I do I need people for it]

Only thing I’m doing is choosing perfectly satisfactory items. Like new purse [I lost the previous one which was self-made]

and a T-shirt. Now the wallet seems just fitting for my overall situation.

So deal with it! [without irony, in happy mood]

My red home. The angle of the wires is exact. The sunsets are correct.

On my way to old work, more than month ago. I’ve forgotten the idea behind it. It sure was there, but got lost in the DoF. But now I see a new one.

Red planet.

Cynic @ Colloseum, Košice (view whole set)

Beer & metal heads & flares. The club and people around added up to much more enjoyable atmosphere than is usually in Bratislava.

Cynic concert

Cynic concert

Cynic [artwork by Robert Venosa]

Bought bamboos for my desk, repoted my old cactuses couple, poted Hedera from forest near Považský Inovec (it was kept in water to root, but got some nasty fungus/algae? from air, hope it will do well in soil). I would appreciate more such useful room decorations.

Made vegan salad inspired by copied from Taco Rey. [I just had to post this ad.]

perfection

Paul Tutmarc’s House.
Seattle.
Washington.
April 2009.

Yashica T4.
Fuji 35mm

[ http://www.flickr.com/photos/threeheadedhorse/3569537601/ ]

[ http://www.flickr.com/photos/threeheadedhorse/3570349544/ ]

Thoughts on Blake Andrew’s post about “The photography-integrated-into-life method”

The photography-integrated-into-life method is decidedly unfashionable. The huge majority of photographers I saw at Photolucida were more project oriented. The prevailing model is to develop a concept of something that has photographic potential —often of personal interest but not always— and then methodically take photographs of that project until a body of work is created, with the ultimate goal of showing the work at Photolucida or similar venue.

……

I think photographs should come first.  Arrange them in projects later if you must or else leave them as is in a big loose stack. Either way, photography that is integral to life seems to me to be the strongest because it comes from purest motivation: the very simple need to translate the world into photographs. Of course I am biased because this how I approach my own work, but it’s what I like to see in others too.” -  Blake Andrews

——————

This is one of the more salient observations I’ve come across in awhile (thanks Blake!), but perhaps that’s because it articulates a feeling that’s been with me for sometime.  And really, if there were ever to be an LPV type statement of principles, this idea would have to be in there somewhere.  What I sense brewing, and has been brewing for a few years now (maybe more?) is some tension between the fine art photography establishment and the new wave vernacular movement that has grown in communities on Flickr and other parts of the web.

Put simply, I don’t think the fine art photography establishment has much respect for this photographic philosophy or method (look at the general derision toward street photography and family photography for example).  I know plenty of studious, intelligent photographers out there who treat photography as a way of life  and don’t have any sort of fine art ambition.

Maybe that’s what it comes down to: ambition.  I have this feeling, one I certainly can’t prove scientifically, but somehow I think having an ambition to make it in the fine art world interferes with your photographic intuition to some degree.  There’s a danger that the conceptual part of your brain and eye will smother the intuitive part.  Is there a way to find a balance?  Of course.  Do I have any idea how? Nope, but I do think mixing the vernacular, “integrated-into-life method” with the project method can lead to some very exciting photography.  But will the fine art world pay attention?

from comments:

I think even with ambition, there is often a wall you hit.

I know I’ve had trouble explaining to people that a project is about visual sensibility. Often they want a quick subject: “I shoot heroin addicts” etc.

Like, with Gray Days, it really is a more poetic sequence, about the images themselves, not about subjects.

The art world is dominated, for the most part, by a fanatical adoration of subject (so work can be easily promoted and blurbed about) and object (as in the actual salable print or sculpture, etc)

So basically, art “projects” tend to be about some “interesting” subject, a series of a manageable length, lets say 10-20 pieces, which can be split up and sold as singular objects with assigned value.

When people talk about the art, they talk about the prints themselves, assigning value based upon less interesting aspects such as size or edition, or more ethereal values like “quality”

Many of the people who do amazing things on the net, often flickr but not always, care more about the mood, life, or overall sensibility that comes out of a body of images. It doesn’t matter how many times they are reproduced, and while many have the ability to create a good print or beautiful book, they print their work in zines, hand it out in any way possible.

I love this way of working, and I think self publishing places like Blurb can be used to add a little more permanence to these publications, but I don’t see it necessarily even wanting to become the art/gallery world as it is.

A lot of this comes from the art school, where we are constantly asked to do projects, but the art school mode comes from the commercial world, since they are trying to train us to be viable.

In some ways, it’s totally positive. They want us to get in the mindset of constantly doing work so we don’t fall out of it after we graduate. On the flip side, it tends to burn out and frustrate people who would rather be working with longer periods of more organic creativity.

Anyway, there will be a balance. Commercial spaces with lots of funding will be able to continue to taut their bookings as highly influential and important, but only time will really tell what the most important photographic trends are right now. I think a good deal of them are these more home-brewed projects that tend to find their way into the public consciousness.

[ http://lapuravidagallery.com/blog/2009/05/the-photography-integrated-into-life-method/ ]

it’s amazing what kind of mood you can build by omission and sequence

http://www.urbansand.com/interview-with-bryan-schutmaat/

it’s all chemistry

Juch, takže 2 knižky objednané v knižnici! Pôvodne som chcela tlačiť a jednu možno aj kupovať, ale teraz sa môžem rozhodnúť či sa jedno z toho oplatí [tieto asi ani nie, ale učiť sa z nich oplatí].

Analysis of Genes and Genomes - Richard J. Reece

Soft Machines, nanotechnology and life - Richard L. Jones

Potrebujem sa v tom vŕtať furt ;).