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"When we take a photograph we stop the flow of time to produce a record, however much we then tinker with it later, to make it look a certain way. Here lies, of course, our desire for this moment to last forever."

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Katie in bed without a head. 2009.Two Noam Chomsky's in Oakland. 2009.Bikes everywhere! Golden Gate Park, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival. 2009.View from our roof. San Francisco to the left, Sausalito to the right. 2009.Katie and Mike. 2009.Katie, California Coast. 2009.So I've been here for 3 months now. We finally got internet this week, so I am making my rounds to the blogs slowly. Katie

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I have followed Ms. Stark...well since I used to babysit for her son, Arlo-who is totally awesome at air drums by the way (or at least at 2 he was). I didn't a thing about art at the time and so as the years have gone by since I moved away from Los Angeles I have aquired quite a lot. I just saw that she was in the guardian, not to mention the Whitney Bienniel in 2008. Lately, I have been obsessed

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I will go ahead and crawl back into my cave of non-posting after this last one...you know, the important one and all since it's about myself...Polliwog Magazine just came out with Issue #4, and I am amongst some really great talent which includes: Traci Matlock & Ashley Mclean, Shen Wei, Florian van Roekel, Jennifer Cox, Giorgio Bagnarelli, Lindley Warren and Katherine Squier. I couldn't be more

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It seems to me that America is the wealthiest nation because it faked it well enough. It seems more likely that we as American's got sucked into a linguistic black whole while leaving our logic and minds somewhere to be determined. The people running the corporation...I mean country tell us to do one thing because no matter what America is the best, the greatest and the wealthiest. But are we?

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I followed Pete's link to NYtimes article on student debt, aptly titled, Fools Gold. It is basically a snipet of people sharing their stories about their student loan debt. I couldn't agree more with their logic behind what our universities should be structured like here in America. This is what they said:I never understood the reason why so much money is asked. Fear of debt and high tuition

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I find these days moving along quite swiftly. I finally found a job after looking for four months. Nothing extravagant-part time at a hotel, but I love travel and I find myself traveling vicariously through my guests that arrive always asking them about their trip. I haven't been looking at much photograhpy lately as I have been busy looking for a job then working at said job and getting ready

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These days I find myself wandering between day and night.  The lines have blurred as to whether the sun has just risen or set and my head is cloudy.  

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Woke up this morning and made my daily rounds on this here interweb-which led me to discovering the website Urbanautica via Jennilee Marigomen's flickr (which she was just featured on).  It is a very neat site which forced itself upon me to look at every image and to read each statement by each photographer. I'm just warning you now to be prepared for its aggressive guerilla tactics at making the

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I think this may be good. 

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makes my heart drop into my stomach. Just so you know."What I guess goes through my mind when I'm taking a picture is I'm thinking wordlessly about how all these elements relate to each other..."-Stephen Shore.Perfection-thinking wordlessly. 

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from Sequence 5, Nienke Klunder. It is insane where she starts from to where she ends up and all the people she can become in between.  The image above and below are examples of one of her sequences.  She started off as a soldierand ended up a clown.from Sequence 5, Nienke Klunder.from Zen Moments, Nienke Klunder.from Zen Moments, Nienke KlunderNienke Klunder is a multi-media artist; however, I

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I like how my junk mailbox now tells me before I even open it that it's spam. 

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Michael Cera by Emily ShurAdam Brody by Emily ShurThere is also a really great in depth  interview under the interview section by Jake Stangel of Too Much Chocolate on my favorite editorial photographer, Emily Shur. (Not to mention, I also love her personal work as well...)

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I've been going back and forth between Huntsville, AL and Nashville for the past two weeks now ever since my little sister moved down there.  I find it weird that when I come back to Nashville it seems like such a big city to me after being in Huntsville.  I went and saw Phosphorescent last night.  It was strange because they had seats in the venue so mostly everyone was sitting down but for one,

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I love how I don't have any images of cars in my photostream on flickr, yet somehow through yahoo image search they refer the searcher/e to the plethora of pimped out cars I so often never shoot.  I'm not complaining, I just think it's funny.

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Location: Coolidge Drive, Sarasota, FL Age: 0-1yrs-My parents lived in this duplex right off the beach, the night before I was born my mom was swimmingin the ocean.  I need water, I can honestly sayI feel connected to it.Missing my Grandmothers house in CT. Apparently google earth doesnt have any cameras on her street. Age: 1-3yrsLocation: 1503 N Conrad Ave, Sarasota, FL Age: 3-20yrsWhen I was 3,

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My good friend Courtney Greenlee has recently just launched her new website.  These are just a few of my favorite images of hers, the rest can be found on her website.  Courtney was a fellow student at Watkins when I attended there, which she still currently attends.  I love her and her work and I wish her all the luck with the future.  It is a wonderful website and even more wonderful is that

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Also, I joined twitter so if you have it please add me and I'll add you back.  I don't know how else to find people on it.  It is very new to me and foreign so I am still getting used to it all.  www.twitter.com/armphotographyThrowing this image of my cat in here of her licking herself. Enjoy.

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I finished reading Joel Sternfeld's Sweet Earth Experimental Utopias In America tonight and I found it so inspiring.  I guess I'm at that idealistic age in my life where communal living sounds like the perfect life, but beyond that the book also has as lot of history that I found interesting.  It seems that a majority of communes tend to have a religious swing to them but no matter what type of

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Dana Goldstein.Todd Fisher. Bea De GiacomoLuca Gabino, from Queensland.Jennilee Marigomen. image from Whimsical Bullshit. These are a few of my favorite images from the collection of photographs and photographers over at ithoughtiwasalone.comIt is definitely worth it to take a look at the rest as well, along with looking at these individuals websites. 

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Broken Bag. 2003. Roger Ballen.This past semester, my teacher Caroline Allison, showed us Roger Ballen's work.  This was the first time I had ever seen his images and I was enamored by them.  He actually achieves to make me want to shoot black and white photography again, which I never thought anyone or thing could make me want to do again.  You may have or have not heard of him, but regardless

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Mark Wickens. 2009.I can't get this image out of my head.  It just strikes me as so odd.  I grew up in Florida surrounded by pelicans and I cannot recall ever seeing one dead.  This is a beautiful image and he captured the essence of this moment wonderfully.  I love all the foot prints in the wet sand surrounding the pelican and the fact that the water must keep rolling in and out deepening the

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Being a photographer and being without a camera can be absolute torture-or it can be a blessing in disguise.  Yesterday my sister and I went on a drive and it was quite warm out for what it has been recently.  The sun was shining in all the right places.  We had my mom's car-left mine at home to save gas (ha!), which meant that I did not have my camera on me since it was in my car.  In all

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As we all know, yes all-as in the whole world, today is the last day the Bush regime will be in office.  I have to say as much as everyone hates him, I think he was just as scapegoat.  I don't think he was smart enough to pull off the majority of the things that went wrong the past eight years, nor do I think he even really knew about it, but rather that the people in his cabinet used him to get

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Sannah Kvist. from Habitat. 2007-2008Thobias Faldt. from Alternative Universe. Gustav Gustafsson. Two Cats, One Stone. 2008Gustav Gustafsson. Erika Svensson. Sannah Kvist. from Habitat. 2007-2008.I couldn't help but notice the aforementioned photographers affinity for capturing their feline friends.  I love this because I remember being in photo 1 and my teacher was furious when a student put up

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This entry is dedicated to all things Swedish. I've been looking a lot of Swedish photographers lately so I though I'd post a collection of images from some of them. I had been fascinated with their use of flash and because of the flash, the whites they were able to achieve. I asked Gustav Gustafsson why it seemed that everyone in Sweden uses a flash, and when he gave me the answer, it was all

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Matt Lipps is a photographer and sculptor.  I love how he pushes photography to it's boundaries by taking the esthetic of collaging and placing it within in a frame.  He does the same with his sculptures, involving a variety of mediums.  His cutouts are central to his images and allow him to play with reality and fantasy by juxtaposing a photograph he has cutout and then photographing that

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Herman van den Boom is a German photographer.  I am in love with his older black and white work especially.  

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I'm awake for yet again another sunrise. At least they are always beautiful. And yes, I took some with the hassy this morning. 

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Sunrise

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This is by far, the coldest weather I have ever felt.  Where's my Florida? Where's my Los Angeles? Do you know how much I hate cold weather?....

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I really love Zoe Crosher's series, Out the Window (LAX).  I first found her work while scouring UCLA's photography faculty.  I think this series is fun.  I can see how this simple idea was formed, just by a fascination of noticing-maybe even only once.  Looking at just one image is alright, but it doesn't do the series justice.  I can only imagine her preparation-how many planes must have gone

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So this is the first one.  Hello.  I decided it was time to stop talking only to myself, but to at least write my thoughts out to start a dialogue with the vast internet world.  I plan on using this blog to share ideas and images and thoughts.  So I encourage anyone reading who finds something interesting to share their thoughts as well.With that said, lets start talking.I went and saw the

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