Zombieland.

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.  

My friend Jordan

Urbanautica, Liz Kuball and Dave Jordano

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 viewer stay on its site until completion :).  It's worth it though since there are so many amazing photographers on there some huge- like Alec Soth and Amy Stein along with the likes of up and comer's like Will Govus and Marigomen.  However, I was really struck by two people I had previously never seen, Liz Kuball and Dave Jordano.  The website is a compilation of photographers who work in documenting the land wherever it may be that people inhabit.

Liz Kuball is based out of Southern California by way of the east.  She followed the westward dream like many of us do(myself included) and documented this process of discerning reality from fantasy that us transplants often come to fruition.  

from In Store. Liz Kuball.

from California Vernacular. Liz Kuball.

from California Vernacular. Liz Kuball.

Dave Jordano returned to shooting outside of his studio after a 25 year stint hiatus of shooting images inside for clientele.  I am glad he ventured back out into the world and so far he has brought us the stories of life on the fringes of society along with portraying a life that once was in his series on the Chanute Military base in Illinois. 

from Prairieland-On the Fringe. Dave Jordano. 2005.

from Prairieland-Habitants. Dave Jordano. 2005.

from Chanute AFB. Dave Jordano. 2007.

Everlasting Moments

I think this may be good. 

Stephen Shore...

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. 

Nienke Klunder

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 soldier

and ended up a clown.

from Sequence 5, Nienke Klunder.

from Zen Moments, Nienke Klunder.

from Zen Moments, Nienke Klunder

Nienke Klunder is a multi-media artist; however, I am naturally drawn to the photographs she makes-and for good reason!!  Her photographs deal with consumerism, identity and myriad of other things (depending on how you want to read into them).  They are mostly all self-portraits which I think is poignant considering her topic of exploring identity.  Her images are technically beautiful and conceptually beautiful.  On top of that they are also humorous-but of course while still delivering her message. I am constantly blown away when I return to look at her work each time. 

Spam

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

Emily Shur/Too Much Chocolate

Michael Cera by Emily Shur

Adam Brody by Emily Shur

There 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...)

Lately....

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, I hate sitting, and for two I hate sitting when seeing a band play. So I stood.  Because so many people were sitting down there were maybe about 10 people standing and my sister and I were on the side when Matthew Houck got off stage and walked over to us and sang directly to us.  Needless to say it took everything inside of me to not indulge in the instant weakness I felt in my knees and not collapse!!  I couldn't help let the huge smile come over my face though.  I don't normally get like this with people but I will be honest in admitting that he is idealized in our heads.  We listened to Phosphorescent the entire roadtrip to Cali practically and his music just really lives up to all the hype.  

Sunday, the Optimist Manifesto had our pillow fight at Centennial.  It went down a lot different than our first one we threw, but I would say it was still successful in spite of everything.  Metro Parks found out about it...probably no help from being on the front page of the MetroMix newspaper...and called Caitlan up telling her that the Optimist Manifesto had to cancel the event since we didn't have a permit.  Too bad for them we never wanted to obtain a permit...We showed up at the park and we were willing to move the event to another location, but everybody there wanted to have it at Centennial and we have no control over another individual so the feathers flew for at least 45 minutes before the cops showed up.  There weren't as many people this time but it really isn't about how many people show up, just that there were people.  My favorite part of this pillow fight was when the cops did finally show up the people got more excited, and when they turned their sirens on the people cheered and then they started a new round of fighting.  

I have shot 20 rolls of film now but have yet a way to pay for any of it to be developed.  I also shot my first "fashion" shoot for a clothing line called Parlour based out of Nashville.  We shot a pack of polaroids and the rest on film.  These are a few of my favorite polaroids that came out of the shoot...

Definitely a nerve wracking experience as I am  used to shooting for only myself...not two other people as well on top of it being my first "fashion" shoot also.  

Pimped Out Cars.

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.