Do you call this a life?

A work in progress, the first part of a diptych that I’m working on. Title taken from dialogue of one of my favorite authors…

Fairly happy with success…

So based on Ansley’s rather insightful comment, here’s the winning collage from Creative Tallahassee with some detail shots blown up. Might add more after I get off work today.

A Glimpse into the New World, Shuttered Through Blinds 1

A surreal landscape created with images taken primarily on a road trip across California, Arizona and Nevada last year with my father; A Glimpse into the New World, Shuttered Through Blinds 1 won the first place prize at COCA’s Creative Tallahassee 2012 (check it out at city hall… well, if you have reason to be in city hall) and has just been accepted into the 27th Annual FSU MOFA International Juried Show which will be going down in August this year.

A quick update on a busy day off…

Unfortunately I let this website slack a bit over the past month. It’s been a hectic and stressful spring but it’s paying off. Creative Tallahassee had its opening reception and awards last Friday and my piece “A Glimpse of the New World, Shuttered Through Blinds 1″ was awarded first place. I quickly collapsed into coma caused by narcissistic ego stroking only to emerge days later blinking in the hazy aftermath of what my self-obsession had wrought. Um. Anyway, so feeling great about that win, just got accepted into the FSU MOFA International Juried Exhibition so a multitude of fingers crossed. I’ve also been second shooter for the wonderful Ansley Simmons these past two weekends and will update with images relating more to event and portraiture over the next couple of days.

What’s the best way to intravenously administer coffee?

As Above…

Another new work in progress, this one is part of a diptych… both measure 15″x30″. I’m going to attempt to get these two finished as well as a large 30×30 or bigger collage in time for a few juried shows due by the end of the month. I’ve got the three images for Creative Tallahassee coming in hopefully a few days and then will pick up frames at Westfall Framing. I think I have my monitor calibrated properly (acer is running a bit hot) so that my pics will look great both online and in person.

Being creative in Tallahassee, 2012….

Yesterday I heard back about one of the juried shows I recently applied to and all three images I submitted will be exhibited. It’ll be a while before I hear anything about the others… However, COCA puts on Creative Tallahassee at the City Hall Art Gallery every spring. Its open to artists working in all mediums (except video I think…) living in the Big Bend region. Last time I actively participated was about five years ago. Lots of fun and it’ll be great to have some of my new work on display and harshly criticized by people.

A Glimpse of the New World, Shuttered Through Blinds 1

An Untimely Machine

A Glimpse of the New World, Shuttered Through Blinds 3

A few photos and a brief update…

This past Monday I had a great short shoot with Clem, we’d been trying to put it together for the past couple of weeks and everything finally fell into place.

He was having these taken for his girlfriend, three different outfits on a neutral background, and he was an absolute natural in front of the camera.

Very little instruction was needed, he posed and moved wonderfully and let me concentrate on the composition and the light.

A few minor updates; applied to two juried shows last week and have several more on the horizon. I’ve got a few collages on the burners and a photo shoot sometime this weekend or early next week. I need to spend time at a junkyard, an antique store and some sort of clock maker. I want a myriad of rust, cogs and age in my stock collection to draw from. Need to start making cold calls around trying to find places to do such things.

Updates from the edge of a coffee-fueled consciousness…

Updating my website a bit before heading in to coal mines. My flickr account is surprisingly bereft of portraits, especially anything prior to 2008 is noticeably absent. So I’m combing through some shoots with Sarah Wallace, After The Smoke and others and re editing them to a few different styles. The first is a shoot I did with Sarah in the village on LBK, did a bit of color correction, dropped a glamour glow filter on it, recovered some detail and then did a darken/lighten vignette. Just going for a bit of a glossy magazine style finish.

I’ve also just joined up with the Digital Artists Guild that my friend Ed Babcock started here in Tallahassee. Looking forward to brainstorming sessions and projects for exhibition coming out of that. Working on a Facebook page for them over the next day or two and will post a link as soon as its finished. Please “like” us, and me, if you haven’t, because love powers this perpetual motion machine. http://www.facebook.com/AlexianImages