Exploded Camera Gear

Exploded Camera Gear

Do you want to see what a $12,000 lens looks like inside? If you can stomach it, check out these cameras and lens cut in half. I wanted to share this link of disassembled lens and cameras from this pretty cool exhibit at Photokina.

http://www.popphoto.com/gallery/photokina-2012-exploded-camera-gear

Shelly Perkins Photography www.shellyperkins.com

Exploring the Work of Dan Flavin

Exploring the Work of Dan Flavin

I shared my current project with my OU Photography Professor, Todd Stewart and he said it reminded him of work produced by Dan Flavin, who passed away in 1996. I had no idea and was just really blown away. I love his work. Dan Flavin’s large-scale work in colored fluorescent light for six buildings at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas. Cool. Go check out this link:

http://www.chinati.org/visit/collection/danflavin.php

Soon, I will be posting a little bit of my work from the Underground which I've made that are similar to the style of Flavin. It's interesting to see your work appearing similar to another's work when you had never even seen it. Hopefully soon, when I have a few days off, I can make a quick trip to Marfa and check Flavin's work out in person.

Shelly Perkins Photography www.shellyperkins.com

We Heart It

Check it out ~ We Heart It !
If you love Pinterest, you'll love We <3 It!
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We Heart It

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Andy Warhol on Japanese TDK Ad

Andy Warhol on Japanese TDK Ad

I found this strange youtube video with Andy Warhol selling TDK tvs ~ I wish the video quality was better but still thought it was a bit comical. Enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=x82gWQFEpQA

Underground

This is my metaphoric geometric play on light and color.
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The Light at the End of Tunnel

The Light at the End of the Tunnel

Working with light. How do you get to the end of the project, the end of the day, the end of your life, the end of a bad event? You come to the light at the end of the tunnel. It can be literal or metaphoric.

photo by Jamie Machtemes

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Light Graffiti

Researching and looking for some inspiration. Check out this fun Light Writing video ~ Looks like Light Writing and Light Graffiti may be my next project.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=gHPHTY9K5ws#!

Photography Student Arrested for Photographing Outside

I found this interesting and disturbing video that an art student in the U.K. filmed as she was harassed, ticketed and arrested for filming and photographing outside of a building while on public property. No days in the U.K. and in the U.S., photographers should beware doing the things that he or she loves because a police officer / government official can consider it an act of Terror and have you thrown in jail. I understand that police need to be aware and on guard but when is enough, enough? I think the days of freedoms and innocence are gone. :0(


http://lockerz.com/u/20918325/decalz/9753920/_you_re_filming_for_fun_i_don_t_believ

Discovery Channel's HOW LIGHT WORKS

LIGHT ~ How it Works ~ Check out this How Stuff Works Video “How Light Works” To understand light we need to understand a larger group of energy known as electromagnetic waves. Learn more about electromagnetic waves on Discovery Channel’s “Assignment Discovery.” tp://videos.howstuffworks.com/discovery/29406-assignment-discovery-electromagnetic-waves-and-light-video.htm

Into the Digital

Into the Digital

Photography has evolved in a changing society from the mechanical to the digital. Names found in natural everyday objects are given to products and devices to make consumers feel more comfortable with welcoming them into their lives. People in advanced societies have embraced the “digital age” as the changes in photography could not be stopped. Touch has been reduced to clicking and sight has been reduced to a rectangular shape.

Computers have made “users” out of people like drug addicts who buy software and must continually check their email. Digital media translates everything into a flat space, “redefining space and time.” Binary code can be viewed as musical notes and designers can be seen as musical composers writing great symphonies. Digital photography is no longer a “visible reality” but it is something that can be manipulated for new meaning or something created out of nothing but numbers.

Photography has now become a constant in everyday life. What was once a dance between the photographer and the image viewer is now quickly viewed and discarded. As one Microsoft employee explained people now function with “continuous partial attention.”

Photography of today can be viewed as a process with advanced and efficient tools to capture images but we are living in an “evolution in media.” An analogy to the automobile teaches us how a tool can change the way people live and exist. Transportation on horses kept most events local but with the invention of the automobile, people can work, travel for leisure and live at a distance from family. Even wars could now be fought at a distance because of the invention of the automobile and modes of transportation other than the horse. As the digital revolution occurred it was considered the “information superhighway” which will take you where you want to go.

Photography has become an interpretation of the “real.” Constantly digital cameras and cell phones track our everyday mundane activities that are blasted on the “information superhighway,” quickly viewed and discarded from memory. We add text to explain the scene as if to give our trip to the store or football game more meaning. We no longer photograph images to really “see” the “real” but photograph to prove our existence. We capture quick images to make our lives seem worthwhile and less average. We are now caught up in a movement where photography has lost its meaning and is now just a moment in time, quickly discarded as we move to the next moment.

Response to reading, Into the Digital by Fred Ritchin All quotes credited to Fred Ritchin

Shelly Perkins Photography www.shellyperkins.com

Security Cameras show Crash from inside Bus

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Security Cameras show Crash from inside Bus
Security cameras from multiple angles inside a bus show the vehicle careening out of control and crashing into a Maryland home. WRC’s Derrick Ward reports.

http://video.msnbc.msn.com/nbc-news/48778569

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/48778569#48778569
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