Dragon Day Photos

Here are a couple of my favorite pix from the Dragon Day Races in Cambridge. I like the movement in the first - the ribbon, the dancer's crossed legs, and the body of the lion.

Photo: Phoenix Mayet, 2009

The second puzzles me a little. I'm not exactly sure what I like so much about it. I like the look on the girl's face, the fact that hers is the only face shown, and the hand leading her. I found it very difficult to take pictures of moving subjects and I struggle with issues of privacy and consent when it comes to snapping photos of people in crowds. I wonder whether other photographers have struggled with the same issue.

Photo: Phoenix Mayet, 2009

Fast Sky

Photo: Phoenix Mayet

Jen Davis, Photographer

Photo by Jen Davis

This photograph, 'Untitled No. 22' is from jendavisphoto.com. I understand she has a photograph included in the Photographic Figures show over at the MFA. I keep meaning see that show... now that I know Jen is included, I'll make the effort. I really admire her photos. She has a beautiful eye for light. Some of her nudes feel sculptural. Many of her shots are posed, but somehow manage to maintain a sense of intimacy and honesty.

NPR Article featuring James Balog

Fresh Air from WHYY, March 18, 2009 · Intent on documenting the effects of climate change, nature photographer James Balog ventured into ice-bound regions with 26 time-lapse cameras, which he programmed to shoot a frame every daylight hour for three years.

The resulting images — which make up Balog's "Extreme Ice Survey" project — show ice sheets and glaciers breaking apart and disappearing.

Balog calls the melting of glaciers "the most visible, tangible manifestations of climate change on the planet today."

A documentary film crew accompanied Balog, and their footage along with Balog's work will be featured in the Mar. 24 NOVA and National Geographic special Extreme Ice. Balog's photographs are also on display in his new book Extreme Ice Now: Vanishing Glaciers and Changing Climate: A Progress Report.

Read more & see gorgeous photographs of ice: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102041024&sc=emaf

film Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress, and the Tangerine, 2008

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMdWMwOWnng

Drawing by Jenny Eggleston

Such a tiny world
This synconium
A place of speciation, phylogenies and mutualism

An inflorescence
(No, no light exists)
Of multiple Flowers and Seeds
Shine on In bliss
And grow together into a single mass
A fig.

Figuratively Speaking
April 3 - April 24, 2009

Featuring Artist Jenny Eggleston

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Raleigh, NC – M. Street Gallery will present its final exhibition of drawings by artist Jenny Eggleston from April 3 – April 24, 2009. There will be an exhibition reception on First Friday, April 3, from 6 – 9 p.m.

Jenny Eggleston is a Raleigh, NC – based artist, poet, and art teacher. Classically trained as a nature illustrator, she now uses images found in nature to create beautiful surrealistic figurative mindscapes that are emotive, sensual, and at times disturbing. Eggleston interweaves art with poetry, moving smoothly from one creative expression to another to help the viewer both see and feel her intent.

Surrealists such as Eggleston, tap into their subconscious minds, which they believe to be the source of all imagination and creativity. Concerned with the rapid recording of their unconscious and freely associated thoughts, the putting of pencil, pen, and crayon to paper is incredibly appealing and produces a prodigious output of drawings.

“I try not to plan a drawing, only to respond to a basic mood, to explore. I quiet my mind and let the pencil rest andwatch what starts to emerge” ~Jenny Eggleston

Jellies

Pinky-orangey flesh, illuminated, fluid.
Against the dark background, the jellies recall deep space galaxies.