Midori Hyohaku-sha: 2015

Thursday, December 31, 2015

My treatment

Today is my fourth day of treatment. I'm tired but happy. The treatment have been beneficial to my overall health. I have also been doing a lot more around the house and venturing out more lately. I pray next year will be better and my love for life grows. I also pray that your New Year will be better than the previous. Love you all and hope to c u next year.

Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Explorementation

It is easy to see the forest through the trees especially when no one told you it was impossible. No one told a raindrop it could be a lake, no one told me I could be whatever I wanted to be when I grew up. I was shown how everything is possible through hard work. Each drop of sweat is like a silver raindrop. Exploration and Implementation has created me, like rain. It takes ten thousand raindrops to make one river, one waterfall, one lake. I find myself watching reflections of the tree lines on the shores of lakes. It takes ten thousand raindrops to make one flower, one tree, one person.

There is no such thing as a gift without a problem, the problems created in my art, created gifts. It is a rarity when I can trace the path when it comes to the influences of work, I would like to take time to thank a few people who really made this happen.

Thank you:

Richard Kelly

I knew the shutter speed was off, I was upset with the results and was going to toss the negatives. Richard Kelly (forever the optimist) thought the results were pretty cool, he said I could maybe flip the negatives and create a mirror image.

Michael Novara

During a meeting concerning other works, Michael Novara said why don’t you just silk screen print on the photos, I have been busy working on this ever since.

Christianna Kreiss

Who allowed me to really try out Michael’s suggestion by donating some of her rejected prints (prints I would have never rejected) to explore and experiment with.

Elizabeth Raymer Griffin

I got to learn from this artist the Cyanotype printing process (and many others) which directly

influenced the photo prints and the tie in of all the ideas, great teacher.

Elysia

The best model I have ever worked with, during a studio lighting class with Richard Kelly at PFM. What a great evening of explorementation.

Anna, Bonnie, Elizabeth and me

I was lucky enough to make this photograph with Bonnie. It was shot with my 1903 Conley and I really thought I messed up the negative. I did not use enough chemicals and the majority of the image was not developed. I cut the bad parts out. I have been studying non-silver techniques with Elizabeth. Thank you both.

Wikepedia

Cyanotype is a photographic printing process that produces a cyan-blue print. Engineers used the process well into the 20th century as a simple and low-cost process to produce copies of drawings, referred to as blueprints. The process uses two chemicals: ammonium iron (III) citrate and potassium ferrycyanide.The English scientist and astronomer Sir John Herschel discovered the procedure in 1842. Though the process was developed by Herschel, he considered it as mainly a means of reproducing notes and diagrams, as in blue prints. It was Anna Atkins who brought this to photography. She created a limited series of cyanotype books that documented ferns and other plant life from her extensive seaweed collection. Atkins placed specimens directly onto coated paper, allowing the action of light to create a silhouette effect. By using this photogram process, Anna Atkins is regarded as the first female photographer.

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Friday, October 23, 2015

Gulf War Illness: Thousands Still Report Symptoms | Military.com

Please support Vets by protesting on Veteran's Day, Nov.11th. Go to your federal building and tell congress not to cut funding. Veterans have shed blood for you. Please stand up for them. Please send these to anyone and everyone.

Gulf War Illness: Thousands Still Report Symptoms | Military.com

Barstow, California

she keeps talkin about Billy

like he's Jesus Christ or sumptin'

just another anarchist in an RV

all I wanted to do was get into her panties

and make her scream, "oh God"

Friday, October 16, 2015

Gulf War Illness: Thousands Still Report Symptoms | Military.com

Monday, October 12, 2015

The beginnings of my new book

EXPLOREMENTATION

I bought my baby a tiny house, we gonna live off the grid, we gonna take it everywhere we go!

Jones Soda Bottle cap: " You and your partner will be happy in your life together."

Flea Market find

"It's 5 dollars."

"Would you take 50 cents for it?"

"It sells on ebay for 25 dollars."

"Come on it's my daughter's Birthday."

"It's my Birthday too."

Saturday, September 19, 2015

Poster 4

Poster 4 is done, the star fleet has been printed.

Monday, September 7, 2015

humble beginnings of 4

The beginning of 4

And then there were 3

and then there were 3

new begining

The Basement Storage situation is about to begin

Sunday, July 26, 2015

Saturday, June 13, 2015

Excited for my beautiful wife. Finished her work station!!!

Layer one, music to my hands, Tracy Chapman on the radio.

I had a great time at the Braddock Carnegie Library Learning from the process that Ramon Riley uses. I had a great time and the work really looked like a leaf on water. I drew out the linework for the water with a blue ink pen and then worked on the leaf linework with some black ink sharpies'.

New Logo for DJ GO

Well, I thought I was done with this poster. Upon printing it, cutting, folding, it just doesn't seem to line up. I got new ideas so I will be working towards reworking this one to get it just right, stay tuned.