I have a Tumblr now!

http://fallinharmony.tumblr.com/

Check me out there for once weekly photo posts! (two weeks in a row so far! woo!)

Crochet Away!

I've just started crocheting and made a Ravelry account to track everything =]
Photos of projects to come soon! I haven't been doing much photography lately, so I hope this new hobby will make up for it...
Much thanks to Emma for being so darn cute and helpful!

NYC Marathon

Congrats to Meb Keflezighi, the first American man to win the NYC Marathon since 1982!

And congrats to this couple for finishing:

NYC Marathon, November 2009

For Your Enjoyment

Here are two relatively new photos taken in NYC:

Union Square, September 2009.

Madison Sq. Park, September 2009.

What I've been thinking about lately...

MANIFESTO OF SURREALISM (1924) by A. Breton

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SURREALISM, n. Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express -- verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner -- the actual functioning of thought. Dictated by the thought, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern.

ENCYCLOPEDIA. Philosophy. Surrealism is based on the belief in the superior reality of certain forms of previously neglected associations, in the omnipotence of dream, in the disinterested play of thought. It tends to ruin once and for all all other psychic mechanisms and to substitute itself for them in solving all the principal problems of life. The following have performed acts of ABSOLUTE SURREALISM: Messrs. Aragon, Baron, Boiffard, Breton, Carrive, Crevel, Delteil, Desnos, Eluard, Gérard, Limbour, Malkine, Morise, Naville, Noll, Péret, Picon, Soupault, Vitrac.

They seem to be, up to the present time, the only ones, and there would be no ambiguity about it were it not for the case of Isidore Ducasse, about whom I lack information. And, of course, if one is to judge them only superficially by their results, a good number of poets could pass for Surrealists, beginning with Dante and, in his finer moments, Shakespeare. In the course of the various attempts I have made to reduce what is, by breach of trust, called genius, I have found nothing which in the final analysis can be attributed to any other method than that.

Young's Nights are Surrealist from one end to the other; unfortunately it is a priest who is speaking, a bad priest no doubt, but a priest nonetheless.

Swift is Surrealist in malice,

Sade is Surrealist in sadism.

Chateaubriand is Surrealist in exoticism.

Constant is Surrealist in politics.

Hugo is Surrealist when he isn't stupid.

Desbordes-Valmore is Surrealist in love.

Bertrand is Surrealist in the past.

Rabbe is Surrealist in death.

Poe is Surrealist in adventure.

Baudelaire is Surrealist in morality.

Rimbaud is Surrealist in the way he lived, and elsewhere.

Mallarmé is Surrealist when he is confiding.

Jarry is Surrealist in absinthe.

Nouveau is Surrealist in the kiss.

Saint-Pol-Roux is Surrealist in his use of symbols.

Fargue is Surrealist in the atmosphere.

Vaché is Surrealist in me.

Reverdy is Surrealist at home.

Saint-Jean-Perse is Surrealist at a distance.

Roussel is Surrealist as a storyteller.

Etc.

The Object as The Portrait

Here are a few images from my Non-Silver Final Project, with a few sentences about it.

I photogrammed glasses repeatedly for the entire semester and reached a point where the glasses became the portraits of those who have owned them, they take on their own personality, and should be treated as the faces and voices of the owners.

 

"Self" (c) 2009

 "Self from back" (c) 2009

 

"Pearls" (c) 2009

"Blink" (c) 2009

I hope you enjoy the sampler!

KW

Expired Polaroid Transfers

Two Polaroid transfers I made in class the other day. From slides given to me by my grandparents.

George Washington Bridge - slide to transfer

The Statue of Liberty - slide to transfer.

Both transfer made with polaroid peel apart pack film that is assumed to be expired. My professor looked at it and made a "this is expired but we'll see happens" noise.

It feels good to update. Sorry for the wait.

KW