Category Archives: Art

Spilling wine all over my shirt

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Two weeks ago, I was poking around on Tumblr when I came across Noah Emrich’s photo of himself in a shirt he had cut the collar off and hand dyed. I enjoy the time and energy that people put into clothing as wearable art and realized that dying a shirt would be a fun activity.

Later that day I was on campus running errands, so I hopped over to H&M to pick up an inexpensive, white, 100% cotton button up to test out dying on. I bought two bottles of inexpensive syrah from the grocery store near my house, choosing a fuller and more textured wine that would have a lot to offer the cotton, and headed home to soak my shirt.

Shirt in bowl.
The shirt in a bowl, held down by a plate and a 10lb weight.

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Teen Night Out with Greg Nissen and the Blue Scholars

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The past few months for me have involved a lot of reading and paper writing, so I was pretty excited when my friend Greg Nissen told me he was coming up to Seattle for the day on Friday and asked if I wanted to hang out and shoot some photos. Greg is a super talented kid that I met through the Internet thanks to Drew Levin. He’s been doing great work up and down the West Coast, with his work for Seattle hip hop artist Macklemore receiving the most acclaim. But Greg is a really centered person and we had some great talks about mindfulness practice and meditation amidst our walk this past Friday.

We met up at Glazer’s in Seattle since he was picking up some film developer, then quickly headed down to the market to find some interesting characters to shoot. While Greg will likely have a whole roll of film of unique individuals, I was mostly enjoying the sun and watching Greg work. After we walked around for a bit, we headed to the Seattle Art Museum to hang out with Geo since the Blue Scholars were playing at SAM’s “Teen Night Out,” an event that happens three times a year and exposes students from the greater Seattle area to a range of arts. It was awesome to see high school students so excited about art and asking great questions of Geo and others about the significance of different art pieces and periods of art history. Below are some photos from the walk with Greg, as well as two gif’s I made from my photos of Geo getting the crowd excited during their short performance at the end of the night.

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S*bl*ngs in Paris, Part 1

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As some of you know, shortly after my 22nd birthday, I hopped on a plane to Paris, France to help get my sister settled in for her French immersion/study abroad experience. While I’ve been to a number of diverse cities in the world, the convergence of old and new, especially in terms of art and culture, had me very excited to visit Paris. Perhaps the best part of this trip, not to psyche myself out, is that even if Paris is miserable, I’ll be spending 8 days in Vienna visiting family, which is easily one of my favorite cities, and what often feels like a second home. That being said, here’s what Paris has been like so far:

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Road warriors where there is no road

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One of my favorite things about doing a photo shoot is knowing that later that night I’ll be grabbing a cup of tea, turning on some Explosions in the Sky, and start working through the days photos. While I have the end result in mind, rarely do I want to be sitting in front of computer at the shoot, editing and shipping off the images on-site.

Yesterday, as I was browsing Vimeo, I came across “As It Happens,” the story of climbers/artists Renan Ozturk and Cory Richards who shot, edited and sent off video journals from their trip as they were traveling… up Tawoche Himal in the Nepalese Himalayas.

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As the video started, I was completely aghast. Editing stills and video from the freezing mountains of Nepal while trying to create a new route up a 6000 meter summit seemed completely unreal, and yet they did it, and captured it beautifully. Their story was transmitted via satellite modem in real time, via Ozturk’s blog, and followed by over one hundred thousand people via social media. It is definitely worth checking out. You can find links to the video dispatches below.

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For more videos from Ozturk, check out his channel on Vimeo.

Note: the images above are screenshots taken from “As It Happens.”