a black and white series

Oh my gosh... so much has been going on since the last time I posted. It's only been a week.


A week is a long time, though, you know? For a blogger, I mean. I'm a terrible blogger when it comes to regularity. And I can't really apologize for that since I don't plan on correcting it. I don't mean to seem irreverent; but really, I can't give in to the pressure to be a better blogger. I would be selling out. I just have to be me.


ANYWAY... onto the important stuff.


I got a new lens! See pictures above. It's a 35mm f/1.8 . It is an auto-focus lens. This means that my pictures are instantly better. I shot almost all my previous pictures with a manual focus lens. This is so much more crisp. 


AND I watched an amazing movie... it's called The Beautiful Losers. You can find the website here. I found it on Netflix (watch instantly). There was so much about this film that I loved... the idea of art being accessible, I think, is the one that stands out the most (a couple days after seeing it). I really don't think that this way of thinking about art or photography is authentic at all, in my experience. (I really hate to disagree with people outright; if the author of that post reads this, please know that I disagree respectfully). I think that art happens when people use their creative gifts to respond to their environment, and that response is a form of truth-telling. For alot of people, that means the everyday of encountering trains or painted signs. The idea that someone has to go to school for an art form is, in my opinion, a product of our culture. This is definitely not a fully formed thesis ... I am just sharing some thoughts. I'll briefly share some other thoughts I had (based on my notes that I took while watching the film. There is definitely an overuse of parentheses in this paragraph.) 


1. Christians, of all people, could understand why other human beings, made in God's image, have a problem with pressure to conform. God created us to reflect his nature in specific and different ways. We should be able to understand why someone who was made to be in perfect unity with God is troubled by evidences of brokenness (I think the ones most mentioned in this film are commercialism and merchandising). 


2. Margaret Kilgallen's quote in the beginning about her art reflecting her imperfection and humanity is, I think, profoundly astute and beautiful.


The last thing I want to mention in this post is this... Juliette Hogan's Fall 2010 collection. I don't often post about clothing design (or any of these topics for that matter), but like... when I saw this, my first thought was, "Why should I even continue trying to sew clothing? There really is no point." She already did it. Everything I wanted to do, she did. Dang. At least it's out there. My efforts were feeble anyway.


until next time...
xoxo
paige