The rest of my Look3 essay from David Alan Harvey’s workshop
Posted by Tim Gruber | Filed under me, workshops
Here’s the rest of my mood essay from David Alan Harvey’s workshop at the Look3 workshop. Here’s the first part of the essay if you haven’t seen it yet. If there’s one photo related event you plan to attend next year be sure to make it Look3/Festival of the Photograph. Simply amazing.
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The Moodstream by Getty Images
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Moodstream by Getty Images is a nice time killer especially if you should be packing to move, but are looking for distractions.
Second Look3 Essay from David Alan Harvey’s class
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Here’s the second essay I worked on in David Alan Harvey’s essay class at Look3.
This essay is one that’s all about mood and only mood.
Thanks to David and my classmates for a wonderful week.
I’ll post the rest in this series later on this week. Need to get back to packing my things up here in Athens.
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Personal Ad Essay from Look3 Workshops /w David Alan Harvey
Posted by Tim Gruber | Filed under me, workshops
Thursday marked the end of the Look3 Workshops and the beginning of the Festival of the Photograph. The workshops ended with our work from the week being the opening for the festival. A pretty neat ordeal to have a packed audience see your images projected in such a stunning venue.
I shot two essays for the week with both being completely different. For the first couple days of the workshop I didn’t shoot much at all except for a few random singles.
Like all creative endeavors it took me awhile to figure out exactly what I wanted to say. It’s great seeing what can happen to one’s mind when you have the pressure of a workshop deadline looming. In many ways it was like my time in grad school - you drain yourself of all creative energy and in your cloudy desperation to generate a powerful, yet simple idea a project finds you and away you go. I believe strongly in the notion that some projects/subjects find you rather than you finding them.
The project combines my two biggest reasons why I love photography; encouraging my child’s curiosity and my love for meeting new people. I can’t thank the awesome subjects here in Charlottesville enough who weren’t creeped out by some stranger coming to their house to photograph them. They helped in making my week a memorable one.
The personal ad essay seemed to be a hit with everyone here and a concept I like a lot. It’s pretty neat to have people like Eugene Richards telling you he loved the series or Harvey telling you he’s going to steal the idea if you don’t continue to work on it. It’s anything but hard-hitting and a nice fit for the type of photography I’m enjoying more and more; a fun and light-hearted topic. It’ll also serve as a nice break from the multimedia project Jenn and I will be working on together this summer that is a much more serious topic.
For the rest of the project I’m only going to seek people out from newspaper personals as the craigslist listings just don’t have the same charm and quaint descriptions that only newsprint provides
Here’s a look at a few of the people behind the personal ads:
This Craigslist ad just doesn’t have the same appeal.
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Look3 Workshops with David Alan Harvey
Posted by Tim Gruber | Filed under workshops
Thanks to a scholarship I’m in Charlottesville for the week taking in the workshops at the Festival of the Photograph with David Alan Harvey.
Jenn was fortunate enough herself to receive a scholarship and is in the Eugene Richards workshop so we’re able to share the experience together - a nice bonus.
It’s pretty neat to be able to have lunch with guys like Harvey and Richards and pick their brain. In many ways it’s reassuring to know that even guys at that caliber struggle to finance the projects they love. How or why I find that reassuring I’m not sure? Guess if anything it reassures me that this isn’t about the money, but done out of passion.
It’s been a great couple days so far and I’m hoping I can finalize my essay idea today. So far I’ve only shot random singles around town. The experience has been great thus far and should only get better as the week moves on. I forgot how great workshop environments can be for rejuvenating you.
I’ll post more thoughts and photos later this week when I find the time and energy.
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SND Visual Journalism Hand-outs
Posted by Tim Gruber | Filed under design, journalism
SND is making 17 handouts available for a very short time on their blog.
The first two hand-outs are already available as PDFs. Be sure to follow their blog to get the remaining articles as they become available.
If the remaining articles are anything like the first two they should prove to be great resources
Richard Koci Hernandez, San Jose Mercury News: How to train yourself.
Stephanie Grace Lim, Pay Pal: How to jump start your creative mind
Over the next week, SND’s Update will feature 17 handouts from the upcoming issue of Design Journal, free for you to download. Hand-outs brought to you from visual journalism experts from all over the globe, including Eduardo Danilo, Nigel Holmes, Stephanie Grace Lim, Vince Chiaramonte, Richard Koci Hernandez, Tim Harrower, Tracy Collins, Matt Mansfield, Joe Hutchison and many more.
We cover how to make a photo assignment, how to make an illustration pop, how to make body text legible, how to navigate the newsroom, how to use a grid, how to think about stories in multimedia, how to think about stories in chunky bits, how to sell the big idea, how to come up with the big idea if you’re stumped and how to manage your people so they come up with the big idea. And more.
Bertha Magazine
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Some needed visual inspiration from Bertha Magazine.
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Soul of Athens 2008
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Check out some the great work my talented peers did this school year and spring at Ohio University with the 2008 edition of Soul of Athens.
Build your own pinhole camera
Posted by Tim Gruber | Filed under diy
Take a break from your computer! Download, print and build your own pinhole camera. Follow the instructions and enjoy!
This looks to be a great rainy day activity for a DIY’er.
Check out the cameras you can make here. Some pretty sweet designs.
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Inspiration from the obituary of Robert Rauschenberg
Posted by Tim Gruber | Filed under inspiration, quotes
The thing I love about life is that inspiration can be pulled from anywhere.
Like this obituary of Robert Rauschenberg:
Messing up is alright:
Screwing things up is a virtue. Being correct is never the point. I have an almost fanatically correct assistant, and by the time she re-spells my words and corrects my punctuation, I can’t read what I wrote. Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.
Don’t fear change:
John Cage said that fear in life is the fear of change. If I may add to that: nothing can avoid changing. It’s the only thing you can count on. Because life doesn’t have any other possibility, everyone can be measured by his adaptability to change.
Be careful of what you know:
Anything you do will be an abuse of somebody else’s aesthetics. I think you’re born an artist or not. I couldn’t have learned it. And I hope I never do because knowing more only encourages your limitations.
Inspiration can be found everywhere:
I really feel sorry for people who think things like soap dishes or mirrors or Coke bottles are ugly. Because they’re surrounded by things like that all day long, and it must make them miserable.
A piece by Rauschenberg:
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