A bunch of local shooters have been photographing Ft. Worth Ave. attempting to create a record of every block. There are great plans afoot for this corridor and a need to capture it as it is now was realised. We hope to do it again in 10 years, 20 years etc etc. It should be a fun night.
Here some blurb…
Haley Henman Gallery hosts a two-day exhibit ‘Work Prints’ Commerce Street Bridge to Westmoreland Road; a Time Capsule. It will feature the work of 20 local photographers who each focused on different properties – assigned by lottery – on Fort Worth Ave. Photographers include Les Hall, Kenda North, Howard Milner, Scott Jenke, Charles Reed, Joshua King, John O’Donnell, Ken Smith, Adam Fish, Kent Barker, Dan Piassick, Jeff Baker, Richard Doherty, Manuel Pacina, Larry Travis, Scott Keith, Robin Sachs, Eva Gordon, Mari Hidalgo, and David Lyles.
The opening reception is Fri., Feb. 26 from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.; the exhibit will be open for viewing that Friday and Sat. the 27th. There will be a Mexican corn, nachos & hot dog carts parked out front as well as appetizers from Buena Vista restaurant inside along with wine water & soft drinks. A list of delicious local eateries will be available at the door for further exploration of this unique area of Dallas.
 Photo by Eva Gordon
Haley Henman Gallery
2335 Hardwick St.
Dallas, TX 75208
(214) 749-1277
A bunch of Dallas photographers have been taking pictures of all the buildings on Ft. Worth Ave. One day it will all be different and the Association wants a record. I had pretty crap buildings on my stretch so I took some time today to shoot the Mission Motel, which is awesome.
I shot it using a pano-rig and made four rows of 19 images totaling 76 images. The file is a TIFF of 1.5GB. If it was printed at 300DPI it would be 12′ x 3′. Here the whole image – shrunk of course and a 100% crop of a detail area just to the right of the cedar.
I went to the site of the JFK assassination yesterday partly to recognize the man and also to see what the side show was like. There were a mixed bag of tourists, locals, conspiracy theorists and even an ex-cop from Cincinnatti dressed like the detective who was cuffed to Oswald when Ruby gunned him down. I posted more pictures over here at flickr.
Look at this beautiful girl. How old do you think she is? Probably anywhere from 15 to 19. Quite lovely with her freckles and blonde hair. Minor detail – this was taken in 1910 in Washington DC. She’s probably been dead at least twenty years – if she was alive today she would be 125.
And yet the image shows us a girl who would not be out of place in a Ralph Lauren advertisement.
I can look at images like this for ages wondering, how they felt, were they waiting to go do something after this picture was taken, what they were thinking of the process, did they imagine a world 100 years later where we could take pictures, video even, of ourselves and immediately share them with others around the World?
We live in amazing times.
The rain and greyness had depressed me more than I realised. It wasn’t until good weather returned that I realised how bummed I had been, with the attendant lack of blog posts.
Yesterday I worked on the patio honing on my mortaring/grouting skills. Today my lower back and thighs are dying from the kneeling and bending over. I think it’s going to work out well though.
We walked the dogs along the levy this afternoon and it wasn’t till we were half way thru that I realised how crap I felt. We walked three miles and the bowsers had a lovely muddy time. I took my Lumix LX3 which, thanks to a firmware update from Panasonic, can now shoot in 1:1 ratio which was my favourite crop on my old Ricoh XP100. I really like it.
A Telegraph gallery – The invisible man: Liu Bolin’s camouflage artwork – shows the work of Liu Bolin, a Chinese artist who paints people (himself?) in a manner so that they dissapear into the background.
This technique has been around for decades. I remembered, and looked up, images of Veruschka, a super model of my youth. On reflection her images are even better. But the Chinese guy claims its art so he wins.
Above: Liu Bolin. Below: Veruschka
Items so iconic they stand alone as symbols of heroism, power and threat.
Exhibit here.
This is why I love Formula 1 racing. Check out this Toyota TF109 sitting in the factory, pre-season, waiting to hit the track. Look at that workshop. It’s like an operating theatre – white tool chests, where the hell do you get white tool chests? The technology & money behind these cars is amazing.
I was lucky enough to cover an F1 race back in 1985 and being able to go anywhere in the paddocks and select parts of the track was awesome. I wish I still had those images. This shot and tons of other really great images and F1 news can be found at the Big Picture part of http://www.f1minute.com/
Credit: Toyota Motorsport GmbH
Here’s another flickr post that I haven’t gotten around to sharing with you folk. South of Marfa, TX – actually, really Valentine, TX – stands a Prada store in the middle of nowhere. It’s an art installation and pretty funny it is too. Well worth a visit. My favourite part of Texas. Click image for more pictures from the set. Here a NY Times article.
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