Not counting our first impromptu showing at Arles last month, STRANGELANDS is our collective first foray into the real world. We're all basically strangers, most of us never having met off of the internet.
Greg Flanders summed it up like this:
STRANGELANDS is a collaborative effort by an international team ...
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I know. You've probably already done your part, and since January 12th other disasters have claimed the spotlight, as they always do. As we always knew they would. We all knew we would forget about Haiti, as did I for the most part. Then, through a chance meeting I was introduced to a person who ...
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I’ll have 12 or so pictures hanging at this group show at Gallery 27 in Santa Barbara opening this Thursday during the local Artwalk. The show is designed to…
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In the last few blog posts I tried to describe what Alex and I were up to all month for strange.rs. He does a much better job of it here.
Yeah, that's my voice in there. The one speaking proper English...
Everybody loves Alex ...
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law 20, crime 20,
copulation 30,
LOVE — 50.
Forget overlay. Love never won yet… since platitude was an overnight scratch,
if you can get 3/5 on cliche,
put down everything you’ve got.
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"Los Angeles is a volcano, spilling wreckage and desire in ever widening circles over a denuded countryside."
Mike Davis, City of Quartz
The strange.rs site has been live for a month and a half now. We're all still getting the hang of working together, vetting ideas and concepts, and agreeing on ways to ...
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Andy Newson had the idea for flickr members to donate a print through The Charity Print Auctions group in an effort to raise money to help the Haitian Earthquake victims. I'm in a bad spot financially at ...
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L.A. Contemporary Gallery in Culver City hosted a benefit, one-night only, mixed-media, silent auction on May 17, 2008. The list of artists was impressive: John Baldessari, Robert Rauschenberg, Tracey Keilly and Kathleen Buckley on the art side of things.
Photo had its own tiny little ...
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Whew! I never get away. Even when i get away, I don’t really get away.
Just recovering from a grueling week-long trip to northern California.
I was in Sacarmento all weekend, participating in the Journalism Association of Community Colleges state conference.
Seminars and workshops for writers, photographers and designers ran for four consecutive days. There are also ...
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“Can’t Pay The Rent.”
It’s tough out there, so La Pura Vida Gallery has decided to examine “the phenomenon of photographers forced to set up print sales just to pay the rent,” and maybe help a few of us out in the process.
I’m hearing 40+ photographers from around the world, should be quite the ...
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