Julia Nelson-Gal (Photo sculptures)

I love her work. Its very inspiring. I first saw a piece at First Friday in San Jose at the Quilting museum with Sylvia & Rich a month or so ago.

This is the piece that was hanging but had already sold...

Open Studio, October 25th & 26th, 2008

I'll be in my studio on Saturday & Sunday, October 25th & 26th from 11am -6pm.

Come and check out the wet plates that I've been making.

Hope to see you there!

Tiny tears from Madrid, NM

One of the many doll heads that I resisted purchasing at a very cute gallery/shop in Madrid called Rock paper gallery. I spent a lot of time in the gallery photographing.

Dirty Doll Head

This little gem was tossed in a case in the funky store Half to Have It in Half Moon Bay. I think she will be a good candidate for a wet plate image. She's not too interesting as a color photo.

Heart Shaped Nose Cavity

This frightening looking little skull was in the room across from Michael's studio space at Djerassi. All kinds of things to look at in that room.

Djerassi Observations

Looking through the window of the old barn where there was pages and pages of writing pinned to the interior wall. The wire covering the window created really interesting shapes and the colors of the out of focus backgrounds were beautiful through the cameras lens.

Lovely Tintype of Young Girl

While searching for something else, I came across this beautiful image of a young girl. It says its a tintype but I'm wondering if it might actually be an ambrotype on black glass?

Outdated: Polaroid Art Show

http://www.polaroidshow.com/

Here is a link to a call for entries in Chicago. Deadline coming up soon.

Tilt Gallery Exhibition, Phoenix

This image (collodion tintype) was selected by Christopher James to be in the exhibition Photography Re-Imagined, A juried alternative & historical process show. The show will be up from August 15th - September 19th, 2008. The Tilt Gallery is in Phoenix, AZ. My friend, Claudia Wornum has a piece in the show as do Gayle Stevens & Jessica Somers, who I met at f295 in Pittsburgh earlier this summer.

Super Cool Camera Purse

I've got to figure out how to make this. It is so adorable! They were selling these at ICP in New York but they no longer carry them and don't have any info about them either.

Another beautiful Tintype

Though the poor child looks scared to death!

Post Mortem Tintype

A beautiful image that I found while searching the web.

here is a detail of the young girl's face

OUTDATED Polaroid Art Show

http://www.polaroidshow.com/

Wet-Plate, Black Glass

This is one of the Virgin images on black glass.

Zoe Leonard

I saw this image by Zoe Leonard in an art magazine and it intrigued me. It seems like a glimpse inside the mind of another. Psychologically interesting. I can't find any of her female genitalia images on the web. But here is a shot from an unusual perspective...

Viewmaster for me!

I finally bought a viewmaster! and it is black :) It came with the original box and some photos to view. Very cool for $15 at the Alameda Antique Faire.

Witnessed the Sale of this Santos Head

$1800 to a nice lady who allowed me to photograph the head before she took it home with her. This was at the Santos booth at the Alameda Antique Faire last Sunday.

Bastidor (Santo with Cage)

Oh how I wish I had the money to buy this one! $350 on ebay. Not a bad deal.

Startle Booth at the Exploratorium (unedited)

Ossuary in Prague

http://www.artgraphica.net/art-shop/prague-kutna-hora-bone-church.htm

Church of Bones in Prague.

Robb Kendrick Mummies

These are tintypes made with collodion and then the emulsion is manipulated while the varnish is being heated. Robb lives in Guanajuato and is making a book. Chris McCaw printed the Platinum prints for the book.

Palermo Mummies

Cynthia Karalla's image of one of the Palermo Mummies. Amberlyn sent me the link. Click here to see more of her mummies and here for the saints.

Vintage Kodak Camera

Decided to just take a shot instead of purchasing. What a novel idea! I definitely don't need to add to my collections at the moment.

Santos Mannequin with Cage

One of the booths I always look for at the Alemeda Antique Fair. This one is still there. I think it is priced at $1750. At least I had a decent camera this time. The guy who runs the booth isn't too friendly.

Catharina Marlowe at Robert Tat Gallery

These are beautiful. Below is a description of her process. Robert Tat said that she is local (Santa Cruz) and belongs to a group of photographers working in alternative processes.

She describes this unusual process as: " A color pigment positive and a black & white negative are made on the computer. The positive image is printed with archival inks on watercolor paper and the black & white negative is printed on transparent material; both are identical in size since they are printed from the same file. Then the pigment print is coated with a layer of platinum and exposed to the negative using the platinum printing process. Teh result is a platinum print with subdued, subtle colors and rich textures."

Sunburn by Chris McCaw

Today we went to the Togonon Gallery
at 77 Geary to check out Chris McCaw's Sunburn series. These are one of kind images made from long exposures. They are very interesting and beautiful in their destruction.

I talked to the Associate Gallery Director about getting Chris to do a talk and I'll probably get in contact to see if we can also do a studio visit.

Venice Beach, Fl

The beach at about noon today.

Chapel of Bones

from Chapel of Bones in Evora, Portugal

This 16th-century chapel is lined with the skulls and skeletons of about 5,000 people from local cemetaries, plus two leathery corpses hanging from the ceiling for unknown reasons. The macabre display was created by a couple of monks who wished to contemplate the transitory nature of life — and communicate that message to others. A painted note over the entrance reads, "Our bones that are here await yours."

http://www.sacred-destinations.com/sacred-sites/dead-on-display.htm

Fire Ants

busy little creatures....

Two species of fire ants are found in
Florida.



Most notorious is Solenopsis
invicta Buren, the red imported fire ant (RIFA), followed by the much less common S. geminata (Fabricius), the tropical or native fire ant.

Palm Tree Fascination

Have you ever looked closely at
palm trees??

The roots, the bark & the middle of a huge tree are all pictured here.

Venice Beach Florida

I'm not typically interested in cheesy sunset images but it was hard to resist. The waves were crashing against the rocks and the clouds were billowing. Gram was waiting in the car while I shot this and a few other images with my little point 'n shoot pentax digital camera. The light wasn't right for my holgaroid, unfortunately.

The time has flown by.

Beautiful Dead Bird

This is so beautiful. I love the detail and the textures. Because it is hanging upside down is it morbid?

What is the typicaly lifespan of a bird such as this?


http://www.sacred-destinations.com/sacred-sites/dead-on-display.htm

This site reminds me of the mummies in Guanajuato.

Post Mortem imagery

So much care and thought were put into memorializing the dead. Now we don't even have headstones or if we do you can mow right over them.

My grandmother told me today that she and Grandpa plan to be cremated.

Memento Mori

I find these images so interesting. I'm really fascinated by how people used to memorialize the deceased and now it is sort of taboo.
http://www.deathonline.net/remembering/mourning/victorian.cfm

I find these images so interesting. I'm really fascinated by how people used to memorialize the deceased and now it is sort of taboo.

Nigel Poor at Center for Visual Art, Denver

287 Flies is on view at the Center for Visual Art in Denver. Nigel gave an amazing talk on Thursday, March 13th at 6:30 in the gallery. See more of her work on her website.

www.nigelpoor.com

Gallery 291

Beth Moon is showing Thy Kingdom Come at the new gallery on Geary called Gallery 291. The address appropriately is 291 Geary, 5th floor.



http://www.gallery291.net/

Save Polaroid.com

Oh please, oh please let Polaroid be saved somehow, someone, somewhere!

Lisa S. informed me of this website. I plan to do everything in my power, I hope you all will too!

Krappy Kamera Competition Exhibition

Here is the link to the Krappy Kamera Exhibition at Soho Photo

http://krappykamera.com/kk10_winners_gallery/index.htm