this series of double exposed photographs is a rendition to one of my favorite films of all time- tim burton's marvelous adaptation of daniel wallace's novel "big fish." i was rummaging through my unshared film archives and realized i haven't touched this project since early january. with all of the subjects being so hard to get a hold of, it would be almost impossible to continue with it. so i figured i should just share it just as it is.




"now which one's it gonna be? monkey in the barn? or dog in the road?"








"they say when you meet the love of your life, time stops, and that's true. what they don't tell you is that when it starts again, it moves extra fast to catch up."





"it was that night i discovered that most things you consider evil or wicked are simply lonely, and lacking in the social niceties."





"her favorite flower.. is daffodils."





"i need twice the man, 'cause baby, i've got twice the love to give."





"a man tells his stories so many times that he becomes the stories. they live on after him, and in that way he becomes immortal."


nikon fm10

i met with my great friend, ryan this afternoon for some musing on ponce. what started off as my current photo project turned into a full on L.L. Bean photo shoot with my sister in tow. i mean, he is such a natural, how can you not? needless to say, it was a saturday well spent! check out his catalog-esque photos here.

photo by cassie xie

its been a while since i've had my photograph taken with film by someone else. cassie captured this during our photo session last week. i hope to go on some adventures with her and our matching canon's when it warms up, see her work here.

then window, let day in and let life out.

i hope that everyone's january has been positive and smooth so far. things have been really great on my end and i am extremely happy. i wish nothing but the same for everyone, if not better.

i'm currently working on another photo project, a rendition to one of my favorite films of all time. the entire project will be double/multiple exposed photographs. i haven't played around with my nikon fm10 and light is scarce during this time of the year. so this project has been quite the challenge. the image above was one of the first ones i attempted to portray.

i've also become a blog contributor for +F.i.A+ i blog music (which will be both old and new) on tuesdays and thursdays. this is really exciting because i now have an outlet for the music that i've been wanting to share. you can check out my first post here. i even take my capitalization rules seriously.

its so strange how photography has a way of reflecting you as a person. through the things that you photograph and the way you go about doing so- you see the constant growth in yourself. looking back on the photographs that i've taken, i noticed that i approached them very differently this year. while in 2009 i worked on a lot of portrait projects, this year was more of a documentation of my adventures. and in looking through this year's memories, i was constantly searching for beauty. be it through traveling, meeting new and old faces, going on little scavenger hunts or eating my heart out, one thing is for sure- i found it everywhere.

there is so much that i want to say about my visit to the nelson-atkins museum of art in kansas city. but words cannot express in volumes how wondrous it was. my time there was brief so i don't have much but the photographs of things that absolutely stopped me in my tracks. i hope to visit again soon before the end of the year.

as i was getting ready for indie fest, i grabbed my tabbee sign from closet storage in hopes of getting some really good mugshots. i started this portrait series called "guilty pleasures" back in september of last year. read the post here. i never got around to getting participants and the sign started to collect dust. i thought indie fest would be a great opportunity to start it all over again. i loved these so much.







i'm gonna keep this going hopefully at more events and at random. i plan on keeping this kit on me at all times, so look out for me!

i was hard at work last week using up rolls and rolls of film for my friends over at fresh i am. the photos i took were for their state of mind spring/summer 2010 lookbook. my approach was to portray the words on the hats (that i had the liberty of selecting) through both atmospherics and human emotion. these didn't make the cut, but are a few of my favorites.

view the official release and the meaning behind the state of mind collection here.

i received the most raddest birthday gift of them all: a purple 35mm fisheye camera by lomo. these are from last nights debauchery at sloppy seconds with skeet skeet, alexander spit and friends. more fun photos to come with this fun little gadget!

inspired by lewis carroll's alice's adventures in wonderland and through the looking glass, curious dreams, illusions and real things. this is my creation of turning two stories into character portrayal in raw, effortless and real world form. i rounded up my friends for a spontaneous sunday afternoon of photos while the sun was out in cabbagetown. a few hours and two rolls of film later, this is what i came up with :)

camera:
nikon fm10
film:
fujicolor 1600exp 2/1988
konica 1600 exp 4/1989

photo taken at ashley oaks mansion, view in full size here.


merry christmas to all, and to all a goodnight.
xo

photo by cori kindred

i've been sort of obsessing over portland, oregon lately. the sad part of this story, is that i've never been. i'm just living vicariously through awesome flickr photo groups and blogs like this one. i feel like a lot of simple and beautiful things come out of this city, like this band who made such an awesome video. these photos are some flickr favorites of portland.

i hope to see you someday soon, little city. (and stay at least one night at the ace hotel)

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