communicating the passage of time

In this project I will take photo's that communicate the passage of time. I may do one series about my early morning meditation practice. Also I may follow a person around. I would like to incorporate it into a book. A great web site I saw showed a picture of a fan moving in a book as you quickly flipped the pages. Suddenly the hair of the woman flipping the pages began to blow. It was cool!

childhood memory

I am going to take 20 - 25 images that relates or serves as a visual time capsle. This will be to try to convey the essence of that memory. I am not sure what memory I will do. I am thinking of doing these possible memories: uncle bo bo's camp, getting lost the night of the 4th of july celebration with my mom and gram.

Light Study: A few notes

When doing these drawings I did my best to draw the light. I did 3 views out of 3 different windows from my apartment for a total of 9 views. One window shows a vie of a big white house across the street. It has a large yard and just beyond it are some condominiums. It was interesting drawing the light on this house at 8 a.m. in the morning. I was alert and refreshed from a nice sleep. The light in my opinion was most bright at this time. All the house and snow in the yard blended together. I enjoyed drawing the light at this time the most.

The nighttime drawings were the most difficult as I began to have to draw the outside and the inside at the same time. The reason for this has to do with the reflection from the artificial light from inside my apartment.

Literally the light was hitting the snow and the light made the place look fun and woodsy. The trees had nice shadows casting down in the snow.

The midday drawing at 4:00 made me become more aware of the shadows. The shadows at this point were very dark.

frame, Vantage Point, and Perspective

The book I choose is called Cross-town. It has photos of photographer Helen Levitt. The photo I am going to write about can be viewed below. In this photo one can see an older woman standing by a taxi. The frame is a single static image. The frame in this photo is medium in size and is perfect as it gives us information and leaves out other information to create mystery and intrigue. Through the frame it shows a fleeting moment in time. Levitt had to take this photo and had little time to think about it. I think this goes to show that sometimes art is done best when you don't think about what your doing.

The woman is wearing a checkered suit that matches the taxi's strip of checks. This frame tells me how much the taxi cost. The image was taken from a behind perspective and goes well this way as the woman is about to leave us in the taxi. The window half rolled down as the woman leans in to speak to someone we can't see. This type of perspective allows us to be more in the experience of the woman. She may be asking him if he can drive her the the lower east side? The box is shown clearly and you can even feel how the twine wraps around and holds the box. The frame communicates action and movement, as it is a fleeting moment in time.