I was thinking about George's comment wondering how our work would look like together after not working in close contact for a couple of years now. I finished up all of my work-work early today, so I put together a super quick html "sketch." It's super simple code, and I just threw a bunch of our images together to see how they looked liked right up against each other in an isolated virtual environment. I just used mine, Kate's, and George's work because it was the only work I had easy online access too. I used images from this blog, my site, kate's island blog, and george's travel blog. I wanted to use some of Adrienne's work as well, but her site is all flash, so I couldn't easily grab the image files.
http://0hunter.com/picture-sketch/default.html
I decided I would just quickly put ten images together (most are diptychs, so closer to 20.) I tried not to put anyone's work next to another piece of their's, in order to break up the space more randomly to see how the work flows together.
Any thoughts on this technique? I thought it was a quick and interesting way to see the work together and get the gears turning. I tried to make my decisions as intuitive as possible. I didn't think too long about the pairings to try keep them half "random" and half intuitive.
Also, moving on to Kate's idea of actual collaboration over just a group show of our separate work. (I prefer something in between - but I'm a maximalist and think that the best solution to anything is just to do everything.) Would anyone be interested in trying out a quick exquisite corpse type thing on here? I'm open to any ideas. It could be as simple as starting with a photograph and passing it along, or giving a non edited photograph to someone else for them to process. Something simple, low pressure, not time consuming. Just to get the ball rolling.
Hunter - I like the group picture sketch. I like that it is simple, but makes me think of these images differently, yours and mine. Which should be what is great about this whole plan. Yeah. I am saying, lets do more of that.
ReplyDeleteI also like the idea of doing some quicker assignments (I like that you called it an assignment - cause that will make me take it more seriously) to get ideas moving. I am down for anything. You want to get us started?
To build on your group picture sketch idea, what if we do something where one of us posts an image and another creates or finds its pair/partner/partners.
I have been trying to do this thing with Roger where we both take a picture (of anything) at the same time. So, for instance, we decide that at noon on friday for him and 4am saturday for me (or whatever the actual time difference is) we both make a photo, so that at that one moment we are in sync. As of yet the actual photos themselves are not so much in sync, and may not amount to anything.
Anyway, for this group maybe there is some arbitrary conceptual framework we can decide on for an assignment. We all take a picture of breakfast, or the skyline, or water, or our next door neighbor, or something more vague like isolation. . . . thoughts?
I really like all three of your "excercise" ideas. I haven't been more vocal about getting it started because of my own computer issues, and the fact that George is still in south America and Cliff is probably going crazy trying to get his show ready. I'm taking my computer to the mac store this weekend, after that I should be ready to go on some of these.
ReplyDeleteMaybe next month would be the perfect time to start some of these. When are you headed to wisconsin? It would be really interesting to see some of the pairings of the photographs you and Roger took simultaneously.
I'll leave my comment short for now. If I come up with a good way to start the "assignment" I'll let you know.