Showing posts with label Portrait. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Portrait. Show all posts
8.02.2009
7.22.2009
6.27.2009
4.11.2009
BFF :: Best Friends Forever
A brief portrait of my mom and some of her best friends.
Mom likes whistling tunes because HER mom liked whistled tunes; as do I.
My Grandpa Wilson was a darned good whistler.
I do okay.
Mom likes whistling tunes because HER mom liked whistled tunes; as do I.
My Grandpa Wilson was a darned good whistler.
I do okay.
11.06.2008
10.30.2008
10.29.2008
Good Side :: Crew Portrait :: Richie
best Side from Jan McLaughlin on Vimeo.
All of Richie's sides are good.
Tags: Faux Press Art Metaphrasty
9.21.2008
David & Carolyn
Together @ rustic Lodge.
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- Taken at 12:59 PM on September 21, 2008 - cameraphone upload by ShoZu
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- Taken at 12:59 PM on September 21, 2008 - cameraphone upload by ShoZu
4.09.2008
A Set Dresser's Work...
A Set Dresser's Work...
Originally uploaded by Jannie-Jan
This, uploaded to & hosted @ Flickr (Pro - thanks to The Jeffrey), and Flickr auto-posted the portrait here.
Have been making cell phone-generated movlogs since early 2006, and still find the process of shooting and posting in the moment astonishingly satisfying. Moreover, love honing edit-in-camera skills; get to intuit when to press 'record' and 'stop', to tell a compelling story in as few frames as possible.
On a technical note, was grateful that Flickr could transcode the 8525's native m4v files into flash. The workflow has been frustrated since buying the phone. Some hosting / uploading services I use can't seem to handle the native format, including Blip.tv. I'm not surprised though. My comprehensively-codec'ed MacBook Pro can't play the files at all until and unless I change the file extension to .3gp
[Quicktime]
[MPEG-4]
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- Taken at 8:05 AM on April 08, 2008 - cameraphone upload by ShoZu
4.05.2008
Dad's Dog :: Wee Meg
.:. Faux Press .:.
Wee Meg's going to be invited into the house so Dad will have an indoor pet pal by next winter. As soon as he figures out how he can have her in and out without messing up the floor with muddy paw prints, etc.
Meg's is a barely-contained glee.
I aspire to that.
The border collies always bunked in the kennels until a favorite - Glen - began to lose his eyesight, and they brought him inside until his passing. Then Moss too was brought in for his retirement days.
She's one of the most loving dogs he's ever had, with a sunny disposition sure to boost Pop's spirits, much as Mom's Pipsqueak cat has done for her.
Formats available: Quicktime (.mov), Flash Video (.flv)
1.23.2008
POST NOTE: It Was Arnold Newman & John Singer Sargent
[Arnold Newman - 13 Images]
[Arnold Newman in Florida - by Bruce Weber]
Remembered the name of the photographer of whom I spoke earlier [below podcast].
Arnold took my husband's portrait for the catalog of the Newman in Florida show. I see Bruce's book's gone up in value: from free to $100.
Had the great pleasure of dining with Arnold and his wife - a woman who fought - shot & killed - in the 1968 war in Israel. How do you ever contain that ferocity once unleashed? A gentle soul.
They were - are? - so very fucking strong, those two, and gracious hosts. Their walls floor-to-ceiling with art. High ceilings there were - a full two stories - with an enormous north-facing sky light.
I prefer south light for the beauty of the passing of it and its seasonal variations that tell me where and when to shoot. It's always different, and an altogether marvelous diversion.
Ran into Arnold on the street one day as I was filming something-or-other and it seems to me that I was in some kind of wacky wardrobe. No. It was that I'd recently shaved my head and there he was. He didn't say a word about it.
Now I see that Arnold's gone.
I take a minute to mourn his passing.
Reading the obituary I see that Augusta survived him.
Arnold did EVERY-FUCKING-BODY. You know his work.
Do you imagine we had some rousing conversations about art at dinner and as he stayed in West Palm Beach to shoot images of it, revisiting his early career as an itinerant beach portrait-maker.
Studying his portraits through the years invested my eyes more than I knew.
Here's some John Singer Sargent for ya. Also an itinerant portrait painter.
I do not claim to be an artist; art claims me.
Let me come for a visit & take your portrait in video.
I come from a time-honored tradition of itinerant portrait painters and had some of the BEST teachers up close and personal.
Studied with the best in fine fine art, poetry, film, sound, dance, philosophy, illustration.
Study is of course ongoing.
It's quite an internet salon we got goin' on, yo.
Good news - as a film maker - is forthcoming. Keep your ears peeled.
Tags: Faux Press Art Metaphrasty
1.21.2008
Portrait of Paul :: Triptych
Artist Paul Aldhy Leroy on Skype.
Paul @ MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/paulleroygallery
Paul & I have been artpals since 2000 or so. He once did a portrait of me; I now return the favor.
1.19.2008
1.18.2008
Here We Go Steelers
In Steeler country.
Self-portrait.
- Taken at 9:30 AM on January 07, 2008 - cameraphone upload by ShoZu
1.14.2008
Mom's Friend Pearl :: Embroidery Gender Relations Meditation
Embroidery is not a lost art: a meditation on gender relations.
Pearl recently moved and Mom was hot to see her new space.
Got to meet bunches of Mom's buddies during this last visit as I shuttled her around for visits she doesn't get to easily make.
So good to get to know these fine folks.
So good.
1.01.2008
Instant Documentary :: Behind-the-Scenes
The goal was to get as many of the crew on film as possible, in as little time, with as little trouble and as much fun, while creating a memorable souvenir of and for the people who made this film.
Clearly, everybody eventually had a really good time with the concept.
Please note that this is posted only for purposes of my reel.
Tags:
Faux Press Art Metaphrasty
12.17.2007
VlogEurope 2007 :: Stealing Breakfast
Guilty. Pleasure.
Mmmmm.
Leaving VlogEurope 2007, inadvertently stole breakfast. The victim didn't mind.
The key to being a successful career criminal: induce victim gratitude.
This fellow "paid more".
Mmmmm.
Leaving VlogEurope 2007, inadvertently stole breakfast. The victim didn't mind.
The key to being a successful career criminal: induce victim gratitude.
This fellow "paid more".
12.04.2007
Shitload of Sound Geeks
All in a row. - Taken at 12:54 PM on December 04, 2007 - cameraphone upload by ShoZu
Formats available: MPEG4 Video (.mp4)
Cell Phone (.3gp)
11.03.2007
Picking Chestnuts :: an Autumn Poem
PICKING CHESTNUTS
- Jan McLaughlin
The last of the sweetest corn is in.
The tomato patch begins to thin.
The final field of beans comes on.
Leaves careen.
Acorns plop and thud in wind
that cracks the woods near which we live.
Rain moves down the fields in waves.
Because they fall, it's time to pick
the chestnuts where they land.
Like Easter eggs, they hide before our hands.
Their shells reflect and glisten.
We listen.
Before the chest, the hazels drop.
With hammer and a nail the hazel's
chipped apart for its meat that holds
its perfect winter oils;
the beginning of the laying on of fat.
This fundamental commerce
pays one buck a nut
from Mother's grocery money;
makes me again a girl
in my mother's house
where a gentle, persistent order reigns;
the discipline of days in which
one always wakes this day to watering,
and that, to baking;
the daily foraging for food
so fresh and close the roots sing
the names of their leaves
even as they slide down throats
to return again to soil.
We share the joy of
the coming on of chestnuts.
The first day a few,
then in the first cold rain
one hundred.
I prosper.
We hold the gathered nuts in bowls,
where they turn from white to brown in air,
hardening.
You can't take them 'til they're ready.
Hulls with nails are haughty warning.
Chestnuts.
Boiled are best:
hot and rife with wood & smoke
even without coals.
We tangle with the squirrels.
Chestnuts.
Autumn's Easter hunt.
Formats available: MP3 Audio (.mp3)
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