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A girl and her horse, nothing like it. The Hawks Perch
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Portrait of Georgia O’Keeffe. Oil on Canvas / American Artist. Georgia O’Keeffe was raised in Wisconsin, educated in Chicago and Virginia, taught, painted, and lived on the east coast until her early sixties when she moved to Abiquiu, & Santa Fe, New Mexico. Close to one hundred when she died in 1986, living alone and painting in scenery that inspired her famous flowers in closeup with strong sexuality, voluptuous lilies and poppies, stark desert landscapes and animal skeletons. She worked in charcoal, water color, and finally oils, and worked large. I’m not sure her story is known well outside the states. She was photographed, courted, and married (1924) by famed 1920’s photographer Alfred Stieglitz who adored her, left his wife and family for her, and made her more famous than he was. She too, was madly in love with him. His black and white photographs of O’Keeffe filled Stieglitz’s famed “291” gallery in New York and caused a sensation with portraits focused on her beautiful bone structure and striking looks, and spectacular nudity. He took over 300 portraits of her from 1918 to 1937. Stieglitz may have been in love, but smart enough of a businessman to cause O’Keeffe’s work to skyrocket in price, averaging $100,000 a painting, monumental for a living artist and a woman in that time. What he did for her career lasted, interest waned some but revived and her work is priceless now. Every girl painter can use a Stieglitz, few get one. Stieglitz died in 1946 and she moved permanently to New Mexico three years later after cataloguing his work and papers. She was 59, began a new life in a landscape she claimed as her own. “God said I may have that mountain,” she’d written, “if I paint it enough.” So she did. / I painted this from one of Alfred Stieglitz’s famous photographs of Georgia O’Keeffe. / When you do portraits, you start to hear conversations from that time, get a sense of the thinking of the subject, smells and impressions wander through you or assault you inescapably. It’s a fascinating and somewhat dangerous occupation because when you put down the brush and turn away you wonder where the hell you’ve been and question your sanity. I’ve come to accept it as just what happens and there it is. One cannot help but see Stieglitz’s fascination with O’Keeffe’s profound physical symmetry. It bothered me. I thought it annoyed Georgia, too, that he was making more of it than in truth was there. Certainly a thoughtfully bright, introspective & solid woman. But he did not capture the O’Keeffe who stood in the desert in thunderstorms alone in the middle of the night to draw the electricity in the air into her being, which she was notorious for doing. Or the O’Keeffe who lived alone on her Ghost Ranch, and drove in her Model A Ford recklessly to plateaus and mountains of New Mexico to soak in the wilderness. DH Lawrence, Ansel Adams, the Lindberghs were visitors. / It’s not the last portrait I’ll do of her, but I wanted to see more in her than Stieglitz’s precision, no matter how beautiful that is to see. / I think he was incredibly kind and thoughtful about this woman’s life, and helped her reach a financial independence undreamt of for an artist of her time and sex. Stieglitz said of the first drawings of Georgia O’Keeffe that he saw: “Finally, a woman on paper!” He admired her, and he loved her. I can’t blame him for thinking her perfect. I’m just not so sure he saw the savage in Georgia. Other US photographers who did some earlier radical work in b/w, nature, and nudes you might want to visit: Ansel Adams. Brett, Edward, and Cole Weston. Edna St Vincent Millay wrote: “My candle burns at both ends; / It will not last the night; / But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends— / It gives a lovely light!” / Which, published in 1918 became an anthem to end constraints on overwatched Victorian girls. A wild, free life… edged with death. / The Hawks Perch
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DETAIL: “The Studio & Spirits Dream” Oil on Canvas. / I spent the last decade uprooted and on the road. I landed in a barn for awhile on a millionaire’s horse ranch, eventually turning the tack room into a studio that was liveable, enabling me to move out of the ranch’s bunkhouse (12 X 12 foot room with sink) and take up barn residence. It was a wonderful place for 4 years with horse pasture – about 200 occupants – out the door. Goats, sheep, mule named Corizon and Rambo the Ram in stalls and paddock on the other side, the Santa Lucia range all misty , mooned, sunned, gusted, and Milky Wayed before me. And it was the first functional studio I’d had in years. I wrote. And I painted. / This dream, this studio I painted there, is crowded with things I loved and hadn’t seen in ages, stored on the other side of America. Over filled with people I’d loved who’d died. With animals alive and not, who still owned my heart. With a chair from my twenties that no longer existed and the dream of my own bed again where such dreams could populate my nights. The cats who survived the move from Brooklyn then to Virginia’s wilderness then across country are on my bed, and some who departed before we got there, here too. My wonderful chocolate Lab – Rodin – is on alert at the bed’s end. A woodstove I’d seen once that would restore life to this heatless barn (I eventually got a kerosene heater). Some of my many thousands of books I carry with me that prop up my life are here, and all the intimate angels swinging through the undone work, the ready easel, the heart’s workplace. The Hawks Perch
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Watercolour / Original Sold, Oct 08. / Full sheet Arches 300gsm (stretched with nail gun) Based on a photo of people viewing the construction taking place in Ground Zero. The viewing platform, inside the American Express Building, was originally a marble wall but was replaced with glass when the building was repaired after 9/11 so that people could come and view the area. The people were respectfully quiet as they look on as the site was being rebuilt.
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Spanish City is in Whitley Bay (UK) and was a place where tourist would flock too. It has the most beautiful beaches but unfortunately there has been a decline in the urban side – however, saying that there is apparently a commitment for regeneration. What makes me sad is that we allow things to fall into this kind of disrepair in the first place – beautiful places like this are blighted by closed down hotels, pubs, amusement parks and cafes. This is part of my college project.
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Release notes - Bulk Deleteting BubbleMail and a Preview of the RedBubble Private Site
by RedBubbleHello! Another week another RedBubble release. This week there’s a couple of new things – the ability to bulk delete BubbleMail and…
Hello! Another week another RedBubble release. This week there’s a couple of new things – the ability to bulk delete BubbleMail and a sneak preview of a the RedBubble ‘private site’. The private site is designed to allow you to create a site showcasing just your work. The thinking behind the private site is that RedBubble needs to evolve into a much more dynamic website. Everyone wants different things from RedBubble. Some folks are here for the learning, some are here to sell, some are here for the positive feedback, some are here to be entertained. Et cetera. We’re never going to be able to create one static site that satisfies all needs, so over the next little while we’re going to evolve RedBubble into a much more dynamic site that people can tailor and adapt to suit their needs. The private site is still a few weeks away from public release, but we’ve got a very very early beta product ready for today and I’ll like to show you all an example and ask for your feedback. The example site can be found here and I’d particularly value general feedback on the new configuration menu which appears to the right of the large images (the menu is still a work in progress) and the options you’d like to see us offer in the private site as we build it out over the next couple of weeks. And finally we stumbled across this review of RedBubble a couple of days ago. We love these reviews and they’re great for improving the Google rank of RedBubble and all the work on RedBubble. So if you feel like writing about RedBubble please ‘go nuts’. The more links back to RedBubble the better. You might also want to check out all the tools for linking to RedBubble available here. Have a great week! Peter
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RedBubble Thursday Release Notes
by RedBubbleHello hello, welcome to another RedBubble Thursday. Here’s an update on what’s been released, what’s coming up and what’s going on: ...
Hello hello, welcome to another RedBubble Thursday. Here’s an update on what’s been released, what’s coming up and what’s going on: Activity Monitor This is still very much a work in progress, so I probably should give you some background information. We think the Activity Monitor is really important to the future of RedBubble. As the site grows, we think it’s going to be more and more important that content comes to you instead of you having to find the content. This means more types of activity events will be sent to you, which also means you’ll probably want to customize your monitor, focusing on the information you want, and ignoring the stuff you don’t need. So we’ve split the Activity Monitor into two groups: “Favorite Feeds”, which will be shown by default “Other Feeds”, for the stuff that you don’t care about too much, but might want to check out from time to time You can move the feeds between the two groups to find the right balance of information for you. Here’s a quick screen shot: It might seem a little overkill right now, but as we add in more and more feeds, I think it’s going to make a huge difference. We’ll also make it easier to organize the feeds (soon-ish) with drag-n-drop, etc. 2009 Calendars We’ve also rolled out a new 2009 Calendar design (all calendars have been automatically updated). Here’s a preview of the cover, February and the new back cover from one of John’s Calendars calendars : They’re still self-purchase only at this stage (which means they can’t be purchased by the general public), but we’ll try and get to that really soon! Pete says “if we sell more than a hundred in June, I’ll buy John a beer”. We think this should be extended to all staff and apply to each batch of 100 calendars, so please, go and buy lots of calendars to keep us all well-hydrated! The Bubble Sites Beta Continues We’ll be inviting a few more testers today, and we’ve made some improvements to the product menu design: The Challenges Beta Continues The Challenge Café Group have been helping us beta test the new challenges interface. It’s going really well, and we’ll probably open up the testing to a few more groups in a week or two after we polish some edges. And… Sets Are Coming Soon! I’m usually really nervous about pre-announcing features, but the #1 feature request right now is sets—the ability to organize or group your work into smaller ‘sets’ or ‘collections’ or ‘folders’ or something. This has been amplified even more now that we’re beta testing the new Bubblesites. We’re still at least a month (or even two) away from releasing them, but I wanted to let you all know that we’re listening, working on it, and really want to get them out ASAP. Etc There’s also the usual swag of bug fixes, tweaks and little things that I’ll let you discover for yourselves! — Justin & all these wonderful people
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One of the first street shots I ever took back in 1964 in the East End of London. This was before Playstations, and probably the only ‘toy’ these kids shared between them was a skipping rope. Old bomb sites still held a fascination though as a form of amusement and exploration, as can be seen here. It was taken using a Yashica Mat 120 film twin lens reflex camera that took me six months to save up for. I used Tri-X B/W film and printed on a hard grade of paper to get the punchy contrast, a characteristic of all my early B/W work. This image was photographed digitally from the original print in my portfolio. © 1964 John Hooton Photography
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All stock can be found on Deviant Art: Shutter-stock – House Image / fallenagain stock – Birds / Lucy-Eth-Stock – Grave Stones / deathrockstock – Skeleton and Woman xbstock – Texture / amptone-stock – Texture The rest was done with brushes / and some of my personal clip art.
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Sanctuary – Middle English, from Old French sainctuarie, from Late Latin s?nctu?rium, from Latin s?nctus, sacred, sanctify. Sacred place, especially the most sacred part of a sacred place. In ancient times and in the Middle Ages, a sanctuary served as asylum, a place of refuge for persons fleeing from violence or from the penalties of the law. To injure a person in sanctuary or to remove him from it forcibly was considered sacrilege. In Egypt the temples of Osiris and Amon offered the right of sanctuary. Under the Greeks all temples enjoyed this privilege, and certain ones, like the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, were known throughout the Mediterranean world as a haven for fugitives. In Rome fugitive slaves often sought sanctuary. Christian churches were given the right of sanctuary by Constantine I. Abuses of sanctuary, tending to encourage crime, led to its curtailment and abolition. Modern penal codes no longer recognize the right of sanctuary.
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Site wide challenges on Redbubble
by RedBubbleHello! Today we have released the functionality for “site-wide” challenges and we’ve opened challenges to all groups. You can see a s…
Hello! Today we have released the functionality for “site-wide” challenges and we’ve opened challenges to all groups. You can see a summary of all challenges on this page and it’s great to see such a diversity of challenges popping up. The thinking with site wide challenges is that this will allow us to create challenges outside of a group which anyone can enter. Initially we are going to be using this functionality to create the next RedBubble publication “The City”. Unlike the previous publications, In the Moment, Gaia and Compassion (the last of which is due for release relatively shortly), “The City” will be on a more streamlined process. Entries will be open for two weeks then one weeks voting and straight to publication. We will have a process to incorporate writing into the publication (to be explained over the coming week). The idea behind this streamlined process is to increase the frequency and accessibility of the publications. We will also make them available at a significantly lower price than the previous publications – to maximise the potential distribution. The purpose behind the publications is to showcase the art and writing on RedBubble. We’ll operate them on a cost recovery basis and use them to market the artists on RedBubble. Obviously for the artists and writers that are published they are a great validation of the quality of their work (and its relevance to the topic). We hope by increasing the frequency of publication to be able to showcase more of the work on RedBubble and to cover more themes. So get your work ready for “The City” – which we aiming to kick off next Thursday. Ciao for this week, Peter PS – The other odds and ends we released this week include more tweeks to the BubbleSite (including the ability to select a cover image for sets) and a whole bunch of technical stuff to keep the website up and going – we’ve had 30% growth over the last month which has strained our resources somewhat.
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You can see live, who visits your site if you want...
by Nuh SarcheIt is possible to add a very useful tool to every site (RedBubble Profile, Bubblesite, any Art-site or T-Shirt-site…) to see directly a…
It is possible to add a very useful tool to every site (RedBubble Profile, Bubblesite, any Art-site or T-Shirt-site…) to see directly and live, who is visiting you…. :) For me it is very informative…..... maybe for you too…....... Now I will describe how to do this…........... You have to go here to FEEDJIT and you will see there in frames, under “Cut and paste the code below into any HTML page for your own instant Live Traffic Feed” a code, looking for example like this: < a href=”http://feedjit.com/ir1/5ceae12346ade7ae/”>< img src=”http://feedjit.com/b/5ceae12346ade7ae.png” alt=”” ISMAP />< /a> Just copy it, paste to the site where you want to see your visitors (write it for example in your comments of a new photo, which you have just posted)... Now you have to copy the last html-address (in this example: http://feedjit.com/b/5ceae12346ade7ae.png) and use it as a “normal” picture you want to post… Just write it between two exclamation marks: ! http://feedjit.com/b/5ceae12346ade7ae.png! (without the empty space….) Now you add the first html-address from Feedjit and use it like a link (in our example: http://feedjit.com/ir1/5ceae12346ade7ae/).... You write it after the picture address after a double point…. And it looks like this: ! http://feedjit.com/b/5ceae12346ade7ae.png!:http://feedjit.com/ir1/5ceae12346ade7ae/ (without the empty space….) It will work and show you your visitors…. When you go to: WATCH LIVE, you can remove your IP, and you don’t see yourself, just the other visitors….. Use for every new site a new code, which you can generate clicking FEEDJIT again…. When you have BLOGGER or TYPEPAD BLOG, you can add this tool to your blogsite too (just click here) and you will get even much more useful informations: for example from which site the visitor is coming, or which site he is using to leave your blogsite…. you even can see which words he is typing in google looking for your blogsite… very cool!......... Because of this adaptation to work this tool here at RedBubble some informations are lost, but anyway, you still can see live your visitors, not only as a number, but as a live feed….................. I love this tool! Try it too…... With a lot o greetings Nuh Sarche Read also: Free buttons for your website… or Little helper to write nice comments… or Use a descreet visitors counter and see informative statistics… Who’s among us?
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Site outage and cleanup
by RedBubbleHello, Today we had a major site outage. There was a power blackout in the Melbourne CBD – where our data centre, Primus Telecom, is …
Hello, Today we had a major site outage. There was a power blackout in the Melbourne CBD – where our data centre, Primus Telecom, is located. The data centre has a backup generator for these situations – but the backup generator failed. So our servers were without power for about four hours. When Primus finally restored power we discovered that the sudden power outage caused some problems with our systems – we’re currently scanning all of our systems to try to track down all the problems. As a result we’ve had to switch over to some back up systems and restore some data from backup. Effectively, the site is currently in ‘safe mode’. What this means is that we’ve turned off all new image uploading until we fully restore all systems and some files that were recently uploaded will not be available until we restore the relevant backup. We’re also operating the site on 60% of our servers – so it will be a little underpowered while we bring the others back on line in about 10 hours. While the site warms up over the next 30 minutes or so people will see 503 errors … so you may have to exercise a little patience. Thanks for your understanding, Peter
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A few site tweaks
by RedBubbleHello hello, Yesterday we released a new RedBubble … there were three main public changes (and the usual behind the scenes work). ...
Hello hello, Yesterday we released a new RedBubble … there were three main public changes (and the usual behind the scenes work). We’ve introduced a new larger size canvas (20 by 30 inches). I love canvas prints … and as far as I’m concerned bigger is better! The base price of the Extra Large Canvas is AUD 135, USD 128.25; GBP 60.75 (VAT exc); EUR 87.75 (VAT exc); CAD 128.25. We’ve added some more functionality to the bulk edit feature. Now you can bulk: Change your mark up, change product options, publish, delete and de-publish We’ve also done some work on how we display t-shirts on the website … so they look closer to the physical result. Below is an example (it’s a black on black design by the talented nofrillsart). The first shirt is the old way we displayed shirts – note that it’s very hard to see the black printing. We’ve fixed this so that what is displayed is much closer to the printed t-shirt people receive. Kudos to John for this work. Ciao, Peter P.S. Before I forget, a quick request. We’re finding that a few folks are mistakenly using the ‘writing’ area of the site in the place of the ‘journal’. Here’s what we say about the journal: Your Journal is a great place to communicate with your fans and the people who are interested in your work. People who are watching you will be notified each time you update your Journal. While writing is designed for creative writing … poems, short stores et cetera. Please let’s try to keep the writing section of the site for creative writing so that the creative writing is not swamped with our journal posts.
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Uluru in the afternoon sun, in 40C+ Central Australia. First Prize Winner / -LifeStyle BestShot Competition Magazines / Published in Digital Photographer reader photos article at this link: http://digiphotomag.com/category/reader-photos/ Features / -Natural Color and Light in February 2009 / -That One Great Shot in March 2009 / -Rural Around the Globe in April 2009 / -Australian Travel Photography and Writing in July 2009. This photo is contained in the following calendar: / Uluru/Ayers Rock is a large sandstone rock formation in the southern part of the Northern Territory, central Australia. It is 348 m high with most of its bulk below the ground, and measures 9.4 km in circumference. It lies 335 km south west of the nearest large town, Alice Springs. Uluru is sacred to the Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara, the Aboriginal people of the area. It has many springs, waterholes, rock caves and ancient paintings. Uluru is listed as a World Heritage Site.
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LARGE VIEW RECOMMENDED 0.5 sec exposure, f13, 10mm Sigma, Canon EOS 450D. ND8 Grad filter. Without blowing my own trumpet and owing a lot to the light and location, this is by far, my most favourite image I have created. A little work in Photoshop, but not much, I hope you like it as much as I do. The Dorset and East Devon Coast World Heritage Site is England’s first natural World Heritage Site – it is known as The Jurassic Coast. It covers 95 miles of truly stunning coastline from East Devon to Dorset, with rocks recording 185 million years of the Earth’s history. World Heritage status was achieved because of the site’s unique insight into the Earth Sciences as it clearly depicts a geological ‘walk through time’ spanning the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.
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Berlin is “The biggest construction site in the world”... International investors and real estate sharks scent in Berlin big business. The opportunity is unique: Never before has an entire capitol been sold and built again. The prices are rising and rising – but the one billion projects are not making progress. The first speculation is out of money. A wave of bankruptcies threatens… This was a quote from “Spiegel” in 1992… Did something change since then?... Berlin is still a big construction site and we still live in a period of transition... We’ve just became accustomed to it… This photo was taken 2009 in Berlin Mitte, at the bridge near the Museumsinsel (Museum Island)...
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From certain viewpoints the old cement works in Geelong looks like a bomb site (or what I imagine a bomb site looks like). The stormy sky just added to the feeling of destruction. / HDR created with tone mapping and tonal adjustment. / Nikon D300 with 12 – 24 mm wide angle lens.
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The perspective of the dancer transports this overpass setting into a new realm populated by Parthenons and other significant ruins.
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This Adirondack river is strewn with glacial boulders that came to rest as the last of the ice sheets retreated northward about 10,000 years ago. Martha found it a congenial place to rest, too, but the water surges past, compelled to constantly seek new places. At the riverbank, we are connected, linked, and attached to all of these other places by the lifeline of the river.
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Abstract Macro Photography / Accidental Art My photograph is a close up of – / This photograph is taken from the back elevation of a slab of concrete. The concrete looks like it was attached to something at some stage because it has create this wonderful sea-scape! / Found on the old waste ground / Old ‘Yorkshire Chemicals’ site / Kirkstall Road / Leeds
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Camera Model Canon EOS 50D / Tv( Shutter Speed ) 1/45 / Av( Aperture Value ) 8.0 / ISO Speed 100 / Focal Length 28.0mm Taken on August 30, 2009 as Tropical Storm Daniel passed through! For more information please visit Brian’s Homepage or on Flickr
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Hopefully my photos will be improving now that I am out living on my own. I took this one yesterday. The construction netting was surrounding a new building.
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