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Blaine Kern’s Mardis Gras World

Since Antarctica

public art

Roosevelt Island

To be an artist

To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist… – Clayton Cubitt I have to agree with this. It’s…

Art vs Craft

Art is why you do something. Craft is how you do something. – Clayton Cubitt

New Shoot

Since they’ve started using this shot, it should be safe to share. Was very happy to do a photo shoot a couple weeks ago with Since Antarctica. They…

Art

Crush old American-made cars. Display them in a vast empty factory that formerly employed those Americans, on a property footprint that could house thousands of them. Charge them…

Next Year

Resolutions, goals, whatnot. What do I want to do or get from the coming year. I’ll publish a photo book. I don’t know what theme there will be…

Style

While overall, I can be drawn to a photo for many reasons, there are some obvious trends in my favorite photos (taken by other photographers); as seen by…

May 2011 Latex Shoot

I did another one of the Latex Body Paint photo shoots, last weekend. Wonderful model… good time. I was told the privacy standard this time was basically “the…

Faces Project Update

Just a quick update on the Faces Project. It is still alive and well. It was originally scheduled to be done by now. I gave people a month…

Photo Shoot

Finally processed most of the photos from the shoot a couple weeks ago. You can click on the photo below to see them. WARNING: There is nudity, and…

Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe

I love this photo. Came across it a while back on Tumblr. It was taken by Gerard Malanga, of Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe. I hadn’t known until…

Faces

“Faces” project off and running. Write a story describing the origins of what’s happening in a chosen photo. Open to anyone now – 3 weeks remain to contribute….

Since Antarctica at Asylum

Faces Project

Looking for people who’d like to participate in a (hopefully) fun project; writing a short piece — in any style — about a provided photo. To learn more,…

Artist and Audience

To an artist, first an audience is a life jacket, then it is a dinner jacket, then it is a straightjacket. – Clayton Cubitt

Katie West

Things like this are why I love Katie West’s work. Normally she’s known as a self-portrait photographer; but she expresses herself so well in any format she chooses….

sketch

Sat in on an art class at the Torpedo Factory, last week. Mostly tried to keep quiet in the back of the room, so as to not remind…