JollyBeGood

This was my favorite picture I took of a children’s series I did (I think my freshman year)  in Scottsdale Arizona. To me this photo depicted our “innocence of curiosity”. Although we might never want to actually see whats down there in that dark tunnel or go check it out for ourselves. That curiosity can’t help but wonder…to me this is what brings on such vivid imaginations, and the inspiration for so many stories like Tim Burtons new movie coming out soon, Alice in wonderland. Click for more for some of the rest of the series and some other randoms.

Oh the long duties of filling a bucket with mud. I totally remember those days.

I apologize for the flash off my camera on these, rainy day so no light. All these prints I printed from the dark-room my self and developed the negatives my self. This was so much fun. Except I often had to switch to gloves because the chemicals started eating at my hands. (above) apparently the boy didn’t like the dark tunnel after-all, he wips some tears.

This one is tough to see cause of that damn flash but the kids in the upper left corner are waving from some little fake general store to the kids waving back at them on the passing train below on the right.

This one cracked me up, the son had a train uniform on. The mother is starring at me cause I look like a creepy children stalker. I remember this assignment was difficult because obviously parents are protective of there kids. I thought I was screwed until luckily someone from my class who had kids actually was there at the park. So I stuck with them and totally lucked out. I took this one from the back of the train as it wrapped around the tracks.

The tongue out-bird watcher.

Below these are a bunch of randoms.

This one I actually got a lot of praise because I did the spiral effect in the darkroom (no photo-shop here) I did this by exposing the middle of the picture for a normal print- like 28 secs or so, while letting no light touch the edges. Then I printed the background seperately about 8 times like 4-6 secs each while rotating the photo and dodging the light from the center of the photo. Ya it was complicated and took me probably two days to master.

This was from some Halloween theme assignment, the red stuff to the right is my flash again.

I found these last, They are pretty silly. Thats my sister (right) and my Dad (left) holding the knife. haha I’m sure at the time I thought these were amazing! Kinda of like the Napoleon Dynamite comment “dude you got like 4 feet of air” after Pedro rides his bike off a curb.

This one really made me laugh. Totally forgot I had these. That’s my mom wearing the Jason mask, you creeper you mom! Well we dont do great work all the time. Yes I know. I have done a lot of stuff that sucks ass. But you live you learn and you move on. That’s the beauty of art, especially when you keep it. Any one else with some artwork from there past they are not particularly happy with? Send it to me and Ill post it. Well as always have fun and be good people!