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Just randomly stumbled on this guy. Take a look!

http://www.mattstuart.com/


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Summer update based on lack of updates.

How about summer, huh people?! Busy busy times. Still shooting weddings.

I did a shoot for POET which is the largest Ethanol producer in the world. So that was cool. A few are on facebook. All you design geeks should check out poet.com. I would love to whisper sweet nothings into the ear of that designer.

I bought a website! Yes indeed. It'll be posted on here when it is all polished up. The web designer is supposed to deliver tonight before midnight. *crosses fingers*

About to do a big time north mid-west shoot, just needing to find the time.

Beginning to consider schools for my Masters in Fine Arts. Hmmmmm. Any ideas? Before you suggest, think 'mountains'.

Above is a cellphone picture from the inside of the studio. Its in an old railroad station, totally groovy. Its taken with a cell phone which I have been doing a lot of lately. (CORY!)

Hope all is well with you fine folks.


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Human emotion.

I was shooting this weekend for a piece for my "Fears" body of work. I was taking photographs in a manner in which I could capture people without them knowing. I got what I needed, but this image in particular stole my focus.
I stared to think about human emotion and how we regulate it ourselves and how we try to regulate others. Obviously there are gender implications to the above statement. Males should be strong and emotionless, women should be weak and full of uncontrollable emotion.

These things were in mind when I first saw this image upon my initial edit. A male and female, presumably romantically involved, shopping together. The male holding his own bag while the female holds hers. I feel like this image holds true emotion. Happiness. Both sexes happy. the male isn't dragging because he is shopping, as the female isn't loathing shopping without a girlfriend. It seems as this image breaks a few stereotypes about sexes. More specifically as they apply to shopping I suppose. But none the less it was nice to see.

TL;DR? The only question, is the emotion only real because they are unaware of the camera, would the dynamic change if they were aware?


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Faint memories.

As I go on throughout my life, I can feel my memories leaving me. Nothing is really as clear as it used to be. Thoughts become fogged, ideas lose their relevance.

Thinking about this concept makes me sad. It is discouraging to know someday we will forget something we really valued. But at the same time that faintness of mind is what makes a memory beautiful I suppose. Easily made, easily lost.

Perhaps this is the reason I decided to spend my entire education and subsequently my entire life capturing and preserving things I see and value. Perhaps I emotionally can't deal with the concept of forgetting. Or perhaps I just want forgetting to cease to exist.

Trying to critically analyze why I do things is hard because I feel that photography comes naturally for me. So this must mean that it is my natural tendency to fear the loss, because I want to capture and preserve the would-be lost.


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Oh hello. I didn't see you there.

This is a photograph of solemn times. I was sitting in my car at 7:30am. It was raining slightly and I was happy. My headlights stay on all the time, if you were wondering.

Currently:

Working on a body of work involving photographs of my feet.

Building a photo contraption for self portraits.

Finished today a pair of mini strobes for photographing macro business. Photos to follow. 

Continuing to shoot architecture. 

Continuing to shoot fears.

Building a chair-sculpture made of a certain everyday item. 

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