Posted by admin on July 31st, 2011 — Posted in Uncategorized
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Synesthetic Expressions
Image by Gamma-Ray Productions
I hate how when you process something it always comes out way DARKER than it was…
Often I’ll go on about how I see myself as similar to the bass guitar in terms of personality when I listen to it in a song. For instance, I hear the instrument in ‘In the City’ and see it as very everyday-like, normal, then, oh, something different or interesting happened and it’s got my interest. That’s a kind of personality or lifestyle I evoke out of it. Then it transcends to me because I think I’m like that.
So I put up the proper expression – the expression I have under the ‘In the City’ title is a blank one waiting for interest to occur.
So essentially, all the song titles relate to the expressions on my face in terms of how I see the personality of the song or, largely the bass in the song:
‘Another Day in Paradise’ – I look (or try to look) devoted and sensitive and romantic in a way, as I see the bass in the song (as well as myself) such and like it’s devoted or loving to someone.
‘In the City’ – blank, everyday-like, before something different happens.
‘One Thing Leads to Another’ – I see the vocals, actually, at the end of the song as kind of frustrated or irritated as they sing the chorus. I see myself acting that way or looking that way if I were to sing it so that’s my expression (if you can see it, the damn software put it into jpg. and darkened it enormously). This is the only song that doesn’t draw my expression from the personality I evoke from the bass.
‘Head Over Heels’ (Go-Go’s) – I’m interested and happy and quirky because I see myself as being that way, off to meet a couple of girls for the day, excited. That’s how I see and evoke out of the bass in the song.
Unfortunately the last two heads of mine are bigger and darker and different than the first two because I had to take them separately when I started this, compared to the first two which were taken in much the same way (I couldn’t reproduce the same effect, darn!) It’s why I see this as a half successful/half failed attempt at an idea I’ve had in my head for months, where my faces are just horizontally, properly lined up next to each other, one face overlapping the other.
I also forgot to soften and drop-shadow each head, so the effect is rigid and sharp and straight and annoying. I didn’t do that good of a job.
Posted by admin on July 29th, 2011 — Posted in Uncategorized
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Genesis of a nature lover 1
Image by LHG Creative Photography
"You have camera, me want! Pointy finger demands you bring now!"
This must be 1974 being read to by my Pa, small wonder I turned out a nature lover, being read nothing but books about animals. Hats off to the folks though, I could read properly aged 2 years old. I realise that was probably a bit precocious of me, but when I hear of people leaving school still unable to read, if they aint dysleksic (fair enough) you have to wonder what the hell the people all around them have been doing for 16 years!
Read the kid a damn book you freaks! Your kid should be able to read before it goes to fuckin school, not 20 years after! What else have you got to do, get pissed , work yourself to death, watch soaps, be a yuppie? Get fuckin real! Do something real for your kids, make them read with you!
Admittedly I wasnt into TV when very small , primarily because my eye frame rate is very fast indeed, still is, probably something to do with genes and a very premature birth indeed, and when I was about three all I could see in a tv was the pixels, and the electomagnic colour waves when you ran your finger over it, and up close the pixels changing colour. I still have to relax and slow down in my head not to see crt’s and striplights flash.
But when I could see the TV though, it was great because there was "SURVIVAL" narrated by leonard nemoy, I loved the marine episodes, but the advert breaks drove me insane, (advert breaks take a fucking eternity when your 3 or four ) god knows how kids manage with their concentration broken from subject every 10-15 minutes, no wonder people have concentration span issues.
Personally I like to put a "life" dvd series on and watch it all in one go, (I’ve got one of those 48 hour attention spans ,lol – for god sake man get up have dinner and take a shit ,lol) ) then there was gerald durrell and dave attenboroughs stuff. I actually preferred that because I found bagpuss and the klangers totally unfathomable( well to be fair I understood them perfectly, but just couldn’t see the fuckin point).
Then there was johhny morris and animal magic (oooaaaawwww hello, I’m a puffin, lol), and you can moan about anthropomorphisation all you like, but when your five its fuckin great 
, Terry nutkins, and tony soper, I was hooked, with only occassional forays into thunderbirds , and for some strange reason I thought jamie and the magic torch was the best theme tune ever. The dinosaur craze hit, and since there wasnt much in the way of actual dinosaurs on TV, godzilla shows, especially the ones screened as "creatures from another planet" in english translation were highlights of my day, as were the oddly rare episodes of "battle of the planets" which I believe the asians out there will know as the uncensored "space ninja gatchaman?" . I must have driven my parents mad for a good year transmuting and piloting the phoenix around the house. Princess was the hottest woman I’d ever seen, at least until I saw Sally James. So I like em lookin a bit slutty on occassion. That was not a popular crush of mine in a resoundingly middle class household lol. I think mum would have been much happier if I’d have fancied julie andrews or penelope keith.
I remember the weird thing about going to school, aged four , mum got pulled into some sort of PTA meeting, with my dumbass teachers being concerned that I wouldnt read jack and jill books, "he might have reading problems", they said.
Mum thankfully told them the truth, that frankly I was being a booksnob, in that I had already read the entire encyclopedia britannica, and was just getting into wilbur smith books, kipling, and tolkien and was reading durrel and attenborough books too, having already exhausted just aboutevery dinosaur book in print, and having memorised the latin names of er -all of them. She expressed to them it was probably a waste of time to get me to read out loud because I could speed read and would lose the other kids in about a minute flat, and that elecution lessons were a waste of time because I’d just start taking the piss in about 6 regional accents.
I remeber there was a golden moment though, i’d had time life books with a different animal theme every month, and they were great, nice pictures everthing, a story of great litarature in the middle section from excerpts from "Jaws" to "the rhyme of the ancient mariner" , and my first awareness of the kontiki expedition, which I thought was magic. The biggest deal that decade was though, without word of a lie, that moment when my sister saved up and bought me the deluxe edition of "Life on earth". I had toys galore, but damn I loved that book. The dinosaurs, the images from all the wildlife specials on tv, it all tied up, and while evolution was a vague concept to me, it took hold, and it led to an epiphanous moment. I saw the commonalities and links in well, everything. The last vestiges of taught religion (I wasnt really buying it anyway in my heart of hearts) died, and was replaced by something, that has for me always been infinitely less human, and far, far , more magical. Life itself.
A year later, still not in my teens I read the evolution of species, and the way I saw the world changed forever. It became deep, accurate, precise. So I take my hat off not only to my sister and my mum for facilitating that moment, but most of all to charles darwin, and david attenborough, to whom I will be forever grateful.
At school, (that very epicentre of blind mediocrity and conformism ) they still made me read the jack and jill books though, having relented to pressure I found that was a tawdry hour or two for the entire series. Teacher (A certain Mrs Agg if I remember correctly) looked staggered when she asked me questions and I answered them correctly. They really weren’t expecting a kid to do a whole years corriculum in little over an hour.
Then I (being a snotty little child) accused my teacher of being "moody and on the change" and that could I just go to the adult library section and choose some books sometime before my head caved in from total boredom. As it was "Lion Adventure" , a dramatisation about the maneaters of tsavo, was the best I could find, it was either that or books about hairy caterpillars. I can’t believe my parents paid good money for that school.
People talk about dumbing down like its a new phenomena, i’ve been dodging it all my life!
Shame that enthusiasm didnt survive my teens, I went a bit "kevin and perry" like everyone else, just the heavy metal version. In fact I think "dumbing down" made my teens happen , but 10 times worse. It gave me a severe bout of dissillusionment. I could see the mechanism of conformity, of drudgery , of dogma, and like hell was I playing. I think aged 13 the thought entered my head "qualifications or not, reputation or not, fuck it, I can catch up on this in a few hours." I’ll take the consequences just to grab some freedom time.
I could and I did. Thank god I did , because if I hadn’t depression would have hit much earlier. I apologise for nothing. A life has not reached any kind of conclusion by merely your teens.
That was school for me. 14 solid years of doging bullying, mindless social convention, out of date knowledge, preventing as much shit as possible from rolling downhill, and dealing with the confusions of finding girls cute. I gave it the effort it deserved , and that wasn’t much. School didnt teach me about education or academia, I surpassed anything it had to offer in a few hours of private study, hobbies and interests and by thinking in pure logic without the dogma. It taught me about people, and just how many of them know nothing, how many of them stand on the shoulders of geniuses , and then degrade what the genius set out in the first place. If you have worked out a good educational principle for yourself you don’t surrender it to someone else, promise of qualification or jobs or anything else. If your quick you have to do what you can tolerate, end of story. You have to live, especially when your a little different. Conformism and slavery to the capitalist system is what gave me the nervous breakdown and ruined 6 years of my life, took me close to insanity. With hindsight and retrospect I should have seen it coming. But I didn’t. Too stressed living it to see the third person objective.
Ok, so I was a demon child. But I know I should have stuck to my guns and gone my own way even more.
If only the adult I am now could have taken the special child that I was under his wing before the damage was done. I know I will never be all I could have been.
Things could have been so, so different. The curse of a photographic long term memory is in seeing yourself with clarity, and knowing that you stood not one fucking chance without running into an older you. In a few sentances I could have turned my entire life around. You need those agenda-free words from someone in life. Just someone to say from the heart, "This is how you fly kid.". Thats why I hate school corriculums and the capitalist system of parenting, it does not and never will give you that. The truth of life is harder to see and harder to say. Almost no-one manages it.
Small wonder people turn to religion to make sense of it, but I never will. In my last languishing day on this earth if I give god an even ironic credence , I will just stick my middle finger up at him and say "Fuck you, I could have done a better job of governing a human society when I was five, you are at best, one lazy, conformist, no influence, ineffective, no miracle, no magic, no fairness, pointless, slave-producing, self -adoring, power hungry, dogmatic mother fucker" and hurl myself to whatever oblivion.
Me and mama nature, thats all there is. I’d rather be in the winds of chance and pure evolution every time.
All I know now, is its between me and the wildlife. The only place I feel right, and can offer something useful. Its the only place I feel alive, and can work without feeling like a soulless machine. Its the last safe place for me.
You have to be where you love.
Not Quite the Muskeeters
Image by Jayel Aheram
Dustin, Linda Woods, and Jayel Aheram inside of a Navy-Army Surplus store.
UPDATE: Video is now up! Sam Harris interviews Jayel Aheram on his Friend Friday on YouTube.
First off, Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Delicious turkey and many things to be thankful for this year. Except, of course, the collapsing economy.
Last Sunday, I made my way to Los Angeles for a meeting with Sam Harris. If any of you remember, I agreed last summer to allow people to use my photographs royalty-free for the War On War Music Video Contest. I was also one of the judges along with really cool people like Liza Minnelli, Cyndi Lauper, and Lizzy Caplan (loved her in Mean Girls). After getting lost a few times on my way to Los Angeles (as well as my getting the time totally wrong; I was two hours early), I finally got to meet the very charming and witty and made-me-comfortable-even-if-I-was-a-nervous-wreck Sam Harris. We did a Friend Friday video and talked about a few things. Of course, I probably bombed it like always.
There is a teaser video out prior to the release of the Friend Friday video this Friday, November 28th. Sam has an amazing voice and I regret not bringing my camera with me. The man is just naturally photogenic. And very much a parent. His cupboard is filled with brightly-colored, child-friendly cups. I was momentarily transported back to a time when my little brother was still a raging toddler.
After sharing cool stories with Sam, I head out to the very bohemian neighborhood of Silver Lake where I met up with Linda Woods and Dustin. We ate lunch at Good, where I sipped on my virgin Bloody Mary (I am on a weird tomato-juice-drinking binge as of late) and listened to Linda and Dustin share very interesting stories.
I really like Linda Woods. As an artist, as a businesswoman, and as a person. She is extremely professional, friendly, courteous, and funny. Plus, she totally gets how important social media is to independent artists. Oh, and we both love taking photographs of total strangers and random things on the street.
I just met Dustin that day and I like him, too. He is funny, witty, and he gave me a couple of CSI crew shirts. Which I am totally rocking right now. I am looking forward to hanging out with the both of them more in the future.
The premiere of Rosie Live is tonight and my photographs were almost used tonight. NBC Studios contacted me about using my photographs as part of one of the performances during the premiere, but due to some creative decisions, they decided not to go forward with it for tonight’s show. Rosie told me that she still plans to use my photographs, so maybe next year?
Norma — AKA “Rocket”
Image by kathy doucette
UPDATE: Norma was adopted! Tons of cool hounds always available at shelter.
Photo by Kathy Doucette, May 2009.
This is Norma. She REALLY needs a new name, though. I call her "Rocket" since she is just a ball of energy and loves to run at high speed and play.
Norma is a young girl, approx. 45 pounds. She is a hound mix. Norma gets along with other dogs, likes kids and would LOVE to take long walks with you.
Norma is spayed, current on shots, microchipped, vet work current.
Would you like to meet her? Here is info on how and when you can do that: www.petfinder.com/shelters/VA123.html
Already have a full house? What about blogging about Norma or sending her photo link around? Thanks!
Posted by admin on July 29th, 2011 — Posted in Uncategorized
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New Journey Full of Bright Days and Dark Days
Image by AvneetKaur
Wow….its been a while since I posted eh?! Sorry guys. Been a little busy organizing myself and getting used to school. Man I am so loving my ACAD experience so far (making me the color red?). Meeting new people and learning everything art related. One interesting thing about this school is that you will most definitely find lots of people walking around with pink, purple, blue and even rainbow colored hair!…Along with many piercing. Just an absolute variety of different and down to earth people. Wanna know how I stand out? I’m the only girl in the entire school with a turban. Yep, thats right, I’m turban girl! Haha. Anyways! Need to get back to my work. I’ll try my best to keep posting pictures and keeping everyone updated for those who are curious about my life.
We always have pitbulls needing homes
Image by kathy doucette
Photo by Kathy Doucette, May 2009.
This is Duchess. She is a young female pit bull. Duchess is an easy-going girl who gets along fine with other dogs and people. She loves to play with her mother, Blaze, and MUST BE ADOPTED WITH HER since the two are very bonded.
Duchess’ family needs to move and Duchess and Blaze can’t go with them. They are now living with their family, but hope to be rehomed very soon!
Got room for two lovely pit bulls? If so, come check out Duchess and Blaze.
Duchess is spayed, shots current, vet work current and microchipped.
Would you like to meet her? Here is info on how and when you can do that: www.petfinder.com/shelters/VA123.html
Already have a full house? What about blogging about Duchess or sending her photo link around? Thanks!
Gentle pit bull pair needs to be rehomed
Image by kathy doucette
Photo by Kathy Doucette, May 2009.
This is Duchess. She is a young female pit bull. Duchess is an easy-going girl who gets along fine with other dogs and people. She loves to play with her mother, Blaze, and MUST BE ADOPTED WITH HER since the two are very bonded.
Duchess’ family needs to move and Duchess and Blaze can’t go with them. They are now living with their family, but hope to be rehomed very soon!
Got room for two lovely pit bulls? If so, come check out Duchess and Blaze.
Duchess is spayed, shots current, vet work current and microchipped.
Would you like to meet her? Here is info on how and when you can do that: www.petfinder.com/shelters/VA123.html
Already have a full house? What about blogging about Duchess or sending her photo link around? Thanks!
MUSIC: “Maybe” instrumental by Sunye – Joy
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