Big Art Sale!

A couple of days ago, Ned and I went to the Richard Avedon exhibition in IPC, it was really inspiring, there was one specific image that Ned kept getting back to, it was a photo of Avedon's studio in Paris, and how he dimmed the light from a skylight right above the model with a white fabric.

We left the show talking about photography, I was talking about the emotions, the elegance, the feeling of the period and how some of those images, from the 50's and 60's look so contemporary now. Ned was talking about softness, exposure, motion and light.

So, the day ended with Ned ordering another big light, and us deciding that the next shoot we do should be on a light background. Which turned out to be easier said then done - we build the big black box a while ago and in order to shoot on white, we have to move things around a bit.

This turned into a big reorganization project, certain areas need to be cleared, there are drawers and containers and shelves which don't ever get opened and I decided that I need to go over them and make room for some other mess to go into.

The thing that i found in most of those drawers was art, some made by others, but mostly made by me. I had to decide what to do with it. One would think that small 9"X12" pieces on paper wouldn't take that much space, but when some of those are 30 prints editions, and some are quick figure drawings and some are just a lot of drawing, it seem they do pile up...

A few pieces like bad prints and unfinished bad sketches went ot the trash, but the rest - too hard to throw out, nothing to do with really...

So i decided to list them on Etsy and sell them for a special low price. I hope they'll find good homes.

New GiveAway Prints!

I've had this idea in my mind for such a long time, and I'm so glad today I finally got the time (well, not really, I just neglected everything else I had to do today, cause it was too hot and I was too out of it to focus on anything).

This is a series if all the aces from my minor arcana cards, the swords, pentacles, cups and wands, which represent the 4 elements - Air, Earth, Water and Fire and are being portrayed by 4 animals - an owl, a buck, a koi fish and a dragon.

I made 10 of each and they will be send as a gift to everyone who buy from my store until they are all gone!

There is also one more way in which you can win a special set of 4 of the prints, all you need to do is visit my shop, choose your favorite item and tell me about it in a comment to this blog entry.

The raffled will be held at September 5th.

The Lovers

A couple of weeks ago I got a really nice e-mail from a flickr acquaintance in Israel, he was telling me about how much he likes my drawings which is always really awesome to hear and how he would love for me to make a drawing he can use in a tattoo he wanted to get.

We talked about a couple of idea and then he had the really cool idea of getting the tattoo for his and his girlfriend anniversary, and both of them getting "The Lover" Tarot cards.

So today, I made a few options for them to choose for.

Hot day

Such a hot day, and I'm very tired cause I only slept around 5 hours or so. Ned and I had a long and very productive day in the city, running some errands then meeting his mom for lunch.
She was telling us about the Richard Avedon exhibition in ICP and how much she liked it so we decided to go check it out. It was really incredible, both for the artwork and for the curation. We decided to walk back from 43th street to 14.

On the way to the train Ned decided he wants to cut into Fotocare and take a look at some lights ideas the exhibition made him think about, we went there and then, as we were getting closer to the train and talking more about the light, we decided to go into B&H and see if they have what we wanted.

So, we turned again, and walked to 33th and 9th, and spend half an hour trying to explain to the people that work there about the actual products they are selling.

Somehow I managed to stab my toe and it was really painful. We got on the train, stopped for pizza and got home.

I'm super hot and it's really hard to focus on anything, I managed to shoot some new dishes I made yesterday and color correct everything - though feeling so tired and hot, it took ages!

As I was listing the new plates, a friend from Israel saw them online and bought one right away! it totally made this busy \ lazy day end on a really sweet note!

Looser

So we didn't win the IPA, we did get an honorary mention, whatever that means, but it sucks looking through their website now and seeing the photos of other people who did.

Between yesterday night, in which I suddenly realized there is a chance we might win, and this night, hoping to hear hear from them and raising my hopes up, I manage ot really really want this, and though nothing really happened, I feel like this big thing was taken away from me.

Maybe it's the need for official acknowledgment and the faith of a large and important group of judges in the work, maybe it's thinking of me and Ned as a working photography team, maybe it's the idea of being able to make money of this art thing.

Ned's in a really bad mood in the past couple of days, I think the main reason I really wanted us to in this is so that he'll have something big to be happy and excited about.

I'm glad we submitted pieces for this award, but I think the loosing really sucks.

IPA

, originally uploaded by nedrosen.

So last week we got an e-mail from IPA, the International photography award, about getting through stages one and two of their competition.
We already are in the honorary mention category, which is great, tomorrow we will find out of we won.

We submitted the images so long ago and forgot all about it.

It's been such a busy week I didn't even have time to think about, but going through their website, I suddenly realized that if we do win this, it's probably our greatest achievement, workwise, so far.

I know it's a long shot, I'm trying to to raise my hopes up cause I know that if I don't win I'll be very disappointed, however, I can't help but starting to get really excited about this.

Cross your fingers for us!

Dragonfly

Coming home from drawing at Blackbird Parlor, there was a strange noise in the bathroom, I thought at first that someone is doing some drilling on the other side of the wall or that there's a helicopter in the sky. When I went into the bathroom, I saw a large insect zooming around. It turned out to be a dragonfly that got in and haven't manage to find it's way out. It's still zooming around, taking rests on the window ledge but still not flying out.

I'm sort of torn between wanting it to go free and wanting it to stay and get tiredso I can take better pictures.

It really reminds me of this old painting: