First Night

Tonight is my first night in New York. I start my new job tomorrow and in some ways I feel like I am starting a new part of my life. I guess I am. I am getting my first 'big girl' job and moving to a new city, and not just any city but New York City. Go big or go home I guess, and that is just what I will be doing if I can't hack it, going home to CT. I know I am nervous but I have a good support group and it has amazed me how I only have to ask and help is there if I need it. There are so many people who have helped me, some I know well, some I know through others, and some I don't know, and I would like to thank them all. So here it goes, I jump and see where I land and what is around me. I'll let you know how it turns out when my feet hit the ground.

Pattty w/ 3 Ts and The Beast

Pattty w/ 3 T's and The Beast

So this image will be in and up coming show in Annapolis, MD, title tba. The curator, one Katie Wright loved it. I am still kind of amazed she chose it.

The Project Continues

After going to breakfast with my mom and some of her sisters and a friend whom we all call Auntie out of respect, I continued to shoot for my "Things for Sale in a Small Town." I am pretty happy with what I found, not just truck and cars. There were a few new things such as my uncle's dozer and a truck bed. There is a truck cap I wanted to shoot but there was some police activity occurring across the street so I decided to hold off. I am confident it will be there tomorrow.

Yellow Dozer, 151 Young St., East Hampton, CT

OH! and I found a bus. That is right a BUS! I was pretty excited about this one.

White Bus, Intersection of Glastonbury Tnkp and Sage Hollow Rd, Portland, CT

I plan to do some more looking later in this week. Gas still cost a lot of money to just ride around with out having some idea where things are. I want to verture further in to the surrounding towns, like Glastonbury, Portland, and Colchester. I want to try to keep it mostly 'small towns' with things like regional high schools. Not cities like Middletown.

Things for Sale in Small Town

So I have started my new project. This whole thing came about from me driving around and noticing in the back of my mind that there were a lot of things, mostly cars, on people lawns for sale. That got me to thinking on our current economic crisis and gas issues. So I thought I would go and see what I could find. This is only one shoot, I plan to go out again later today to a few places were I know there are more things and a big more variety. I don't want this to be just about car, I plan to look for other things, such as firewood or, as on of my cousins told me, bunnies. I'll see what I can find. But I would like some feed back on what shots seem to be working best. I have not done any work on these images as my photoshop program is on the fritz.

Black Volvo and White Bayliner, 186 E. High St., East Hampton, CT

White Bayliner, 186 E. High St., East Hampton, CT

Grey F250, Intersection of Lake Dr. and E. High St., East Hampton, CT

Blue Blazer, 12 Portland Resevoir Rd. East Hampton, CT

Red F150, Intersection of Hebron Rd. and Blackledge Dr., Marlbrough, CT

Grey Blazer, 157 W. Main St, Hebron, CT

Happy Particle Accelerator Day!

Today in Switzerland they are going to fire up the Large Hadron Collider. This is a particle accelerator complex. They are going to shoot protons at each other at a very high rate of speed with lots of energy to see what will happen. from what it sounds like they are trying to recreate some aspects of the Big Bang and look for the Higgs Boson or "God particle," the one that, if it exist, will make all the theories work. (we all know about looking for or trying to figure out that one thing to make it fit and make it all work... hard to find/ never happens). but the interesting thing is they don't really know what will happen. i am sure they have a pretty good idea but when you are playing to trying to recreate the Big BANG (note word bang) it might be a good idea to have some idea.

When Color Was New

when Bess and i were out doing our walking around thing on the 5th, we went to see a show at the Julie Saul Gallery called "When Color Was New, vintage photographs from around the 1970s." now i don't know what Bess thought, but i thought it was kind of awesome and a great representation of big artist taken photos that looked kind of like "oh pretty color let's shoot that!" no really, there were works there by Jonh Pfahl, Joel Sternfeld (Bess's formar Prof...) and a Walker Evens' Polaroid. let's not forget the ladies with works by Helen Levitt, Jan Groover and Nan Golden. but the biggie for me was William Eggleston's NFS gigantic tricycle! it was really cool to see in person. i kind love that image (maybe because i love bikes). i would recommend going to see it if you get a chance.

on second thought i guess just Bess and i will be seeing this one as it came down on the 6th, sorry guys.

Sept. 11th

i kind of forgot that Sept. 11th is coming up (it is my mother' birthday and that is how i think of it), until the other day when i was waiting for the E train and a cute tall blond, i am going to guess, German model-looking boy asked me, 'is this the train to The Ground Zero?' in a curious and excited tone. i said yes it will take you there and then he asked, 'is the stop called The Ground Zero?' i said no, World Trade Towers, then walked away, thinking no you idiot there was something else there before there was nothing. i guess it is good he got me, a non-New Yorker who was exiled from New England (ahh the college years) at the time of the attack. i thought about it while i snuck glances of him looking at his map. why would anyone want to go there. i have never been. i have only been to the towers once long before they were gone. then it occurred to me, that, as with most thing in America, it has become a tourist destination. this was both interesting to me and sad. i don't know if i will ever go see it, i don't know if i want to. but all the time i spend thinking about the Sept. 11th attack, i just keep trying to remind myself that this is something (ok maybe not as many lives lost in a single day) that happens every day in other nations and it is not as glorified as it is here. buildings that are bombed in Iraq don't end up being tourist destinations for supposed Germans, only in America does that happen. but then again, as with most things in America, it was bigger and more spectacular (please forgive the use of the word i don't me to sound like it am praising here) then most.