Mehlicky, The Raccoon-Gargoyle-Leprechaun-Dog-Bear
Jun 9, 2009Hurrs some more phoh-tohs (I love using unnecessary h’s!) from the Fooji camera (and alternate spellings with double letters!). Please excuse the fact that they’re scans, it’s really the only option for putting these online. I also editedidedd with Photoshop – just cropping and resizing, no retouching or anything.
We saw this GINORMOUS dog while we were walkin’ around the neighborhood yesterday. I think it was part-bear. Like raccoons?
So if raccoons and dogs are both related to bears, does that mean raccoons are part-dog? Maybe they’re just cousins.. brothers-in-law? (btw how cute are Sam and Joey?)
I love these shots, especially the one on the right (the wood pattern + slouching gargoyle = WHAT? awesome).
All of this picture-taking (especially with film.. so fun with film) has really been making me feel creative/inspired lately. That, along with summer and the ~natural course of feelingz~, I think. And music.
It also got me thinking a lot about how you can use photography to express feelings/emotion, a story, a sculpture, yourself, anything – and how that makes it a form of art. I’m not really sure how I look at my photos.. Sometimes they can tell a story, but that’s up for the audience – and me, I guess – to interpret. How do you interpret some of my/these photos?
That said, I don’t take photography very seriously. For now, it’s more just a hobby of mine, not quite like music and writing. I don’t want to take any photography classes or anything. Of course, there’s always more I can learn about it and more skillz to be had, but I think I’d rather enjoy the slow course of self-teaching and experimentation than begin to learn it all quickly/from a teacher. I think this way it’s easier to develop your own style of whatever you’re doing “more fluently,” and you can learn more about yourself in the process. I only started taking drum lessons a few years ago, when 1. it was required by school band to take lessons, and 2. I wanted to expand my technique and diversity of playing.. And even then (and now), my drum lessons were/are more of a “show-and-tell” with my teacher – he’ll play some Latin grooves or give me some jazz drumming material to listen to, and I’ll show him some of the grooves I’ve been playing, and so forth. You know, I’m not just saying “SELF-TAUGHT IS BETTER!” Well, I kind of am, essentially. But I have nothing against classes/teachers! (innocent, I swear!) I just prefer to learn on my own, most of the time, that’s all.
Interpret that.
Sammy and I watched this episode of Spongebob today. Pretty interesting, no? A little bit disturbing, too. We also made cards and watched part of School Of Rock. That movie is filled to the brim with stereotypes. But I love it.
Yaayyy hanging out with Tavi tomorrow. Adios!
WHO IS THIS “TAVI” YOU SPEAK OF? SHE SOUNDS LIKE ONE COOL CAT.
Hayyy, Mehlickey be my homeboy!
I love the picture of Sammy and Joey on the seesaw! Bring your cameras tomorrow and I’ll bring mine (courtesy of you, thnx) and we’ll be all ohai yes i c u thar eyein ma camcam.
HEY, I own like..2 i think? Spongebob DVDs. And I watched them last last week because I got really sick. And then I felt better. Because laughter is the best medicine and Spongebob is full of lol.
Also WHERE HAVE I BEEN, I missed the post below this one. I am an awful internet slave. But anyway, Six Flags is still scary, and I am so incredibly happy you enjoyed my Bat Mitzvah, and those pictures are awesome as well.
Ew I leave extremely long and silly comments.
Your photography is really good. The gargoyle & the last one are especially good. The composition & perspective is perfect in that last one. If you have a lot of photos, you should probably sign up for Flickr or SmugMug where you can create nice looking galleries.
I used a point & shoot camera for years and didn’t really take it too seriously. I finally decided I wanted to take the next step almost 3 years ago and got my first DSLR: a Nikon D40. In September I took the next step and upgraded to a D90, which also does video. Using a DSLR has completely changed the way I think about photography. I now think more about composition & technical details like white balance, depth of field, and exposure.
Hey spencer,i think the school of rock pic is funny. We have been on a road trip for a couple weeks and my kids, Max and Ethan have watched School of Rock a bunch of times, they have the dialogue memorized. Anyway, I was in the village yesterday and there was a Lomography store. I have not seen one in South Florida. Do they have one in Chicago. Well if they do you might know they have a cool little catalogue for their store. Have so much fun with the film. It will tie in with your love of vinyl. You also need to find someone who will let you have some fun with a square format camera, they are different to use, more difficult, but the pics are gorgeous! Have mad fun!
aaaah great polaroids!
If you look on my FB page you can see I can’t take a close – up picture of a dog or a frog to save my life. I fail at photography.
i totally get what you’re saying about the whole “self-taught thing!” im taking photography at my school and its okay…i guess. i also just take pictures on my own. of randomest things. i also have a film camera which is great. i dont use photoshop or anything. it takes away from the rawness of the photo. ya know?
Is that a Paleta you are eating? What flavor is it? There are lots of those vendors here in Atlanta walking around in the areas with dense latino populations. I tried a Watermelon one once: Deeelicious.
of course, cool tavi has also cool friends. had I knew that before, I would have put an additional felt brooch to the parcel. and boy, jeff tweedy is not a relative of yours, is he? that would kill my boyfriend… number one wilco admirer.
“…became permanently normal…” is a nigthmare,isn´t? Thanks for the Spongebob link.I haven´t watched that one yet (my kids love it) and I found it veeeeery disturbing and very interesting too.
Experimentation with a Polaroid…hmmm… expensive and disappointing,try with the photography classes (oh well,not now,but remember:the winter is looooong,haha).
please, please tell me what kind of Fooji camera it is that you use, the photos are amazing…!!
OH MY GOD!!! YOU ARE JEFF TWEEDY’S SON!!! my boyfriend recognized him on a family picture on your blog. he almost fainted… my boyfriend said, you should absolutely tell your father, that wilco have to come to play in switzerland. we cried both two years ago on the (too short) gig in montreux, it was so fabulous.
My grandma has a gargoyle very similar to that one…. it’s black/gray and its laying down and has his head propped up with his hands.
As for the teaching thing goes, I too have found it to be more enjoyable for me to figure out things on my own instead of someone teaching me. I started to take drum lessons in January and I really enjoy them because my drum teacher is super cool and he and I have the same music tastes, but I also like to go home, put on a song, and try to figure out how to play it. Actually, what we do in my lesson is 1) Snare rudiments (BORING!!) 2)Sometimes look at different grooves w/different fills 3) Work on song that we’ve selected— right now it’s Poor Places. All of those have really helped my drumming, especially 2 and 3 because they both give me new ideas and give me a new perspective on different things that I could try. Lessons are DEFINITELY not a bad thing, but when you’re on your own more of your creativity can flow, y’know?
Referring to your creative juices a flowin’:
Sometimes I get these bursts of creative energy and I won’t be able to do anything with it. Some days I just want to play my drums, but I can’t because I’m at my mom’s house and my drums are at my dad’s house. :( Other days I want to redecorate my room, but I can’t cuz I have nothing to redecorate it with! I also don’t have ANY friends to talk about [good] music with or discover new bands or something so I get all blehhh and not fun.
Man, writing all of that made me sad and bored with my life. :\
You take some pretty cool photos, Mister.
Great photos. You have captured the essence of summer (Ice creams, swings, dog walking) and I am insanely jealous.
Rock & Roll Ghost – you need a long zoom lens. My cat starts moving as soon as he sees a camera, but with my Sigma 70-300 I can take a picture of him sleeping without waking him.
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It’s interesting that you say “School of Rock” was full of stereotypes.
Rock MUSICIAN characters are famously very difficult to do well. Salman Rushdie couldn’t even do it: his two Indian rockers in “The Ground Beneath her Feet” were cookie-cutters.
Difficult as it is, people love music, and musicianship (to the non-musicial) is an almost magical phenomenon. So we like putting musicians in our work, then we get them completely wrong.
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Tavi = fave. :)