Obey Dallas – continued, ammended

Apparently, there was some interwebs chatter regarding Shepard Fairey and his status as a sellout following his recent DJ appearance and muraling in Dallas. I don’t think I contributed to this chatter, as I don’t think my website gets much traffic,* but I would like to correct a few of my own errors, just to be sure that I’m being consistent and giving credit where it is due.

In my post about his visit, I suggested that Mr. Fairey didn’t actually participate in any of the wheatpasting. I am happy to report that Shep did, indeed, do some of the work himself, if the images here, here, and here, and an interview he gave to Peter Simek of D Magazine are to be believed (and I believe they are). Additionally, the murals they completed were mostly spraypaint (and bucket paint, perhaps, though I saw no evidence of that in his production photos).

I also reported—incorrectly, thanks to information on the Dallas Contemporary website—that Shep and the gang created “more than 12” murals in and around West Dallas… they did 5: one outside the Dallas Contemporary, three on Singleton (at McPherson, east of Sylvan), and one at the corner of Sylvan and Fort Worth Avenue, on the retaining wall below the Belmont Hotel. The image above is part of the mural outside the Belmont, and the full gallery—images I shot last Sunday at the Contemporary and on Singleton, plus shots of the Belmont mural from today—is below.

I’m very thankful that the Contemporary brought Mr. Fairey to Dallas, and found walls for him to decorate, as this visit has sparked some renewed interest in an idea I have for a follow-up to my thesis. Since I completed that essay, I’ve learned a great deal more about graffiti, and my thinking on street art and graffiti (and the Splasher group) has changed somewhat. We’ll see if I can keep this interest going long enough to get something written.

Anyway, here are some photos of the Belmont mural, and a reposting of the images from last week. Enjoy.

Also, I did find one (marginally) illegal piece today… there’s a sticker on a light pole on a tiny median at Singleton and Fort Worth Avenue about 20 yards from the mural at the Belmont… So that’s something, anyway.

 

*Google analytics reports 222 unique visitors and 28 repeats between January 12 and February 11… I’m not that popular *snif*

365.45 Abstraktes Bild

Momma is a big fan of spectra. She has a 14 color spectrum of yarn on top of some bookshelves. She has a 6 color spectrum of water bottles on one windowsill, and this set of 6 glasses on another windowsill.

I didn’t get a great angle on this due to physical limitations, so the yellow and green glasses sort of blend together (the wide aperture didn’t help either), and this is another handheld multifun thing, so sharpness isn’t what it could be, but I really like the colors, distortions, and the weird white ghost in the lower right corner, and I’m really glad I shoot raw, since the D7000 was set up for -2 EV from yesterday…

Any tricks you have on how I might get myself to remember to reset the camera before putting it away for the day will be appreciated.

Anyway…

D7000, Sigma 30mm f/1.4, ISO100, 1/500th (twice), f/2, -2EV (pushed to +2 in Aperture), some saturation added to reflections, black point raised slightly, and that’s about it.

And by the way, this is the only picture I’ve taken today… I think I’ll go rectify that.

365.44 HDR, the Easy Way

365.44 HDR, the Easy Way (or, More Multifun Fun, or, again, I couldn’t think of anything to shoot, so I shot this, or, “the view from my desk at 5:09 pm”)

I’ve been busy this afternoon: I had to fetch groceries since I need to go in to work tomorrow and need to make soup tomorrow and one of the annual marathons is on tomorrow which means I’ll be boxed in or out from ~6am to noonish; I posted short reviews and example images of the last two Hipstamatic Disposable cameras on my blog (and example shots from regular Hipstamatic’s new lens) [If you’re curious: the El Mario and Gregory GR8 cameras are complete wastes of 99 cents, imo.]; tried to wash clothes but all the machines are full; sat down to check email, found the sun glaring in my eyes, realized it was getting late, whipped out the camera and made this double exposure.

This technique definitely has some possibilites.

D7000, Sigma 30mm f/1.4, ISO100, 1/125 and 1/30(ish), f/3.5, both at -2.0 EV, shot in Aperture Priority mode, and stitched together in camera.

And if you look closely, I did move a tiny bit…

The Americana Lens from Hipstamatic

Hipstamatic offered up a new lens and case today. Here are some example shots of the lens with a few of my favorite films.

The lens gives everything a blue or purple cast, with a blurred bit in randomized areas.

I like this one, and it makes me think I should go through and turn off some of the films and lenses that I don’t like so they don’t show up in the randomizer. Then again, I use the randomizer for pretty much every shot I take, and I sort of like it when I set up a decent composition take the shot, and walk away, only to discover that the randomizer coughed up the Dreamy film…

And the case is glossy and crisp, like something from the future in the 1950s maybe, and it’s my current case of choice. (Sadly, I didn’t take a screenshot, and probably won’t, but if you ask nicely I might be convinced to add one someday.)

Hipstamatic Disposable update 9 – the El Mario camera

Desaturated. Orange Light Leaks. A Sort-Of Interesting Border.

If I start up another one of these, I’ll be turning the light leaks off and shooting with B/W and that neat border in mind… But that’s a big if.

Take the 99 cents you were going to spend on this camera and go bury it in the neighbor’s yard, or give it to the next person that asks you if you have anything to spare, or stick it in the pocket of those pants that change always falls out of and go ride roller coasters until it all falls out of your pocket and is lost forever.
All of these are better uses of your hard-earned change, and I think Synthetic should be ashamed of their efforts on the 99 cent unlimited cameras, all of which are uninspired and appear rushed attempts to appease the users who were upset by their pricing model of the D-Series app.

 

Oh well.

Hipstamatic Disposable update 8 – the Gregory GR8 camera

Well…

I find Gregory GR8 pretty meh.

Fat White Border. Faded Orange Color Overlay To Make It Look Old.

Good brightness and clarity overall, but not so much that I didn’t wish I still had my 99 cents… And I definitely won’t bother loading up another one of these…

The slider takes a bit of the orange cast off, but doesn’t do much beyond that.

I wish I had something more to say, but I think the random shots speak for themselves.