15/32" (whatever that means...)

may 2010

today me and tess went to see the RISD graduate thesis show at the providence convention center, in downtown providence. this was an even smaller show then the smallish show last year with only 5 poeple, and only 4 of them doing photo related work, though one of those 4 also had an explanetory video with her work. so only 3 Photo PER SE work there. one piece that was by a graphic designer who i had a class with once, was the be all of all photography. he had 4 eggelstone like photos in 4X5\8X10 format aspect ratio, printed huge, in frames with glass, depicting empty parking lots of strip malls and dollar tree stores. the only thing is they were not photos, but illusrations with very little detail, infact only as much as you need to understand what you are looking at and trigger all your larry sultan, eggelston, Joel Sternfeld and the such and top all of them easily. only 4 of those, and fuck it was better then the whole photo show put together. i thought about it at length, what it means about me, what i can learn form this about my comming year, what should i do about it and so on, the only thing i understood fully and already knew to some extent is that i do not need to work so hard. i burned all my bridges at this school long ago, i will not have any recomendations for the future from any faculty here, and i can be nice and show progress play the game and still have time to get home for cornflakes (Vilos Cohaagen, Mark core reactor bomb 1990). or do other shit. like build a bed. i have been strongly motivated by maho and johnathan to build a bed frame like i used to and enjoyed doing, rather (quite colloquially by Mr. Spock) buy one we like from IKEA. this will also be a chance to buy more POWER tools yeah. but i need them anyway.
tommorow is the first day of work at Zeffs photo supply, the photo store i got hired by. im getting that tickle now but i am not sure its the starting a new job kind of tickle. i will keep the blog posted.

may 2009