{"id":353,"date":"2003-03-09T23:12:59","date_gmt":"2003-03-10T07:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/?p=353"},"modified":"2003-03-09T23:12:59","modified_gmt":"2003-03-10T07:12:59","slug":"a-fine-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/?p=353","title":{"rendered":"a fine sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"CRW_9703.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jack.orangephotography.com\/archives\/CRW_9703.jpg?resize=450%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n_annelee at the sfmoma<\/p>\n<p>i was able to find extract myself from my great suction hole known as working for the self\/art. yeah, it ironic when you work for someone else you can&#8217;t wait for the weekend or the time away from work. but now, anything else that isn&#8217;t in name of the all consuming art is a distraction. obviously, i know that there needs to be a balance but i just notice how ironic it is.<\/p>\n<p>so i went to sfmoma with my art gurus the big <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tjpotter.com\">tj<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcott.com\">kc <\/a>plus some of their older friends. it&#8217;s definitely interesting hanging out with the art misfits such as tj and kc. i probably couldn&#8217;t really hang out with really arty people that are really connected to the industry. well, it&#8217;s cool that we do what we do but i like people that don&#8217;t take their art too seriously and that&#8217;s what tj and kc are about. we need to express and make a living but there is more to life than art. anyway, got to see andre gruski, that photographer that takes landscapes of people in a a captialist context. i was slightly surprised by what i saw but it&#8217;s not exactly my cup of tea. there was an almost photoshopish quality of technical perfection to his photos. certainly i can appreaciate what he&#8217;s doing but not something that speaks to me. but then again, there&#8217;s not too much art that i&#8217;ve seen that i would pay for. shit, i wouldn&#8217;t pay for my own work if it was on sell. still, it got me thinking about what seperates the photographers from the artist. and the most straightforward answer i can to was again, intention. there are a lot of great photographers that capture incredible moments but it&#8217;s the intention of the body of work that elevate the photograph to the realm of art. the problem is that i&#8217;ve always had issues around what constitutes as art because it&#8217;s such a loose term. i think my intellectual background has also jaded my perspective towards art and now that i am sit on the fence, i need to become more friendly with the concept. invariably, everything is simply a label for some joe to grasp.<\/p>\n<p>so, the second part of my fine sunday was hanging out with my mentee. He was a bit sick today so we decided to go see the recruit. a slightly surprising entertaining movie with a hottie that reminded me of my lady friend. she had that eastern european tall sexy in one second and cute as hell a second later. that&#8217;s a double whammy for sure. anyway, the kid is quite quiet and i am sure he&#8217;s wondering what the hell am i suppose to say to this adult that&#8217;s paying for my movie that isn&#8217;t my dad or brother. they said it would take some time before they trust and open up to you and even the comtfortable silence is all part of that process.<\/p>\n<p>lastly, i felt i should continue my lazy sunday with a bit of more movies after coming home. i caught the tail end of vanilla sky and the premise was pretty advante garde. not really but for some reason it reminded me so much of the buddhist text i&#8217;ve been chewing. the basis premise being that it is our mind that creates our reality but there is a ulimate reality in which we can awaken to. as wonderful as the dream\/nightmare we create in our own mind, there is lies an undertone of false satisfaction\/false fear that is married to that concept. i do realize that i am in one of those mindsets where i place everything i experience to the filter of that mindset.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nanyway since blue is the theme of the day, i may as well include this image i took at bimbos a couple of weeks ago. blue works very well with orange so i think it will be part of my trend moving forward.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"6D6E1789.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jack.orangephotography.com\/archives\/6D6E1789.jpg?resize=450%2C301&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"450\" height=\"301\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>_annelee at the sfmoma i was able to find extract myself from my great suction hole known as working for the self\/art. yeah, it ironic when you work for someone else you can&#8217;t wait for the weekend or the time away from work. but now, anything else that isn&#8217;t in name of the all consuming art is a distraction. obviously, i know that there needs to be a balance but i just notice how ironic it is. so i went to sfmoma with my art gurus the big tj and kc plus some of their older friends. 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