Sunday, December 30, 2012

It's All About The Heart







































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Friday, December 28, 2012

OCAD Building


























































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Thursday, December 13, 2012

Tribute































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Sunday, December 09, 2012

Javon Under The Bridge





































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I've Been To Heaven Part 2

I wrote a post in December of 2005 entitled I've Been To Heaven In which I tried to detail what it was like to go to the famous after-hours club Heaven.  Today I received a comment on that post with two links to you tube....  footage from back in the day from one of the regular dance competitions Im sure I was there as I was almost every Friday/Saturday night for years...  This video confirms my minds eye that we really lived back in the day!!!  Perhaps even more than some of the kids today!  Though if this fottage says anything... the music may change but not much else has!

The footage is very old and broken in a few places but I wanted to post it because really grabs the true feeling of what an evening in Heaven is like....  circa 1991!  Enjoy





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Saturday, December 01, 2012

Soulful Ending To 2012!








































Another fantastic year shooting Soulful Messiah....  This year I upped my game using my new 40 mm F2.8 Lens from Canon! Supper fast for low light dance theater!   To see more from this shoot please go to my Dance Blog!  Enjoy!


































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Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Dreams Of A Past Life








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Thursday, November 22, 2012

A Different Perspective









































I have followed Kehinde Wiley for a number of years... I have always found his work to be interesting and thought provoking. I recently purchased his book published by Rizzoli and I find myself even more entranced by his paintings and photographs. I am still processing what his work means to me and I am interested if any of you have thoughts...  please leave leave your thoughts as a post comment below!


By superimposing Art In America:

the opulent worlds of rulers and rappers, Wiley sought to visualize conventions for representing power in European portraiture on the surface of his paintings. Wiley recognized that “[t]he history of painting has been the history of those [powerful] men trying to position themselves in fields of power that are very defined and codified as a type of vocabulary that’s evolved over time…” The painter scripted black urban youth into this history in order to ripple its codified visual field. In so doing, he took care to represent his black male subjects in such way that they appear both within yet outside these defined vocabularies.


Wiley, by portraying his subjects within the conventions of portraiture but not carrying this through the entire painting, allows the illusion of portraiture to arise and then dissipate on the surface of the work. His figures inhabit the surface of the canvases, between visibility and invisibility. They appear both luminescent and transparent, statuesque and ephemeral, photorealist and abstract, present and absent: accidental inhabitants of history on the verge of disappearance.

-Krista Thompson, “The Sound of Life: Reflections on Art History in the Visual Culture of Hip-Hop”, The Art Bulletin, December, 2009












































































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Monday, November 12, 2012

Twenty Years Ago Today.....














































































Twenty years and I still remember this day.  We walked in the woods on that cool colorful fall day and quietly spent time together.  I loved our walks, I loved any time I could be with you.  I love that I took these photos and while I would have remembered this day as I remember so many others the photos transport me with ease to the fondest of those memories.

I love that you are happy today... Life was not always easy or kind to you in ways that I never experienced myself.   I learned so much during the days, months and years with you.  That can never be taken away from me or you.  I hope you feel the same.

Real love may change shape but never dies, never fades... lasts for ever... No matter the distance between us and the others in our life.   Thank You Aaron for this gift given twenty years ago today.







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