Windmill Creatures

Mirrored images of windmills create these strangely biomorphic creatures of wood and brick. Large and heavy although lacking any grounding elements that create the illusion of flight.

Wood Transfers

I finished the first set of wood transfers and added them to my etsy shop. We'll see how they do. I think they're pretty modestly priced.
The process was fairly straight forward.

Here is my version of the

"Transferring Photos to Wood" In 10 Simple Steps.

Materials needed:
Wood or something porous to transfer to.
Gel Medium
Brush
image printed from a laser printer.(the thinner the paper the better)
Sandpaper
Wood Stain
Polyurethane


1. Print the image you want in reverse from a laser printer.
2. Paint a thin coat of gel medium onto the wood surface you're transferring the image to.
3. Carefully press the image onto the gel medium/wood (ink side down, duh.)
4. Burnish the back so that the image makes good contact with the wood and gel.
5. Wait for the gel to completely dry. Most other sites say "YOU MUST WAIT AT LEAST 8 HOURS TO DRY BE PATIENT" I'm not very patient so I put them in the oven on 150°F.
6. Once dry wet the paper with a moist cloth so that it's lightly saturated with water.
Here comes the pain in the ass part.
7. Rub, rub, rub. Repeat. Using your fingers, rub the paper fiber away to reveal the image. If you use a cloth or anything else you risk taking the image off too. And that sucks.
8. Once all the paper is off, sand the edges and scrape off any remaining gel medium that doesn't have the image on it.
9. Stain the wood using a color of your liking. The stain won't soak in evenly on places where there is still gel medium. You can also stain over your image lightly, it won't soak in all the way and you can rub it off if its too dark.
10. Once the stain is dry seal the wood with polyurethane or similar shellack to seal it and protect the image.  

Watches

Depth of field fun!

Virginia Beach

Stop motion animation of the waves coming in at Virginia Beach. Ebb and flow.

Chompers

Pearly blue teeth.

Shoebox Series: Flowers and Bottles

I dug these bottles up in my backyard a while ago and shot them on an overcast day with velvia film that I developed cross process. They're old anheuser busch and coke bottles that make nice vases for a flower or two. I have no idea what flowers these are I just plucked them from the backyard. 

 

East River

Another tumultuous sky over the East River from brooklyn bridge park. The statue of liberty is barely visible in the distance.

Shoebox Series: Flushing Meadows

This is was taken right outside the two flying saucer towers at Flushing Meadows park in Queens. 

S̶c̶a̶n̶n̶e̶d̶ ̶S̶e̶r̶i̶e̶s̶ Shoebox Series

I dug up a shoebox full of old pictures. I'm in the process of scanning and archiving them. So lets call this the Scanned Series. No wait, I like Shoebox Series better.

These two pictures were from my Freshman year at Pratt. It was the beginning of an Andy Goldsworthy project I eventually scrapped, but the sticks photographed well with a very shallow depth of field; f/1.6 or so.

Mason Jar Chandelier

I didn't like the boob-light hanging from my ceiling so I decided to replace it with my version of the Mason Jar Lamp. The wiring was pretty straight forward. All the positives connect to the positives and the negatives bundle with the negatives straight into bit wire nuts into the electrical box in the ceiling. 

Here it is from start to finish. 

Mason Jar Chandelier

Receipt spike

Receipt spike I made with leftover copper and brass tubing. With a few minutes on a file, the Brass spike became extremely sharp.

Airplane!

Knit Jellyfish

This is a jelly fish that my brother knitted for me out of white yarn. It's hanging from my lamp pull chord.

Run Dillon!

Ai Weiwei: Sunflower Seeds

The Royal Crescent

Stop motion animation of The Royal Crescent in Bath, UK. I wanted to do a panoramic shot but thought the animation was more fun and a bit of a seizure.

Scottish Stone

These are a few of my favorite shots from Scotland. The bowling green in Stirling castle was so peaceful and green. The first two shots I accomplished by free-lensing, by detaching the lens from the body I was able to angle it a bit and create a spot focus effect like a bellows does on large format cameras. 

Freelensing

HUXLEY

Fun with food coloring.

I shot 200 frames food coloring dropping into a mason jar. The results were pretty neat. Even though its a stop motion animation it still has a lot of fluidity almost like an old timey movie.