the face seen as art...

eh... if you notice work dissappearing. several reasons why. in a weird mood tonight and it had to be done

the face seen as art...

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thank you!

...to all who responded to my entry "seeking collaborators", who offered their suggestions and their collaborative services! i was overwhelmed with the response, many from people i didn't expect (or even know!) which was refreshing. thank you to you all!

since time (and creative energy) are factors, i had to choose just one avenue to explore, and chose the candidate most suited for my current idea.

i'll be working on a collaborative series with my good friend whose thinking on this project seems to really be in sync with my ideas. i'm much looking forward to working with him! please visit his gallery. he does some amazing work.

i expect this project will take some time, so stay posted!

the face seen as art...

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seeking collaborators...


i've been coming up with some ideas for images that would involve collaboration. i guess i feel like having a little company in my self-portraits!

a collaboration would involve something like...

"you" providing me with your self-portraits of poses/themes (to be planned in advance) that i would meld together in photoshop for a final, realistic-looking piece that would appear as if we were actually together in the "reality" of the photo. (male volunteers preferred, but i will not exclude females!)

if interested in joining me in the created reality of a photograph, send me a note and we'll shoot some ideas around.

thanks!

the face seen as art...

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too much talent... too few page views!

i decided to make a journal featuring a few of my dear friends who have amazing talent, great potential and far too few page views, in my opinion!
not only are they promising artists, but they are amazing people to talk to. please visit their pages, see their work & say hello... i'm sure they will appreciate your support!

much love to all my friends! (you should love them too, they so deserve it!)


Dead Impulse




DeLaUnicaAlma93




Voffko

the face seen as art...

...How Many Have You Read?

Each year, the ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom records hundreds of attempts by individuals and groups to have books removed from libraries shelves and from classrooms. [link]
At least 42 of the Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century [link] have been the target of ban attempts.

If you want your friends to know more about this, copy this journal into a new one on your front page. Mark the banned books you've read. Then, tag some friends and pass it on. (Remember to tag the person who tagged you.)

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (read)
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (read)
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (read)
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Ulysses by James Joyce
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Lord of the Flies by William Golding (just bought!)
1984 by George Orwell (read, one of my favorites)
Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov (read, love this book)
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (read)
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (read, another favorite)
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Their Eyes are Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Native Son by Richard Wright
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
Rabbit, Run by John Updike

Why they were banned: [link]

copied from 's journal.
my list of "books to read" is ever-growing... will include these that i haven't read!