| A friend had just finished putting on (too much, in my opinion) lipstick. I politely didn't say so. She grabbed a folded commercial napkin and blotted once. When she set the napkin aside, I was immediately entranced by how the three folds of the napkin, which was now slightly bent, introduced a three-tiered "split" in the blot. I thought, "PHOTOGRAPH!" I asked her for it, telling her I thought it was artistic. I didn't mention I was going to photograph it and "immortalize"it on deviantART! |
The Broken Promise
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 "Promoted Artwork du jour"  (by another Deviant Artist) "bobbi jo of the corn" (B&W Nude), by *scottchurch Vous pouvez m'écrire également en français.  Factiod: Apparently I am in the small 2% of Deviants who send on average 11-25 Notes per week, out of approx. 22,000 people who responded to this poll. (59% send None.) WELCOME to my personal visual aesthetic. I know it's disappointing to follow a link to someone's page, to find that they've hardly posted anything. I may not have much, but the subjects and themes are very eclectic. Which hopefully means there will be something for almost everyone in my Gallery--and my Gallery has many Categories! All NEW photography (i.e., shots since spring 2009--as opposed to "new uploads" of older photography taken with a lower-res Nikon and HP) is being shot with my pride and joy, my Canon PowerShot SX10 IS (10MP CCD, f/2.8-f/11 20X integral Optical Zoom [35mm equiv.: 28-560mm]). (Links to full stats, reviews, and tests on this model can be found in my Journal entry "Equipment".) My gallery is presently sparse because 1) I struggle a lot with "To post or not to post?" and reject 95% of what I shoot, and 2) for the first 5 months of membership here, I was only posting NEW photography--slowly and continually adding new photos almost every week. UPDATE:As of 6 Sept. '09, I started, and will continue, a big project I promised you all: I have begun uploading en masse an "explosive infusion" of all my best (read: favourite) work created over the past 3 years. If you like something you see here...stay tuned: there's likely a lot more in the same (and new!) genre(s) coming soon! (If you choose to Watch me (use the[+DeviantWatch] button (above)), you'll not only have each new work automatically show up in the "Deviations" panel of your main Profile page as it is uploaded, but you'll also see a prolifetation of new Categories as they appear in my Gallery as well--maybe someting right up your alley.) I'm UL'ing practically evey day now, and intend to continue UL'ing over a period of several weeks or more. MY STYLE: Technique: Post-processing)(if applicable Very few of my "normal" photos have been "tweaked." Most of my shots, from whatever camera, have come out well-enough that no photomanip/post-processing is requied, and when it is, it's usually just a B&C adjustment for look-good Web display. Read about the meager tools currently at my disposal here. MY STYLE: Technique: In-Camera Processing(if applicable) Read about my in-camera processing here. If you Note me, or Comment or Critique on a shot, I'll likely go on a field trip back to the subject you liked, and reshoot it with an eye to "giving you more of what you liked," based on your feedback--and if I do, I'll post the "new takes" and notify you of what I've done. MY BRAIN: Things that Affect my Visual ProcessingI suffer from self-diagnosed, mild "face-blindness," or Prosopagnosia. (See this interesting description of this condition by a man who has an extreme case of it.) How my prosopagnosia affects what I see in the viewfinder frame--and when "cameraless"--it's reall y hard to speculate. But it involves a part of the brain partially responsible for visual processing, so, it's likely that "it affects my artistic eye" somehow. I also probably have below-average levels of the neurotransmitter serotonin. And, my mom told me that, when I was six months old, my stroller tipped over backwards and I took a hit on the back of the head on hard cement.  So who knows what's broken--err, I mean "special"--"upstairs"?MY BRAIN: Things that Affect my ThinkingI believe I also suffer from (again, self-diagnosed) mild/moderate ADD (attention deficit disorder) (- more on that to come....) I love you all! This site is such a supportive and communal endeavour. Viva DeviantART! I SUPPORT: Artist Promotion and Encouragement:    Help for Distressed Deviants:  Genre Promotion: #street  Photo Equipment: |
Devious Info
- Current Residence: Homeless
- Interests: Spirituality, Writing, Poetry, Photography, (more to come, gotta think)
- Favourite movie: Fight Club, Mulholland Drive, (more to come, gotta think)
- Favourite band or musician: Björk, Jamiroquai, Propellerheads, Alanis M., Joni M., BB Gabor, B-52s, Satie, Bowie, Steve Mil
- Favourite genre of music: Jazz, Blues, Alternative, 80s New Wave, Experimental
- Favourite artist: Edward Hopper, Jackson Pollock, Max Ernst
- Favourite poet or writer: Poets: Poe, Frost, Sandburg; Sci-fi: Zelazny, Gibson, Heinlein, Czerneda,
- Favourite photographer: Myself? (Certainly Ansel too)
- Favourite style of art: Impressionism, Abstract
- Operating System: WinXP Ver. 5.1 SP2
- Shell of choice: MacOS :-)
- Favourite game: Ratchet & Clank
- Favourite gaming platform: PS2
- Favourite cartoon character: Hothead Paisan; Lenore the Cute Little Dead Girl
- Personal Quote: "I wanna live 'till I die"
- Tools of the Trade: Now? Argh. Paint, MS Photo Editor, PS Express
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Journal History
- Oct 15, 2009 Terrible Typos
- Oct 7, 2009 Toronto News - Marginalization and Mental Illness
- Sep 30, 2009 Artist Promotion du jour - A New Work
- Sep 30, 2009 Equipment: My Monitor Calibration
- Sep 27, 2009 Oddities in English
- Sep 26, 2009 The Killing of Toronto's Homeless - UPDATE
- Sep 14, 2009 PHOTO QUALITY
- Sep 14, 2009 MY STYLE: Technique: In-Camera Processing
- Sep 14, 2009 MY STYLE: Technique: Post-processing (if applicabl
- Sep 8, 2009 "Big Infusion" of ULs of my BEST WORK
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- 128 Firefox: Bugs and Extensions - Mar 20, 2009
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