Here’s an oldie.

I want to throw someone in front of a moving car.. ha.

I came up w/ a series of photos.. projection of photos from photographers. It depicts the contrast or lack of contrast between male and female photographers. The text is from Jen Bekman’s Personism blog, where Ken Miller speaks about the backlash from the male-dominated Tokion-organized Creativitiy Now conference. (Thanks to Cynthia for being my awesome model.)

By the way, the deadline for the next installment of Hey, Hot Shot! is approaching. Get your shit together and submit. Note: be sure to pick 3 amazing yet cohesive images.. that helps! Go to the HHS blog to see what others have submitted.

This semester has been rough but I am glad that I am slightly overworked since it gives my brain some exercise. (Ha, I just dropped my English class.. my brain couldnt handle that crap.)

Currently, I’m brainstorming for my final short assignment (due Tuesday!!), the topic being Social Transformation and forming an art collective and thinking up a manifesto that addresses a problem in art. Reading through past manifestos, I was intrigued with the Cheap Art Manifesto, written during the hippie era. “Art is not a business!”, they holler. As much as I wish it weren’t, and wish art can just be appreciated as is, with no strings attached; it is idealistic thinking. Art IS a business. If I do not get a job, do not exhibit and sell prints, am not represented by a gallery or whomever, where will my income to create this art come from? Don’t get me wrong, you need skills to be appreciated but you’d need to sell yourself and your ideas first. It is a business.

Now the question is, how am I to create a series of images to represent this pessimistic point of view? I was thinking I might not even shoot new images and might use some found images to create some sort of collage/montage/crap/bullshit/thing. I haven’t a clue. OPENED TO IDEAS!!

(I am so glad to know Blogger fixed the photo-uploading)

I’m having problems uploading images w/ Blogger Beta. Not digging this shit at all. Go to my Flickr account to see new images.

The art blogosphere is causing a stir; [no] thanks to Tokion‘s List of Male Speakers at their Creativity Now Conference. My favorite Jen Bekman addressed the lack of females issue on her blog, Personism, which now has caught on fire and spread news to Wooster Collective, Brooklyn Vegan, Art Fag City, etc. So where’s the estrogen? In my entire Photo department, the ratio for female to male is like 10 to 1. There are so many of us, ladies, making art and doing our thing but why so under-represented?

Thanks Tokion, you’ve just lit a lightbulb to another project.

i swear every job i’ve held so far; i am the official gopher.