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In honor of the holiday season coming up.

And in preparation of Caching Fire's release next week.

Light Leaked Blog Review

Photo Friday: Ashley Whitt
December 7, 2012

This Blog Post mostly focuses on the artist, Ashley Whitt, providing a short blurb of her biographical information. Rather than dedicating the entire post to talking about her work, it shows a handful of her pieces to let us do the talking.

The article is very easy to follow, very straightforward. Other than the short biographical section, the article is dedicated to displaying her images. Over all Whitt's work comes across as very dark. All of her images seem to have a dark filter or vignette as well as seemingly dark content (like the image above that appears to depict a dad/dying/sick girl). Despite them being so dar however, there seems to be a sort of playfulness to them, which is most apparent towards the end of the post.

This picture provides the best example of her dark playfulness. It looks like a dreamland, giant flowers and fruit, but at the same time, the darkness of the filter make it eerie. 

Overall I like her work because of the dark yet playful feel. I particularly liked her multiple me images and the emotion they depict. To see the rest of the article check here.

Aperture Magazine Blog Review

Denise Wolff on Aperture's Instagram Silent Auction
October 16, 2013

This very short article is more so just an announcement and reminder of Aperture's Instagram Silent Auction (which took place Monday, October 28). Ultimately, there is not much to critique about the blog post itself due to the nature of he post. The auction will be selling off nearly 100 pieces of photography, all from Instagram profiles. The money will be put towards an unspecified benefit.

As a whole the article is very straightforward and easy to follow. Included in the post is a small sampling of some pieces that will be available during the auction (including the one above). Image content ranges anywhere from still lifes to animals, documentary to collage, personal to conceptual. The concept in its entirety is intriguing for the very fact that these pieces are all from Instagram. I find that this really shows the prevalence of technology and social media in today's society.

To read the short article yourself or to sample some of the pieces in the auction, you can go here.

Multiple Me

Article Review

New York Now: The Ten Second Tour

By: Joshua Fischer

May 17, 2013

Fischer's article, overall, is really easy to follow. I found the content of his review to be interesting, but ultimately boring. The focus of his review is not his own work, but the work of artists featured in the Museum of Modern Art and Guggenheim Museum in New York City. He talks about the installations in each museum, analyses the piece, and discusses talking points about the art.

I found the picture above that he posted to be very interesting. The idea of SO MANY people taking pictures like that being captured is intriguing. The rest of the post to me seems rather lackluster and boring. It was interesting enough to see pieces exhibited in these famous museums, but overall the entire review was not. 

Blog Review: 500 Days of Six Shooters

     So this blog from Lenscratch was posted on September 24, 2013. The name of the post was 500 Days of Six Shooters.

     This is the first picture on the page. Upon scrolling down though, the pictures slowly evolve. At first there seemed to be no theme or central concept; however I slowly began to notice a trend. The series, done as a collaboration between six acquaintances (hence Six Shooters), follows one rule. The first picture in the series could have been anything the first person wanted to shoot. But the second one had to have some kind of connection to the first, and the third to the second, and fourth to the third, and so on and so on. This process idea of relation tells a story. It shows how we can associate seemingly unrelated ideas into the same category. 

     I could go on and on trying to convey the idea and process of this series, but it is definitely much easier to to see it for yourself. To see the relation from picture to picture and to follow the narrative told by the six different points of view is amazing. Ultimately, I find this work very successful, as well as unique and inspiring.

The article: http://lenscratch.com/2013/09/500-days-six-shooters/

The blog: http://www.sixshootersonline.com/