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Golden Triangle @ the Hi Tone cafe in Memphis, TN (03/10/2010)
Here are some photos I took of Golden Triangle at the Hi Tone cafe (Memphis) last week. I also shot 35mm with my lomo fisheye camera and if any of those turn out, I’ll post those as well.
(http://www.kandicook.com/2010/goldentriangle03102010.htm)
Speaking of Golden Triangle and photography- do yourself a favor and check out these awesome (film!) photos by Carly Rabalais (http://www.carlyrab.blogspot.com).
Add comment March 17, 2010
Hoops + little canvases
I’ve been wanting to re-decorate the wall behind my couch for a couple of weeks now. For the longest time the only thing I’ve had up behind there was a pretty large canvas I had painted. I like it alright, but kind of wanted a change. My roomie voiced his liking for the canvas so instead of moving it to another room in the house I decided to just add to the wall. Here are some of the newbies:
Top: SUKIE Cityscape ironed onto some yellow cotton fabric I already had.
Middle Left: I made this- embroidered cloud with rainbow rain on a recycled tee shirt.
Middle Right: I made this, too- cross stitch. Funny.
Bottom: This is one of the coolest things of all time… gotta get a photo of it by itself. My friend did themes for Christmas presents this past year, and my theme was (drumroll…) HELVETICA! One of my gifts was this (handmade) print of a quote from the documentary Helvetica (netflix it if you haven’t seen it). It says, “You can say I love you in Helvetica, You can say it with Helvetica Extra Light if you want to be really fancy”.
Top Right: My friend Brandi painted this bird! I love it so!
Bottom Left: Painted/embroidered fox, I made this when I was obsessed with foxes after I saw one running around late one night.
Bottom Right: House mini canvas (made this one, too).
And finally, this treehouse. Because I totally live in one. Another SUKIE iron-on, gray cotton fabric, cheap embroidery hoop.
3 comments March 11, 2010
I love houses!
I draw all the time. And here’s something you might not have known about me- every once in a while (probably about 1-2 times a year) I get stuck with drawing one thing and for months I will just draw it over and over and over and over. Currently, I’m on houses and kind of just started on table settings at restaurants I eat at. Past objects over the last few years you may remember include but are not limited to: cameras (still do this), clouds, whales, trees, birds, oceans, foxes, and my made up animal: the dogbear.
Lately I’ve really wanted to paint or draw some house art for my living room, but then thought I might want to purchase something from Etsy instead. I can’t stop thinking about this print from The Linden Tree. I came across it a couple of months ago and I loved it so much I bought it for one of my best friends for Christmas. I love this so much- I think it’s the best thing ever.
Here are some more houses I like via Etsy:
Enough of Silly Love Songs by lisachow
Birds and their houses by sloeginfizz
4 comments February 28, 2010
King cake
Thank you, LeBlanc’s, you made this Baton Rouge native one happy girl on Mardi Gras this year. And thanks mom and dad for mailing it to me!
1 comment February 23, 2010
Some old photos I found
I was wandering around the other day in some of my files and found these old photos I took (I say old, but we’re only talking like, 5 or 6 years ago). I like these. They deserve a post. I shot all of these on 35mm with my Minolta Maxxum 3 or Maxxum 5. Minolta cameras will always have a special place in my heart- my very first SLR was that Minolta Maxxum 3, talk about love- right there. I could be wrong, but I don’t even think it had the exposure info in the viewfinder… (chuckle). (http://ca.konicaminolta.com/products/consumer/camera-pus/slr/maxxum3/index.html) I also found out just a few years ago that my grandfather (who passed away when my dad was still a kid) was a photographer [insert weird emotional significant moment in my life here] and… wait for it… used a Minolta!
1. I don’t care how cliché this photo is… I still love it. I shot this on the side of the road somewhere in Arkansas between Jonesboro and Little Rock. A friend of mine and I were driving to visit this photo supply store there (in Little Rock) that had closed it’s doors for good before we ever made it. (Pinky’s?). Sad, but a very exciting day nonetheless.
2. Look at this happy couple. My in-laws at the beach on one of our family vacations. The vignetting on these first two photos just slays me. I love the water here, man those Minoltas really knew how to capture an image.
3. I just like it. This was somewhere in Jonesboro, AR not to far from where I lived. It was one of those things I’d always see and want to take a picture of. I remember driving to this spot one day and trying so hard to get the horizontals straight (maxxum 3 probably didn’t even have a grid to help me out).
4. A successful long exposure experimentation. Took this with the same friend from photo #1 up there. Super long exposure (Seriously, I don’t even think it had a bulb setting!), went and sat in the machine for the last few seconds. I was thrilled when I developed this… and was so proud of myself. This photo won 2nd place in the “Special Effects” category at the NEA district fair photography exhibit in 2007.
5. Shot this at a 4th of July fireworks display in Watercolor, FL I think. I like the mix of colors here, the captured movement… the fact that there were a hundred million people there… So cute. The whole town of Watercolor is so cute it doesn’t even seem real.
What are some of your favorite photos that you took a long time ago but have never forgotten? I’d love to see and hear about them… e-mail me! (or even leave a comment). I love favorite photo stories, there are some I’ve heard a long time ago that I still think about from time to time (even about photographs I’ve never even seen).
4 comments February 20, 2010
