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week 13 Damon Casarez

This is the first photo of a project that I have been wanting to start for a couple terms now and have finally made one image for it. This project is based on social networking websites, but myspace specifically. I'm interested in how people choose to represent themselves for the world wide web and what these representations say about my generation. This photo was created after a 15 year old girl's myspace photo I found when I was browsing around one day. This is a pretty accurate representation of her profile picture. I took a screen grab for the picture view layout and added the picture I had my friend take on her laptop mimicking the 15 year old girls photo.
Over the past year or so I have been collecting photos/screen shots of random public myspace/facebook profiles. I have noticed several trends in how people photograph themselves solely for their profile picture and also have seen different "characters" that I have found over and over again. Some of the characters I've often seen are black dudes holding wads of cash, so-cal bro's doing beer bongs/smoking weed, emo boys in the bathroom with eyeliner, lonely teenage suburban girl, the young girl who posts very sexual pictures of her self , "gang bangers," and a couple of grandma's trying to keep up with their grandkids by being on myspace. I'm fascinated by what photos these people choose to put up and what the photograph says about them and the digital generation in general. I'm always thinking about this project and what way to approach it and still haven't settled on a specific direction. I'm glad I did one photo though, just to test it out and see what people think about it.
WEEK 12 Damon Casarez

Red Cups

Grafiti

More Tagged Rocks
This is the 2nd day I shot for my Azusa Canyon Project. I went for about 5 hours this time and walked a few miles and still saw a bunch of garbage around. It usually dies down after the 1st mile, but not here. These photos are a little more subtle than the first post from the series. It was refreshing to just get out and shoot with no schedule, lighting set up or people to deal with. There is 20 photos that will be in the book all shot in Azusa Canyon, mostly around the areas surrounding the San Gabriel River, which has a North, West and East fork in the river
Week 11 Damon Casarez

Painted Rock
This is a new series of landscape photographs I started last week for my 2nd book for design 2. This project is documenting the landscape of Azusa Canyon in the Angeles National Forest. I've been going here for a few years now for the fishing and because its a nice get-away spot thats only about 40 min away from me. When I first came to the canyon about 4 years ago, I was shocked at how beautiful it was for being so close to L.A. and the fact that there is a natural flowing river in L.A. County with fish. When I really started to explore the canyon, I immediately noticed the garbage and graffiti from people who hang out at the river with family or friends or camp there. I was so sad and shocked to see all of this trash polluting the river and the graffiti on the rocks, that will be there forever.
I photographed the Canyon according to how I first experienced it 4 years ago, being taken away by its beauty but always seeing the trace of human beings upon take a closer look. The human trace is supposed to be a second read in the photographs. I intentionally photographed the landscapes in a very traditional manner to not only focus on the trash/graffiti, but definitely showing my awareness of it in the photographs. Some photographs are more subtle than others. This was the first day I went to shoot for the project.
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
That Willow Smith song: Photographer: Karla

Portrait: Photographer: Karla

Fashion: Photographer: Karla

Coach product shot: Photographer: Karla

Labels:
coach,
color photography,
Karla Kennedy,
product photography,
silhouette
Left to My Own Devices - John Casey Harris Week 13
I was at the Coffee Bean near Sunset Plaza with my friend Steven; we were out to draw dinosaurs and hopefully see Laura Dern (because, why not).
I started sketching a tyrannosaurus, when I added a rider and from there I added a triceratops. I started sketching a second rider when Steven commented that it sort of looked like Angela Lansbury. STROKE OF GENIUS. Literally rolling on the floor, foaming at the mouth, dreaming of the possibilities. Angela Lansbury + Dinosaurs?!? Somewhere, Einstein's ghost was racking his brain with the mathematics of this truly momentous occasion.
A few flicks of the pen and my second rider was officially Angela, but we got to musing and trying to create a story... could we one up Angela Lansbury? A tough order to be sure, but we came up with one better... but that's something I'll have to save for later... because its still a dream rattling around inside our heads and not yet ready for prying eyes :)
Its just a pen and ink sketch, but conceptually its one of my favorite things I've done this term.
Let him eat cake! : Photographer: Karla

Haunted Mansion - A Work in Progress - John Casey Harris
Just Some Doodles - John Casey Harris
Week#12 Robert S. Evans III
Week 13: Photographer: Karla


week#11 Robert S. Evans III
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