I get emails from this guy whenever he releases some new stuff. I found him when I was looking at video game covers. He has a nice guitar and nice skills. This video shows he also has hilar video skillz with sweet backdrops. He usually does songs like the Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest boss theme. He seems like a nice guy. I would like to jam with him.
Check out his website for his sweet banner haha. Sooo good.
It starts 40 seconds in. My band is searching for a drummer. If only this guy lived closer to us.
(7:29:56 PM) KGB1: lady gaga is so eloquent
(7:31:09 PM) jold: Really?
(7:31:15 PM) jold: She seems to know what she’s doing
(7:31:20 PM) jold: So I guess she’s not an idiot
(7:31:31 PM) KGB1: very calculated
(7:34:02 PM) jold: Like a TI-83
(7:35:21 PM) KGB1: hahaha
(7:35:26 PM) KGB1: the silver edition!
(7:38:02 PM) jold: hot damn, gotta give her props
(7:38:11 PM) jold: She totally skipped the + and went straight for silver
*disclaimer: Art is good to have in your life, even if you suck at it. I’m glad that folks with even minute inborn talent strive to make pretty or ugly things for their enjoyment. Don’t expect me to always enjoy it with you. It can be a therapeutic stress reliever, a break in the day-to-day grind to make art photos. If you don’t have an eye, you need to learn how to get one. Own up and respect will always stay up with your zeal for photography. This rant is for those who do not own up.
Now then.
A lot of people in the world get fancy cameras and sort of know how to use them. A lot of them take pictures of “serious” things and think they are serious photographs. A lot of these people are sorely mistaken that their images are high quality. While I did not major in photography, I did fancy it quite a bit and focused on DSLRs, though originally trained on a film SLR in black and white. That’s right. I have black and white cred. Light that shit on fire, Shoshannah. I know when my images are shit, and I know half if not most of them will not be acceptable to be viewed by others’ eyes.
I’m sick and fucking tired of people who just take a picture and think that it’s art. There is a HUGE difference between taking a scrapbook snapshot and taking a good picture, and there is another large gap between and interesting picture and a plain one. Just because the fancy camera can take the picture for you doesn’t mean it’s a good picture.
1. Taking a goddamn picture of a goddamn river is not art. Taking a goddamn picture of a goddamn river at an interesting angle creating an engaging perspective is. Taking a picture straight on of something is a record maker, like cataloging what a thing looks like in a reference book. You want something people pay for? Fucking make it interesting. The exception to this is that there will always be people buying skyline pictures that are flat and boring. This goes for any type of landscape, with a general focus and little depth being created. These pictures are for street vendors. These pictures are shit anywhere else.
2. Taking a goddamn picture of a goddamn dog is not art. It’s a picture of a dog. Make it interesting: the dog is making a funny face, the body is engaged in motion, its fur is prickled, the main focus is the dog, the dog is not the center of the image. Capture the moment. Again, taking a straight on, centered picture is BORING. It does not tell a story.
3. Taking a goddamn picture of a dog-gammed model is not art. You want a model that gets into it, that feels the energy of the surroundings or can fake the feeling when there isn’t one. You want a model that activates the entire image. Is the model the focus or is something else in the picture? Fucking decide and focus on it, and hire someone who can act and can provide an essence in need of capturing.
4. Taking a goddamn picture in super fucking focus is a good way to get punched in the face. OH LOOK AT ALL THIS BLURRY SHIT, THERE’S ONLY ONE THING TO LOOK AT OOO ART. Fuck you, pretentious shithole, if the composition of the image is blah, Gaussian blur will not save your ass. Speaking of composition and putting the focus of the image at the center of the picture:
5. Centering your object is another good way to get punched in the face. Composition is that thing I keep mentioning and not explaining. COMPOSITION = the arrangement of the objects/scenery/models/colors/distances within the frame. If everything is in a row, it better mean something or else your picture blows ass. Should composition be messy? Only when it’s called for. Elsewise, your mission is to get the eye to move throughout the image, bonus points to those with an intended ending gazing point. If you put the main focus in the center, the eyes do nothing. There is no discovery. STOP CENTERING SHIT I HIGHLY DOUBT YOU ARE RECORDING LIFE EVENTS FOR AN ENCYCLOPEDIA.
6. PORTRAITS ARE NOT EXCUSES TO MAKE GENERIC IMAGES. Your job is to freeze that moment in time, and make it a good one. That’s it. Regardless of where you are taking the picture, it’s your fucking job to highlight the warmth/coldness/glow/emptiness and general emotion of your subject, and to do it in a fine focus that highlights their qualities without using that low focus shit that flattens the image onto the page. You want to forget that photograph is flat. You want that person to come off of the paper.
I don’t care how nice your camera is, if you are using it for anything other than “this camera is awesome, look at what it does!” you damn well better appreciate your technology and use it properly.