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About this site — Projects are updated frequently. Daily is a spot where I post a photograph every few days. See Nuggets an html gallery of selected images. Motion is an experimental area for video and image sequences. The log will provide logistical help, links, news, updates and personal insight into my work. — apatrick :: FlashPlayer required to view the galleries on this site. Get it from Adobe ©©©© Work on this site is copyright protected and is used with permission only, just ask.

LOG
05.12.08 — Rauschenberg: — visionary artist has died. His early work is inspired, and has affected me greatly. See Factum II a combine painting from 1957.
05.09.08 — Videophone: — Nokia N95 video is excellent for its kind.
04.10.08 — Sighting: — Bryan Patrick is the SFBAPPA: Photographer of the year. Congratulations. Here is a nice image of his from the bridge yesterday during a march to support the Burmese people before the Olympic Torch Relay in SF
03.25.08 — Outdoor lunch: — I have a new rule for myself: no off-reservation meat intake. I ate the tofu and vegetables with yellow curry at Harry's Cafe. +++meal with clean silver too.
03.20.08 — Product placement: — David Lynch's analysis puts it in perspective.
03.12.08 — Stump: — the end
03.11.08 — Economy: — a graphic representation.
02.19.08 — Graffiti: — it's not all bad
02.18.08 — Random sample — Nuggets
02.17.08 — Rothko — paintings are a guide. MOMA ,NY.
02.15.08 — "Incomplete" document —  Interesting discussion on when a documentary photograph is "finished". See "incomplete"
02.14.08 — Mentor — I have been thinking about teachers and guides since the Polaroid announcement. I will acknowledge my artistic mentors individually. Most I have come to know through books in the library. I was drawn to the work of William Eggleston years ago by his unconventional compositions, and his ability to capture the ubiquitous human presence in what appears to be vacant space: like his picture Near the river at Greenville, Mississippi from "The Democratic Forest" 1989. He is called by some as "The father of color photography", I see Eggleston as a visual shaman of the instinctively interpretive and open-ended take.
02.12.08 —Instant — I am, mostly, a self-taught photographer because of Polaroid instant photography. I have a personal connection to the process and the education it provided me. I learned, on location, intuitively, the necessary movement and commitment to frame compostions and determine the edge. See a few images from: Instant Measurements : a book I hope to publish soon. Reports are the film is dead. Very sad.
02.06.08 — Navigation — I use Slideshowpro to display my image galleries. Additional keyboard navigation features are available. The space bar will start a gallery in a self-running show. The arrow keys enable a manual, self-timed slideshow.
02.01.08 — Updated —  Trohycase
02.01.08 — Transformative delineation — Handball a Kevin German image
01.31.08 — Project — coveredUp is my current favorite. Images date back to 2004.
01.26.08 — Woody — aka Frankendog, surgically altered forever, is back to his normal behavior; still the same sweet lovable boy. Completely blind, Woody needed to have his left eye removed because of a detached lens that was giving him chronic pain. Now, 11 days after surgery he is happy-go-woody. See him on day 1 kinda sad. :( His purple stiches will be removed the day after the California primary.
01.24.08 — NYC — Just returned from Manhattan. Really is a wonderful place and a city that never sleeps. Beerzie, Max and I stumbled about from galleries to Central Park, under ground to the Subway and Greenwich Village as a home base. Mostly soaked in the atmosphere and made touristy snapshots, but I did manage to make a few random pictures that are more considered.
01.13.08 — Nachtwey — Witness
01.10.08 — iPhone wallpaper —  Beerzie's backgrounds
01.08.08 — Automosaic—  Pontiac  6000 LE
01.08.08 — Brownie — Holiday Flash fill it with this film: efke 127
01.06.08 — Waterproof G9 — WP-DC21 ~ down to 130ft.
01.04.08 — Motion — Clips play nicely when viewed here via Vimeo. I still prefer to use Slideshowpro inside my .swf.
01.04.08 — Prints? — Printed work for sale: apocketwatchplum@gmail.com
01.03.08 — Viewing aPOCKETWATCHPlum — Reminder: your browser needs FlashPlayer to view the images. Get it from Adobe.
01.03.08 — New project — Bodyparts. In all my projects I pursue a concept, an idea that expands over time. This one looks at anatomy with no singular personality.
01.02.08 — Rising — This site is going through a transitional phase. I am developing a system to show my work and make an online archive for myself. I have chosen to go live and not wait for a "finished product" because, as I have discovered over time, the site will never be perfect.
01.01.08 — My first log entry — I will, if I can stomach it, write to give context to this site and my artistic intentions. I don't find it necessary to explain or decode my work, but additonal factual information and observations are a way for me to remember and share.

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