Goodbye cruel, cruel world.

Dearly beloved, our time here has come to an end. Patrick, sadly has not survived. We must move on and learn from his best qualities. To love without restraint, live fully and without compromise, these are things Patrick embodied. Remember him as he was: a prolific blogger, friend, lover, visionary. No more, no less. No more shall we wait to achieve our dreams. This is the time of the living and the dead must rest. Rest with the violent ambition with which you lived, Patrick. Goodbye world. Goodbye, Patrick.

Andreas Gursky

Since my project is all film, I can't post anything from it, but I'd like to do something similar in the kind of dazzling, mind-numbing scale as Gursky, maybe with this project but probably not.

 

A still from Fellini's 8 1/2. Really great movie that straddles reality and dream really well. Also, I really like black and white 60s cinematography.

Chuck Close's Phillip Glass

Phillip Glass: rad dude, rad picture

Down the halls of the unconscious

Fly Away Radio, Fly Away. So long. We'll miss you but remember.

Image 4765, the last of the great images

The last in the great images bloodline, guaranteed to fail the storied legacy of his ancestors.

Dog and Post

"I love that picture" -Quite a treat to hear such a nice comment from a friend

All the pretty flowers and city life

A nice kick to the face, or Bryan's trapped soul in a web of his own lies

I'm a fan of this one (hahahahahahahahahahahaha)

The Kick of Death

Bryan's signature move.

Coconuts and Flowers

Super Neat Dude

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Marclay
Does lots of collage work and worth checking out for The Clock, which I may have already posted here, but also he's a bit deal within the DJ world (apparently he invented messing with records on turntables from a performance art perspective)

Chuck Close

Other than being a super rad artist, his work applies to my project idea in that I want to do something where it's disorienting to look at up close but comes together to form a larger image that works as a coherent portrait.

My Project Idea

For the next project, I think I want to shoot a giant portrait of a day made up of scenes of lots of different people as the day progresses. I'm not sure yet if I should put them together like a collage or in uniform, next to each other.

It's A Big, Scary World

Sunglasses Were His Only Friend

He's All Alone

Oh, oh, lonesome Bryan

Money is nothing more than a bar game

A dehumanizing force that crushes you and makes you feel like there is no other purpose, or bullseye, to aim for.