images from me to you

Jeff Koon's Rabbit made an appearance in this year's Macy's Parade. The original is made of stainless steel and is 3 feet tall. The new improved version is 50 feet taller than that. How's that for pop art, Warhol?!

Via ArtKrush

I don't know how many of you work with fairly large files, but if you do, you'll know my pain of waiting. I am transforming (simple rotation) a 44x113" photo right now and I get to watch that bar barely move, gives me plenty of time to catch up on blog reading (when it isn't slowing the computer to a crawl). I have a rather fast new laptop with 2gb of memory (need to go to 4), so the time is considerably less than it could be, but oh why didn't I decide to make tiny little prints my specialty :) I do know that I can't wait until solid state hard drives are mainstream because that is the main speed bottleneck.

Oh and if you are working with large images on your laptop, get a big ol' external hard drive and use it as your scratch disk.

I'll leave you with two photos from my latest shoot where I finished treaty 72 (855 total photos) and did the whole treaty 12 (125 photos).

After quite a few trials and tests, I think this will be the final format for the treaties. I've been out shooting a ton on these. Maybe 6 whole days so far, maybe 1000 miles of driving?

I also went to an amazing symposium this weekend at the Eiteljorg Museum here in Indy. If you live here, go check out the show, it is up until February or so.

Here I was sorting them by color, type, etc. The colors vary between packs, meaning there is two different reds and two different blues. The greens and yellows are all the same. Cowboys and Indians come in all different colors, but only two colors per "side" per pack.

These are actually hard to find now, but Dollar Tree to the rescue, I only had to call about 7 to find any. These are to be used at some point on a stop motion video with the map of the US as the setting/background/stage. If you have a bushel of them laying around, send em my way, I could always use more!