Excited to have had the opportunity to photograph some new projects for Hsu Office and Root Design. 

Coming soon to Austin..from Violet Crown, Jesse, Rene (La Condesa) and crew.. and the design minds of Michael Hsu Office of Architecture comes..SWAY- a new Thai restaurant..opening this month. A sneak peek of the bar/courtyard- featuring a hydraulically  actuated steel window wall- creating one beautiful  indoor/outdoor space.   

From Root Design, a completed pool and guest house for a cozy hill country home. 

New work for Michael Hsu Office of Architecture. Check out the firm's updated office location and website here...


http://www.hsuoffice.com/ 


The Threadgill Townhomes 

In the Gallery -

I'm still in the process of mulling through my thoughts on this work..look for an "essay" before Thursday's closing reception... But I thought I should provide a preview of what the work looks like installed in the space... A sense of my intent and the scale...The images are all printed on Epson's new back-lit polyester trans film - eight 24"x36" and two 60"x40" prints mounted on plexiglass in handmade (by myself and friends - thanks Kevin, Chris, and Aaron- without your help it would not have gotten done.) whitewashed, 6 inch deep light boxes... 

The decision to build the light boxes is rooted in the origins of the files (see earlier posts) and the fact, that though the print is not necessarily "dying", does not change the fact that the vast majority of photographs are now only viewed on screen, as projected light...twenty years ago the opposite was true- most photos were viewed as prints...I want to capture the impermanence, the fleeting nature of the everyday image, but also the nature of the photo in the "digital age". Hope to see you Thursday, June 21 - 6pm-9pm at Big Medium gallery...http://www.bigmedium.org/about.html 

New work for Hsu Office Of Architecture - Austin, Texas


Hubbard Circle residence and Lucy's Fried Chicken and Oysters... 


More on Big Medium showing - Closing Reception will be held the evening of Thursday, June 21st. Details forthcoming...



http://www.hsuoffice.com/projects-homes-hubbard.html

Lucy's...

How does this thing work?

It's been too long folks..Too much to cover in a quick post...I'll get to the big picture/long story of the past two years in the coming days...But I wanted to post some new work and and start a few new and focused conversations...


I will be showing the work at Big Medium gallery in Austin,TX in June. Check out the link below...

https://www.facebook.com/events/309563399118205/

To say you "stumble onto an image"...in how many ways, in what circumstances, with what technology have image makers discovered something in the photographic process that was unexpected, yet oddly effective...The serendipity of Bresson, the miraculous in the mundane captured by Muybridge...a print left too long in a chemical bath...resulting in a new ways of thinking about how to approach the medium...


I think it would be a stretch to say I've done anything remotely close to what has come before (in fact, you could question wether I've done anything at all)...but when I stumbled upon these images...they piqued my interest on enough levels to wonder if anyone else would want to have a conversation about what they could mean...


For perspective on where this is coming from..the total amount of digital data in existence now exceeds 45GB per person on the planet...that's actually more data than there exists storage to hold it..


Since the "mainstreaming" of digital photography we now make more than 375 billion images a year..Given that we've made around 3.5 trillion TOTAL photographs in the history of the medium...it means that the majority of all images made have been captured in the past decade... 


Why all the numbers? I guess because since I first picked up Canon A1 with a 50mm f1.4 sometime around 1990...I had no idea i'd end up here...and so quickly...You actually need to take a moment, step back and consider, wonder...think.


How many times have you heard me say ..."IT AIN'T IF your hard drive is going to fail..IT'S WHEN!"..what happens to all this data? This flood of zeros and ones that disappears before it even actually exists in any true physical form beyond photons -  then electrons and protons...that said...

There's more to this...there are over 30 images in the group... made up of what I estimate to be more than 75 original files- all interlaced together...as I've work backwards trying to reverse engineer the results...I realized the even more intriguing fact that the resulting recovered files are actually readable, editable .CR2 raw files..All technical nerd-dom aside...the next part of this conversation is about what's actually "contained" in these images...stay tuned.