Thursday, December 27, 2012

Voodoo Art Products

Voodoo Art Products

Here are some great products designed by Voodoo Art Design and Photography and fulfilled by zazzle.com
I hope you enjoy!

Sunday, December 23, 2012

Black and White Visions

"Now I see the world through diamond eyes"-Shinedown


There is just something about a black and white image. It seems like color would yield more emotion in images as we have the different hues representing various feelings. Why is it then that a high contrast black and white image can show and cause deep meaningful emotion? Perhaps there is less distraction and we can see deeper into the subject without the hindrance of colors which sometimes betray the true feeling. Maybe it is something far more simple. Perhaps we feel a certain type of nostalgia when we see these images in shades of gray. A throwback to a time when we did not live and communicate through outlets such as this one. A time when emotion was raw and confrontational. In those days when you viewed a photograph you really felt it. I mean literally felt it. You could feel the texture and thickness of the paper. You could rub your fingers over the image service and get a tactile feel of the image. Today many of us see most of our imagery on a digital screen. We go to museums, but we can not touch the work, we can not feel it. Of course there are the lucky few who still develop in the dark room or print their images in some way. Black and white images are a reminder of those days when we felt our imagery, held it in our hand and knew it was real. Photoshop has sorely dampened the believability of the images we produce. Of course images have been doctored almost as long as they have been produced, but there is just something about the classic black and white image. It feels real to us. It feels tangible and tactile. We connect with it on an emotional and almost physical level. Please take time to enjoy and feel the imagery. I fear that part of the photography equation is a dying animal among the masses....


"I invite you to a world where there is no such thing as time, and every creature lends it self to change your state of mind"-Shinedown













Thursday, December 20, 2012

A Time of Mourning.

We have all been lonely. We have all felt despair at sometime in our lives. Sometimes we say "I have sunk into the depths of despair," or "I feel like the only person in the whole world who is alone." We know the statements are not literal, but at that moment when it seems all hope is lost we feel that it is quite literal. Maybe our spouse has cheated or passed away. Maybe we have lost a parent or best friend. Perhaps we are suffering from an illness that we just can not recover from. Maybe it is something less severe, but yet it stills feels like the end of the world. We lost our job, our girlfriend dumped us, we don't have as much money as we would like, or we missed a family event because we live too far away. Life is full of it's downers. Situations and events that make us want to scream out in anger and cry into the arms of a loved one all at the same time. We see tragedy in the news almost daily. There has been another shooting spree, a child has been kidnapped, or someone has died in an accident. Our lives are full of tragedy. A young mother looses her children because she is an addict, a child is aborted because a mother was selfish, a father is abusive, a young man commits suicide, or an old man looses his memory and forgets those he loves. These are the events that make us lonely, the events that drive us to despair.

The images you see here are an attempt to capture those feeling. Some are literal while others are far more figurative. These images are not meant to be crude or vulgar, instead they attempt to capture the human condition at it's worst. There is a time for laughter and rejoicing, but there is also a time for mourning. That time is now.