Photo Awesome

The SCAD photo seniors are having a show entitled Whammy! on June 7th from 7-11pm.  It will take place at Studioplex at 659 Auburn Ave. NE, #149, Atlanta, GA 30312.  Come out for one final farewell!

I am moving out in a few days, and I have a nice desk available if someone needs one. You can have it for free if you can pick it up from my apartment. Its about 3 feet high and 4 feet wide, lots of drawers, all dark wood. If you want it you will have to get it by sunday. Let me know if you are interested.

Kyle

You might think this post is about graduation or something pertaining to the end of another chapter in PhotoAwesome history but no, it’s about robots and monkeys. This article on CNN clearly points out that soon the world will be overrun by monkey controlled robots. My advice to you is get your robot insurance and pray that John Connor can save us from the armies of robot monkey terminators.

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Rebecca

From what felt like a frenzied weekend of parties and cookouts, I found some time to shoot at Jason Kofke’s “Everything Will Be OK” at Arthouse and PhotoAwesome at Blue Tower. It’s not a bunch of photos but enough to laugh. Beware, I’m all over the pictures. Yes… Check them out before everyone graduates. Who’s gonna do the PhotoAwesome upkeep now?

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Just a post to send the good word to all the new awesome photo grads.

I also want to point out this site where, with your newly recognized digital media skillz, you may have another promising career option…

Susan Krause and Steve Jarvis of the newly anointed Sculpture Awesome brought a camera and a sledgehammer to our show. Check out a few interviews in their first video:

During this last week of what has seemed like a very short time in grad school, I have to announce the conclusion of PhotoAwesome’s unofficial relationship with SCAD-Atlanta. For all intents and purposes, PhotoAwesome.com will no longer be the place to go for updates on what’s going on in the Photography department at SCAD-Atlanta after June 1st, 2008. However, it’s pretty obvious that nothing else will fill that void until the Fall, when a new class of photo MFA candidates comes to campus and creates their own thing. So until that time, you can still consider this the best place to get updates.I only make this post now so that there’s not some kind of monumental shock for people who only rarely visit the site.

The reasoning behind this detachment is pretty simple: most of us are leaving. Again, only half true. But I’m leaving, and since the whole shabang resides on my server, I have to take it all with me. Anyone involved with PhotoAwesome over the last two years who would like the files associated with the site (whether to use to create something based off photoawesome.com or just to keep for yourself), get in touch with me and I’ll see what I can do.

Now, what will become of this place? The best we can hope for is a new life as something like Just Give Me Money, where we can occasionally check in on each other’s personal and professional lives after grad school. At worst, it will be a graveyard for the things we did in grad school. Either way is fine with me. Also, I’m open to suggestions for alternatives… alternatives involving very little effort. =)

Just as a final technical note, the system has deleted or disabled inactive accounts in the past (during a software switchover), so the best way to maintain posting access (not commenting access… that is always open to everyone) is to keep in touch. Posting a couple of times a year couldn’t hurt.

Thanks for a great two years, and happy graduation everyone!

EDIT: I almost forgot, a quick note from the comments, from our own Jason Parker: “…folks needing a fix for Atlanta visual art can get it at ArtRelish.com. It’s not SCAD- or photo-focused, but I’m here, and we can always use readers and contributors.”

ArtRelish has really been on top of things over the past year and will continue doing great things. I’d encourage anyone interested to get in touch with Jason and get involved.

I just made a super quick video (and I mean quick! Don’t watch if you get motion sickness!) of all the pieces after Blue Tower cleared out tonight. I know several other folks are making videos of their own that will feature much more in-depth content later, but I just wanted to get something up for those folks not able to make it out this evening.

And yes, I chose the music. It’s perfect, and you’re all wrong if you disagree. =)

w00t! We’re done.

The PhotoAwesome Thesis Exhibition Reception is tonight at Blue Tower Gallery from 7-10pm. The gallery is at 675 Metropolitan Parkway in Atlanta. Give me a buzz if you get lost or have problems with directions (847-528-6308). Hope to see everyone there!

Kyle

There is a lot going on this week for openings/closing receptions, so I’m putting it in one post so everyone can follow along. If I’m missing anything, add it in the comments and I’ll edit the post.

Thursday May 22
Valentina Vitols - Book Signing at the Latin American Association, 6-8pm.
Process: Photography - Graduate Student photography show at SCAD-ATL. 5th Floor, 7-9pm.

Friday May 23
Sweet Fried - Multi-media works at the Defoor Center, 6-9pm
73% An alternative perspective of watercolors - 290 MLK Drive suite 104, 7-10pm.
Everything Will Be OK - Kofke Preview (for those of us who can’t make it on Saturday evening for his opening), 4pm.

Saturday May 24
PhotoAwesome Exhibition - Blue Tower Gallery, 7-10pm.
Everything Will Be OK - Jason Kofke at Art House, 8-10pm.
404/912 - Collaborative Show at Mint Gallery, 6-9pm.

Portfolio Review and Walk
Offering artists the opportunity to meet with respected curators, dealers, editors, and agency representatives from across the United States, the Portfolio Review is an important element of ACP’s mission to support and nurture artists. Classes and workshops are also held in conjunction with the reviews. The Portfolio Walk provides photographers participating in the Portfolio Review the opportunity to present their works to the general public at an evening reception.  Click on above title to see last year’s portfolio reviewers.  Please note that this year is a juried review.

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Today there’s a great opportunity to hear some great live music downtown in Centennial Park. Souther Comfort is sponsoring the event and the best part is it’s all free!! The only catch is you have to be 21, so if you are come on down and meet up with Kyle and I. Some bands of interest are Against Me! and Austins finest Ghostland Observatory. Both of these bands have been featured in multiple Ninja Dave podcasts so needless to say they rock. The event starts at 3pm, hope to see you campers there.

Tonight, SCAD Style Event: “Reflection of a Man” Lecture by Jerrie Marcus Smith and Allison V. Smith
Thursday, May 15, 5:30 p.m., Events Space, 4C, SCAD-Atlanta
1600 Peachtree St., Atlanta, Ga.

Stanley Marcus was known throughout the world as an innovative marketer and retailer with a refined sense of taste and style. His leadership transformed his family’s Dallas clothing store, Neiman Marcus, into a globally recognized arbiter of fashion. His refined sensibility was also expressed in a very private passion for photography, shared only with family and close friends. Marcus’s daughter, Jerrie Marcus Smith, and granddaughter, Allison V. Smith, celebrate this passion in “”Reflection of a Man,”” a representative selection of the thousands of photographs Marcus shot on business trips in Europe, on vacations in Mexico and during family celebrations. A question-and-answer session will take place after the lecture, and a reception and book signing will follow in Gallery Trois. For more information, visit SCAD Style. To see work by Allison V. Smith, visit her Web site at www.allisonvsmith.net.

Tomorrow night is The Fay Gold Gallery’s opening of Photographer Arno Minkkinen, who spoke tonight at SCAD-ATL.  She asked me to do a video of the opening, but I have a previous commitment.  If someone would video the opening, I’ll edit it together.  The opening is from 6 - 8 pm.

Check out the video preview of the Photo Awesome show over at Art Relish.

Yeah that’s right, I can make videos too.

The Camera Club of New York announces the 2008 National Photography Competition. Juror Paolo Pellegrin, photographer Deadline for entries: June 30, 2000
http://www.cameraclubny.org/competition.html

or you can download an entry form here and view the complete rules and information about The Camera Club of New York. The competition is open to all US residents 18 years or older except members of the Camera Club of New York or their families, and employees.

Yup it’s that time again. The newest podcast is up so go get your groove on. enjoy!

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I came across this art website called www.myartspace.com. They got vids and galleries of shows. You can also sign up for free and upload some art. Kinda Interesting . . .