Drip

Follow this link for the photo scroll - Drip

Drip is an early experiment in using the scroll format.  I am  interested in using Scott McCloud's infinite canvas theory to present photographs, for examples of infinite canvas in comics see Ken Dahl's "Sick" and Dash Shaw's Body World. I think it could lead to some interesting photographic work. I want to make a work that I can keep adding pieces to weekly or monthly in the same way that Dash did with Body World. So far the challenge for me has been creating something that tells a story. Right now my scroll works have all been surreal  and in the stream of consciousness mode of working, following no direct linear arc. 

The Wizard

Mostly At Night

I made this book a few years ago and printed it through Blurb. It seems Blurb has made vast improvements in the past couple of years, they will now convert your book into an ebook for ipad. 

THEY MOSTLY COME OUT AT NIGHT

I kept hearing people complain about the image quality from point and shoot cameras using a high ISO, so I decided to shoot a series with the ISO cranked to maximum and see if I could achieve interesting results. I started to shoot in very low light situations and with the particular camera I had at the time the focus was not so good. What I ended up getting were these out focus images with a lot of digital noise. The images reminded me of trying to remember a dream that you had a few days before but can only vaguely recall. The title comes from a line in one of my favorite movies, hopefully you know what it is. 

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Here is a link to the blurb book 

Fumetti?

Just listened to an interesting interview with artist Dave Mckean over at Inkstuds. During the interview he ask why aren't there more comics created utilizing photography. This something I've been thinking about for a while now. Of course there is Duane Michals and Mckean himself, other than that I can't really think of any interesting uses of photography in the comics medium. I do think that there are a few photobooks that could arguably fit within the definition of sequential art, I would say that Ed Templeton's Deformer fits into that category. Anyone have any thoughts on this matter?


Some more new work