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I’ve always been curious to see how bold street photographers are when they photograph strangers.
Of course, they’re all different and some try to keep it on the down low while others are more bold. And brave.
Well, here’s our chance to see one of the bolder street photographers in action!
Watch this video to see how this guy walks right up to people’s faces.
Also pay attention to how deals with the angry guy!
Looking through the studio door.
They were turning one of Trinity’s group numbera into a duet for the Tremaine competition in Las Vegas.
Trinity wanted to have a crazy twins day. She put on her outfit (right) and asked me to wear my green + blue tights and lime shirt (left).
At about 2:00 the power went out throughout most of Mesa and Apache Junction because of a fire at the substation. It was a 109 degree day.
We didn’t get our power back until just after 10 but Grandpa Jerry and Nana Debbie got theirs back within an hour or two.
We went out to lunch in Gilbert and then headed over to Jerry and Debbie’s with a game and hung out for a while.
One of the local news stations asked people to send a picture and tell them how we’re doing through Twitter. I sent this pic above from my iPhone with the tweet:
“Playing games in Nana’s AC’d home to cope w/ #SRP electrical outage and doing fine.”
We’d had a super late lunch so we weren’t hungry for dinner until around 9:30 pm. Our power was still out, so we headed out and arrived at Bucca Di Beppo where we knew they had power. Unfortunately, since it was a weeknight, they were closing right then and said they’d already shut down the cooking. But they gave us a big salad and bruscetta! It was all we had actually wanted anyway!
Yay for Bucca. They were super nice!
I have others, but these ones are my very favorite. You can see them all and look at the pins on my Pinterest page.
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Ali Edwards has been talking about the upcoming Week In the Life adventure in July, which is a good reminder that it’s been over a year since the last one, and maybe I should get the heck finished with that thing.
Don’t you think?
I’ve been putting it off, mainly because my last memory of working on it doesn’t infuse me with good feelings. I don’t know if I was overwhelmed by the amount of info and pics I was trying to coordinate and fit into the space, or the fact that I was working on it in the public library where a guy near me wouldn’t stop making gross noises and I couldn’t figure out how to get on their free wifi.
Funny how negative feelings can affect you, no?
Because when I pulled my project out, I was surprised at how much I enjoyed what I had done so far!
It wasn’t that the products were my favorite, or even the photos. It was the content.
The stories.
The little things I had forgotten.
In between the photo-sleeve pages from Becky Higgins’s first Project Life Album I placed a pocket page I’d made ahead of time for each day. In used eyelets as the holes for the album rings. I am not putting these inside a page protector.
On the back of that is my own photo of the day that I had Izzy take for me. I protected each of these photos with a transparency.
I had more photos on this first day than I did on any other day, which forced me to find ways to include all the notes I’d taken for the day. I love the journal strips on the left page (first photo, above) and the painted metal tab I added to this journal card, which I tucked behind this photo.
Our tastes in products fade. Even some of the pictures we take and initially love prove not to be as significant as we once thought.
But when you…
Then your older unfinished projects will still motivate you, even after it’s been sitting away in a box for a long time.
That’s why I was so excited to work on this again once I actually pulled it out and read the journaling I’d recorded on the first page.
We had super low entries to our challenge this month. Low, as in, only two!
Both entries were awesome, though, so we decided to highlight them both! I think you’ll understand why. Congratulations, Tambur and Sarah!
Both opted for Lesley’s third challenge:
3. Food, glorious food! I think its awesome that Noell is documenting her culinary tastes and her food evolution. For this challenge we want to see a layout which is a peek into the culinary life of you or your family! Click on over to see part one, two and three of Noell’s food journey.
Sarah told the funny story behind her layout:
I always make bread from scratch, but after I had my third baby, I was making bread, and I tried to do too many loaves in my mixer and it overheated and turned off…then my baby needed me and I got sidetracked…when I came back to the mixer, the dough had risen over the bowl!
What the judges had to say:
“These photos say it all! This story is absolutely hysterical! She supports the playful event with the tilted photos. There’s a lot of texture created by distressing, folding, and layering that really makes the page.
The large diecut noteworthy shape defines the space and adds loads of style. When I think about making bread from scratch, I think of my grandmothers and “the olden days” when homemade bread was the norm. The scallop frame gives an elegant and old world feel that supports this “olden days” idea.
Red titlework lettering makes the photos pop. Sarah mimicked the colors of her kitchen with the paper and title colors and the pink and red work very well together.”
You can visit Sarah at her page in our community. You can also go visit her on her blog!
I really love it when people share their design process as Tambur did for this layout:
The yellow flower under the word Mespila I used to balance the color from the pictures of the fruit.
The black Right Now is there to balance the large chunk of journaling and then to complete the triangle I stamped the date in black ink.
The green I used to diagonally bring the eye from the green apple in the top photo to the ‘insights’ chipboard piece to the title Mespila.
The bits of white from the the chipboard pieces are there to counter the large white journaling piece.
What the judges had to say:
“The colors used in this layout are very calming and beautiful together and are obviously drawn from the photos of the fruit. They tie all the elements of the page together. The blue honeycomb paper makes us think “sweet,” and is a great addition to convey the journaling that describes the taste and texture of her new favorite fruit.
We love the large journaling area that’s clearly defined by the jagged edge of pattered paper.
Overall the layout is well balanced and the embellishing elements are scattered (seemingly effortlessly) about the page, drawing the eye around to the important elements. The patterned paper detailing along the right margin is perfect for grounding the journaling block and “pulling” it back into the layout so that it truly feels like a design element and not an after thought – I think without the blue paper it would have felt unfinished.”
You can visit Tambur at her page in our community. You can also go visit her on her blog!
Think we can beat two entries this month? We usually do a lot more than that! Join us! We give you lots of challenge choices to choose from, so there’s got to be something to inspire you! See the June Challenge here.
Many thanks to our Challenge Coordinators and Judges: Lesley, Suz, and Kristyn!
After living with brown in our front room area, I’ve been itching for over a year now to exchange the brown for some bright happy colors! I call them Dr. Seuss colors, and we’re so happy with them.
We’re colorful people. It was time to make our home feel more like us.
From many areas you can see the blue and blue-green, and a yellow all at once, though not in these pictures. From my bedroom I can see a lime green, and the blue and yellow all at the same time.
I’ve been working on bringing our stories into our home — the stories of what we love, where we’ve been and what we do, where we come from, and who we love.
I’m also patient. I think it’s important to take your time and bring in only the things that you love, rather than to buy stuff to fill the house. There are lots of sparse spots right now. Below is what we’ve got going on so far…
Izzy loves films. Blake will be a film-maker not many years from now. We make a living through video. Izzy does small local cinematography products on the side.
I found these faux film reels at Pier One.
This is an old vintage (still working) light for filming — a Mole Richardson Fresnel. Izzy was going to sell it and I told him, “Absolutely not! It’s going on our cabinet.”
Now he’s happy he didn’t. It’s such a beautiful thing and I love having pieces and symbols of our lives and passions around the house like this.
The reclining chair with side table will be outta-here ASAP. I will be replacing it with a low already-used wooden cabinet as soon as I can find one I love.
The dining table is from Razzmatazz.
Izzy and I love red wine. We’re part of the wine club at D’Vine Bistro and Wine Bar in Mesa, and we do tastings there about every other week.
And just because…here’s a current picture of the outside. The usual flowers aren’t blooming on all the plants, which means we need to work on the soil a bit.
I’ll share more interior home photos in a week or two!
Is this something you’ve consciously done? If so, please share how!
Congratulations to Ginny! It’s only her second time participating in a challenge and she did great! We’re excited to show you why we chose to highlight this layout…
What the judges had to say:
Ginny took on the challenge from Communicate with Space – Paperclipping 165 to use white space to help communicate the story by separating and linking its various aspects. The entire layout is about Big Brother’s experience of having a new baby sibling. Ginny picked out the most important part — how much Big Brother loved the new little guy — and made that the focal point. She separated that most important part by giving it lots of white space.
She then combined the other three smaller sub-stories into one space, placing them closer together. She also used space to individualize each of those sub-stories by giving creating a lot of space between the journaling for each photo.
Ginny further emphasized the dominance of the focal point photo by adding a visual triangle of embellishments — a banner and a long chipboard piece, both of which act as lines directing your eye right to the photo, as well as a star.
These pieces also lend to the celebratory tone of the story!
The owl border brings the right amount of weight down to the bottom, ties the colors together, and anchors the contents of the page by a framing it.
You can visit Ginny on her profile page in our community, The Crop Circle.
If you get inspiration from all the stuff that goes up on Paperclipping, how about putting it to use and joining our monthly challenge? The May challenge is up and there’s plenty of time to join! Come play along!!
Many thanks to our Challenge Coordinators and Judges: Lesley, Suz, and Kristyn!
I user a broader definition of “art Journal” than what is trending right now. Most people these days use art journals for artful experimentation and play, which will then be the foundation for written journaling. I do so much writing and journaling into my photos, into my scrap journal, on my blogs, in my fiction, and onto my scrapbook pages, that I don’t have any interest in adding it into my art journals.
Plus, as a writer, I naturally look at it for a different purpose. Many fiction writers keep writing journals, where we’re just practicing or warming up, and if we’re lucky, you might find a jewel there to embellish into a short story or novel. But mainly, we use writing journals for practice actual fiction. So it’s more natural for me to think of my art journals this way — a warm-up place for my art.
And I’m still trying to discover who I am as an artist. Mixed media? Collage? Copics Markers? Paint? So far it’s all of the above, but pure paint continues to stir up more passion in me than the others. I’m also still trying to find my colors, and I have yet to really commit to larger focal images and that I create myself. I have very few completed pages. I guess I’m still working on that fear thing.
While my smallest book has the nicest, sturdiest cover, which I really like, I can’t stand it’s size. It’s too small. If you haven’t bought yourself a journal yet and are planning on it — don’t go for small. It’s very limiting and there is a lot I want to do that won’t fit in that tiny book. Fortunately I have the two larger books you see on the bottom.
If I can fit what I want to do it the small book, I’ll use it. Otherwise, I really love the big ones, even if they don’t have nice sturdy covers.
So far none of the art you see here are finished except the tree in the book on the right-hand corner.
Speaking of the book in the right-hand corner, I originally turned that old unwanted novel into a journal — a place for me to write a few thoughts and to add a scrap or two from the day. A receipt. A thank-card. A napkin with some quick notes I jotted down.
That’s why I call it my scrap journal. Then I found myself brainstorming in it. Brainstorming began my image-making, because who brainstorms with words only? I liked the aesthetics of the images on top of the text. I liked using my book to just doodle, too. I’ve found that the doodling generates new inspiration.
And then I bought my Copic Markers and I found that I love the copics on top of the text and manila colored pages. So now my scrap journal is also an art journal. It’s my everything book. But it’s still not the typical current popular type where you art a page up and then journal on top of it. I have pages with only journaling. I have pages with scraps or brainstorming. I have pages with sketches and copic color. I just do whatever it is I need to do in this book.
It’s not about making the book pretty, although there are some pretty things in it.
I also keep two sketch books. One is 14×17 with thin pages — great for practicing drawing larger images, and suitable only for pencils. I also have a one that is 12×9. It’s easier to carry around with me and its pages are a thick material so I can use my Copics in it, as well.
I have a few playful experiments I’m excited to share — hopefully next week. But what about you? I’m curious to know how much of the Paperclipping audience does art journaling, is interested in art journaling, or has no interest at all?
If you listened to this week’s Roundtable episode, then you know Stacy Julian’s Finding Photo Freedom class is now available for purchase and she is giving away TWO seats to the Roundtable audience!
Some of you scan instead of read, and you miss important information. I know this, because many of you respond to my emails to ask me a question that I answered within the email you responded to! :)
I also know this because I scan instead of read sometimes, too.
Please beware that if you don’t follow these instructions, you’re less likely to win a seat!
Why do you want freedom from the chaos and overwhelm of all the photos we take these days? What will it do for you? How will you flourish with your new-found freedom?
I found this on Susie Lafond’s blog, Gathering Bits of The World.
