Posts Tagged ‘travel’
Nicole Lavelle is easily one of the most interesting people I know. We were introduced through our mutual mentor Kate Bingaman-Burt in 2009. Earlier this summer I previously posted about her bamboo bike trip and in the past few weeks I watched her create a body of work, Points of Interest, in response to her epic journey across America on a bike she built.
“This is a new kind of work for me! I really enjoy writing, and the power of language, and wanted to incorporate more of it into my work.”
This collection of work, ink drawings of words & ideas, was installed at Stumptown Coffee on SE Division Street in Portland, Oregon in September 2011. See/read much more after the jump!
One of the many wonderful things about living in a city like Austin, is being surrounded by people that are creating so much great work in different mediums. A few years back, I lived and designed with Keith Young when he decided to take another stab at photography. Since then, I have watched him grow into an unbelievable photographer. He keeps his photos simple and he is successful at telling a story without telling you too much, almost letting you decide the outcome. Every time I look at his work, I immediately want to get on the road and start shooting. Whether it’s Keith’s designs or photographs, I am a fan. Check out his photography, then jump over to his design work. You won’t be disappointed.
The term “bureaucrats” gets thrown around a lot nowadays, but what do they look like? What do they do and how much are they getting paid to do it? Jan Banning‘s “Bureaucratics” project tackles these questions by cataloging bureaucrats from around the world. Some are tax collectors, license issuers, Texas Rangers and everything in between. He photographed them sitting in their respective offices or workplaces and the differences are stunning.
My friend Michael Muller is extremely talented and easily one of the nicest guys I know. You might be familiar with him from his music Balmorhea, or perhaps you’ve already discovered his world of travels, eats, and mixes on his blog entitled Threading In The Choirs. It’s here that Michael does a wonderful job documenting and capturing the places he goes, people he meets and the food I wish I was eating.
Rhondal McKinney was raised in southern Illinois during the 1950′s. After working as a brakeman for the railroad, he was pushed into photography and has been creating photographs ever since. His series of Illinois landscapes capture sunrise silhouettes of infinite horizons, ghostly surviving traces of simple living and a calm evoking spirit of some sparse vision from the artist’s adolescence.
“When I was a kid I used to ride around in my father’s pickup truck. He was a bird hunter and a fisherman and we might be on our way to run his nets in the river or driving around looking for quail or pheasant. Usually I didn’t know where we were headed. While we drove around my father chewed tobacco. If a quail ran across the road Dad would pull over, hold his hand against his chest as if to hold back a necktie and spit tobacco juice at the spot where the bird disappeared into the fencerow. The cab of that truck had been so dusty for so long that the dust clung to the dash, the visors, the floor–everywhere–like hide. Pop bottles banged together under the seat. As we drove along gravel roads past fields of clover and alfalfa, corn and wheat, past orchards and pastures and hardwood groves my father’s eyes moved constantly over the landscape. He had a thirst for the look of it. I remember wondering what it was that he was always looking at. Eventually I learned to see what he saw, to love what he loved.”
I really enjoyed these photographs. For some inexact reason, they conjure up something from my past and I think/hope I am not alone with those feelings. These photographs describe a vague place we have all been to. I would like to think that is what McKinney is ultimately going for.
