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On top of spaghetti,
All covered with cheese,
I lost my poor meatball,
When somebody sneezed.

“tourists Jan 2010″

Seeking Beauty by William Henry Davies

“…As long as I love Beauty I am young,

Am young or old as I love more or less;

When Beauty is not heeded or seems stale,

My life’s a cheat, let Death end my distress.”

“Has anyone supposed it lucky to be born?
I hasten to inform him or her it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.
I pass death with the dying, and birth with the new-washed babe….and I am not contained between my hat and boots, And peruse manifold objects, no two alike, and everyone good,…”
Leaves of Grass / Walt Whitman

Title: Poetry

Assigner: Brad

Description: Pick a poem and interpret it visually. It can be a whole poem or just a line or two – use it as a start pointing and post it along with your image.

Tamar recently redesigned her website. Please check it out at www.tamarlevine.com!

She also has a feature in UCLA Magazine this month, which you can check out on her photo bloghere.

In December Natalie released a book of the Georgia & Sabine fine art series. Here is a blog posting about it: click here
It is for sale on her website.
She released the book in conjunction with an exhibition of the work in December in Portland: click here!

Congratulations Natalie!

The Advocate featured our very own Chris Dibble this month for an artist spotlight! Check it out here: http://www.advocate.com/Arts_and_Entertainment/Art/Artist_Spotlight_Christopher_Dibble/

A warm welcome goes out to our newest member of TIAPB, Jose Mandojana! After the jump check out two new features he photographed. One for the current issue of Glamour, and the next one for the current issue of Money.

Wesley Brown will have work in a group show this month at WallSpace Gallery in Seattle, titled “New Directions 10″. Check it out from Jan 5-31!

The show then travels to 23 Sandy Gallery in Portland, February 5-27.

Click here for more info: http://www.wallspaceseattle.com/

J. Wesley Brown

Jenner, CA

El Sereno/Silverlake/Echo Park

In rural Kansas visiting my husband’s family farm for the holidays … we woke up on our last day to a light snow and a bright sunny day …

For this assignment, I was inspired by the words “stay away from a perfectly exposed image” & deep dark shadows. Most times all I do is worry about how perfect my exposure is because in digital many times you can’t afford to be off at all. For this assignment, I purposely underexposed my images for the effect. It was a dark, cold and rainy Malibu day. We were shooting in a cold, dark and empty Malibu home. I went with it and brought the atmosphere and darkness into the image by underexposing the image I think the end result and effect worked in favor of the fashion story.
Thoughts ?????

Keep shooting!
Jana