(Photos from our environmental expedition/experiments and sets)
Michael Adams, a friend from high school, has crated a great event, which consists of great local music/art talents this Saturday at THE FOUNDATION. He posts on facebook:
“Stranger Danger.”
What does it mean to you?
A dead body strewn on the side of the road? Michael Jackson’s latest nose-job? That kid that used to sit a little too close to you in 5th grade? Tits?
Saturday, June 27th presents a marvelous opportunity to not only find out how area artists interpret that question, but to also witness the blossoming relationship between the Kansas City/Lawrence arts and music scenes.
To this effect, we have painters, illustrators, designers , performance artists, musicians etc. ready to display their work
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It was a great opportunity to explore lighting and experiment different techniques of photography, showcase the photographs, incorporate some of the graphic tee designs I made while in NY for this summer (www.originalpenguin.com) , and keep fueling the creative juices while out of school. Shawn and I kind of created a collaborative concept for the small photo series. With his help of direction, we were able to work with real strangers who had passed by. Originaly I thought I wanted to use animal masks and do a play of DARE--but that was too obvious. so--We had the idea of creating a story about a person who encounters different situations of strangers who either subtly or obliviously and obstrusively invades our personal "bubble" by the touch of their hand, the glare of a stare, or the seat too close. --But as we explored we diverted from the idea abit. (i didn't want to associate the character wearing the tees in a negative way--so we made him the victim of stranger dangers) There would be no obvious storyboard of events from different scenes, but more of telling a story and keeping it different with the characters/events, but yet cohesive with it's environments. The subtle props and body language say a lot...
That's all for now...
