Oh, thank you! We're all pretty incompetent when it comes to photography but I think the natural lighting turned out rather pretty.
The baby powder was a bit gross to wash out but it wasn't really difficult. I had to shampoo twice becuase the first time it made a really disgusting filmy paste! What was hard was putting up with the stench / feeling before I had a shower!
OMIGOSH when i saw that picture i was like, "OMG HER GRANNY IS SO YOUNG!! AND LOOKS SO MUCH LIKE HER!!"
then i read the entry :(
what an exciting project! and the photograph is great! please post more of the project as it comes along! this is so exciting that I can't stop using exclamation points :(
and way to be the most stylish grandma around! I hope when I'm in my granny years I'll opt for a pearl-covered sweater instead of a glittered and screenprinted sweatsuit with two large-eyed kittens :(
MORE PROJECT PLEASE! god. can you tell that art school has deprived me of quality and well thought out work?
can you tell that art school has deprived me of quality and well thought out work?
That is the most depressing question I've heard all week. Art school is supposed to be my light at the end of the tunnel!
Anyway, Curse my chubby cheeks and 12 year old face :( The chubby cheeks are a problem for this photo, but if they mean that I will still look this young when I am a granny, I think that's a fair trade off.
We actually thought of going the screenprinted sweatsuit road, but in the vein of taking performativity into account I didn't think I could perform that convincingly. I'd probably end up looking really uncomfortable and caricature-ish. We decided that there are really two kinds of grandmas. There's the kind who comes from modest means and is large and jolly and wears Northern Getaway sweatshirts. Then there's the "classy grandma" who is tiny, well-mannered, and wears neatly pressed trousers and smart little sweaters. I have one grandma of each type, but I felt I could more convincingly portray the one who is very English and
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well, to clarify, the really shitty work is countered by really, REALLY amazing work!!
I love the classy granny! the Northern Getaway one would be a different type of shot, I think, as I usually picture them stirring stew or washing dishes while a drunken grandpa in the background is asleep in front of a hockey game with beer in hand. or making like 3 dozen ham sandwiches for their three dozen children and grandchildren and cousins and aww grannies :(
I would love to see the completed project! Because I'm one who has really enjoyed photographers who take "self portraits" as other personalities (hmm, hard to explain. Janieta Eyre would be an example), this has given me all kinds of interesting ideas! (plus I love that the natural light looks so candid and shapshot-y but still very planned and professional!)
Hmmm, it would definitely be interesting to contrast pictures of the two types of grannies! Or the sandwiches they make. My Northern Getaway nannie always made ham and cheese, while my English gram would make me lobster ones with fancy lettuce. Grannies in general are pretty amazing though. If only because they always have such delicious food around!
Not all of the pictures in our project will be self-portraits because we didn't think we could pull off things like "effeminate gay man", so I don't know if the lack of consistency in subject matter will be a problem or not. None of us are really artistically inclined, so we're just kind of having fun with things and not worrying too much about it being, you know, good. We've been using my six year old digital camera to take a lot of the pictures, so no art-school-level critique allowed!
Oh, phew! It's difficult to know how authentic it will look to other people. When I see the picture it seems like a very obvious performance in that all I can focus on is my goddamn baby face, so I'm glad to know that it doesn't look totally fake to other people!
Nice photo. I totally didn't pick up on the "lonely" part though -- I thought it looked very peaceful, like she (you) is knitting contentedly, with an almost grin.
I'm actually glad to hear that. Obviously you can't tell from this picture, but when I was looking out the window I was looking at a funeral home across the street. So when I look at it I think I look incredibly despondent, so I was almost concerned that that might overpower the intended message.
Peaceful is much nicer. She (me!) is happy with her asexual nature, I guess!
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How hard was it to wash out the baby powder?
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The baby powder was a bit gross to wash out but it wasn't really difficult. I had to shampoo twice becuase the first time it made a really disgusting filmy paste! What was hard was putting up with the stench / feeling before I had a shower!
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then i read the entry :(
what an exciting project! and the photograph is great! please post more of the project as it comes along! this is so exciting that I can't stop using exclamation points :(
and way to be the most stylish grandma around! I hope when I'm in my granny years I'll opt for a pearl-covered sweater instead of a glittered and screenprinted sweatsuit with two large-eyed kittens :(
MORE PROJECT PLEASE! god. can you tell that art school has deprived me of quality and well thought out work?
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can you tell that art school has deprived me of quality and well thought out work?
That is the most depressing question I've heard all week. Art school is supposed to be my light at the end of the tunnel!
Anyway, Curse my chubby cheeks and 12 year old face :( The chubby cheeks are a problem for this photo, but if they mean that I will still look this young when I am a granny, I think that's a fair trade off.
We actually thought of going the screenprinted sweatsuit road, but in the vein of taking performativity into account I didn't think I could perform that convincingly. I'd probably end up looking really uncomfortable and caricature-ish. We decided that there are really two kinds of grandmas. There's the kind who comes from modest means and is large and jolly and wears Northern Getaway sweatshirts. Then there's the "classy grandma" who is tiny, well-mannered, and wears neatly pressed trousers and smart little sweaters. I have one grandma of each type, but I felt I could more convincingly portray the one who is very English and ( ... )
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I love the classy granny! the Northern Getaway one would be a different type of shot, I think, as I usually picture them stirring stew or washing dishes while a drunken grandpa in the background is asleep in front of a hockey game with beer in hand. or making like 3 dozen ham sandwiches for their three dozen children and grandchildren and cousins and aww grannies :(
I would love to see the completed project! Because I'm one who has really enjoyed photographers who take "self portraits" as other personalities (hmm, hard to explain. Janieta Eyre would be an example), this has given me all kinds of interesting ideas! (plus I love that the natural light looks so candid and shapshot-y but still very planned and professional!)
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Not all of the pictures in our project will be self-portraits because we didn't think we could pull off things like "effeminate gay man", so I don't know if the lack of consistency in subject matter will be a problem or not. None of us are really artistically inclined, so we're just kind of having fun with things and not worrying too much about it being, you know, good. We've been using my six year old digital camera to take a lot of the pictures, so no art-school-level critique allowed!
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Peaceful is much nicer. She (me!) is happy with her asexual nature, I guess!
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