This photo is by runner-up Matthew Pillsbury. The actual winner was Sarah Stolfa – a 29 year old graduate from Drexel.
I post because it reminds me of Shannon, what with the photography.
Anyways, congratulations to Matthew Pillsbury, who currently has a show at the Bonni Benrubi Gallery in New York. I like his stuff the very best. He takes time-lapse photos of people doing their ordinary thing, in this case practicing piano for an hour. His lighting “was inspired by the work of Hiroshi Sugimoto, whose photographs of empty movie theaters are lighted by the movie screens themselves, and wanted to apply the technique in a more personal setting. Using the length of his subjects’ favorite TV shows and Internet browsing to dictate his exposure times, he created a series of black-and-white photographs in which computer and television screens are the only source of light.” In this photo the light source looks to be the laptop in the corner.
Anyways, I like. The winner was photos of people drinking beer, which also makes me think of Shannon ; ).
btw, I dunno if you’re still looking for a digital camera Sha, but the winner got a Olympus E-1 digital SLR – worth about $1500. There are some cheaper ($750-$1000) Canon and Nikon SLRs that get good reviews. I personally prefer ultracompact cameras, but I don’t carry a purse.
{tangent} Oh, er, I linked to UrbanDictionary above cause people might not know what JK means, and I’ve been going through their section where you decide whether entries stay or go. It’s really funny. The really really funny ones are completely innappropriate, but here are some family-friendly examples:
27. Disneyland:
If you want to go to a REAL theme park, just go to Six Flags or Unversal Studios instead.
Fuck Disneyland.A user said this is offensive: “This is an offensive definition and is not coherent for such a dictionary using juvinile language and filthy insinuations.”
72. yu-gi-oh:
A Japanese translation of “you gay ho”
“Yo armanda get ova here u yu-gi-oh”.A user said this should be deleted: “offensive to the japs and inaccurate”
I like how the guy complains about being offensive to the ‘Japs’. {/tangent}