Luceo’s own Tim Lytvinenko has been a creative force in recent days, turning out a couple of fun, little stop motion shorts. He’s on a cross-country trip right now, due in my home-city of Denver any day now, as he makes his way from Raleigh to San Francisco with his partner at Well Done Media. Anyhow, the shorts are fun and it’d be criminal not to share.
Did a portrait series of the Luceo folks on the last night of our meeting. More Polaroids with a little experimental twist tossed in. Photographing photographers is a little stressful –ok, a lot stressful. Took a few quiet minutes with Kevin German to play around with some test frames and get my head on straight before calling everyone out, one at a time. After 50 frames, a pep talk from German, and a couple hours, I felt like I came away with something I could be proud of.
Kendrick did a fun series of Polaroid 600s in 2007 and just posted it to her blog, here. There’s still something incredibly appealing about these old analogues. With any luck, Fuji will keep this stuff in production for the foreseeable future. I’m not really ready to stop shooting it just yet.
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Dan Celvi just passed this note to me re. Polaroid’s future. Apparently it’s old news to everyone except me. Still, more than glad to see this:
“I dunno if you saw this article or not, but in case you didn’t, I figured I’d send you the link. Basically, some guy somehow managed to spur a few million from random investors to help them keep the Polaroid line alive for no other reason to keep it going.
Always serious business at our meetings. We’ve been busy enough to bump our annual meet two a twice-a-year schedule and took advantage of the days following the Look3 festival to lock ourselves into a hotel suite and hash out the next six months of affairs. A bigger write-up and more comprehensive edit of our photographs is up on the Luceo blog, here.
Luceo’s Still Hoping Featured on Multimedia Muse
Posted by Matt 6.17.2009 Under Audio, Luceo, Personal, Project Installments, Tearsheets & Published Work, Web
The anonymous folks curating the Multimedia Muse blog seem plugged in enough to uncover the still-to-be-officially-announced url to Luceo’s collaborative entry into this year’s Look3 festival and they’re featuring it front-and-center on their blog. Have a look for yourself. Whoever handles that blog most certainly has a good ear to the ground and I’m excited to have our work be their feature du jour.
I’ve been a little absent lately, working on a few things that are a little premature for the blog. I am, however, happy to announce that Luceo will be debuting a group project in the Look3 Theater this week. We are all pleased to have had the chance to collaborate with Syracuse University’s very own Bruce Strong and two of his students, Brad Horn and Brian Dawson, in putting together our little contribution to the event. For folks coming to Look3, we’re all looking forward to catching up.
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And so inauguration begins for me, meeting Avi Gupta, photo editor for U.S. News & World Report, at the door of his Columbia Heights place. This is home-base for the next few days for both myself and fellow Luceo photographer David Walter Banks. Spent most of the night inside working out the boring, logistical ends of the actual inauguration as well as the figuring out where all the fun little slices of political strangeness are hiding out. We’ve come up with a little bit of a list in terms of things to photograph and hope to produce a something similar to the collaborative piece that appears on the Luceo site. Last night I stayed up talking with photographer Krisanne Johnson about this subject, whether or not shooting politics had any deeper photographic appeal given that these events are inherently overproduced and, frankly, difficult to manage if you’re not into being prodded by press handlers, other snippy photographers, and the twenty five layer cake of security that seems to be ever vigilant about keeping photographers on their toes. For all the drawbacks that come with the territory, there is still some appeal for me in looking at the culture surrounding these events and the machine that produces them. Politics or not, the more interesting story is hiding in these details and I’m excited about the next few days and the chance I have to continue that visual narrative.
Luceo Meetings Take Two
Posted by Matt 1.13.2009 Under Luceo
A few more images from Luceo’s meetings over the last week. Thrilled to be associated with this creative bunch of folks. We’ve spent several days together hashing out our business, huddled in a circle in the apartment we rented before heading out for editor meets this week. Still got a couple days stuffed with magazine rounds before inauguration.
The thing that has me most excited about this little endeavor is the response that we’ve had from our editor meets. It’s a simple model we’re offering: diverse geographic locations, quality photography that meets a consistent bar, and the ability to work with photographers that are as excited about their own work as they are about each others’. I guess it kinda feels a little rock-bandish –the whole traveling gypsy thing, anyhow. It’s been a year since we first started mapping out our future and I’m excited that our anniversary has been greeted with the same enthusiasm and collaborative vision we put forth last December when we camped on the floor of David Banks’ Atlanta apartment and dreamed this up. We’ve moved up a bit, camping on mattresses sprawled across the Brooklyn apartment we’ve rented out for the week and I think we’ll have some exciting new things to share in the coming months.