BEING LOST
Picture by Dawn (of, and treated by, Tim Girvin) BEING LOST ....................... WORKING + BEING IN A CERTAIN PLACE There's one thing, to the idea of working in other places in the world -- learning to be there: work there, explore there, BE OUT THERE; but invariably that means that you are working IN A DIFFERENT PLACE, a place that is distinguished from the place that you were. AND THAT CAN BE GOOD - it can be better, that change. And as you dig INTO that place, exploring the ideas that...
a sphere of light
A sphere of light The most extraordinary mist crept in, unfurling clouds and glowing rolls of fog, that spun and turned in, one on another, until you couldn't see anywhere. The patterning, only molecules of water, tints of grey, and the deepening blue of the night or morning sky -- just beyond. Except, in the dark, points of light that blasted beamed rules of light, filtered by the patterning of leaves, like an arced and scintillant mass, a star in the forest, captured and created in the glow...
The road
The road When I go out there. I'm looking for the long road -- what's out there, the long running. Like any road, really, can you see to the end of it? Out on the prairie -- the long reach of the emerging fields, some just beginning, others fully flush with green, or grain, or gold; the slick black of the long run, road, heading into the mist. And even beyond that -- out there, I know where I'm going. Into the next step. Being here, and out there, at the same time. Stride on. The road is meant...
Brief, into the forest: wanderings
Brief, into the forest: wanderings Working with the team, Friday, downtown Seattle, then I went to The Evergreen State College that night, to connect, meeting with some staff and colleagues, then linked up with Paul Stamets out in the Olympic forests for an early, pre-dawn run on Saturday. Image: Deep, into the deep. A kind of mycological discovery out there, that brief foray -- I shot this, http://www.youtube.com/paulstamets#p/u/0/LjJk9LsBdA0 the following morning, in the rain and mist....
A Raven Story
A Raven Story Ravens, the stories that are woven, myth like, their legacy. This is a beautiful story. nothing better, they are. school, too: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/26/new-caledonian-crows-teac_n_773984.html Two, plus one, slipping and drifting, black calligraphers of the air, Bhutan. Tim | Old Queen Anne The love of the raven http://www.girvin.com/blog/?s=ravens Twitter: https://twitter.com/tgirvin
T H E L A D D E R | L I F E
T H E L A D D E R | L I F E WALKING an ancient road, a street, past sundown, the early evening ringing the most extraordinary blue, the light of the streets was a kind of gaseous yellow vapor-light. And that light created a kind of multiple shadow -- and there, scratched on the wall -- V i V E. I was thinking about that -- something to the nature of life, that upward movement (or down) -- and the climb to a vista more luminous. Being higher, you can see farther. But that graphic, the graffiti...
Lead Poisoning
Makes me wonder about lead, poisoning, madness. Van Gogh, was one, chewing on the leaden capsules of his China White [laden with lead] paint. Mixed with a little Absinthe, it's quite the creative amalgam. xo | tim | old queen anne.
SEEKING INSPIRATIONS | CREATIVE MENTORS: HAROLD BALAZS
SEEKING INSPIRATIONS | CREATIVE MENTORS: HAROLD BALAZS: THE DEFINITIONS OF DESIGN SPIRIT: A CHILDHOOD, RECALLED GROWING UP CREATIVE | WHO'S THE TEACHER THAT PLANTS THE SEED? Creative [V I B E] is juice, it's jazz, it's fire; unquenchable -- it's not dying, it's not going out. Harold Balazs | Porcelain enamel Creative comes from family -- and what they teach you, what comes of exploration, what comes of gifts, what comes of being in the school of being open, learning more, risking, failing,...
ravencall’d
H R A F N I N N Off that branch, that Raven's glint, eye like oiled bead, wand'ring, yet all seeing, Nors'd God, that holds one -- to should'r lft, the other -- sentinel, arc w'right, HUGINN|MUGINN that is Hrafninn, the one that stole l'ght from the center of the Whorled. T| RAVENWORL'D Twitter: http://twitter.com/tgirvin
PHOTOGRAPHIC AGENDA: DRIVE-BY SHOOTING
DRIVING, AND SHOOTING, IN A JOURNEY OF 4 HOURS. SPONTANEITY AND IMAGERY. I SPEND A LOT OF TIME LOOKING AT PHOTOGRAPHY -- AND I WRITE ABOUT IT, DESIGN AROUND IT, SHOOT IT. AND I PACKAGE AND DESIGN OTHER PHOTOGRAPHER'S WORK. DOING THAT, GIVES ONE A RESPECT FOR THE REAL ASPIRATIONS OF PHOTOGRAPHERS. What are they really shooting for, what's being documented, why -- the effort? What's the point of it? I BELIEVE THAT PHOTO-GRAPHY -- THE MARKINGS OF LIGHT -- EVINCE: • light impressions -- what...