What is Art Pants?

Art Pants is a 365 day-long-daily-photography-challenge, featuring Will Roegge and Linhbergh Nguyen which was started on November 1st, 2009. Our goal is to each publish one photograph a day for an entire year. But different from usual "photo 365s" out there, we've set ourselves a rules to abide by throughout the year:

1. No photos of anything automobile related

2. No self portraits.

Both of those rules are there to prevent us from going the easy route on taking our daily photos, or in other words, to use a crutch. The purpose of this project is to make the both of us think outside of our usual subjects and expand our creative defaults. The harder we make it upon ourselves, the better off we'll be creatively (or so we hope so!) come Novemeber 1st 2010.

We'll also be having different 'theme weeks' throughout the year. These themes could range from different subject matters; places, portraits, grass, sunrises, landscapes, faces, etc, etc. Or it could even be a technical theme; biggest aperature, smallest aperature, slow shutter speeds, 35mm film, camera phone fast action, etc....

We would love to hear your input throughout the course of the year. If you have ANY ideas for theme weeks or shots you'd like to see, let us know!

Oh, we both love black coffee and we both love Art Pants.

Day 40 – Abstraction 4 of 7

Friday, December 11, 2009 Linhbergh, Theme Week

Back in high school, when I took the Advanced Placement (AP) art class, we had to come up with an overall concentration to focus for our end of the year portfolio. I, while being the huge art nerd that I am, thought up of the pretentious “study of the lines and shapes of typefaces as a medium for contemporary and abstract compositions.” Today’s ‘Pants reminds me of that and also of the American contemporary artist, Jasper Johns –especially his study of various letters and numbers.

The curves, ovals, long straights and rigid lines of various typefaces can always make for some great compositions. This storefront window in downtown LA just shows how fantastic a group of letters can make for a great piece –even without spelling or saying anything in particular.

How are you guys liking abstraction week so far?

Also, Will and I have been noticing a lot of other photographers starting their own 365 project. If you’ve started one, send us your links!