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 43 – Abstraction 6 of 7

Sunday, December 13, 2009 Linhbergh, Theme Week

Today’s abstraction piece is a bit on the borderline here. There’s a sense of abstraction, but the objects within the frame are completely identifiable. The American artist whom I’ve referenced to before, Jasper Johns, is also another great reference for this sixth day of abstract ‘pantsing. He mixed abstract expressionist brush strokes with found objects like this piece and this shot reminds me the same. The light pants its own abstract expressionist ‘brush strokes’ and the found objects ground the rest of the frame to reality.

On a daily basis, we maybe dream fantastic dreams for ourselves, but our everyday actions ground us to reality…

Will is currently on a much deserved vacation to Costa Rica. So his daily ‘pants-ing is a bit delayed. Also, tomorrow will be the last day of Theme Week #1! Can you believe it? So as theme week comes to a close, what do you guys think of it? Our aim is to have another theme week in roughly two weeks time. Leave us a comment, or email us to let us know what you guys want to see!