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 – Abstract Theme 6 of 7

Tuesday, December 15, 2009 Theme Week, WillRoegge

ABSTRACT6of7

Day #42, second to last day of the Abstract Theme Week. While down in Costa Rica, I have been able to enjoy beverages from glass bottles. This might sound like an odd pleasure – considering many great beverages come in glass bottles in the United States. Soda in a glass bottle and made from real sugar is divine. Too bad the US is dependent on supporting plastics and corn growers – serving our liquid death in plastic bottles and made from corn syrup. The retro 7 up logo also caught me off guard and made me even fonder of the stuff. With the bright yellow wall behind it, the green transparent glass, and the retro logo this caught my attention as an interesting composition for PANTS’ing.