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 44 – Abstraction 7 of 7

Tuesday, December 15, 2009 Linhbergh, Theme Week

Screen shot 2009-12-14 at 11.59.54 PM

This is my last submission for the Abstraction theme. I’m finishing the week off with a very minimalist composition; its just solid color with a simple break.

I have to admit, Theme Week #1 was really difficult to create content for. I spent a lot of my time thinking and finding things to abstract. And when I did find something, I would have to take the time to study the area to obtain the best composition… Maybe I’ll move the camera a bit this way, and a bit more that way…. OH GOD NO NOT THERE.

But that’s the whole point of this 365 project! You always have to keep pushing and you always have to prevent yourself from getting comfortable and settling –settling is an artists curse!

Starting tomorrow, I’ll be on the regularly scheduled ‘pantsing program! Will and I would also love to know what are your thoughts with theme week #1?