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 183 – Jacob Chills 2 of 4

Friday, May 21, 2010 WillRoegge

Day #183 – Jacob Chill’s 2 of 4. Jacob’s grandfather was a California based race team owner who coined the phrase “Sprint Car” back in the day. Their racing heritage continues today to MMI – Motorsports Management International. I was introduced to Jacob through the drivers that MMI represents within the Formula Drift series: Vaughn Gittin JR, Ryan Tuerck, and Chris Forsberg. It was not until after meeting Jacob that I attended a NASCAR race or really learned much about NASCAR racing. Thanks to Joey Redmond who brought me up to speed on a cross country drive. Learning about Sprint Car racing was fascinating – its immensely popular and the back stories to the series are what makes it incredible to watch. Its a huge machine of marketing and an impressive show.

Back to Jacob’s pad and this mini series – these large prints were done on wood in black and white. They were one of the first items that I noticed upon entering Jacob’s place for the first time.

Cool pieces of family history, no?

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