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 #131 50mm Theme Week Day 7 of 7. The week of Nifty Fifty prime is over. Here is a parting shot of DTLA. Shot from the 105/110 HOV lane interchange. One of the craziest cloverleaf interchanges in the world. Yes, the world. ARTPANTS 3 people like this post. NEVERMIND!
Day #130 – Another usual suspect here – DC Chavez just showed off some of his best motorsports photography at the ID Agency Open House. Along with Joey Redmond and Estevan Oriol – some really talented guys behind the lens. Be sure to check out DC’s informative and educational lighting posts on Profoto’s blog. You...
Day #129 – Theme Week 50mm. After a bit of a delay, I’m going to play some catch up here with Pants’ing. Peter Tarach has been working on some cool projects – check out his blog & blinded by awesome. ARTPANTS 1 person likes post. NEVERMIND!
Day #128 – Coffee. The stronger the better. Fresh ground Kona beans. Drink it black or don’t call if coffee. :p ARTPANTS 1 person likes post. NEVERMIND!
Day #127 – 50mm Theme Week. Subject is my Canon F1 with Canon 50mm f1.4 lens. Even though there is something funky with the film advancer mid-roll every time, I love this camera. Incredibly simple. Undeniably beautiful soft look to everything that gets exposed onto its given 35mm stock. ARTPANTS 2 people like this post....
Day #126 – Thanks to FaceTube, I knew that Nate Adam’s birthday was Wednesday and thanks to Nate’s schedule as pilot – I knew he would be in Los Angeles over night. Kind of a bummer way to spend your birthday – in a different city. Been there before and it was not memorable. So...
Day #125 – Tuesday night went to the Brig with Dang and his cousin for the Grilled Cheese Truck and later the Kogi truck. Two LA food trucks, One night. Food coma. Thanks to Dang for supporting Artpants and being a cool ass dude! Caught him off guard in this photo. Check out his blog...
I find the 50mm lens on my camera body more so than my wider or even my longer lenses. The focal length just works in a lot more situations than a much wider lens. A 50mm is like the little bear’s porridge and bed: its not too wide, its not too long, but its juuuust...
This upcoming week will officially be our second official theme week. Will and I will be shooting photos for ARTPANTS only with our respective 50mm lenses. The choice of aperture to the users discretion but knowing the both of us, we tend to land in the more wide-open territory…. This should definitely be an interesting...
Day #43 Abstract Theme 7 of 7 – For the final day of Abstract Theme week I’m going to pull a Jasper Johns. No, I’m not using a broom and paint to make a piece. Instead I’m following Linhbergh’s lead, the color of the flower and the texture of rust made the framing appeal to...
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...
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...
Day #41 – Abstract Theme Week 5 of 7. The color and square cutout shape of this door caught my attention while walking the streets of Jaco, Costa Rica. Since I’ve been stuck in airports for too long – I have some serious PANTS’ing to do now. No artists to reference, just: shape, color, and...
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...
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