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 #40 – Abstract Theme 4 of 7. Linhbergh’s first abstraction referenced the work of Piet Mondrian. Mondrian’s linear composition, flat white background, and use of primary colors is simply captivating. At dinner…yes dinner, I noticed the ceiling was exposed. The wiring, piping, and lighting being visible – and creating an impressive intersection of lines. ...
Day #39 - Reflections of the Broadway Bar in downtown Los Angeles are lost in the grunge of the parallel storefront. The neon glow of the sign caught my attention and fades into a mass of glowing text. Framed by a hastily painted wall. Artifacts of popular culture and the past. Like this photo! NEVERMIND!
Richard Diebenkorn compositions were not thought up and created because of his mood or emotional thought at the time, but rather, his compositions derived from actual subject matter. In the case of his infamous “Ocean Park” series of paintings, his compositions were based from the actual landscape of Santa Monica, California itself! As artists, we...
Day #38 – Abstract Series Theme 2 of 7. Personally, some of the greatest art comes from the elements. It can modify human creation in ways a brush cannot. Water pours through the cracks and stains the walls. Nature makes it’s own abstract expressionist work. Maybe a rain storm is the best action painter? Its...
Day #37 – My first of seven days of the first theme week of ARTPANTS – Abstraction. I choose different references than Linhbergh’s artists – with analytical cubism. Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque are well know cubist artists. The scene above has many different angles, lines, and intersections. It also contains foreground elements that obscure...
Today’s shot has been brought to you by Mark Rothko, and Piet Mondrian, and digital single-lens reflex technology! Like this photo! NEVERMIND!
This upcoming week will officially be our first theme week. Will and I will be shooting photos not for the subject matter, but rather, we will be focusing more on composition, shapes and color. Here are a few artists that we will take inspiration upon through out the week: Richard Diebenkorn, Barnett Newman, and Georia...
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