Pallet for Home

If you missed the Monopoly printables, they have been reset.  You can get the Monopoly Deal card game for free or nearly free at Walmart with coupons found here.

There's also a BOGO coupon for My Little Pony toys, which are BOGO at Toys R Us tomorrow, making them free as well...  See Jane4Girls blog for more info.

These make great stocking stuffers!

Pottery Barn Wall Easel: $235 (Pottery Barn frames = $275) TOTAL: $510


How to make your own Studio Wall Easel:

This was actually our first project (besides installing the missing bathroom door right away... that was a necessity!). We speculate that the previous owners didn't finish paying for the fence because our neighbor told us that after the house was vacant, the fence company came out, sawed off the poles, and took the entire fence in less than 10 minutes. We were left with partial poles sticking out of the ground.

I stumbled upon a fabulous deal at Reasor's today!  Many of their Kellogg's cereals are marked down, including the Blueberry Shredded Wheat, (one of our fav's) to $2.50 per box.

They also have many boxes marked with $1/1 peelies, which brings the cereal to $1.50 per box.  If you have the Calendar rebate forms like I do, purchase 10 boxes for $15.00 plus tax, and send your receipt for a $10 rebate!

But wait, it gets better...

With every 3-4 boxes you buy, you get a Catalina for a free gallon of milk, any brand, any flavor, up to $4.19!!!!!

So I purchased:
10 boxes of cereal  for $25.00
Used 10 $1/1 peelies      -10.00
OOP                                 $15.00
Sent off rebate              -10.00
Total cost of cereal        $ 5.00 for 10 boxes!!!
Plus got Catalinas for 3 gallons of milk free!!!!!

Catalina offer ends 4/10/10 and would probably work at CountryMart also, since they usually run the same Cat deals.  Have fun shopping!

Look for this Spring Essentials flyer at your local grocers to find a $1/1 coupon on any one Blue Bunny Novelty. These are available at Wal-mart for $1/1 and the coupon did not beep when I tested it yesterday! 

Yippe!  Free ice cream just in time for summer!

I am going to be posting a series of blog posts on my favorites. Anyone who knows me knows that I have a lot of them. I love photography and first became aware of it when I began modeling at age 12 for the Ford agency in New York. I am going to do a compendium of photographers whose work that I find powerful, compelling, moving and relevant, and they are not all fashion photographers in fact very few of them are. These may not all be my favorites but I hope to do a rather comprehensive review of contemporary photography. My loosely outlined plan will go like this. Im not sure how long this will take me but I would like to explore 4-5 a week of these ideas/ critiques and previews into the work of the photographers mentioned below. Many of these photographers work I have seen recently at shows in New York or at the Venice Bianale and I have wanted to write about it for some time so here we go.  This is a guide for me to follow and a kind of table of contents to organize my thoughts.  These are my categories entirely and my analysis completely. The photos below are photographs from the photographers I will explore. the photograph precedes the group or pattern that I am looking at.  The photographer whose work is shown is in blue

1- Vulnerability- the photographer, lover and Muse- Francesca Woodman, Edward Weston and Alfred Stieglitz


2-Vulnerability- Intimacy with the subject, muse but less lover- but the photographer is less important and present- Egoless? (Still looking for a title) Richard Learoyd, Nicholas Nixon, Emmett Gowin



3- Vulnerability- In from the inside- exposure- Documenting One's Culture and identity- Nan Goldin, Robbert Mapplethorpe, Catherine Opie


4- Vulnerability- Documenting ones family Nicholas Nixon, Emmett Gowin and Sally Mann



5- Psycholocial Profiles and Voyeristic windows- exploration of Freakshow- Photographers who are less connected to their subjects but looking in from the outside- Much less about vulnerability and more about a lens as distancing- Diane Arbus- Katie Grannan- Mary Ellen Mark



6- Narssisim meets the sacred and profane- the work of Sally Mann


7- The pornographers- Helmet Newton, Sally Mann, Peter Beard, and Andreas Serrano



8- Documenting Popular culture- Rineke Dijkstra, Lauren Greenfield & Thomas Struth



9- The Imposters- challenging cultural creation of identity and worth and art- Cindy Sherman, Yasumasu Morimura and VIk Muniz



10- Sureal Portraits- Painting with photography- Loretta Lux, Jill Greenberg and Timothy Greenfield Sanders and possibly Phillip-Lorca diCorcia



11- The Camera Obscura- Abelardo Morell and Vera Lutter

12- Portraits of Landscape- Doug Hall, Andreas Gursky, Emmett Gowin, Vik Muniz

13- Indusrial Landscapes- Edward Burtynsky, Ted Wood

14- Iconic Structures- Bernd &Hilla Becker& Julius Shulman

14- Conservation Photographers- Ansel Adams, James Balong, Ted Wood and Yann Arthus Bertrand, Elliot Porter

15- The Surrealists- constructed psychological realities- David LaChapelle, Joel-Peter Witkin, Jeff Wall

16-The Humanists- changing american culture by exposing truth- Lewis Hine, Dorthea Lange, Taryn Simon

17- Telling stories with dignity- Power of the story- suffering, war, and globalization- James Nachwey and Sebastiao Salgado

18- Juxtaposing reality and unreality- Simon Norfolk and Gregory Crewdson

19- Elemental experimentation- documenting sacred and individual experiences in the natural world- Susan Derges, Scott Johnson, Joanne Verberg, Richard Misrach

20- Being there- photographing your culture falling apart around you- David Goldblatt and Josef Koudelka


21- Static Movement Portraits- Richard Avedon and Annie Leibovitz


22- Sentimentality - time and place- Eugene Atget, Robert Doisneau, Walker Evans, Robert Frank and Gary Winogrand

23-Reconstrcting reality and documenting the unreality- James Casebere, Thomas Demand, Brian McKee

24- Sexy, fresh and beautiful- how a woman wants to be seen- Ellen Von Unwerth and Henri Cartier- Bresson

25- Historic Icons meet Tacita Dean- Man Ray- Eadweard Maybridge and of course Tacita Dean

26- Remembering Culture- Diaspora- Shirin Neshat, Joakim Eskldsen and Phil Borges (maybe- I find his work a bit contrived) and Wade Davis

27-Masters Of Beauty- Steven Miesel, Nick Knight and Irving Penn


28- The Sureal- seeing through different eyes- Robert and Shana Parkeharrison, Thomas Ruff, and Gary Schnieder

⁹ And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. (2 Corinthians 12:9, New King James Version)