Time to start some new projects! My fabulous friend Kate (see a few posts ago) introduced me to the website www.arthousecoop.com . It's a small group of people that create art projects and art communities and give exposure to some great artists. They are always looking for various submissions, one of their latest being "The Fiction Project". You pay $18.00 and they send you a notebook. You then fill it out with writing and images until its full. Then, you send it to the Brooklyn Art Library where it will be displayed with all the others. How cool is that?! I am trying to convince Todd to do it as well, because he is always going on these amazing calls as an EMT, he's got some great stories! xoxox Laura

Orion Magazine

Well, I've decided that I would like to start writing non-fiction again, and I would very much like to submit to Orion magazine. Todd's parents, Lily and Glenn live at a place called Ravenwood, a piece of land in Maine that is filled with gardens and farms, and some animals. I love photographing there, and I'd like to make a spread as well as some text to accompany the images. I'm thinking some straight forward photographs and maybe a few shots from my Holga. Hmmm, now I just need to make some plans to get up there! Orion magazine is a great magazine that is based around "green living" and a positive attitude towards the environment. This is their website...check it out!
www.orionmagazine.org

Fabulous Quote

"All I want to be is someone who makes new things and thinks about them".

Dorthea Lange/Grumpy

It's a cool crisp day here, and I am as grumpy as ever! Why? I have no idea, but it started yesterday when we drove around Harvard Square for thirty minutes trying to find a parking space, and ended up just paying at a garage. Anyways, I have recently picked up a copy of the new Dorthea Lange biography, A Life Beyond Limits. I started to study here in high school, and then thoroughly in college. She is the speaker of one of my favorite photography quotes. "A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera". When I first entered AIB I did not really understand it, however by the time I graduated I fully understood. Photography makes us aware of many different aspects of the world and the life we live. After looking at many different photographic projects, we are able to objectify and identify American consumerism, war, home, love, depression, anything really. Seeing different portfolios has made me more aware of the world around me. Now it helps me think of different ideas and projects! I would very much like top start a project on American tourism. I could not believe the strange "realities" that I saw at Disney World, even more so that people choose escape the "real world" every year to visit. I have never seen so much fake imagery and (stuff) in my life! Don't get me wrong, I had fun on my honeymoon, but the amount of writing that could be done about this place is endless....I'm going to investigate that. Anywho, I have inserted Lange's infamous image, "Migrant Mother" taken in Nipomo California, 1936. xoxox -L

New Image

I've started to make some images to summit to the "illuminations" I talked about a few posts ago. Here is one of the first images that I have made. This was taken at the Arboretum. Thoughts anyone? 

I want to make "refrigerator good".

MGH Illuminations/Kate Castelli!

Most of you know that I work in the cancer center at Mass. General Hospital. There is a program here called "Illuminations" and it is a rotating art exhibit throughout the center that is meant to "shed light on the human experience and inspire viewers to expand their vision of life". Well, I want this job. It is more or less a curator position of some sort with a very specific audience. I am patiently waiting for it to one day be open, which may never happen, but who knows?! Anyways, I already have a show in mind....and it would include some old teachers and some friends, like Kate Castelli, who's blog I love and follow dearly. I want to hang her studies of line all over my house and just look at them all day long! Yummy, Yummy, Yummy. Enclosed is a piece of her work that I very much admire! You can view her work at http://www.katecastelli.com I have inserted a photo of her sketching. Wonderful!

Hello Dear World. For those of you who don't know about the Holga camera, allow me to explain its amazing-ness. The Holga is a plastic toy camera. Yes that is right, plastic. Its about $20.00 at a camera store, or $60.00 if you're an idiot and buy one at Urban Outfitters. There is an art (literally, HA!) to taping up the back so not too much light leaks into the camera, but just enough to give that amazing "dream feeling". The one that I have shown here is by the fabulous Christopher James, one of my old teachers....god I miss school, but that's an entire other post. Anyways, I recently took some Holga images of my god-baby and I cannot wait to see how the negatives came out! I took both black and white and color...which produces and funky/distorted color scheme. Once I get them developed, I shall post it...if I got any good ones! Doesn't it remind you of lobster fishing? You don't know how well you made out until you get the trap (or negatives) back! It's a wonderful foggy day here in the city, and I wish I was printing some images rather then sitting here at work..but hey, we all need to make a living, right? xoxox :)

The Grass isn't always greener on the other side!

Paris Visone Rules!

Paris Visone....I love her! We met the first week at The Art Institute of Boston and since then I have been a huge fan of her work! If you ever need to photograph like a real documentary photographer, look at her images!!!!

Being a Wife!

I must admit that after the wedding the first few days felt...weird. We were building up to the wedding for so long...and then BAM! its over. All of a sudden we were in Disney World, married, and a bit lost. Who was I? Who were we? Would things be the same, or would it feel weird forever? But I am happy to say that things have been wonderful, and for some reason I have turned into a little 1950's house wife. I've been doing baking (thanks to all my Martha Stewart stuff I got from my Shower). I even enjoy buying cleaning products...what is wrong with me?! But hey, cooking yummy foods isn't so bad...esspecially when you get to eat afterwards! xoxo

The PRC Benefit Auction!

Good afternoon world! It's a crisp fall day here in the city....I can smell Christmas is right around the corner! I've already bought some books for my soon to be niece or nephew! Todd and I are going to be an aunt and uncle! So, whats new in the Laura Cashavelly art life? The Photographic Resource Center recently had their annual benefit auction. I worked at it...and one of my pieces sold! Yay! I think I priced it for too little.....but you must start somewhere, right? I'm just grateful someone wanted one of my photographs! Many people showed up, and happily many people made some bids. Some of the photographs were amazing. The image that I really has my eye on was Weston's "Floating Nude" . Amazing! I read the auto-biography of her...I believe her name is Eunice...you'd think I'd remember...I wrote an entire paper on her my senior year! Anyways, someone spent a lot of money on it, and I am sure it will be a great addition to their collection....and I'm sure the money will be well spent at the PRC! The next big PRC submission (do you notice a pattern...I guess I love the PRC) is the "member" exhibition. It sounds pretty intimidating, but I MUST do it! I think I would like to submit some of my HOME thesis images, and maybe some new ones. I have a few ideas that I would like to do this week! Well, I am off to finish some other work....until later, kisses and hugs! :)