Going on Vacation!
August 27, 2008 | Filed Under Pinhole Projects and series | Leave a Comment
This pinhole is on the balcony of Sol Y Sombra. We went here for a yelp.com party in July. Super excellent restaurant. There was a chicken dish that may have been the best chicken I’ve ever tasted. I highly recommend this restaurant and will definitely be back!I’m leaving today for two weeks, not sure if I’ll be able to post during my vacation!We’ll be in Santa Barbara until Friday, we see Radiohead on Thursday night, then we drive up the coast to Palo Alto to see Samantha and her family. If you’re in SF and want to meet me for breakfast at Cafe Gratitude on Sunday August 31st at 10am, let me know. It’s the Irving location. Then Gary and I want to go shooting in Golden Gate Park, please join us! Then we start our trip back home!THEN! ON Tuesday morning I fly to Missouri! So Concordia, I can’t wait to see you! 10 year high school reunion here I come! Yipeeee!!!!See everyone soon!!!!!!
Mysterious Exhibit and So We Say (social art graffiti project)
August 20, 2008 | Filed Under Pinhole Photography Exhibits, Pinhole Projects and series | 1 Comment
This pinhole is on the balcony of Sol Y Sombra. We went here for a yelp.com party in July. Super excellent restaurant. There was a chicken dish that may have been the best chicken I’ve ever tasted. I highly recommend this restaurant and will definitely be back!
I’m curating and exhibit in October at the Bragg’s Pie Factory. Last night I went to measure the space and found out I have more space than I thought. I also found out the show will be up for 2 months! That was really exciting! One month is not enough time. If you miss the opening you’ve missed the exhibit.
I’m a couchsurfer and belong to a few of their photography related groups. I recently found out about this social art project: So We Say It’s pretty rad and I’m definitely going to participate. Here’s what Larry had to say about the project.
I’ve had an idea in my head for a long time about temporary graffiti using post-it notes and after talking to a few people I’ve finally set it all in motion. I then thought this would be a great place to bring it as I know how creative everyone is on here.
It’s called “So We Say”. Anyone can take part. All you need is a pad of standard yellow (or any other colour) post-it notes. You write down your favourite quote, lyric, personal thought (absolutely anything!)and you can include a little doodle. It can be in any language. You rip it off the pad and stick it in a public place (bus window, shop door, cash point, on a library book…anywhere that someone will find it!). If you can, get a photo of it quickly. I realise this is hard, but a camera phone/small camera is useful.
I’d love to get loads of people involved around the world, and get post-its on landmarks etc.
The idea is that its all temporary. It can blow away in the wind, or have the message ruined by rain, or someone can simply take it or chuck it in the bin. All to establish that moment of connection between a complete stranger and the message that you have written.
Can everyone tell the NEW TIMES that I should win an award? I’d be most grateful!
AWARD: Best pinhole portrait photographer
WHO SHOULD GET IT: Sheila Bocchine, www.sheilabocchine.com
If you fill out their online survey, the very last line, line 107, allows you to write in your favorite whatever they forgot. That would be awesome, thanks! Here’s a direct link: http://phoenixnewtimes.com/polls/bestof08/
sunburst and rainbow pinhole photograph
August 18, 2008 | Filed Under Pinhole Projects and series | 2 Comments
This beautiful pinhole scene was found at Malee’s Thai Bistro in North Phoenix at a yelp.com elite party! Sunburst and Rainbows? How could I resist!
I don’t have much to report. I’ve been lying low. It’s been a time of solitude. I’ve felt the need to stay indoors and watch LOST, gymnastics, or to meditate. Gary’s been making dinner every night at home and we’ve been sitting on the couch gazing at the screen. It’s been really nice, and obviously a needed break.
I’ve been… kinda mopey lately. Somethings been bothering me and I finally see the light at the end of the tunnel. I’m excited about that. Everything I’ve been waiting for and working towards is about to come to fruition. That is a wonderful feeling.
So in other good news! I found out yesterday that LOST season 4 is on the abc website, well actually all 4 seasons are on there. So Gary and I started season 4 yesterday. I am pretty impressed with the quality of the episodes and the only annoying thing is that every 10 minutes there is a 20 second commercial, so I have to get up off the couch and hit continue. It doesn’t go from commercial to episode… HEY! ABC! Can you fix that for me? Thanks!
Can everyone tell the NEW TIMES that I should win an award? Best pinhole portrait photographer!!
AWARD: Best pinhole portrait photographer
WHO SHOULD GET IT: Sheila Bocchine, www. sheilabocchine. com
If you fill out their online survey, the very last line, line 107, allows you to write in your favorite whatever they forgot. That would be awesome, thanks! Here’s a direct link: http://phoenixnewtimes.com/polls/bestof08/
Gary and I leave for vacation next week. We’re going to Santa Barbara, CA for two days, we’ll be seeing Radiohead there as well. Then we’re going to drive up the coast and visit my friend Samantha, her new husband and baby in Palo Alto. I’m as excited about that as I am Radiohead. Then hopefully we get to spend Sunday in San Francisco, afterwards starting the drive back home. On Tuesday, we leave for Missouri. I still have to buy my plane tickets. I was hoping some buddy passes would pull through from friends, but none of their airlines fly into Kansas City… bummer. So that plan is to fly in on Tuesday and leave on Sunday. We’ll be home for Concordia street fair, to see my family and hang out with friends, my 10 year high school reunion, to see my brothers music venue, and to document Concordia in pinhole photographs! I am excited about that!
pinhole jellyfish, yelp.com, upcoming events
August 7, 2008 | Filed Under Pinhole Projects and series | 1 Comment
If you’re a reader of my blog you’ll know just how much jellyfish delight me. These beautiful jellyfish came from Malee’s Thai Bistro in Phoenix. I was attending a Yelp Elite party and while I was learning how to make sushi I was pinholing the lights above me. Jellyfish lights! How totally rad are these!! This is now one of my favorite pinhole photographs, and will definitely turn into a pinhole postcard.
One day, oh, one day, I’ll have my room with the wall size aquarium filled with jellyfish!
*If you live in Phoenix and you’d like to hear a presentation on Pinhole Portrait Photography, I’ll be giving one on Tuesday August 12th at 6pm at the Jobing.com building (4747 N. 22nd Street, Phoenix, AZ 85016).
*Have you seen the wonderful article that was published in Without Lenses about my work yet? www.withoutlenses.com
LTLYM, Ignite Phoenix and a new pinhole portrait
August 5, 2008 | Filed Under Pinhole Photography Exhibits, Pinhole Portraits | 2 Comments
This is the lovely Howard Family. Emily, the one on the right, surprised her mom (for mother’s day) with a family portrait by Gary and myself. Obviously Gary did all the digital work and I did the pinhole. The girl on the left is my sister, Sabrina, and next to her is her husband Tony. Mom is next and then Sara. My sister married into a wonderful family.
If you live in Phoenix and you’d like to hear a presentation on Pinhole Portrait Photography, I’ll be giving one on Tuesday August 12th at 6pm at the Jobing.com building (4747 N. 22nd Street, Phoenix, AZ 85016). I’m going to be part of a really neat new event in Phoenix called Ignite Phoenix. Checkout their site, and if you have something interesting that you’d like give a talk about, you can enter your idea for the next event.
The LTLYM exhibit opened in Middlesbrough, UK, last week and I’ve heard there is interest in a few of my pieces. I did assignment number 27: Take a picture of the sun. In fact I sent over 16 sunburst pinhole photographs. Nicky (check out her flickr, her photographs are amazing) was kind enough to send me over a few photographs of the exhibit (The little square white frames belong to me):
I think that might be all my good pinhole photo news. And for one non-pinhole news… have you ever seen the tv show LOST? My friend told Gary and I that we would love it, we started watching season 1 on Saturday and finished it last night. Yes, we spent like 20 hours watching LOST and tonight we’ll start season 2! Katie was right, we are totally loving it!
pinhole silhouette, dream theory, jason polan
July 25, 2008 | Filed Under Pinhole Portraits | 3 Comments
In February, I attempted a few pinhole portraits of pets and their owners. It was then that I realized that pets just don’t hold still when you ask them too. This lovely silhouette is of Aaron and his roommates dog, Coco, but Aaron calls him Shadow… because as he grew older, he lost his coco brown fur and turned black. You can kind of see Shadow’s ears near Aaron’s face.
So lately, I’ve been working out in my dreams and waking up sore… sore like I worked out in real life… it’s totally bizarre. It’s kind of exciting and proves my theory, that when we’re awake we’re dreaming and when we’re ’sleeping’ we’re actually living our real lives. My ‘dreams’ are way more interesting than my ‘real’ life. In my dreams I travel to make-believe lands and find myself in all sorts of wild predicaments. Unicorns, aliens, heros… they all exist in my ‘dreams’. If in my awake state I’m thinking of someone I haven’t seen in a while, I visit them in my dream state, and those visits are often quite wonderful.
Last night I was catching up on reading some of my favorite blogs and I followed a bunch of links and found this, an artist (Jason Polan) in NYC that is trying to draw every person in New York. If you tell him where to meet you, he’ll show up, possibly unannounced and draw you… it only takes two minutes and then he posts his drawings to his website. If I were in NYC this summer I would totally contact him.
If you haven’t seen this interview yet…. well, I was interviewed for Without Lenses Quarterly Magazine and the article is now live! I’m pretty excited about this!
Have a wonderful weekend!
Without Lenses interview and an experimental pinhole pet portrait
July 24, 2008 | Filed Under Pinhole Portraits | 1 Comment
In February, I attempted a few pinhole portraits of pets and their owners. It was then that I realized that pets just don’t hold still when you ask them too. This lovely pinhole image is of Aaron his roommates dog, Coco, but Aaron calls him Shadow… because as he grew older, he lost his coco brown fur and turned black.
I have the most exciting news! The wonderful quarterly journal Without Lenses interviewed me for an article and it is now live! It’s a really great website and she features really fantastic lensless work. Plus Erin is a terrific photographer as well! Make sure to stop by her flickr and leave her some love-ly comments!
Here is a direct link to the article, because there will come a time when it won’t be featured on the front page.
In response to: Share your best shot ever
July 23, 2008 | Filed Under Pinhole Projects and series, Pinhole Weddings, Pinhole Portraits | 3 Comments
***I’d love for you to post your best shot ever in my comment section!***
Yesterday Problogger had a wonderful post allowing his readers to share where they hang out in the social media realm. I believe he called it a love-in. Today on his Digital Photography School blog, he asked his readers to share their best shot ever. I started to write my comment and realized that I never posted my favorite pinhole wedding image on my blog (it was before I started blogging). The above pinhole photograph is my very favorite! I love everything about it, especially how they look like wedding cake toppers. I took this wedding photograph of Kristi and Joel in December 2006.
…well now that you’ve got me started…
My favorite garden series image is Bunny and Bird
My favorite black and white pinhole image is Fall Festival from Concordia, Missouri
My favorite pinhole portraits are Jessii by the waterfall, and Babs and Kiera
and… okay, one more… my favorite image from my last (currently up until August 11th) exhibit
Well, that was fun! I also did a fun experiment to see where I am on the internet using google keywords.
Pinhole Photographer: Top of page two
Pinhole Photography: Page Seven
Pinhole: Page 38
According to my Google analytics most of my traffic comes from searches on google for my name, Sheila Bocchine, or from twitter. None of my traffic comes from pinhole. I find that odd. What do you think?
**Don’t forget to share your best shot!
Please Help! Send Liz a postcard to help her feel better faster!!!
July 22, 2008 | Filed Under daisyjellybean - my etsy shop, Pinhole Projects and series | 3 Comments
Found this lovely winter scene while walking in Scottsdale after a pinhole portrait shoot. So, of course, I pinholed it!
So, if you’re reading this blog, I have a favor to ask of you. My friend Vaiden’s mom has cancer and is asking everyone to send her mom a postcard. I requested the help of everyone a few years ago when my mom had cancer and I know the postcards brightened her day. Even if you don’t know her, a positive note on a happy postcard will make her smile! But if you do know Liz (her mom), then please, please, please make sure to send her a card!
She is an awesome lady… can kick your butt in scrabble, still goes to burning man, is a collector of everything, has the most amazing yard, and is just plain fascinating… and I know we can all help her feel better faster!
Here’s where to send them:
Liz Boyer
1407 E Palm Lane
Phoenix, AZ 85006
I do make and sell postcards, so if you’d like to purchase one from my etsy shop, I’ll get it in the mail tonight! AND! if you email me to let me know you’re sending it to Liz, I’ll waive/refund your shipping costs!
Anyone in Phoenix going to see the Cubs tonight? If so, I’ll see you there! I’m going with my undergrad alumni group, so we’ll be rooting for the Cubs (I went to college in Chicago).
pinhole portrait, pinhole weddings and lightning
July 21, 2008 | Filed Under Pinhole Weddings, Pinhole Portraits | 1 Comment
My friend Kristian…. Italian male model, t-shirt designer, pet lover, super sweet, absolutely crazy… Took this pinhole portrait in Scottsdale Park, not really sure what the name of the park is, but I like to call it Scottsdale Park. You know, where the museum is and the Love Sculpture.
Weekend went by to fast. On Friday evening I had a tutorial on how to write a perfect press release. I’m going to test my new found knowledge out today! I also confirmed the exhibit at the Pie Braggs Factory for October!
On Saturday we photographed the wedding of Jessica and Diondre Travis. They planned their wedding in two weeks and it was fantastic! (more people should plan their wedding in two weeks) They were a gorgeous couple and had a gorgeous two year old daughter. I enjoyed both of their families and the highlight of the evening was watching them dance. I’m not sure where people learn to move like that… but WOW!
I love that Gary and I get to photograph weddings all the time. I couldn’t imagine doing anything besides photography. We get to photograph people’s celebrations and parties! We get to photograph family reunions, friends laughing and new beginnings. What could be better than that?
On Sunday, Gary and I both pretty much slept the whole day… then ventured out to photograph lightning in the evening. We were out for 4 hours coming home empty handed. BUT! We did use our fantastic iphone gps to take the back roads to a small town called, Florence, Arizona. Gary wanted to photograph their clock tower and we hung out for a while waiting for the storm to arrive. It never did. So we headed further east to Superior, it looked promising, sudden bursts of light flashed across the sky… but no bolts of lightening. Sadly, we headed home.