Third Floor Photo Society

Hey all, on Wednesday October 31st at 5 pm, you should come by the Third Floor of the Journalism Building for the opening of the Road Trip show. The work is from a trip taken by a group of A&M-Commerce students over this past summer on their way up to Maine to drop off some friends on the Appalachian Trail. Remember, Wednesday at 5, BE THERE!!

Stockland Martel is an agency that has a lot of neat work and information on its site. It's sort of like Art Department where there's a long list of photographers to look at, but you can view them by category to narrow down what you're looking for. Almost all the work on there is pretty clean, commercial looking stuff but there's a good selection of different styles other than that as well. The shot here is by Martin Sigel.

Over at the Fine Art Photography Gallery and Forum , I found this work by Peter Gasser . There's a lot of black and white work here, portraits and landscapes. But if you want to go to the list page here , there's a list of some great photographers to look at for inspiration.

Over at PDN 's website I found this link with a few photos by Catherine Leutenegger and and short article about her work photographing studios of artists and photographers.

On Wednesday October 31st at 7 PM, The Roadtrip Show will open as the next show by the Third Floor Photo Society. The work is from a group of students from A&M Commerce as they took a roadtrip up to Maine to drop off some friends who began hiking the Appalachian Trail. If you enjoyed last year's show from last spring, I think you'll enjoy this one too.

I found this artist from the James Cohan Gallery website, they have a lot of contemporary artists' work there. You can also find work by Trenton Doyle Hancock there, who is an alumni from the art program here at A&M-Commerce.

Siggeir M. Hafsteinsson is an awesome graphic designer I found, a lot of his work almost looks like light paintings. There's another guy who has a myspace page at http://www.myspace.com/lichtfaktor who does graffiti like light paintings and has posts about how he does it and photos of what he uses.

On THURSDAY NOVEMBER 1st, Mac on Campus is coming to A&M-Commerce to hold some workshops and show some really cool equipment, stuff you can try out and play around with. "The Mac on Campus workshop program demonstrates real world applications of the tools used by today's top professional photographers. Come use, learn, and play with professional digital cameras, color management programs, studio lighting, digital light meters, radio slaves, and medium and large format cameras in a working studio set-up. Fuji roll and instant films will be provided. Plus recieve details on discounts available to students." These guys are a lot of fun, you should look for the flyers on the Third Floor and remember to show up on Thursday.

If anyone wasn't already aware, The Third Floor Photo Society has a myspace page at www.myspace.com/thirdfloorphotosociety So a good way to be updated on what's going on, or to give any input back to us on what you'd want to see, is being our friend and checking our posts on what's going on.

On Tuesday October 23rd, entries will be due for the "Silver Show" for Photo Society, meaning Silver Prints only!!! The show will open on Wednesday October 24th at 7 pm, remember to enter your prints and come to the opening!!! The week after The Silver Show opens, on October 31st, HALLOWEEN!!, the Roadtrip Show will open consisting of work shot by a group of students travelling up the East Coast last summer. Definitly put that on your calendars, it should be a good show.

Recently, photographer Chris Jordan was a guest on Comedy Central's The Colbert Report. I've seen his name pop up quite a few places, so I thought he may be worth putting up here for people to look at. His work deals with the effects of our mass consumptive society, among other things, his series "Running the Numbers: An American Self Portrait" is pretty amazing if you ask me.

National Deadline: October 26, 2007 - CR Gallery seeks works of art that explore the theme of silence for a juried exhibition. Exhibition takes place December 2, 2007 thru February 2, 2008 at Episcopal Church of the Redeemer, Kenmore, Washington. Theme: Silence: "(Since) nothing that can be seen can be God…then to find God we must pass beyond everything that can be seen and enter into darkness. Since nothing that can be heard is God, to find Him we must enter into silence." —Thomas Merton The transcendent power of art can be a means to entering that silence. How: Submit up to 3 jpegs via e-mail to arts@redeemer-kenmore.org. Please include your name, contact information, and a few words about your work. Also include title, medium, framed dimensions, and retail price of each image submitted. Submission deadline is October 26th. The work will then be juried and acceptance notifications and delivery instructions will be sent out via e-mail by November 2nd. For work that must be s...

National Deadline: November 9, 2007 - Visual AIDS invites artists to participate in our tenth annual Postcards From the Edge benefit. We are looking for artists to donate a 4"x6" original work on paper for the exhibition and sale. Painting, drawing, photography, printmaking and mixed media are all welcome. We are pleased to announce our host gallery is James Cohan Gallery. Postcards From the Edge is a show and sale of original, postcard-sized artworks on paper by established and emerging artists. All artworks are $75 and sold on a first-come, first-served basis. The works are signed on the back and exhibited so that the artists' signatures cannot be seen. While buyers have a list of all participating artists, they don't know who created which piece until it is purchased and the signature is revealed. A collector might end up with a work by a famous artist or one they don't yet know. Either way, they walk away with a great piece of art while supporting Visual AIDS...

Although a lot of you may have already seen his work, Arno Rafael Minkkinen 's self portraiture exploring his relationship to the landscape is really interesting. His site has a lot of his work up as well, which is always nice.

Ok, one of the better webblogs that I've come across is at jmcolberg.com/weblog/ . He always posts on interesting topics, including discussions with photographers, opinions on contemporary art and so forth, anyway his site is worth checking regularly. The photograph here is by Vera Hartmann 's series Mars Society.

Damon Winter is a photographer working for both the Los Angeles Times and the Dallas Morning News, among others. You can see his work at his site here , and there's an interesting collection of work from Dallas photographers including him here.

Hey all you guys looking for internship opportunities, Doug Davis is an alumni from the program who always welcomes students from here to do their internship with him. His website says he is an award winning commercial photographer who specializes in food, lifestyle, and special effects studio photography. Keep checking back for more posts pretty soon about alumni working in Dallas for internship possibilities.

In an article entitled "Candid Camera" there is a pretty interesting discussion over the Leica brand and what or who it's associated with. "When you take a picture with an S.L.R., there is a distinctive sound, somewhere between a clatter and a thump; I worship my beat-up Nikon FE, but there is no denying that every snap reminds me of a cow kicking over a milk pail. With a Leica, all you hear is the shutter, which is the quietest on the market. The result—and this may be the most seductive reason for the Leica cult—is that a photograph sounds like a kiss."

Hey you guys, we had a great turn-out for the opening of the "Scapes" show this Wednesday night, here are some photographs from the opening. Michael Odom even brought his Drawing class over and after they looked through the work they started drawing around the Third Floor, it was pretty neat. Take a look....

If you didn't know about JPG Magazine already, it accepts submissions all month long of people's work, so anyone interested should go to the website here and check it out. This month there is an article on painting with light, for those in Color class and need some ideas, they have some good, tasteful, mature examples of painting with light, not just light streaks and crazy crap. Check it out here.

Hey you guys, in case you didn't already know, the Photo Society worked in conjunction with the Drama dept here at A&M-Commerce on a new production inspired by the work of Richard Avedon. Three photographers, Alex Piper, Jonathan Peterson, and Evan Wallis, shot the 18 cast members of the play with new digital equipment at the school, and made 20x24 prints to be shown on the opening night of the play, Thursday night, October 4th, at 7:00 pm. You guys should come check it out, it should be an interesting atmosphere.