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I can feel it in my veins. The creativity pulsing through my heart and in my mind…

Recently I sold $4,700 worth of art work to support a show that I am having on December 10th @ Space Gallery. I’m very excited to see the fruits of my labor as I’m spending $6,500 dollars on the show it self. It’s done in an extremely beautifully process. I’m face mounting 1/2 inch plexiglass to a special c-type paper called Fuji Flex. The plex is fixed to the paper with a translucent adhesive. It is VERY high tech and modern. I’ve used a paper called Kodak Metallic in the past, but the plexiglass does not adhere to this paper as well as the Flex does. I’ve redone my entire process in this style and the show will look incredible and contemporary. So, now that you’ve heard about what I’m doing, come and see it for yourself… That is the only step left in this process :

Now for the part where I talk about what I’m going through… Life has been rough lately. I’ve been couch surfing for the last 2 months. I haven’t had a real place to call home in too long. I’m working on making my show work, and not just my show, my entire life. Seeing as how the show is called TransDimensional, it’s a perfect title not only for the show, but what I’m currently going through. And the best part is: through all the chaos… beautiful things are blooming.

Just a little taste of what I’ve been working on recently:

So, recently, my camera has been going everywhere I’ve been going. It’s been a while since I’ve been like that. So it’s just been a joy to see what I’m capable of in day to day shooting… Some of my recent shots: Enjoy!

Just like the man said, it’s been way too long.

My art is beginning to take it’s own form of chaos. Wait, is that an oxymoron, form and chaos? I’m just having fun at this point, but please allow me to further this serious point.

In the past, I’ve always shot in the theme of spirituality. Spirituality, although highly personal to me, something I don’t usually like to talk about with other people, has always come naturally to my photography. It is the one true thing that I feel I express clearly with my camera (key word, feel).

In the past, I have taken shots that might resemble ghosts, or spirits… something beyond the ordinary that I find in my everyday life… But this time, I’ve gone past that to explain something more. I’ve decided to call my show: Transdimensional… This show is going to exhibit the transition from physical life into a spiritual realm of being.

My soul has never truly felt at home in its vessel, as if I was never meant to have a vessel. If you imagine all the possibilities of being conscious without a body, they are truly endless. Imagine to be just pure happiness, or pure sorrow, or just excitement, and absolute joy, instead of always knowing in the back of your mind that this feeling will eventually fade into obscurity. We are physical creatures of habbit and need. But to rid our self of limitations, is to be “pure being.”

My show aims to tackle this transition, explain its process through imagery, and help myself understand what I cannot see.

Transdimentional opens December 9th @ Space Gallery.

Love, -R

Transdimensional - Traveling Through Time and Space

So, it goes to show, that even in this economy you can get a job. After working with Brows on upper 15th to take pictures of their clients on a freelance, they now want me to start taking portraits two days a week. At affordable pricing, Brows and I are offering quality portraits for Facebook pictures, business head shots, Christmas portraits, modeling portfolio shots and anything else you can think of.

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Here are some examples from the first shoot I did with Brows:

My work just has a way of making up its own mind about who it wants to be and I’m beginning to feel that I am the one who has to shape its chaos. As a friend of mine said, chaos is all around us and has a strange way for becoming something beautiful.

I’m so high on creativity right now. I feel with this work, I am only further departing from reality, as if sinking further into the lake of dreams… I’ve becomes increasingly detached from reality, much like how I despise the cold and harsh truths that people have come to know through their daily lives. I am trying my best not to accept these truths in favor of believing my own created reality.

Life can be viewed as either a beautiful excursion, or a hell hole of unsatisfied needs. It’s hard to stay continually focused on the former, but it is wise to at least do your best when following the path of light.

On a technical note, where I usually photoshop the hell out of my work… using this filter and that adjustment, I’ve hardly touched these; just a simple clean up from the scan.

Last, but not least, I’d like to say a shout out for a friend: Hank, I really appreciate you and your faith.

-R

New York was a fun, busy and mysterious maze of potential, opportunity and misfortune. A week after my trip, I am finally beginning to piece together my future, slowly. I’m pretty sure it has something to do with my biological clock’s alarm. No, not the baby kind. All of my friends are making a move on their futures. A friend just left to study in Africa, another two plans to go to India. And me, I’m still in Denver. So with a bright future ahead of me, the time is to act now… As the Pisces metaphor states: when the tide is right, the fish must go out with the tide.

This was taken at a pedicab documentary held in Brooklyn. The film shed a lot of light on the pedicab scene’s struggle to hold their ground in NYC against the taxi lobbyists. It was also held at an art studio and gallery, so the conversations that followed were awesome. (Camera Phone)

This was Brooklyn, as seen through the eye of my camera phone.

This is my foot while riding a pedicab and taking a rest in Manhattan. (Camera Phone)

Fabi and me at Frankies Spuntino! Yum Yum!

An interior shot of my new favorite restaurant. We were the last to leave at 1 in the morning. That would never happen in Denver: a sweet restaurant open till 1am?

Fabi on the back of my pedicab in Lower East Side.

For all of those who are interested in seeing the real images from New York, Just wait a little longer till they are developed. I shot almost exclusively film while I was in New York in my brand new style. At least, I can’t wait.

-R

Haven’t had a chance to update my blog yet… But keep reading, I promise I will very soon…

-R

OH…. The joy. My first day here in New York, looking for galleries to show in and pedicabbing, has not included any looking or pedicabbing, it has consisted of going to the pool… Pete, (of Rare Gallery) they guy I’m staying with out here belongs to a tennis club, not that he play’s (he used to) but he still has a membership. I thought I was coming out here to work my ass off and to be stressed, but at present moment, I’m as relaxed as a cow in a fine pasture. (This is due to change @ anytime.) I will be making it out to the city to pedicab tomorrow. Anyway, New York is so fresh for me, whereas Denver is this old man I’ve been hanging out with for toooo long. It’s good to keep it fresh. I also ate at this killer Italian restaurant last night with Pete. Instead of paying up the yin yang for such a fine dinner like at Barolo Grill in Denver, it was a pretty decent price for the mouth watering dishes they served at Frankie’s Spuntino! I think I fell in love with NYC the instant I walked in, considering the wonderful aroma. Now, I realize there is no high culture in Denver… It’s the little pleasures here in NYC. The fact that just beyond the tennis club there’s a rail line for the subway, the urban mixed with the “sub urban” and how dense it is here! Everything is compacted, unlike Denver, where apart from downtown, there is only sprawl and stupid suburbs. I don’t know… I feel like I could begin to like it here.

OH, and also, I bought a non 3.2 beer here at a 7-11! Oh, the joy.

A shot from my cellular telephone, not bad?

-R

Wow, I’m loving this image!

-R

Literally and figuratively, beautiful clouds float on the horizon. Big, tall, orange and blue ones, majestic, brilliant ones. I’ve been feeling pretty inspired lately, the only problem is, the film that I’m waiting on, is sitting in canisters to be developed. That’s like saying, “to be continued,” because it’s definitely leaving me hanging. I want to see the fruits of my labor, but when your labor of love cost you a fortune, you have to take things slowly… Darn it.

303 Magazine called me today. They want me to do a shot for them. It will be pro bono, but I have no problem with that. Anything to get my work out there will make me happy. It’s a slow process. In addition to that I’ll be heading to New York in the beginning of August. I’m going to meet with a gallery curator and also try to gain some more contacts. In fact, Pete, who works with Rare Gallery, has allowed me to stay with him when I am in New York. I’m excited for the opportunity to get to know Pete better and also the New York scene.

I will be having a show at Space Gallery in December. I have to get my financials together enough so that I can afford the show. I’m sure I’ll figure out a way. Last time I had a show, it cost me tooooo much. This time around, I think I can figure something out so I can afford the work.

Hey, for those who have continued to read and support me, THANK YOU! I got about 130 hits on this website last month. It makes me happy that people are becoming interested in my blog and photography.

Keep reading. Don’t forget to write back: randall@rb3photography.com
I love to write back.

-R