Weee! So this is the video I directed for SEBASTIEN GRAINGER (click on that link to see Sebastien's pubic hair, no joke) in the summer. I'll put a best quality crab version up on my videos page at some point.
MIKE LEBLANC did the beautiful camerawork on the video, JEREMY BAILEY art directed, and the girls were amazing. You should have heard them screaming on set. It was unreal. Sebastien's wife EVA MICHON did the makeup. She's the best. And if you look closely you can see that the purple leopard face paint matches the shoes she's wearing.
Otherwise things are good. I'm writing a paper on Otto Preminger's film Laura at the moment, working on figuring out some music rights for a short I've written about a girl named Ariel who stalks her lifeguard while singing Part of Your World from The Little Mermaid, getting ready to shoot another short film over the break, finishing my treatment for a feature film about a body-switching homo, and getting ready to launch the screening series that CHARLOTTE and I are starting at Columbia. The series will be of queer film and video artists. The first event is a co-sponsorship with the MA Film Program bringing queer theorist Tom Waugh to screen and speak about the film Montreal Main. The next event is a screening of Matt Wolf's Arthur Russell documentary, Wild Combination. Matt is going to come speak about the film as well.
I'll post more info about those as they happen. They are Columbia events but outsiders can attend.
Okay gotta run! Class on a Sunday yuck! But yay!
Labels: FILM, I MADE THIS. ME. GRAYDON., MUSIC, REALLY FUCKING GAY, YOUTUBE
As promised, I am now selling DVDs from the NEW RITUALS series:
New Rituals - 2009 - 9:00
DVD of 9 animated images on a loop. Plays in any standard DVD player. Each DVD is hand-stamped with the New Rituals insignia and comes packaged in a sacrificial refuse bag. A lock of the artist's hair is sparkled to the front of each package.
To order a DVD please send $30 via Paypal to graydon@graydonsheppard.com. An address request will follow. If you are ordering from the United States, the cost is $30USD including shipping. If you are ordering from Canada the cost is $30CAD including shipping. Please inquire for international rates.
Supply is limited!
Labels: ART, I MADE THIS. ME. GRAYDON., PHOTOGRAPHY, VIDEO
Every once in a while I break up with myself. It's painful, but it has to happen. For the dumper side of me it's a relief and I look forward to moving on to bigger and better stuff. For the dumped side of me, I go down the rabbit-hole and am forced to painstakingly analyze everything I've done wrong. I'm like a Mini Wheat. A soggy Mini Wheat.
I was once told by someone who I thought mattered that the most interesting thing about my photographs was seeing my discomfort as a photographer reflected in the expressions of my subjects. I clung to this deduction like it was the only thing that made me unique, and I've just realized that it's something I've been hiding behind.
Ever since I began making images seriously I've bounced back and forth from using just my camera and the sun to making HIGHLY CONTRIVED and constructed work. My struggle for the past few years has been trying to define myself as an artist. How do I reconcile my aesthetic and thematic disparities?
I've often blamed my eclecticism for my difficulties in getting shows with my own work or for failing to get grant money for short films I've written and photo series I've proposed. I thought having done ad work made people think of me less as an artist. I got a big head and thought I was too big for Toronto. But recently I came to the realization that maybe it's not them, it's me (see, it really is like breaking up with myself). And, although I have to keep doing what interests and excites me, maybe I need to grow up a bit, too.
I admit that I like the look of distrust in my photographs, but it's gotten me into trouble. I've always found it more interesting and engaging when my subject doesn't look pretty. I've never been interested in making the people who sit for me look good; I've been interested in making a compelling image. Avedon's images of a despondent Marilyn Monroe are more interesting to me than any other image of her. I've never requested "fierce" from someone I was photographing. It just doesn't thrill me. I find it so disposable. But I've often been unfair to my subjects. I've objectified them because I believed it was more interesting. While I stand by my photographs, while I think they say as much about my insecurities as they do about the subject's, I now understand how cruel I can be.
After spending a couple weeks in San Francisco with photographers at different stages of their careers I was thrown for a loop. Of course I have been around photographers I think are amazing for years, but I mostly went to school with them. I saw them do crap and I saw them do great things and I saw their insecurities and their strengths grow and change as they did. And they saw mine. Being around Parker, Ryan, and Luke changed my mind about what I'm doing and why I'm doing it. I'm sure they all have their insecurities, but unlike my colleagues in Toronto, I didn't see them grow, I just see them now, and I'm humbled in different ways.
PARKER is a brash young thing heading into his first year at California College of the Arts. He's one of those photographers who loves having a camera in his hand and takes it everywhere. He's going to kick my ass big time and he's going to do so well in school. I'm so excited for him and can't wait to see what he'll do. It makes me remember how people who had taken time between high school and university did so much better in the photo program because they really knew they wanted to be there. Parker's really unselfconscious with his camera, he trusts that people want to be photographed and want to be photographed by him, as well they should. I've never had that confidence. I always felt like my subjects were doing me a favour rather than getting anything out of the experience themselves. Watching Parker shoot with such excitement for the medium was both inspiring and disconcerting. I felt like I didn't get nearly as much out of my education as he will. The lucky thing is that I'll get to go back to school this fall. I can't wait to approach my film education with a fervor and understanding that I lacked in my undergraduate experience.
LUKE, who I didn't get to spend a lot of time with but hope to get to know better in New York, is fresh out of UCLA and blowing up the photo world. His work is really fantastic and beautiful and original and varied but coherent - something I aspire to but take too far in some ways.
RYAN is a well-known young photographer who did his MFA at SVA and watching him photograph was so fascinating for me. We use the same camera, but not in the same way. I am sure that in some ways the style of my university education gave me this complex that I have to have a set or a gimmick going on in my photographs in order for people to be interested in them. I've felt like just having my camera wasn't enough, and I felt that from the people who asked me to take photographs of them. I didn't think anyone would trust that my photograph was going to be interesting unless I had a stylist and an elephant on hand and we were going to a treetop village in the Amazon. Watching Ryan trust himself and trust that a camera was all he needed was fascinating. And when I sat for Ryan I suddenly understood how unfair I could be with my subjects. I totally trusted Ryan because I knew his photographs and I knew he would not be unkind to me. It was when I was sitting for him that I understand why people might have been reticent to let me photograph them knowing that my photographs were all about what I wanted them to be, not about who or what they really are.
I have not been a subject for anyone for about six years. I didn't really understand what it was like to be in front of the lens, which I now realize is something a photographer must experience seriously. I thought I knew what it was like to be a subject, and I had disdain for subjects who (I assumed) wanted to "look hot". Both Parker and Ryan photographed me, and while I'll never ask them to retouch an image of me or have the delusion that I'm a model, I see how vulnerable it can make someone feel to be photographed.
So, moving forward, my overarching modus operandi is becoming clearer. When editing my photographs from San Francisco I went down the rabbit-hole because I was afraid others would think them boring landscape photos. But, for once, I'm going ahead with what I believe in rather than what I want people to think is exciting and fresh. I resisted the urge to hide behind digital gimmicks or design tricks and just edited the straight images from an intuitive place.
I see these images as a continuation and purification of what I began in London. London was an accidental beginning to a theme that carried through the photographs in Are We Having Fun Yet? When I went to Mexico I expected this theme to continue, but I mostly just found good people genuinely wanting to enjoy themselves with their families and getting along and having a good time, so the focus shifted. My own solitude began to leak through as I felt on the outside of this group of people I didn't want to judge anymore. This came out as well as a methodical and almost meditative way of photographing. A centre-heavy, Bernd & Hilla Becher informed framing of the subject emerged. I was compelled and excited by this somewhat boring regimented style of photographing. This style reappears in the San Francisco photographs and is even more methodical and unapologetic in its wistful prettiness. I think this way I'm photographing is a foil to the gimmicky pictures I do. It is the most consistently recurrent style of photograph I have taken over any period of time. And it's not to say that I won't have fun with photography and image-making ever again, but I'm really trying to pay attention to what these are and why I'm doing them.
Parker told me that when we went to photograph together that he felt he totally was not a part of my process, that I was working alone. It's true. It needs to be a solitary act for me. I need to get lost in it, I need to feel uninhibited and not judged or scrutinized.
In the end I still haven't been able to pin down what I'm going for, but this way of photographing is leading me by the hand to somewhere I want to be. It's taking me back to the photograph and the medium itself. Kind of purifying it. And it's still me. There are themes that I've always imbued in my work - loneliness, smallness, boredom, apathy, bleached or faded vibrancy, existentialism, and a kind of hush and stillness or stasis beyond the obvious stillness of the photographic medium. I think these themes are not hiding behind anything else anymore. I hope they're not so earnest, that maybe they're a little more natural.
Though all this was a tricky mind-trap to navigate I feel better, lighter, and ready to move forward. I'm still proud of the things I've done. Some things more so than others, but it's all brought me here. And though my work may sometimes be schticky and sloppy, I'm glad to say that I've never approached it from the side of irony.
So for now this Mini Wheat is floating alone, but sugar-side-up in a warm bowl of milk.
Labels: ART, BAD DOG, DEATH AND DRAMA, EW, I MADE THIS. ME. GRAYDON., MAYBE THE FUTURE WILL BE BETTER, NARCISSISM, PHOTOGRAPHY, THINGS I WISH I'D DONE
I've redesigned MY WEBSITE and my blog. In this time of transition I felt I needed cleanliness and simplicity somewhere. I'm really happy with the change on my site - it's about the work and it's nice to see everything I'm proud of laid out on one page.
Also, I've added images from San Francisco and from the New Rituals GIFs.
I have been really analyzing my work as I've done this, and come to some humbling realizations. I'll post my thoughts soon. They will be more effective than NyQuil I swear.
Labels: I MADE THIS. ME. GRAYDON., MAYBE THE FUTURE WILL BE BETTER, PHOTOGRAPHY
I'm so happy to share that I'm a part of the They Shoot Videos, Don't They? screening this Thursday night in Toronto. This is the first of a series of screenings curated by the wonderful SCOTT CUDMORE. It will take place on Thursday, July 9th at 107 SHAW GALLERY. My Sebastien Grainger & The Mountains video will be screened with videos by the likes of Martin de Thurah and Patrick Daughters. So flattered and excited to have this video on a big screen!
Labels: FILM, I MADE THIS. ME. GRAYDON., MUSIC
I'll be selling DVDs of my series New Rituals here soon. Stay tuned.
Labels: I MADE THIS. ME. GRAYDON., PHOTOGRAPHY
The Sebastien Grainger & The Mountains video Who Do We Care For was just nominated for an MMVA for Indie Video of the Year. Click HERE to watch the video, click HERE to see the nominees.
Weeee! Wish us luck!
Labels: I MADE THIS. ME. GRAYDON., MUSIC
I made these worlds but they're too pretty. The only problem is that it takes like 5 hours to render a 10 second animation on my computer, so by the time they've finished rendering I can't spend another 5 hours fixing them. Excuses excuses. I think I need some violence in my worlds. Something darker. TBD.
The show I'm in with ROBYN, LINDSAY, and KATYA was named a BEST BET for Contact 2009 by Toronto Life! Ya!
It's up till the 30th of May if you haven't been yet:
XEXE Gallery
642 Richmond Street West
Wednesday-Saturday, 12PM-6PM
Labels: ART, I MADE THIS. ME. GRAYDON., PHOTOGRAPHY
The Sebastien Grainger video is featured on PROMO MAGAZINE'S SITE, currently sharing the page with Filthy Dukes and Dizzee Rascal. Not bad!
Here's the PERMALINK to the post in case it's gone from the home page.
Labels: I MADE THIS. ME. GRAYDON.
Lindsay Page
Katyuska Doleatto
Robyn Cumming
Mesies
I have new work on display. Here's the info:
BREAKDOWN
Part of the CONTACT Toronto Photography Festival
XEXE Gallery
624 Richmond St. W.
May 7-30
Opening Thursday May 7, 6-9PM
Gallery Hours - Wednesday to Saturday 12-6PM
Breakdown features a group of photo-based artists exploring the construction of deconstructions. In relation to the CONTACT theme of Still Revolution, each artist responds directly to the constantly evolving yet historically reminiscent nature of the still image. Robyn Cumming constructs the climax of moments of chaos and trauma; the resulting photographs depicting an abstracted state of flux, serving as both the event and its aftermath. In looking at the images one simultaneously experiences the performative nature of the presented scenarios as well as the very act of constructing and photographing them. Katyuska Doleatto creates monochromatic still lifes with the use of decomposing elements. Rather than mimic the opulence and seduction of traditional still life, she instead creates minimalist compositions that beg scrutiny; each specimen seems to undulate though it is laden with the ineludible colour and shape of death.
Lindsay Page presents a building/un-building machine that exemplifies tedium and redundancy. Through the use of slide projectors, a now archaic technology, her photo-based installation loops viewers into the futility of an act that can never extend or develop beyond it self. Shooting with a stereoscopic lens, Graydon Sheppard creates animated, photo-based GIFS, which exhibit a simultaneous spatial construction and deconstruction. Each piece oscillates between a still image and one that moves forward and back with an unnatural and stunted sense of time. Both the images and their content give the impression of a quality, that when sought out, seems to disappear.
Statement for the series New Rituals:
The animations in this series were made by taking photographs with a stereoscopic lens and then alternating the left and right channels from the photograph in rapid succession. This technique creates perspective and gives the illusion of three dimensionality. The content of these images came from the desire to make magical scenes that fit that illusion. Taking cues from mystic, religious, and occult iconography I fabricated these tableaus in urban settings.
It's so easy to forget that we live and experience in three dimensions. 3D technology is making a huge comeback. Filmmakers are going to great lengths to create the illusion of depth that we can experience simply by looking around. In that frame of reference, these images become a strange contradiction. They are simultaneously flat and deep, frozen and frenetic. The kinetic energy is tangible and gives the illusion that the subjects could break free and burst into motion at any second.In looking at these GIFs we can switch back and forth from remembering that they are two dimensional images projected onto a flat wall while believing the experience of depth. It's like looking at a drawing of a cube which switches in or out depending on what we let our mind's eye perceive. In the same way, we can perceive the rituals to be deep when really there is nothing behind them. The man in the cloak in a Christ-like position appears to be floating in the air, but it is easily understood that in reality he is just jumping. These photographs constantly construct and deconstruct themselves in form and in content; they continually collapse upon themselves.
Stereoscopy is hardly a new practice, but the advent and popularity of these GIFs in digital culture today recontextualizes the technique and revolutionizes the medium by doing away with the necessity of a viewing contraption (such as 3D glasses). As an artist who works in both time-based and plastic mediums, this is my missing link between photography and film. It's my zoetrope, even if it's not real.
I'm really excited about this show and flattered to be showing with Lindsay, Robyn, and Katya. I've looked up to them since we were in school and they've all done amazing things, so I hope you'll be able to come to the show!
There will be DVDs of the series that you can buy for $30. They play in any DVD player and are nice, affordable pieces of digital art you can have on when you're not watching Showgirls.
Labels: ART, I MADE THIS. ME. GRAYDON., PHOTOGRAPHY
New Work: It's Almost Like You're Here
Where: 107 Shaw Gallery - 107 Shaw Street Toronto
When: Thursday April 30, 2009 - 8PM-11PM
What: Projected GIFs for Love'r Magazine
See you there.
I also have another opening for Contact next Thursday at Xexe Gallery for which I'll post the details soon.
Labels: I MADE THIS. ME. GRAYDON., PHOTOGRAPHY
Joanna Newsom let me use her music in a PSA I did for United Way 3 years ago. Now it's in a Victoria's Secret ad! See mine HERE, and the Victoria's Secret ad HERE.
I hope she's getting lots of dollars for the boobie commercial!
I hope she's getting lots of dollars for the boobie commercial!
Labels: I MADE THIS. ME. GRAYDON.
Spread and embed! Also go to iTunes to buy the new single and the videos - ITUNES LINK.
Labels: I MADE THIS. ME. GRAYDON., MUSIC, YOUTUBE
I think that was the most nerve-wracking thing I've ever done! After six weeks (SIX WEEKS) of costume building, prep, and rehearsal, it all came down to performing in front of a big live audience.
I had a wireless mic that turned out not to work at the last second so I had to use a wired mic without ever having practiced with it before. In any case, having popped my drag cherry, I have a whole new respect for queens and what it takes to get an audience's attention. But I am so happy that I went all out and that my crew was so helpful. Thanks to Jeremy, Ryan, Vanessa, and of course Proddy and Mary for letting me jump onto a giant wiener in front of an audience.
Labels: BAD DOG, I MADE THIS. ME. GRAYDON., MAYBE THE FUTURE WILL BE BETTER, NARCISSISM, REALLY FUCKING GAY
Seriously. Tonight. March 28, 2009. The Beaver. 1192 Queen Street West. Show at midnight, be there before to avoid lines. $5. Free if you're in drag/getup.
The video I directed for Sebastien Grainger & The Mountains is out now. Click the image above or HERE to see the video.
Director of Photography: Tico Poulakakis
Editor: Matthew Hannam
Producer: Shannon Brand
Executive Producers: Jannie McInnes & Niva Chow
Art Direction: Angela Holmes
Pyro: JMSFX
Online & Colour: Alter Ego
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EXCUSES EXCUSES
I don't have money
I don't have a good idea
I'm not cool enough to be an artist
I'm not weird enough looking
I'm not good-looking enough
I don't have a studio
My camera sucks
Oprah's on
Art should not be my therapy
I actually want to be a video artist, not a photographer
I actually want to be an installation artist, not a video artist
I actually want to be a photographer, not a painter
I actually want to be a painter
I actually want to be an actor
I didn't get that grant
Or that one
Or that one
Or that one
I don't want anyone else to be in my pictures
I shouldn't be in my pictures
I should put naked people in my pictures then people will look
But I don't know any naked people
I'm not young enough to re-paint
I'm not old enough to sell
It's Semolina-Terina's birthday so I'm gonna go to that and as soon as I get home, as soon as I get home I'm gonna write a novel
It's my birthday I'm not working today
I'm a hack so what's the point
I'm better than them
I live too far away
I am going to give this up and steal a car and drive to Bolivia
Oh but wait what about my bed?
I should go get a coffee
It's cold out I want to sleep
It's nice out I don't want to work
Someone already did that
I only have a bachelor's degree
Canada is too conservative
Nobody gets me
I should go to the gym I'm fat
I haven't been out in a while I should go dancing
I'm hung over
My room's a mess
I'm bored of this project
I'm too old
I don't know enough
Lost is on
I'm too rude
I'm too nice
I'm boring
I'm the funniest person I know
Shit someone already did that too
I don't really care
I finished it but I don't have anywhere to show it
Are you kidding? I can't afford to print/mount/frame all that
My hair's not long enough
I look like a hobo how could I ever sell my work?
It's not about selling work, if that's my goal I'll fail
I'm just gonna buy lottery tickets instead of dinner
I don't have money
Okay that's out of my system. Now...
I don't have money
I don't have a good idea
I'm not cool enough to be an artist
I'm not weird enough looking
I'm not good-looking enough
I don't have a studio
My camera sucks
Oprah's on
Art should not be my therapy
I actually want to be a video artist, not a photographer
I actually want to be an installation artist, not a video artist
I actually want to be a photographer, not a painter
I actually want to be a painter
I actually want to be an actor
I didn't get that grant
Or that one
Or that one
Or that one
I don't want anyone else to be in my pictures
I shouldn't be in my pictures
I should put naked people in my pictures then people will look
But I don't know any naked people
I'm not young enough to re-paint
I'm not old enough to sell
It's Semolina-Terina's birthday so I'm gonna go to that and as soon as I get home, as soon as I get home I'm gonna write a novel
It's my birthday I'm not working today
I'm a hack so what's the point
I'm better than them
I live too far away
I am going to give this up and steal a car and drive to Bolivia
Oh but wait what about my bed?
I should go get a coffee
It's cold out I want to sleep
It's nice out I don't want to work
Someone already did that
I only have a bachelor's degree
Canada is too conservative
Nobody gets me
I should go to the gym I'm fat
I haven't been out in a while I should go dancing
I'm hung over
My room's a mess
I'm bored of this project
I'm too old
I don't know enough
Lost is on
I'm too rude
I'm too nice
I'm boring
I'm the funniest person I know
Shit someone already did that too
I don't really care
I finished it but I don't have anywhere to show it
Are you kidding? I can't afford to print/mount/frame all that
My hair's not long enough
I look like a hobo how could I ever sell my work?
It's not about selling work, if that's my goal I'll fail
I'm just gonna buy lottery tickets instead of dinner
I don't have money
Okay that's out of my system. Now...
Labels: I MADE THIS. ME. GRAYDON., MAYBE THE FUTURE WILL BE BETTER
I was watching Big Love (here comes a spoiler if you haven't seen episode two of the third season) and I was at the part when Barb is talking about dying "taking great comfort in knowing what her family will look like in the celestial afterlife" or however it goes. This made me think about whether or not I'm afraid to die. I don't believe in an afterlife, and basically think that when I die I'm dead that's it. I won't remember anyone or anything from my life, it will all just dissipate and disappear.
This made me recall that horrible movie "Paycheck" starring Ben Affleck. In this movie Ben's character decides he is going to have something done to him which will make him forget the next three years of his life.
I often wonder what it's like to get amnesia or to "not remember" events. When I was a kid this boy from the neighbourhood, Ray Oakley (or maybe it was his brother Chad...either way, good names), got hit by a car. When he recovered I remember him saying that he didn't remember anything about the accident, though he was physically conscious and responsive throughout the whole experience. He said he remembers going out on his bike with the other kids, but doesn't remember leaving his driveway.
But this is the thing - if you're about to go through a horrible experience but know you won't remember it, are you still afraid to go through it? I mean, you still have to experience it even though you won't remember it. Say, for example, you made a deal where you would have a wish fulfilled, but you had to witness a murder. You wouldn't remember anything about the murder but would the terror of going into that situation, even knowing it wouldn't stay with you in any way, stop you from going through with the deal?
So anyway, back to Big Love and dying. I guess I'm afraid that I will feel like I didn't get done everything I wanted to do and it will all be for nothing, and that none of it will matter because everything I know and remember will just disappear with me, and here I sit making sticks with hair that spin in space.
Labels: DEATH AND DRAMA, I MADE THIS. ME. GRAYDON.
I took RAMON's epic 46 minute track d'Arc and started playing with some audio from one of my favourite VIDEOS and next thing I knew I had 8 minutes of a mash-up that I kind of like (even though it's sloppy and anyone else could do a better job and it's thrown together in Final Cut and I have no idea what I'm doing). Anyway, it's probably good because Ramon's track is so nice and anything would sound good when mixed with it.
Download by right-clicking HERE.
Labels: I MADE THIS. ME. GRAYDON., MUSIC, STOLEN, YOUTUBE
I've been painting things I have no right to paint and am not good at painting.
This is a pretty lady that I ruined with gloss medium. Does anyone remember that kids show with the family of mute people with bulbousy heads? I'm trying to find images of that...I started painting cause I wanted to do sketches of costumes I could make then all the following stuff happened...
Topical in 2001.
It looks cute but those aren't hearts they're bruises. Fact is I can't paint a whole face.
I started to draw this cause I want money to come to me for nothin'. Stupid Baz Luhrmann just bought the rights to The Great Gatsby. He thinks that people won't listen to a story about going broke in modern times, but that a story about the original depression will get people listening. Fuck that. I don't want to hear about how shitty shit is. I want to hear about people winning the lottery and getting a new house from Ty Pennington. Fantasy, not scolding. I'm not finished this one or the next one.
This fellow is gonna get a dick in his eye.
This is a pretty lady that I ruined with gloss medium. Does anyone remember that kids show with the family of mute people with bulbousy heads? I'm trying to find images of that...I started painting cause I wanted to do sketches of costumes I could make then all the following stuff happened...
Topical in 2001.
It looks cute but those aren't hearts they're bruises. Fact is I can't paint a whole face.
I started to draw this cause I want money to come to me for nothin'. Stupid Baz Luhrmann just bought the rights to The Great Gatsby. He thinks that people won't listen to a story about going broke in modern times, but that a story about the original depression will get people listening. Fuck that. I don't want to hear about how shitty shit is. I want to hear about people winning the lottery and getting a new house from Ty Pennington. Fantasy, not scolding. I'm not finished this one or the next one.
This fellow is gonna get a dick in his eye.
Labels: I MADE THIS. ME. GRAYDON., PAINTING
Click the pic or HERE to see images from the really nice and unseasonably warm day I spent with OWEN, Patrick, Meghan, and Chuey, and whiskey on the island. Dresses by JEREMY.
Labels: I MADE THIS. ME. GRAYDON., MAYBE THE FUTURE WILL BE BETTER
The Mac's campaign that I took part in directing won gold for viral marketing at the ADCC AWARDS in Toronto on the 12th of this month.
God, that seems like a lifetime ago that I did those things. I feel like a completely different lady now...
Labels: I MADE THIS. ME. GRAYDON., MAYBE THE FUTURE WILL BE BETTER
Here's the BRAZILIAN GIRLS video for GOOD TIME I directed in New York the summer. I already miss summer.
Labels: FASHION, I MADE THIS. ME. GRAYDON., MUSIC
Test I just made for an idea...onward onward.
Labels: I MADE THIS. ME. GRAYDON., MAYBE THE FUTURE WILL BE BETTER
Article about the images I did for Jeremy Laing on V MAGAZINE.
And some other blogs about it:
REFINERY
THE IMAGIST
BUNNY BISOUS
Labels: FASHION, I MADE THIS. ME. GRAYDON., PHOTOGRAPHY
I'm leaving for New York for a week. Thank God.
Labels: I MADE THIS. ME. GRAYDON., MAYBE THE FUTURE WILL BE BETTER
CLICK HERE to see images from my creative with:
Jeremy Laing (Designer)
Claire Edmondson (Stylist)
Eduardo Mella (Hair & Makeup)
and
The one and only Amanda Laine (Elmer Olsen/Supreme)
Labels: FASHION, I MADE THIS. ME. GRAYDON., PHOTOGRAPHY
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Here's another image I made for my new series. I'm so excited and inspired right now. Thank god for the summer solstice.
Labels: I MADE THIS. ME. GRAYDON., PHOTOGRAPHY
Another test from my upcoming series.
Labels: DESPERATE AND SAD, I MADE THIS. ME. GRAYDON., MAYBE THE FUTURE WILL BE BETTER, PHOTOGRAPHY
...but I've been playing a lot of SUPER MARIO lately.
Labels: I MADE THIS. ME. GRAYDON., MAYBE THE FUTURE WILL BE BETTER, NOBODY LIKES A NERD
Another test from a series I'm working on. Now don't go getting boners, the naked man is not me, he's from Google Images.
Labels: BAD DOG, I MADE THIS. ME. GRAYDON.
Some whining I did in the winter. The last one was supposed to say "Hey Can I Borrow $100?" but I decided to go to sleep instead of finishing it.
Labels: BAD DOG, DESPERATE AND SAD, HOW TO PROCRASTINATE, I MADE THIS. ME. GRAYDON.
