“Twilight Invasion” ~ Galveston, Texas :: From my forthcoming Galveston Series.
Well, it’s official! I’m proud to announce that soon, I will be able to say my work is hanging in the Smithsonian Castle on the National Mall in Washington D.C.
This image was selected to hang in the “Editors’ Picks: The Best of Smithsonian Magazine’s 7th Annual Photo Contest.” From July 1st through February 2011!
Dear Mr. Hunt,
I am pleased to inform you that your photograph was chosen for display in the upcoming exhibit, “Editors’ Picks: The Best of Smithsonian Magazine’s 7th Annual Photo Contest.” The exhibit, which is currently in production, showcases 30 of the 50 finalists from Smithsonian Magazine’s 7th Annual Photo Contest. It will be on view from July 1, 2010 through February 28, 2011 in the first floor of the Smithsonian Castle on the National Mall in Washington DC.
Last year, more than one million visitors viewed our previous exhibit, and likely, a million more will view your image this year.
Congratulations on a job well done.
They didn’t mention anything about cash, so I’m guessing I didn’t win the prize money for my category. But, to be honest… although cash is nice, being selected for this show was all I was really after. ;-)
So if you’re in Washington D.C. between July and February this year, stop by and have a look. Might have to check this one out myself. :-)
I’ve noticed what might soon become a trend… at least around these parts. Media companies are selling the service to “curate” video art and still image/painting slideshows in higher end martini & tequila bars. The one that contacted me is featuring just the work of local artists in a given city. They get paid for providing the media and displays, and the artists get some local exposure.
Seemed reasonable to me, especially since they said it was cool to drop my url throughout the slideshow. I’m going to give them some video too, but only after I see how the slideshows go.
Will let you know how it works out!
Here’s the simple slideshow I made in HD for them. No sound, and I just used horizontal images so they’d fill out the screens nicely. :-)
What do you think of this new trend?
Deceived by heaven’s promise… I drifted up and away into the thin delicate seduction…
Slipping sweetly into nirvana… melting within her tender embrace… tasting the forbidden light.
One last dimension to pass… and then joyful oblivion.
Until she snared me in her dimensional web to remind my time was not yet complete.
“Heaven’s Gate” ~ Blue Texas sky through translucent fabric. © Skip Hunt ~ http://www.skiphuntphotography.com
I can’t remember if I saw her at some stop near San Antonio, Texas or some roadside cantina on the Mexican side… but, it just didn’t matter and I just didn’t care…
It was my very first trip outside the U.S. and to me she was beautiful!… to me she “was” Mexico… Someone unknown… someone sleeping… someone enveloped in unfamiliar yet vaguely known textures and color.
I couldn’t wait for her to waken… so that “I” could waken… so that I could know “her”… So I could begin my lifelong love affair with the Mujer… with Mexico!
“Siesta” ~ Somewhere near the Mexico/Texas border © Skip Hunt ~ http://skiphunt.carbonmade.com
So difficult…
The feeling…. the sterility… the core.
My eyes had been blinded by the soft diffuse light scattered by hurricane cloud that bled across my retina. The detail slowly came to focus and for a moment I wondered how I’d been transplanted to this fascinating new orb. Was it a dream?
The light held intrigue and fear… without reference, I was forced to focus on the minutia… compelled find some commonality with the world I thought I knew.
Did I return? Or, had I never left?
My preference was that I’d never left… but merely discovered a new dimension of what I’d previously written off as banal.
“Let It Be” ~ Texture of dune’s edge… White Sands, New Mexico © Skip Hunt ~ http://skiphunt.carbonmade.com
I bought her a few years ago when I was bored. There was a retro shop near an office I had and after one too many mocha lattes at the next door coffee shop, I decided it would be funny to buy the naked maniquen just so I could walk down the street with what appeared to be a naked lady under my arm. It was well worth the $50 I spent on the maniquen to see all the drivers doing a double-take.
I kept her for awhile and dressed her up differently weekly or or whenever the mood struck me. One week she’d be a sort of Harajuku girl, or maybe a bum, and the next week I’d dress her up as a revolutionary, etc. Eventually, she followed me to another office that was atop a steep hill with a great view and had a nice balcony overlooking a busy boulevard. I decided for her first costume on the balcony, I’d put a cheesy blond wig on her and just loosely draped her naked body in a translucent white veil. I secured her with wires so that it looked as if she was leaning out over the balcony a bit.
One day I arrived at the office to find she had been dismantled and her parts were hanglng off the edge of the balcony. It wasn’t until later in the day when the police arrived that I found out what had happened to her. The police said that drivers had been distracted thinking that “the mysterious” blond veiled woman was about to leap to her death. Apparently she had caused enough people to be sufficiently distracted enough to cause at least one car accident. So, the police had come by in the morning to try and knock her off the balcony with their batons. They managed to knock off the arms and head, and cut the wires so her torso would fall to the side to prevent more distracted motorists.
This photo was taken of her on the balcony and I wanted it to look kinda grainy and fuzzy to keep up the illusion that she might just be real, or surreal. As it is, you have to look at it for a second before you realize she’s not real.
Austin, Texas © 2009 Skip Hunt ~ http://skiphunt.carbonmade.com
Images captured on a little N.E. Texas Roadtrip from Austin to Uncertain, Texas… to Shreveport, Louisiana… etc.
Images © 2009 Skip Hunt ~ http://skiphunt.carbonmade.com
