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december 15, 2007
I had to make a quick trip to Daniel, (just a
few miles from Pinedale) I needed to pickup something for the shop, and
I was told about a crow that had become a highway fatality. I found the
crow got the shot, which I like a lot. Heading on down the road I also
found the money shot, a jackrabbit, smacked dead by a rushing motorist
and it was laying mangled by the yellow line. In a very grotesque way
it is a fantastic image and the epitome of a road kill photograph.
december 14, 2007
I have got some more Road Kill images up. These were
shot before and during the recent snowstorm that hit us here in
Wyoming. I have noticed something a bit strange in my search for road
kill. The deer, which are by for the hardest hit (no pun intended) lay
the longest on the roadside, often become a smorgasbord to the
scavengers. Moose however get picked up fairly quick. Even when I tell
people that I have shoot a moose for this project the response is
different than hearing about a blood splattering deer kill. I think it
is because we have seen so many deer that we have become insensitive to
the fact that they are dead on the road. We have lost all sympathy for
them, but moose however, which we do not see so much of, are different.
This is the same feelings and reactions that we have when we watch the
news on television. We have seen so much death, carnage and chaos in
the world that we have become use to it. We don't care until it hits us
directly.
I have been getting a good response from my 23 Questions project.
People that have received the questions are in various stages of
answering them and I am getting them posted as I get them. I was asked
why I am doing this, for what reason do I want to collect and post
private and often time intimate questions and answers. My first
response, as it usually is, I do not know where my ideas come from,
they just come. I am going to work up some type of mission statement to
try and some type of reason and purpose for the project, because I want
this to go a long way and include a lot of people. For now all I can
say is there is now right, or wrong way to answer these questions. The
people that are taking part in this project are brave and open to let
others into their world, sometimes for the first time. Anyway they are
answer is revealing something of who you are, even if you choose to not
answer them. Some people are getting real serious about them and taking
their time while others breeze through them and have fun. What is
important to me is that you respond and have some fun. For just a small
section of time in your life you are doing something different, and
sharing it with the world. I think it should be a liberating experience.
december 12, 2007
Grandma Ann Fischer 1902 - 2007
I talked to my good friend David Vaughan this
morning and he told me his Grandmother passed on. Though I feel for
Dave's loss I have to celebrate the life of Grandma Ann Fischer. She
lived a peaceful life and left it the same way, at the age of 105. What
a wonderful life she lived, and the things she was a witness to. Two
world wars, numerous other wars that didn't receive a world title, the
invention of air flight, space travel and yes the Internet. Everything
that we know and have heard about in the last century she lived it.
Thinking about it is truly unbelievable.
The photograph below is Grandma Ann's hands. I'm
posting this photo for two reasons, a tribute to her and also to Dave.
This image is one of my favorite shots he has done and I felt showing
it would honor them both. Take care my friend; my heart is with you.
december 11, 2007
I have enough responses to my 23 Question project to
post them and let the world know. For those of you that don't know let
me introduce you to my daughter Erin. She took part in the project. Not
only can I not see a lot of myself in her answer she has made me bust
wide open with fatherly pride. To me she is one cool chick!
This is just the
beginning, I will be adding them to the site as they come in. If anyone
wants to take part in this enlightening and dare I should say reviling,
project email me and I'll send you the questions. The only rule is you
have to be 18 or older. I don't need to get any flack from parents or
guardians of the younger generations.
Bushism
The photograph says it all!
december ninth, 2007
I had to shovel snow yesterday,
which, SUCKS! But living in this part of the world it is a winter fact.
I did keep true to my convictions and was shoveling it in my shorts, a
fact that brought wonder to most of the passerby's. I just keep good
thoughts about being on an island surrounded by blue water.
I finished another photomontage. Which is posted.
I am being quit prolific in this endeavor. I also have printed a bunch
more that I am putting together and you will see in the future.
december eighth, 2007
Take a look at the 23 Questions page. I have
gotten it started with the help of friends sending me in their answers.
There will be more added as I get them done. I am always looking for
new art to view on the internet. Just as soon as I think that I am
getting to the end of the net I find something new and exciting.
Because it is getting close to the holiday season I thought I might
share this link when everyone that is coming into my chaos. Don't be
offended it is just some crazy art!
The
Most Offensive Xmas Art Show Hits Hollywood
It's sexy, it's sacrilegious, it's
scandalous, and it's just in time for Christmas. LA's hottest art
curator Lenora Claire has done it again with a new collection of saucy
art pieces guaranteed to get folks hot and bothered.
Mixing Christmas themes with ample female breasts
and featuring the
work of Austin Young, Kitten Natividad, Buff Monster, and our fave the
Gay Bigfoot, among others, Claire
chose not to rest on her laurels of the hugely successful Golden Gals
Gone Wild
collection of this summer, but instead opted to pump up the volume with
a new group of art that's poised to get viewers hot under the collar.
december third, 2007
I keep hearing about my name and this web
site coming up in various conversation and I'm thankful that they do.
At the very least it is bringing traffic to the site. It seems that
people are logging on to see the nudes I have posted. Not because it is
the only site that is showing such things, but rather it is close to
home and people want to see someone they know. This is a bit touched. I
shoot nude for art, not for who they are. Some of these peeping toms
are looking to see who they can see. With that thought who are the
immoral ones?
Nudity is no big thing many people that have
established great names for themselves at times preferred being in the
nude.
When Victor Hugo, the
famous author of Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame,
ran into a writer's block, he concocted a unique scheme to force
himself to write: he had his servant take all of his clothes away for
the day and leave his own nude self with only pen and paper, so he'd
have nothing to do but sit down and write.
Ernest Hemingway wrote nude, standing up, with his
typewriter about waist level. Indeed, there might be a nudist streak in
the Hemingway genes: Earnest's cousin Edward Hemingway opened Britain's
oldest nudist colony, a nine bedroom chateau called Metherell Towers,
back in the 1930s!
D.H. Lawrence, who wrote the controversial (and
censored) erotic book Lady Chatterley's Lover, liked to climb mulberry
trees, in the nude, before coming down to write.
James Whitcomb Riley, America's "Hoosier Poet," had
his friends lock him up in a hotel room to write, naked, so he wouldn't
be tempted to go down to the bar for a drink.
Benjamin Franklin also liked to take baths. In fact,
he liked to take "air baths," where he sits around naked in a cold room
for an hour or so while he wrote.
Mystery writer Agatha Christie, whose books have
been translated in 40 languages and outsold only by the Bible and
Shakespeare, liked to write in the bathtub!
Not that this condones, or condemns what I am doing,
it does however putt me into some good company.
december second, 2007
Did I ever get a free pass! Last Friday night I was
on my way home from marry making at the chamber of commerce dinner,
where I was voted in as a new seat on the Board of Directors. I'm not
sure why I have done this. I do care about this little mountain town I
leave in, but I'm not sure if I'm ready for the meetings and
hobnobbing. But, then again I don't think that they are ready for me
either.
Back to my free pass, I was almost home when these
bright, flashing lights came on behind me. My heart sunk and I was
busted! I told this young officer that I had been marry making and he
asked me to get out of the car. On the side of the road, in a snowstorm
I performed my first sobriety test. I sort of passed and being so close
to home he let me slide, but I did learn something on this cold winter
night. Having a cop stop you on the way home from an evening of fun and
frolic is sure is a good way to loose your buzz.
I have finished another photomontage. Is another one of Carrie, and I
have a few more I will do of her. She was a great modal and we had a
wonderful time at the lake shooting these images. I can't wait to shoot
her again.
I also have some more Road Kill Images posted. If you want to see some
more carnage in golden light have a visit.
november,
twenty nine, 2007
my space dot com
november,
twenty seven, 2007
I
shoot nudes – so don't look if you do not like them!
Like hundreds of
people before me, I have been captivated with photographing the human
figure. I choose to do this out of love for people, who I believe are
the most important part of our world. I photograph people with no
disrespect as to who they are, nor do I compare them to the next person
I may photograph. I believe that people are unique in their own
way and I honor them for that. The people that I shoot are brave clean
spirits that are without any doubt individuals. The most attractive,
and often lost, trait there is in a human.
Lately I have been under scrutiny, quietly attacked
for the fact that I have nude photographs on my web site. I say quietly
because no one has come to me directly, but rather they do it through
people that know me. I think in societies circles it is gossip. I'm ok
with people talking about and even attacking what I do. I am not
motivated, or curtailed by the actions of others. The other good thing
about people talking about me is it means they are leaving some other
poor slob alone. I am extremely proud that my friends defend me, and I
apologize to them for being exposed to the cowardly ignorance of others.
What bothers me, and why I am writing about this, is
people are so fucking narrow minded it is sickening. Try as I might, as
a lot of people that have gone before me, this is something that we
will never change. For these people I feel sorry. They are living in
such a closed world that their wings will somehow always be confined.
To the other side of the coin, the people that want
to look, but won't admit to it, I say shame on you. You are worse the
puritans that want creative growth curtailed. You need to be true to
yourself, for it is only yourself that you are lying to. I don't know
how many times someone has asked me, with a stupid shit-eating grin on
their face, if I have naked pictures of someone. I shrug it off and
usually very vague about my answers, but I'm actually disturbed by the
question. They want to look but not let anyone know about it. These
people are the wrong ones. Yes I shoot nude woman and enjoy it. I have
never hidden this fact to anyone. So who is more the deviant, me for
shooting the nude form, or the people that want to look, and then talk
bad about it so they can turn art sleazy?
The human form, is just as it is, a part of mature
that artist have been exploring for hundreds of years. Humans have been
used for art way before the camera was. Many master painters painted
the human form and it was a natural process to continue with the camera.
I photograph nudes for reasons that are with me at
the time I am making the image. I try to make some form of self
statement with my work. It is nothing strong. I am not trying to change
the way that any individual might see an image, I am just moved by
ideas that come to me from many different sources.
There is nothing wrong, or pornographic about nude
images. They are like everything else in our natural world, just part
of it. I want you to look at my images and enjoy them, if not that is
all right too. What bothers me, is to be asked who the person in the
photograph is, or to have the person scrutinized for being in the
photograph. If the later is your reaction then you need to look deeper
inside your own makeup. You are the one that's wrong in your judgmental
attitude, so shame on you.
I do not try to make my images overly suggestive.
If, however anyone finds them to be erotically stimulating then so be
it. This too is only natural. But, I do not try to evoke this type of
response. I simply photograph the scene with the concept I have in my
head, leaving the viewer response to their own inclinations. Though I
do not intend for my images to be sensual, I do intend for them to have
a sensual quality. I try to evoke a response in beauty, gracefulness,
shape and form, rather than just female allure.
The nude images that I make are done solely for the
sake of art. I hope that you enjoy them, and if at all possible, maybe
a bit moved. If so then my mission as an artist has been accomplished.
If you are looking at these images of art in any other way, than the
celebration of the human spirit, or if you are talking about the person
in the image in any negative way, then in my opinion, your mission as a
human has failed. It is your choice to look, or not to look, but it is
not your choice to attack the people that do not think and act like you
do.
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Dave Vaghan
Everyday
Dissidence
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