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Blog/Article Review

Picking up the Slack: Ware:Wolf:Haus and West Dallas

          Glasstire is a nonprofit cooperation, it focuses on Texas and southern California. I love that it brings us news about anything art related in Texas. On the Texas edition I like how it has the little map of Texas and you can choose your city of interest. I really don't like how it doesn't have tabs for specific artist, although it does have everything posted on one list and you can just scroll until you find something you like. 

          The Article I chose is called Picking up the Slack: Ware:Wolf:Haus and West Dallas, its by Lucia Simek. Lucia is based out of Dallas and she also contriburtes to a blog for D Magazine. The reason i chose this article is because it draws attention to a forgotten part of Dallas. I grew up in West Dallas, and i never realized what a bad taste that side of town had in some peoples mouth. Lucia brings a  light to it. She talks about how investors have created an area of incubator restaurants and a place to have art. On some of the old warehouses they've painted on art murals by Faile, and lots of artist are encurraged to come fill up some of the empty warehouses with pop up shows.  People like  Arthur Peña, Nathan Green, Matt Clark, and Brian Ryden share a warehouse that open up for art and concerts. They hope to expand the boundaries of art by creating different scenes in empty spaces such as the ones found in west Dallas. 

Blog/Article Review

Avondale

by: 2013 LENSCRATCH STUDENT PRIZE 3RD PLACE WINNER: ASHLEY KAUSCHINGER July 3, 2013

Lenscratch makes me sleepy. It could be the giant buffalo chicken sandwich i ate while reviewing this blog, but overall this blog is not one of my favorites. it was launched by Aline Smithson who started as a Fashion editor then later found her passion for photography. Her camera of choice is a 50yr old camera. Anyways, the way the blog has too much wordage is what i don't like. I understand she wants to educate us on the photographer and the (in this case) the narrative at hand, but maybe shorten it a little more. My brain wants to get straight to the pictures and make my own interpretations.  I couldn't see past how much explaining was made for everyone. Its well organize, i found what i was looking for fairly quickly and i was happy with the variety. 

I found a nice gallery on Ashley Kauschinger, who as by the title, was the 3rd place winner for Lenscratch student competition. She said "I am a photographer because of the connection that I feel to watching the world through ground glass, and of all the photographs that have been my friends." I found that I could relate to the way photos make her feel because in a sense photos are our friends, and they put us back to that place and time of the when the picture was taken or how it makes us feel. She did a collection of photographs on perspective. She named it Avondale, a fairy tale place, where she can play out the idea of childhood through an adults perspective. The picture i chose is up above, and I found that this picture really showed the curiosity children really have. I grew up with a tee house and I remember spending countless hours up in the tree with my sister and this picture really captured an innocence in the simplicity of how shes just climbing her way to the top. 

Levitation

Flyer on First 

Picking Leafs 

Late to class?

ABC's (b/w)

ABC's (black and white)

My ABCs

"Mirrored Portrait Triptych"

looking mighty weird...