Saturday, March 29, 2008
Monday, March 17, 2008
ParkPix Team Deployed!
Today we all got together and hit several parks and got some great pix! These pix are from my personal tiny digicam, but we'll have bigger, more exciting pix that we took with the fancycam up in the next few days! Click the link at the top of the right side of the blog to let us know if you were there...it was fun!
At Jackson playground, it was a bit early...so it was just us ParkPixers...but Dolores park was abuzz with mommies working out and chirrens getting nannyfied...Duboce Park was more mommies and chirren chillin and the dog section was hopping too. Our favorite location today was Golden Gate Park in front of the Conservatory, tons of people came out and we had a great time...
We'll have the high-rez pix up soon, so keep checking back!
Thursday, March 13, 2008
The ParkPix Photographic Contraption
Here's a pic of Jim Pomeroy (the inventor of this contraption) with the set-up...
...and below is an example of what the photos will look like...but outside!
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
ParkPix Project Information!
Title: ParkPix
Artists Involved: Emilie Ko, Jessica Majers, Tony Meredith, Portia Monberg, and Kristina Willemse
Short Description:
ParkPix is a photographic collaboration between a group of artists and the communities that congregate in the parks of San Francisco. Through a unique photographic technique borrowed from New Langton Arts Co-Founder Jim Pomeroy, utilizing a mirror ball on a pole, circular group photos of participants appear to be on their own planet...a planet not lost in space, but part of a meta-cosmic park universe. Participants and the public at large are invited to view the photos via a public website where images can be downloaded.
Narrative:
Project Description: ParkPix is a collaborative photo project involving a group of artists and several park communities in San Francisco.
Goals: The San Francisco Parks and Recreation District is a wide-ranging entity involving a large number of parks and a limitless number of communities. From the roller disco in Golden Gate Park to the frenzy of dogs at Duboce park, the parks of San Francisco act as huge living rooms where people meet, relax, and form loose-knit but binding communities. ParkPix will show these communities as vibrant entities in and of themselves and as a collective group.
Plans for Implementation: The implementation plan for this project is quite simple: gather the photographic equipment and go to any San Francisco park on a sunny day...then capture the community in action in an amazing photograph.
Timeline: Between March 14, 2008 and March 28, 2008, photos will be taken and processed. After those dates, the photos will be uploaded to a publicly accessible website.
Dates of Public Presentation: Between April 28, 2007 and April 30, 2007, ParkPix will be presented to the Telling Stories class at CCA. After that, the photos will continue to be available via a public website for download. This website will stay online indefinitely.
Parks Involved: Duboce Park, Dolores Park, Golden Gate Park, Collingwood Park, Jackson Playground, among others. If funding exists, a larger collection of park communities may be photographed over time...
People Involved: Citizens of various park communities will be involved. Artists involved are Emilie Ko, Jessica Majers, Tony Meredith, Portia Monberg, and Kristina Willemse.
Outreach Plans: The day before each session, a Craigslist.org listing will be posted alerting the neighborhoods where the parks are located that the photosession will be taking place. During the sessions, flyers will be given out with all project information (a quick project description and the website address) Also, during the event, a group of ParkPix “mascots” will parade around park and get people excited and involved. After the photographs are taken, the community can view and download the photos on an online website at their leisure.
Why?
The ParkPix project hopes to show the constellations of citizens of San Francisco’s parks in a new, participatory, and exciting way.
In the end, this project will live on in a set of highly stylized photographs, both physically presented and virtually presented online.
This project is important at this time because Governor Schwarzenegger has proposed the closure of hundreds of parks in the California park system to save money. Our project aims to bring the important communities that center around parks to the forefront of peoples’ minds. To add a bit of public action to our project we aim to have petitions available for people to sign to fight the closing of parks in California.
In a very local sense, this project is important because people love their local parks and would also love to have some sort of a photographic representation of their parks community.
If this small starter group of ParkPix is successful, this project could be expanded to encompass all parks in San Francisco (and maybe even California!). Imagine a huge gallery populated by “Park Planets”, hung in a lovely constellatory way...beautiful!
Project Timeline:
March 10-16 - Collect photographic apparatus (camera, tripod, mirror ball, mirror ball frame) Tony and Kristina
March 15 - Design and launch blog - Jessica
March 15 - Write and post Craigslist event listing/invite - Emilie
March 10-16 - Design and reproduce flyers for handing out at events - Portia
March 10-16 - Design mailing list to capture participants information (with clipboard and pens) - Portia
March 10 - 16 - Design and manufacture outfits for mascots - Jessica and Kristina
March 17, Monday - ParkPix Shoot at 5 parks 9-3pm - Tony, Kristina, Jessica, Portia, and Emilie (and lots of park citizens!).
March 18 - Upload ParkPix to blog - Jessica
March 18- End of the Semester - Procure lazy susans and print/mount pix - Kristina
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