tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71031561458462289232024-03-12T21:51:50.176-07:00Melanie Little PhotographyWelcomeMelanie Little Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07142815626472964025noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7103156145846228923.post-39351087244112920952011-11-27T16:17:00.000-08:002011-12-08T18:32:26.027-08:00Photographer James Mignogna<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: left;">These past few months, I've been privileged to have the chance to work at the <a href="http://www.icp.org/" style="color: #073763;">International Center of Photography</a> as a teaching assistant. I'm surrounded by students, teachers, and other faculty that love photography just as much as I do!<br />
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One of the people I've met while working there (and am happy to now call my friend) is photographer <a href="http://jamesmignogna.viewbook.com/mignogna/at_the_diner" style="color: #073763;">James Mignogna</a>. Last week when he was packing up to leave after his shift, he showed me an image that he had just recently printed ... I fell in love with it! James being the nice guy that he is, gave me a copy, and I thought I would share it with all of you.</div><br />
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I asked James to tell me the story behind this image...<br />
"As far as the story goes it was on 11/15 the day after the big evection. Cops were standing in the otherwise empty park so all the people coming back to the park flooded the sidewalk. When these people saw each other... It was kinda crazy because they almost ran at each other, the crowd just seemed to give way for them which was crazy because I could barely move without squeezing and gently shoving my way through. Fortunately I saw it going down and saw where they would meet and went for that space, but really it was just dumb luck that I was in the right place to do so.<br />
<div>Honestly if I saw it in a movie I would have thought "that's nice but it would never happen like that in the real world.</div><div>I guess it's like the saying goes about truth and fiction."</div>Melanie Little Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07142815626472964025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7103156145846228923.post-341603865566818152011-10-11T14:50:00.000-07:002011-10-11T15:01:59.663-07:00Sunset in New York City<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It's amazing to me how much stuff can be squished into a small island of 301 square miles (only 13.4 miles long and 2.3 miles at it's widest point).</div><br />
I've lived here just over a year now, and I feel like I've hardly seen the island. There's so much character on every block, street corner, and borough...<br />
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I recently took the Staten Island Ferry to shoot a some footage for a music video I'm making for a friend here in the city (video will be posted once it's complete), but I wanted to share some of the images I took while on my little outing.<br />
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The day called for rain, but I decided to head out anyways just before sunset, and the weather turned out to be more than perfect, with a beautiful sunset.<br />
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I filmed people around the Nashville and NYC areas, asking them to share a song that makes them happy...<br />
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<a href="http://www.musiciansoncall.org/site/PageNavigator/Multimedia/Videos_Brightens">Musicians On Call: What Song Brightens Your Day?</a><br />
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This was all done in one take, so please excuse any extra movement or background noise that may be a little distracting... overall I think it turned out really nicely.<br />
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/14229214">Rebecca Roubion "fall holiday"</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user3069465">Melanie Little</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.Melanie Little Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07142815626472964025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7103156145846228923.post-25626498077261367362010-08-05T22:44:00.000-07:002010-08-05T22:44:47.424-07:00Saturday Night Dance Party<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/11325764">Keegan DeWitt: "Michel Bizot"</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/keegandewitt">Keegan DeWitt</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
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<a href="http://www.keegandewitt.com/" style="color: #351c75;">Keegan DeWitt </a>featuring <a href="http://www.madidiaz.com/" style="color: #351c75;">Madi Diaz</a> and Peter Groenwald. Off of the forthcoming <a href="http://www.daytrotter.com/" style="color: #351c75;">Daytrotter</a> EP release "Nothing Shows"<br />
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Shot by: <a href="http://www.melanielittlephotography.com/" style="color: #351c75;">Melanie Little</a> and Logan Matheny<br />
Cut by: Keegan DeWitt<br />
Recorded by: <a href="http://www.myspace.com/ianfitchukandjustinloucks" style="color: #351c75;">Justin Loucks</a>Melanie Little Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07142815626472964025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7103156145846228923.post-17896941703051834692010-03-20T17:12:00.000-07:002010-03-21T12:40:48.887-07:00Ashes and SnowA friend of mine from Rocky Mountain School of Photography gave me a book to read called Ashes and Snow - A Novel in Letters by Gregory Colbert. He told me that he found it to be artistically inspirational and thought I would too; he was more than right. I wanted to post a journal entry that is specifically more inspirational to me, due to being a photographer, but think any artist would relate. <br />
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I hope you enjoy.<br />
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P.S. thank you Jeremy for letting me borrow this book for so long.. I promise it's in good hands and will return to you soon! <br />
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<div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: center;">Letter 184</div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">As I lay dreaming, Montezuma waded with me into the Limpopo River. We crossed through the swirling eddies and shared a sun-baked stone in the middle of the river.</div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Montezuma said, "You are disoriented. Your journey is in danger of becoming an elaborate flight away from yourself. You are paying too much attention to numbers, compass points, altitudes, tides, temperatures. You are looking for patterns or logic in coincidences. Your movements are mathematical when they ought to be musical. You're doing steps. You still haven't learned how to become the dance.</div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">"Remember, a compass and a pen can give you a reading on the lay of the river, but no mechanical instrument can measure the motion of the heart.</div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">"Some maps are drawn in melting snow. By living in your mind, you are draining all the meaning from your miles and rivers. Your heart is a flute, but you are playing it like a drum. A camera is a musical instrument. There is a whole range of octaves you are leaving totally unexplored."</div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">He paused for a long time. I said nothing.</div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">"You are writing and photographing the miles. Are you really living them?"</div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Still I said nothing.</div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">"Put away your pen and camera for a while. Prove that you are worthy of the gifts you have been given.</div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">"Look at the world through the lens of your own eye.</div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">"Then you will be ready to navigate in the spirit of birds.</div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">"And know that one day, when you have crossed your last river, you will stand before an elephant who will measure the values of your life not by how many miles you have traveled and how much you have seen, but rather by how much you have loved."</div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br />
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After I gallon size ziplocked my camera away in hopes of 'waterproofing' it... Rebecca, pets, and I went outside to play and lasted about 20minutes, till the snow melted through our clothes, and we could no longer take the freezing air. <br />
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Middle TN doesn't see snow like this too often... it never gets old to me :o) If it's going to be cold.. it's actually bearable (for the most part) when snow is falling.<br />
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Sidenote: this was my first time playing with imovie... I feel like I taught myself a lot today, but I'm excited to play with it more and get better at home/movie making!<br />
(also sorry the quality doesn't seem that great... need to figure out how to save it at a higher res!)<br />
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Music by:<br />
Keegan DeWitt : <a href="http://www.myspace.com/keegandewittmusic">http://www.myspace.com/keegandewittmusic</a><br />
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The Helio Sequence : <a href="http://www.myspace.com/theheliosequence">http://www.myspace.com/theheliosequence</a>Melanie Little Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07142815626472964025noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7103156145846228923.post-16683730375618749142010-01-13T16:22:00.001-08:002010-01-13T16:22:25.849-08:00<script type="text/javascript">
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Friday morning I started my college visits with UIC ( http://grad.uic.edu/cms/ ) and learned that the teachers seem to care deeply about their students, and you get your own graduate studio space, but there isn't a whole lot of equipment available for the students. I know that it would be a great program to be a part of, but not my first choice. I feel like it may be too similar to what I experienced with my undergrad and am hoping to broaden my horizons a bit. After the UIC tour was complete, I had 3 hours to kill and decided to spend it at The Museum of Contemporary Art: http://www.mcachicago.org/<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The actual Preview Day wasn't exactly what I was expecting but the whole thing turned out to be a great experience and turned in to being my favorite school of the three. There was a grad student representative from each department they offered and they all took turns talking about their grad department and the next hour and half was a Q&A for the prospective students. After the Q&A was over, I found the student that was from the photography department and ended up chatting with her for almost two hours and got a personal tour. We seemed to have very similar ideas of what we wanted from getting our MFA and our likes and dislikes of the program. For example, Columbia doesn't offer personal grad studio spaces for each student and no 24 hour access......YIKES! She saw the look on my face when she told me this and said she had the same reaction when she first found out. As she showed me around the facilities, I realized just how much room there was for everyone to work, I felt like I could start to breathe again. I know... sounds pathetic, but having my own graduate space was something I was really looking forward to having. There is however, a room that is for graduate students only, where we can either work, store our materials/prints, take a nap, goof off, get each other's opinion, etc. Not to mention the view is AMAZING. It looks out over Buckingham Fountain and Lake Michigan. I'm sure I could open a window and watch Lollapalooza for free every summer.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">All in all, it was a wonderful trip that went by way too fast. I decided to apply to all three schools along with the other four (SVA, VCU, UNM, and CalArts). My goal is to apply to one grad school a day till each one is complete, tonight I applied to SVA.... I still have UIC, VCU, UNM, and CalArts left. It's pretty exhausting.<br />
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</div>Melanie Little Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07142815626472964025noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7103156145846228923.post-54286746265466049122009-11-27T14:53:00.001-08:002009-12-02T20:26:04.542-08:00Thanksgiving with the Styrons<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIiZzepFGU8S6VKfCB7CcXhyphenhyphenjs6vbzM-nOvs7oSF2mxzosYUgazYhoT-waC21lhNn0WBpg1E7zu3ql_2Y4_0ZkeqoG-VfWKGW27S54rLKIYF4XoBJpQiHdkQ2uXHFcMNSdT09c2Sk_jqk/s1600/IMG_0266-Edit.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5408925413267405538" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIiZzepFGU8S6VKfCB7CcXhyphenhyphenjs6vbzM-nOvs7oSF2mxzosYUgazYhoT-waC21lhNn0WBpg1E7zu3ql_2Y4_0ZkeqoG-VfWKGW27S54rLKIYF4XoBJpQiHdkQ2uXHFcMNSdT09c2Sk_jqk/s320/IMG_0266-Edit.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 214px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a>Lester Dill Styron and Bobbie Faye Holmes Styron <br />
Connie Styron Little - Bill, Lacy, Melanie<br />
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Debbie Styron Carroll - Darren, Katie, Beth<br />
Patti Styron Williams - David, Zach, Emily<br />
Becca Styron Gaut - Stuart, Ella, Annabelle<br />
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This is my mom's family... my family.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">This year we had everyone (except for Patti and her family), along with all the people above's significant others and children; 22 people total. With children running around every direction, four dogs, and two cats... the house was anything but quiet; don't let the picture above deceive you.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">This is Jason, my sister's husband. It's his first year having thanksgiving with our family... we made him carve the Turkey... no pressure.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">For dessert we celebrated Annabelle's 2nd birthday.<br />
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"I always have to sit at the little table." sniffle sniffle.<br />
This is one of many faces Beth makes... she often looks like she's up to something... sneaky girl. <br />
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