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RIT Imagine: Innovation and Creativity Festival
This past Saturday was “Imagine RIT” and it was my first time photographing an event and live streaming simultaneously. Editing on the go, while captioning, and uploading was a challenge but I figured it out in no time. As the event progressed we uploaded our files to wordpress where a team of three classmates reviewed, [...]
Occupy Rochester
I went to occupy Rochester for two nights, mostly just to hang out and get the feel for the movement. School started and I ended up doing other things. I did make some photographs, but this was just some shooting while seeing what my friend Josh Kuckens was working on. He’s doing something larger, and [...]
Star Wars Day – Strong Museum Star Wars Weekend
Last weekends Star Wars Weekend at Strong Museum was part of a larger story I’ve been working on with the local chapter of the 501st, Garrison Excelsior. The event was fantastic and in honor of this great day I’ll post some photographs from that weekend. These photos are not part of my story but are still freaking [...]
5d Mark II and Holga Lens
Last week I decided to purchase the Holga camera lens for my Canon 5dm2. No reason in particular except that it was only about $25 and seemed like it might be something fun to play with. It came in the mail last night so I took it out earlier today and made some photographs. I [...]
The Benefits of Smoking
Written By Emily Okey & Joe Philipson | Photographed Joe Philipson The Benefits of Smoking Is smoking bad? Most everyone would say, “Yes, of course!” Stricter advertising limitations and millions of dollars spent on marketing have caused a weaning of public opinion. Advertisements depicting diseased gums and the inherent negative effects of smoking take over [...]
Positive Negative Magazine
Eight weeks of creation and two weeks of production have culminated in this proud moment. As the Art Directors for the fifth issue of Positive/Negative, we have accomplished so much in such a short amount of time. It was not until the first staff meeting that we began to realize and understand the magnitude of [...]
Cyanotypes
My final term project for my History and Aesthetics of Photography class is to make 10 related cyanotypes. So I picked natural objects that I saw to be examples of fractals.
Up in the Air
Saturday morning, late morning, my friend Michael Carnrike sent me a text saying if I wanted to fly in an airplane I better meet him at the airport in an hour. It snowed the night before, so before we could go up the runway had to be plowed. While the plane gets filled we [...]
Luminaria
Luminaria – a small paper lantern which is of significance in New Mexico especially on Christmas Eve. This is a quick story about luminaria in Berkeley, CA. Something that is just beginning to take off. As a personal challenge, I shot and edited this in the same night. Only now am I uploaded it because [...]