Kevin Miyazaki -100 Very Small Observations (for .42 cents)

copyright Kevin Miyazaki, copied from his blog.

A small aside from my planned run of Polaroid works to quickly announce a great deal on prints from Kevin Miyazaki. I also listed his last artist book here. His show has just ended at the MIAD gallery and you can get one of the little (4x6 inch) gems for the price of a postage stamp. It's not a case of price dumping, but instead incorporates the role of his blog into the presentation and treatment of his work:

Here's Part Two to my recent show at MIAD, 100 Very Small Observations. To recap: The show was installed in a gallery in the school's photography department, and my goal was to impart on the students the role that this blog has played in my work and process. To that end, the show consisted of (100) 4x6" digital c-prints, the images having been created for, and initially seen on the blog. You can read earlier posts about the show (and see the pictures) here.

To bring the whole thing full circle, I'll now be giving the prints away to readers of the blog. If you'd like one of the pictures, email me with "100" in the subject line of your email (not just a comment below, please), and I'll email you back with instructions (you'll need to send me a self-addressed, stamped envelope). The first 100 people to email me will receive a randomly selected print, mailed back to you in the envelope you provide (in about 2 weeks). 

Kevin Miyazaki

You can get all of the info here.

Horses Think - Photograph #...

A post this morning from my friend Mel at  Cigarettes and Purity, simply titled "Luck", got me thinking about one interesting way of not selling your work; 

you give it away.

If you havn't been to Horses Think, here is a small selection of what you have missed:

Getting one of these images is supposedly as easy as an A in gym class, just show up. But the trick here is that you have to be the first to send an email requesting the image.

It reminds me of the mid 80's when I had the number to the local radio station programmed into the speed-dial on our phone, hoping to be the "9th caller to win the new City Boy album". Or some similair musical give-away.

Due to my technical superiority over most people who still had a rotary phone, I did win that album and a handful of others, unfortunately it was about the hunt and I would automatically dial even before hearing the album being offered. 

There is no speed-dial email so I haven't managed to get a print yet and my taste has been fine-tuned a bit so I don't blindly go for just any image from HT, but I keep coming back, hoping that my European time-zone advantage will help someday, to beat out the rest of you while you sleep. I suppose posting this here has even reduced my chances even more.

If you are still reading, you probably missed a print. Maybe I finally got one...

good luck.