Barry Feinstein : Bob Dylan pt. 2 (and more...)

Para continuar con la serie de Bob Dylan y sus fotografías, escogí algunas fotos de Barry Feinstein, aquí están mis favoritas:
To continue with the whole Bob Dylan photographic series, I am currently browsing through Barry Feinstein's photographs, and chose a few of my favorites:

Eric Clapton

 

 

 

 

How great is this picture?

Esta foto es lo máximo.

This one is easily my favorite

Está es mi favorita, tal vez.

 

 

George Harrison (all things must pass)

 Estoy impresionada, con estas fotos, sinceramente me gustan muchísimo.
I'm honestly in awe of this pictures, they are simply great.

Feinstein trabajó con actrices de Hollywood, figuras polítcas y por supuesto con músicos. Supuestamente tomó fotos para más de 500 portadas de albumes (tomó la portada de Beggar's Banquet de los Rolling Stones y All things must pass de George Harrison) Pero su trabajo más famoso fue el portafolio que hizo alrededor de Bob Dylan.
Murió hace un par de años.
Feinstein worked with Hollywood actresses, political figures, but most of all with great musicians. He supposedly took the photographs of over 500 albums (he took the cover of  the Rolling Stones' Beggar's Banquet and George Harrison's All things must pass). But his most famous work is the photographic portfolio he built around Bob Dylan.
He died a couple of years ago.

-S

Bob Dylan : Daniel Kramer

  

Hoy ayudé a diego a escoger un corte de pelo y encontre unas fotos legendarias de Bob Dylan. Quería hacer un post al respecto, pero cuando me puse a buscarlas decidí investigar un poquito más, porque Diego tiene razón, cuando los músicos tienen tantos buenos retratos, deben de tener un amigo fotógrafo o por lo menos un fotógrafo de cajón que haga muy bien lo que hace. Y pues así era con Bob Dylan, pero no sólo con uno, tuvo varios fotógrafos con los que covivió frecuentemente por varios años, uno de ellos fue Daniel Kramer. Este post es de sus fotografias y creo que voy a hacer un par de posts más y también voy a poner unas fotos de unas camisetas preciosas de Bob Dylan que me acabo de comprar. 

Today I was helping Diego, to choose a haircut and found some legendary photos of Bob Dylan,  I wanted to share some, and while I was looking for them I decided to research a little bit more, after all Diego was right, musicians who have so many great portraits taken, usually have a friend photographer or a regular who does a very good job constantly. And of course this was the case, but it wasn't just one, there were many so I'm gonna start with Daniel Kramer and I'll probably do a couple more posts on the subject, I've become quite interested!  

And since I just bought two awesome Bob Dylan shirts I'll share them too :)

 

 

Daniel Kramer. Above: Bob Dylan With Peter Yarrow & John Hammond Jr. Hailing Taxi 1965, NYC.

Me encanta la idea de ser fotógrafo amigo de un músico (en especial Bob Dylan), cuando tienen personalidades tan interesantes y quieren acompañar su música con visuales creativos, se crea una sociedad que me llama mucho la atención. En un libro que compre de Anton Corbijn, de sus fotos de U2 cuenta la historia de su amistad con ellos y se puede ver la evolución de sus fotos y a través de ellas la evolución del grupo visual y musicalmente. Creo que un trabajo así podría ser mi trabajo de los sueños (siento algo parecido cuando veo las fotos fijas de películas y sets, pero supongo que a mucho más corto plazo), y haber tenido el privilegio de trabajar con bandas como U2 o con Bob Dylan o los Beatles, sus fotógrafos tuvieron mucha suerte. Y nosotros también porque podemos ver fotos maravillosas de ellos, gracias a sus fotógrafos. 

Suficiente entusiasmo fotográfico-musical, ya me voy a dormir :p

I love the idea of being a musician's personal photographer (specially Bob Dylan's). When artist have such interesting personalities and evolve constantly musically, they usually want a visual image that accompanies that process. The photographers that have long relationships with musicians usually show this evolution through their pictures, and it can be quite extraordinary. 

Last year I bought Anton Corbijn's book 'U2', and it covers his long photographic journey with the band and he writes about their friendship. And it is thanks to him that awesome images - that are great on their own - awake something in me, and of course I relate the image with the music I love, which completes the process. 

To be honest this would be a dream job (I feel something similar towards still photography in movie sets, but it is not as epic as this I feel), and I feel the photographers who got to work repeatedly with the Beatles, Bob Dylan or U2 for example, were super lucky, but so are we, because thanks to them we can see so many great images of them.

Ok enough, my photography and music enthusiast self is going to sleep :p

The Puppy room

 I think my uni totally needs a puppy room, everything would've made sense.
 Mi uni sin duda necesita un cuarto de cachorros, toda mi carrera hubiera tenido sentido.

via Freekibble.com & freekibblekat.com

Clever youtube channels, part I

Drawing by Sarah Xu (http://captainpillow.blogspot.ca/)
She made this drawing for the smarter every day cat video, down below, and here is the process. I think it's amazing:


Este post no está en español porque los videos sólo estan en inglés :/ Pero les recomiendo mucho que vean aunque sea el de los gatitos y como giran. Está abajo. 


 Just like Mike from the PBS idea youtube channel, mentioned in one of his videos, youtube channels aren't only for minecraft and make-up lovers. That being said, I spend a good part of my everyday life watching make-up (and fashion, and music) videos, I love them. But since I found PBS idea's channel (if you haven't seen it click here), I've realized how much I enjoy watching other youtube channels as well. Channels that have nothing to do with beauty. 
To be honest I believe youtube is a really great place to learn new things, and that was my initial appeal towards make-up videos, I didn't know anything about make-up, but now, I'm pretty familiar with it.

The first video I ever watched from PBS idea, was a possible explanation to the question 'why do so many adults love Adventure Time?', I don't want to earn hate in my first posts - if anyone ever reads them -  but I have to say, I do not  love Adventure Time, I don't hate it either, I've just seen a few episodes but it hasn't made me want to go back and watch more to be honest. I am a big fan of cartoons and animations though, and if you put 'animation' and 'nostalgia' in the same sentence, what comes to my mind is actually Studio Ghibli and the works of Hayao Miyazaki.
 But going back to the channel (http://www.youtube.com/pbsideachannel), what that video did do, was make me want to see the rest of the 'ideas'. If you want to know what this channel is about, they describe themselves as a PBS show that examines the connections between pop culture, technology and art. I don't agree with many of their theories - specifically the art related ones - but I enjoy hearing them, a lot, and Mike, the host, is smart, has a pleasant voice and a cute beard.

 I love this video, I agree with most of what he says about genres (I argue with my boyfriend about genres all the time), but I recommend the rest of his videos as well.

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I was through pbs idea channel that I found the Smarter Every Day channel, and (obviously) loved the high speed flipping cats video. The image on top was made for that video. If you browse through the rest of the channel,  you can find a lot of interesting stuff, and even though I don't know anything about physics or math, I enjoyed them, they are meant for the general public, and I think most people would do too (if only for the slow motion cat action :p).

 

Maybe this videos are super popular and I don't even know. I'm curious as to what youtube channels other people follow.
:)

-S

About Bunny Bear

Bunny Bear was born about six months ago, but in reality it was born about a week ago. 

The name:

My mom and I were watching last year's (or was it this year's?) Grammy Award's and during the nomination for best new album the host announced Bon Iver as one of the nominees, my mom asked me who was "Bunny-Bear" ? I thought it was hilarious and since Ponycat is another hybrid, I thought it was a perfect fit, specially because I do love Bon Iver, and bunnies...and bears... :)  

Bunny Bear nació hace más o menos seis meses, pero la verdad es que el blog como tal nació hace una semana.

 El nombre:

Mi mamá y yo estabamos viendo los Grammys el años pasado (o no se si fue este :S) y cuando dijeron los nominados a mejor disco del año, mencionaron a Bon Iver y mi mamá me preguntó ¿Quién es Bunny Bear? Y se me hizo muy chistoso porque suena muy lindo y me recordó mucho a Ponycat que también es el híbrido de dos animales, así que pensé que sería ideal para mi blog, en especial porque me gusta mucho Bon Iver, y los conejitos... y los osos... :)

 

I'm currently active in two other blogs:

My blogs:

The Ponycat Blog and Dig a Pony.

Why do I need another blog? Are those two not enough? Am I just irrationally ambitious? 

I don't really need another blog, nobody does, except maybe people with super writing/photo/video/etc skills with a lot to say, to help illuminate us mortals, but as I am none of those, I simply created this blog because I want to do something a little bit different from what I do in the other two.  Ponycat is a project I work on with my best friend Carmila, we write about, cats, crafts, food, photography and our mutual interest. 

In Dig a Pony I post my photographs, I don't write anything in there - except descriptions or credits from the shoots - and I'm careful not to rant or share things that are not relevant to the blog's purpose. I show that blog as a kind of portfolio sometimes, that's why. 

Actualmente participo en otros dos blogs:

Mis blogs:

The Ponycat Blog y Dig a Pony.

¿Porqué necesito otro blog? ¿No son 2 suficientes? ¿Soy irracionalmente ambiciosa? La verdad es que no necesito otro blog, no creo que nadie necesite blogs, excepto tal vez la gente que tiene habilidades extraordinarias para escribir, tomar fotos, video, etc, pero como yo no tengo ninguna de esas, sólo quiero mi nuevo blog para hacer algo diferente de lo que hago en los otros dos. 

Ponycat es un proyecto que tengo con mi mejor amiga Carmila, en él escribimos sobre gatos, manualidades, comida, fotografía y nuestros intereses en general. 

Dig a Pony es donde publico mis fotos. No escribo nada ahí (más que detalles sobre las fotos y las sesiones y eso), y procuro no poner opiniones ni fotos que toman otras personas para no quitarle el proposito; porque me gusta mostrarlo a veces como una especie de portafolio.

 Back to Bunny Bear:

The purpose or lack-thereof  

This blog will be home to my opinions, things I'd like to share, specially illustration stuff, videos, books, movies and such, and also stuff I make. Things that don't exactly fit anywhere else. And since I don't have a definite goal starting this, I don't know if it would be fun to read for anyone else but me. But I figured, since I love reading a lot of other people's opinions, and since so many other blogs from so many different people inspire me, maybe the things I share will inspire someone, somewhere. 

Bunny bear will start today and I will do my very best to update it regularly, if someone starts to read it, I will always try to keep it pretty and to answer stuff, and if no one comes I can always come back and read it and like it a lot myself. My first blog is now dead unfortunately, but every time I go back and re-read a little I am very happy to see the effort I made, and reading it again seems like new. I started that blog without any purpose and for no one but myself, but I ended up with good friends (in real life too!), that's why I'm keeping my hopes up!

De vuelta a Bunny Bear

El proposito o la falta de proposito

Este blog será más que nada para escribir acerca de mis opiniones, compartir cosas que me gustan, en especial cosas de ilustración, películas, videos, libros; y también cosas que hago. Cosas que no encajan en ningún otro lado. Y como no tengo una meta especifica al empezar esto no se si va a ser divertido de leer para nadie más que para mí. Pero luego pienso, a mí me interesan tantas cosas y las opiniones de tanta gente diferente y me inspiran mucho, así que tal vez alguien en algún lado  se interesa por mi pequeño blog. Me agradaría saber que insipré a alguien.

Bunny Bear va a empezar hoy y voy a hacer mi mejor esfuerzo para actualizarlo regularmente y si alguien empieza a leerlo le echaré muchas ganas para que se vea bonito y para contestar cualquier comentario que me pongan, pero si nadie viene creo que me va a gustar mucho volverlo a leer yo misma. Mi primer blog, que lamentablemente ya murió, lo empecé como algo para mí que no sabía bien que iba a ser, pero acabé haciendo amigos (¡en la vida real!) con gente que conocí a través de él, así que tengo esperanzas.

English & Español

The bilingual explanation

We started this bilingual stuff for Ponycat, and let me tell you: It is a pain. 

It does take more than double the time, but to be honest I can't think of anything else that makes sense to me, most of the stuff I read/watch is in English, and I don't like the idea of someone who I share interests with, let alone someone I read, finding my blog and not being able to read any of it. So yeah, if I belong to some kind of community someday I'd like to be available to the people I admire. And of course I have to write in Spanish as well, it is my first language after all, and Spanish is awesome.

So it works like this: Almost every post will be written in both (the Spanish version will be in Italics). The translation will not be super exact to be honest, I go with the flow a little, the gist will be the same. 

I apologize in advance for any mistakes I make, please keep in mind that this is not my first language.

Español & English

La explicación bilingue

Empezamos a hacer esto de los dos idiomas en Ponycat, y debo decir: Es una molestia.

Toma más del doble de tiempo, pero la verdad no me imagino otra manera de hacerlo. Lo que pasa es que la mayoría de las cosas que veo/leo están en inglés, y la idea de que alguién con quien comparto intereses (o alguien que leo incluso), pueda entrar a mi blog y no entender nada o no escribirme porque está en otro idioma, me entristece un poco. Y obviamente no puedo no escribir en español, es mi idioma después de todo, y me gusta mucho. Voy a poner siempre los posts en dos idiomas, con el español en italicas para que se note, y aunque la traducción no va a ser super hiper fiel, porque modifico mientras escribo, la idea general será la misma.

Who am I?

And some links & important stuff:

I live in Mexico, studied Visual Arts, I work with Loup, I do mostly photography and illustration work. I love movies going to the movies, eating bread, coming back to my house and my cats (and dogs), I like going to concerts, for the music not the people, I like reading fiction, I study Japanese. And I'm sure more random information about me can be interpreted through my posts. :)

I now use twitter, I am not very interesting to read....yet...I hope I can change that :p 

Twitter: @lavaniegoss

Instagram: @melocotonki

Email: kumiluhu@gmail.com

Loup: http://facebook.com/fotoloup

Ponycat: http://pony-cat.blogspot.com/

Dig a Pony: http://lavaniegos.blogspot.com/

These are my cats: (the first 4)                                 

Estos son mis gatos: (los primeros 4)

¿Quien soy? 

Algunos links y cosas importantes

Soy mexicana, estudié artes visuales, trabajo en Loup, haciendo foto e ilustración. Me gusta mucho ir al cine, comer pan, regresar a mi casa y estar con mis gatos (y perros), me gusta ir a conciertos, por la música, no la gente, me gusta leer novelas de ficción, estudio japonés. 

Y supongo que más cosas sobre mis se verán en lo que escribo :)

Ahora uso twitter aunque no soy muy habil ni interesante....aun.... :p mis links están arribita de este parrafo.

-S