Showing posts with label nature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nature. Show all posts
Oct 29, 2010
May 25, 2010
Apr 20, 2010
Mar 9, 2010
Everything is Extraordinary
This year has been creatively fruitful and recently I have realized
that 'happiness' is found through work. Not because of the final
outcome but because of the process which in turn gives me a sense of
purpose. I have been working on a film project that has slowly been
evolving. The following imagery are just bits and pieces of stories and
inspirational artifacts Ive been researching of people who live such lives, specifically in the baron desert landscapes of the western united states.
Pester had a cabin in Palm Canyon and another next to a hot spring in Chino Canyon, where he lived during the summer months. He was the first "nature boy," putting on clothes, often a monk's robe, when curious canyon visitors came into view. He earned a living making canes from palm blossom stalks, fashioning Indian arrowheads, and selling postcards with a message urging proper diet and healthful living. Though he spent many hours roaming the canyons, he had an equal passion for reading. Years later a large library was discovered in his deserted cabin. In the 1920s, Pester moved from Palm Canyon but returned every weekend with his telescope, charging ten cents to look at the moon or at Lincoln's profile on the distant canyon wall.
Bill Pester at this palm log cabin in Palm Canyon, California, 1917. With his "lebensreform" philosophy, nudism and raw foods diet, he was one of the many German immigrants, who "invented" the hippie lifestyle more than half a century before the 1960s. He left Germany to avoid military service in 1906 at age 19, for a new life in America. (Photo Courtesy of Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, California)
Salvation Mountain: Leonard Knight
Pester had a cabin in Palm Canyon and another next to a hot spring in Chino Canyon, where he lived during the summer months. He was the first "nature boy," putting on clothes, often a monk's robe, when curious canyon visitors came into view. He earned a living making canes from palm blossom stalks, fashioning Indian arrowheads, and selling postcards with a message urging proper diet and healthful living. Though he spent many hours roaming the canyons, he had an equal passion for reading. Years later a large library was discovered in his deserted cabin. In the 1920s, Pester moved from Palm Canyon but returned every weekend with his telescope, charging ten cents to look at the moon or at Lincoln's profile on the distant canyon wall.
"Rudolph Valentino, while working on a French Foreign Legion movie in the desert about 1920, is entertained by Peter Pester, the hermit of Palm Springs."
Jan 19, 2010
Jan 11, 2010
Dec 7, 2009
Land of Talk
WeWereMonkeys: Land of Talk - It's Okay from WeWereMonkeys on Vimeo.
Super-slow motion, with dramatic lighting and little or no color. Romantically sad but well executed video.
Nov 16, 2009
Nov 11, 2009
Oct 19, 2009
Sep 29, 2009
To Know Spiders
SOURCE: http://www.montagueprojects.com/PROCESS:
A spider is collected from the interior or exterior of an architectural structure. Its face is studied under a microscope and a drawing is made. The drawing becomes a template. A portrait of the spider is cut out of felt and fixed to a cloth banner. The banner is then hung and photographed in the exact spot of collection.
Sep 12, 2009
Aug 31, 2009
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