Tuesday, October 30, 2018

Takin' My Shit on the Road.

You probably thought you'd never hear from this kid again Hopefully, some of you are still out there with your ears to my glass.

2016 was an annoying year - It started with me being very optimistic about projects and things I was just starting to formulate. In April that year, my very effective workhorse of a camera was stolen from me during a very busy day at my day job; a minor financial setback, as I was in possession of a backup and bounced back, contemplating my creative projects again. June found me in the hospital for a week with a brain hemorrhage, a major financial bombshell that is still reverberating.


I am not getting any younger, so at 60, if I am going to do at least one of the things I was thinking about, I’d better do it now before I lose my last chances.I have not traveled much throughout the United States and would like to do so with my camera. With this campaign, I hope to compose a compact travelling photography studio that will serve me on a cross-country trek of people [I actually wish to meet in person some of the people/photographers that I’ve met through social media] and places, one that will be versatile enough to be used on the trail, the roadside, hotel room - essentially anywhere I might feel the need to create a portrait of my progress and the people I seek. I seek to reset my gear bag to the items that worked best, plus practical accessories, and a compact way to carry it all.


Make no mistake: my work centers on the male form. Those of you out there that might have a problem with that should step away now. Since 1995, I have encountered numerous men that rather enjoy being models and in 2015, I resumed my investigation of the male form. Since we as Human Beings began recording images of ourselves we’ve been depicting ourselves in the nude. Throughout the last century into this, men [and some women] have been photographing the classical male form; from the academic studies of the early 1900s, through the repression of the 1950s that re-energized the underground sexual rebellion, through the glossy fantasies of the 1980s and 90s to the [somewhat] more realistic style of fine art today. See my other works


This isn’t completely about the male form; The idea is to bounce around the country [it will actually be more of a zig-zag] and connect with some of the guys that have already expressed an interest in working together.


  The concept end product is to be a photo-documentary of men in the United States that take their clothes off for the camera; professionally as well as recreationally. I of course also want to shoot some of the places around that I've never been, expand my local project "Extroverted Interiors" that examines the changing face of the “Antique Store” in the 21st century nationwide, add content to my botanical project “Flora, Not Fauna”and my atmospheric project "Clouds of Michaelangelo". I'm also toying with the idea of going global [Machu Pichu!], but I have no idea what that would do to the budget. Just including Alaska and Hawaii is not only likely to increase logistical difficulties by adding air travel and its attendant security issues, but also hop that total price up a notch.


If you’ve read this far, you’re still with me so I gotta say thank you and hope that you feel how important this is to me. I don’t want to finish my life with this as a “What If”. I would also hope to me some new "Model Citizens" as well.



Thank You, and see my fundrasier.


Tuesday, August 23, 2016

Remixes

I said before that things were going to get sparse around here; I am possibly in too many places. This is the best place to find examples of all that is me:


Here are a few things from an all-day [nearly 16 hours] session last fall with re-imagined edits.












Very likely my best model since we began this journey, called himself  "iliketoshow". A great guy, an absolute natural, bisexual, and a joy to work with that would have pretty much done anything I asked of him. [We stuck to photography with heightened sexual tension; I almost never cross that line unless we have a sexual history.] His best quote of the day:

"I luhhv my anus ..."

I know, right?


Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Been a While ...

It has been a while since anything new graced these pages - mostly from lack of material but also from disenchantment. The dry spell may be close to over. Happy [belated] Saturnalia.




Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Continuance

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I'm still here - just not nearly as much. Will report from time to time.

Monday, February 23, 2015

Kittens of Extinction II



"The Time Has Come," the walrus said ....."

Since Google is planning to put a choke collar on Blogger in the coming months, I feel that this is as good a time as any to bid you all a fond farewell. Thanks to all the people that looked in on my Small Universe and decided to keep a friendly watch.

Things will remain here for a short while, as I mentioned before; I have a day job that effectively keeps me from posting as much as I would like - and being in so many places can be a tedious chore to keep up.

If you are of a mind, you can of course find me at deviantART [ http://jonitron.deviantart.com ], flickr [ https://www.flickr.com/photos/109680301@N02/ ], and my web portfolio [ http://jonitron.myportfolio.com ].

Monday, December 23, 2013