lorawithanO

kurt vile

2010-11-04T14:02:00.000-04:00

Saw him a couple weekends ago in Nashville with his touring band. I will just say it was AMAZING! Pictures coming soon!

the night my friend got punched in the face for not reason

2010-09-29T14:39:00.000-04:00

the celebration of rachel's birth

2010-09-29T14:32:00.000-04:00

i love him

our time to fall

2010-09-29T14:26:00.000-04:00

I remember a summer's day
I remember walking up to you
I remember my face turned red
And I remember staring at my feet
I remember before we met
I remember sitting next to you
And I remember pretending I wasn't looking

So we'll try and try
Even if it lasts an hour
With all our might
We'll try and make it ours
Cause we're on our way
We're on our way to fall in love

I remember your old guitar
I remember I Can't Explain
I remember the way it looked around your neck
And I remember the day it broke
I remember song you sang
I remember the way you looked tonight
And I remember the way it made me feel

So we try and try
Even if it lasts an hour
With all our might
We'll try and make it ours
Because we're on our way
We're on our way to fall in love

lunch meats beer

2010-09-16T13:41:00.000-04:00

Cause I’ll be rollin’ to your side, baby

2010-09-16T13:31:00.000-04:00

Dream I’m in the saltwater

2010-09-10T15:35:00.003-04:00

Let's take off our masks & be so naturelle

2010-09-10T15:28:00.000-04:00

one of my favorites

2010-09-09T10:56:00.000-04:00

No matter what I say,

All that I really love

Is the rain that flattens on the bay,

And the eel-grass in the cove;

The jingle-shells that lie on the beach

At the tide-line, and the trace

Of higher tides along the beach:

Nothing in this place.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

2010-09-09T10:53:00.000-04:00

dedication to my lady Vass

2010-09-01T15:48:00.002-04:00

Glitta!!!!!!!!

Her name is Yoshimi, she's a black belt in karate

2010-09-01T15:44:00.001-04:00

the FLAMING LIPSS!

sleigh bells

2010-09-01T15:31:00.000-04:00

inspiration for my up-and-coming project

2010-09-01T10:42:00.000-04:00

Bought a beautiful 1900's Studio Master 8x10 view camera and a new portrait project is in store...
maybe faster than anticipated, if I receive this grant I am applying for (fingers crossed)

Eric Nehr has just breathtaking portraits. I am in love...

SS10 Pringle of Scotland - Tilda Swinton / Ryan McGinley Film

2010-08-05T15:27:00.000-04:00

2010-08-04T17:13:00.001-04:00

Ends this weekend

2010-08-04T15:14:00.000-04:00

chill wavesss

2010-08-04T14:33:00.002-04:00

some pictures taken over a month or so...

©Lora Gettelfinger, 2010

MANY MANY more too COME!!

chill wave

2010-08-03T16:54:00.000-04:00

Summer breeze, makes me feel fine
Blowing through the jasmine in my mind

more to come...

spring, early summer

2010-08-03T15:10:00.023-04:00

2010-05-06T11:39:00.000-04:00

Recent shoot I did for a store in town- Cherry Bomb

Model: Lily

inspiration

2010-04-07T12:32:00.000-04:00

Rodarte x Maggie Cheung

2009-07-27T21:44:00.000-04:00

2009-07-25T05:15:00.000-04:00

many many more to come

memoirs

2009-07-25T04:01:00.000-04:00

got 11 rolls film processed from a while back ago...

here's what i have...

also, reconsidering music I haven't heard in a long time.

college graduate

2009-06-01T14:27:00.001-04:00

which means lotsa change(s)...

projection

2009-05-18T08:44:00.001-04:00

Jarvis Cocker Is Making An Exhibition Of Himself - Literally

2009-05-10T23:53:00.000-04:00

http://www.supmag.com/checkit/MP3s/Quantum_Theory.mp3

anthem

2009-05-10T23:44:00.000-04:00

05/07/09

DOES DEMOCRACY EQUAL MEDIOCRITY?

Text: Scott Indrisek

Let's get one thing straight: the New York Photo Festival is a fantastic, one-of-a-kind event, and you should definitely, definitely trek out to DUMBO on May 13th-17th to check it out. Last year's offerings gave us renewed faith in both the art world and the photographic medium. That said, we're a bit perturbed by a recent bit of info regarding a section of the festival calling itself "We Are All Photographers Now!" This is part of a section entitled "All Over The Place!"—curated by William A. Ewing, who evidently is a huge fan of exclamation points.

"As part of his curated exhibition, 'All over the place!', William A. Ewing celebrates photography’s diversity by offering an interactive component during the New York Photo Festival that any photographer may participate in," the release notes. "By using special software developed by the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, anyone may submit a photograph via website that is stored in a server in Switzerland, sent to a projector located in The powerHouse Arena, and then broadcast for all Festival attendees to see....With 'We Are All Photographers Now!', Ewing asks, 'Has the digital revolution tilted the field of battle irrevocably in the amateur’s favor?'"

We're all for getting people involved with the creative process. But suggesting that digital technologies make everyone a photographer does a disservice to the art form and the profession. It certainly doesn't dissuade those people who think that the medium is a farce, open for anyone able to point-and-click (and afford the latest camera.) It's why we have so many people taking bad pictures of their dumb, drunk, naked friends in the hopes of becoming the next Ryan McGinley (who we love, for the record. Check out those cave pictures in the new issue of Tarmagazine. God damn.) It's also part of the current rabid enthusiasm for "interactive technologies", a.k.a. the reason we have to see idiotic online comments from everyday people scrolling along the screen when we're trying to watch CNN. There can and should be a happy medium between high-minded, snooty elitism and "anything goes" mediocrity. You don't see the Surgeon General handing out scalpels and admonishing us that "We're All Doctors Now!" (Though that, perhaps, would be an America hilarious enough to live in.)

Enough bitching. There is one amateur-based photo show we're psyched to see, and that's Sex Cells at Third Ward, in which "artists & layman alike were challenged to create thought provoking erotic work using only the abilities of their cellular devices." The show opens on June 12th; we'll have to nurse our digital erections until then. We really, really hopesomeone from Reader's Digest is there to cover the proceedings.

TAGS: NEW YORK PHOTO FESTIVAL, PHOTOGRAPHY

some videos...

2009-05-07T16:16:00.000-04:00

2009-05-07T15:38:00.000-04:00

Just finished submitting images to NYPH for the "We Are All Photographers Now!"...
I am assuming some of my images are getting projected, but I don't know...

The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again. The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses. -Walter Benjamin

I have been really getting more and more interested with the human mind and memory. The interest of how we retain images/words/etc. and what this archiving system within each and every one of us is different. There is not one storage unit or archive out there alike. some images I kinda forgot about...

Paris, France morning after my birthday

Coney Island Summer 08

Arles, France
Spring 2008

Chicago, Summer 07

2009-04-27T02:19:00.000-04:00

This weekend was quite eventful, but to say the least...I got to have dinner with Alec Soth, work in two shows, and see Covington one last time before he leaves Savannah forever.

He will be missed...

I love you Covington!

ALEC!

2009-04-21T07:34:00.000-04:00

+ myself = April 24th

Alec Soth is coming to Savannah and I have the wonderful opportunity to go to dinner with him...so excited!!!

dusting scans forever, until eternity

2009-04-21T05:13:00.000-04:00

I think SCAD needs to clean the Imacon scanners, because these guys are covered...

some images i am working on or finished with.

a website will be soon

i guess hong kong isn't so bad after all...

2009-04-14T19:25:00.000-04:00

Got this picture published and it will also be hung in Hong Kong for a while...

todays a good day.

finally!

2009-04-14T00:45:00.000-04:00

some from nyc and other locations...

more to come!

lots of scanning to do

2009-02-23T12:17:00.000-05:00

I have been scanning a lot of negatives from winter break, etc. for the past few days. I should have some images up soon. We just got a 35mm film holder for the new Imacon! It is the shiiiiizzzt!

what my time has been consisting of with my eyes skimming back and fourth

2009-02-17T11:37:00.000-05:00

I am taking a class, Contemporary Issues in Photography, and have been reading lots of essays. Which surprisingly I actually enjoy. I read an essay by Andy Grundberg over he weekend called, The Crisis of The Real, (photography and postmodernism) and was inspirational in the fact that there is this idea of never arriving at the ultimate meaning of anything.

"Meaning is always withheld, and to believe the opposite is tantamount to mythology. As Eagleton says, summarizing Derrida: 'Nothing is ever fully present in signs: it is an illusion for my to believe that I can never be fully present to you in what I say or write, because to use all signs at all entails that my meaning is always somehow dispersed, divided and never quite at one with itself. Not only my meaning, indeed, but me: since language is something I am made out of, rather than merely a convenient too I use. the whole idea that I am stable unified entity must also be a fiction...It is not that I have a pure, unblemished meaning, intension or experience which then gets distorted and refracted by the flawed medium of language: because language is the very air I breath, I can never have a pure, unblemished meaning or experience at all.'

Quite an overwhelmingly and intriguingly beautiful quote...

2009-01-27T11:24:00.000-05:00

I am quite intrigued as to what this "exciting venture" entails. It seems as though my horoscope has been saying something GRAND is going to happen for the past few months...but where is it?!

WE HAVE A NEW PRESIDENT! amazing...

the inauguration was a moment of history that our age go to witness. it was definitely and inspiring moment.

On the other hand, I have just been working, going to school, and having a new addition to my apartment along with Lola. Meet Leo the lizard!

Other than Lola wanting to eat him, he has been staying in my curtain for the past 3 weeks or so. I gave him some celery today, hopefully he eats it.

First pay check last Friday=FINALLY can get my film processed from NYC and winter break...yay!

hopefully i can scan them pretty quickly and get some up here.

some scans from over the month or so...

2008-12-16T00:27:00.000-05:00

2008-12-10T17:23:00.000-05:00

goals before december 15th

2008-12-10T17:06:00.000-05:00

Find a(n) job, internship, or assisting position
Visit MoMA, PS1, and Guggenheim
Spend less than $5 a day (may not be possible)
See friends and meet nice people

after that
meet with Tim hopefully...

bloggin'...

2008-12-10T16:30:00.000-05:00

First attempt with a blog. In NYC at the moment at Dana's apt.

it's not cold surprisingly, but super dark outside. Looks like fucking 10 pm...
It has been an interesting time. Have met some great people and plan to meet more.

She has some good promos going around including this little guy
Motivation to get my shit started...times a tickin'