Welcome to the latest edition of the Lovelorn Poets Saturday Special. This occasional weekend feature offers information about the Creative Commons artists from Flickr and YouTube who appear on this site. I hope you enjoy reading about these talented individuals and encourage you to visit their websites and see more of their work.

 

 

Name:  Bogdan Seredyak

Where to find Bogdan: flickr.com/holes

Lovelorn Poets Featured Message:
Missed Connections in Jersey Shore, NJ: At Wawa Stealing Your Friend’s Truck

Duration: I started taking photos as hobby a few years ago. Kinda grew on me. Learned everything I could by myself and continue to do so. First shot on digital video camera then got myself DSLR. With time I learned that I prefer the quality of film, so I switched to it, and now only use digital for more experimental purposes.

Welcome to the latest edition of the Lovelorn Poets Saturday Special. This occasional weekend feature offers information about the Creative Commons artists from Flickr and YouTube who appear on this site. I hope you enjoy reading about these talented individuals and encourage you to visit their websites and see more of their work.

 

Name: Jamie Noguchi

Where to Find Me: ypcomic.com

Lovelorn Poets Featured Message:
Missed Connections in New Haven, CT: Alternate Universe Saturday Afternoon

Work: By day, web editor/designer. By night, cartoonist.

Education: I’m a self-taught cartoonist.

Duration: I’ve been publishing comics on the web since 2000. I started my current comic, an Asian American office romance comedy called Yellow Peril, in February of 2010. It’s taken me a few years to figure out what I want to do with my comics, but I think I finally found my calling with YP.

Influences: My art influences are pretty disparate. I draw inspiration from manga creators like Hiroaki Samura, Osamu Tezuka, Naoki Urasawa, Yukito Kishiro, Junji Ito. I’m also influenced by Western comic creators like Frank Cho, Travis Charest, Adam Hughes, Stan Sakai, Sean Galloway, Adrian Tomine, Derek Kirk Kim, Yuko Ota, Ananth Panagariya, Craig Thompson, Danielle Corsetto, and Neil Gaiman.

Preferred Work Environment: I work traditionally and digitally. I enjoy both mediums, but as I grow older, I find myself gravitating to more traditional work. I really enjoy using a brush to ink my pencil work. I’d love to try some oil painting. I took a few classes in college and had a lot of fun with it, but I just haven’t found the time to get back to it.

As for space, I have room in my house that I’m setting up as a little studio. I’ve got my drafting table right next to my computer work station. I’m hoping to get some shelves in there so I’ll a place for all my comics and art books. I like a well lit space so I’ve got a bright desk lamp as well as some bright white LED lamps. The more light, the better.

I tend to do my writing on my ride to and from work. Since I write an office romance comedy, the commute tends to get me in the mood I need to work out some proper office humor.

I listen to the radio a lot when I work, usually old time radio crime dramas on the internet.

Philosophy: ABC, Always Be Comicking. I eat, live, and breathe comics. I love making them, I love reading them. My hope is that I’ll live long enough to tell all the stories I have in my little brain meats. Not sure if that’s a philosophy, but it tends to drive me to draw whenever I have a spare moment.

Thank you, Jamie, for licensing your work through Flickr Creative Commons and sharing your thoughts with the Lovelorn Poets. Your “ABC” philosophy is an important one for all of us to remember – always be doing what you love to do! Whether that’s comicking or some other creative pursuit, stop making excusing for why you don’t have time and just start doing it. You’ll be amazed at what happens when you do. 🙂

 

 

 

Welcome to the latest edition of the Lovelorn Poets Saturday Special. This occasional weekend feature offers information about the artists from Flickr and YouTube who appear on this site. I hope you enjoy reading about these talented individuals and encourage you to visit their websites and see more of their work.

 

Name: Janine

Where to Find Me: www.flickr.com/photos/pinkcotton/

Lovelorn Poets Featured Messages:
Missed Connections in Philadelphia, PA: I Let My Mind Wander Around You and
Missed Connections in Ithaca, NY: Repeating the Resonation (Frere Jaques, Domaine)

Work: I’m a physical therapist.

 

Duration: I’m basically a self-taught photographer. I started fiddling around with photoshop in the 90s, while I was in high school. This was before I even got involved with the camera. At around 2008, I finally bought my own camera, a sony point-and-shoot. The following year, I started project 365 and went into self-portrait, which really helped me work on my camera techniques and photoshop skills. I got better cameras, but I’m really still a novice at this photography business, and I try to learn more through online tutorials and practice.

Influences: I have been inspired to take better photos by photographers I met in flickr. Photographers like Katie Lee (www.flickr.com/photos/katielee/), Anna Gay (www.flickr.com/photos/annagaycoan/), Miss Aniela (www.flickr.com/people/ndybisz/), and other self-photographers out there.

Preferred Work Environment: I prefer taking photos under the natural light. I love using a lot of light. But I usually do my editing at home.

Philosophy: I usually take self-portraits to convey emotions, or to to “say” things I want to share. You’ll know my current state of mind by looking at how dark or light my photos are.  I like to experiment a lot. See a picture I like, then figure out a way to takes something like it. I don’t think there’s any more original ideas out there, just different takes on it (which is not to say it’s never been done before). Does this sound like a fragmented run-on sentences? Yes, I do that a lot too. This is why some days, I’d just rather take a photo and let people figure out what I want to say. Of course, other days, photos are just for fun.

Thank you, Janine, for licensing your work through Flickr Creative Commons and sharing your work with the Lovelorn Poets. Your dedication to Project 365 is inspiring and captures a very important principle – to improve your creative process and technical skills, one must commit to regular practice. Not always an easy thing to do after a long day at work, but the results and growth seen over time can become a motivating factor.

Dear Readers, now I challenge you! With 2012 right around the corner will you resolve to add more creativity to your life in the new year? Whether it’s writing, photography, painting, cooking, sewing, crafting, making videos… pick something and give yourself a little time to work on it every day. You’ll be amazed at what you can do!

 

 

 

Welcome to the latest edition of the Lovelorn Poets Saturday Special. This occasional weekend feature offers information about the artists from Flickr and YouTube who appear on this site. I hope you enjoy reading about these talented individuals and encourage you to visit their websites and see more of their work.

 

Name: Jenny Downing

Where to Find Me: Here mostly www.flickr.com/photos/jenny-pics/ although I have just begun to write a photography blog thelensbabes.blogspot.com/ in which I chart the progress of a 2-year project that I am doing with a friend. I am also a classroom blogger, my most recent one (begun in September) being class1b-pregny.blogspot.com/

Lovelorn Poets Featured Message: Missed Connections in Philadelphia, PA: Hibernation (A Snow-globe)

Work: Not sure I could use the word ‘photographer’ to describe myself whilst keeping a straight face – it doesn’t pay the bills (although it did buy me a nice new lens with one lucky click). In real life I am the teacher of small people in an international school in Europe.

Duration: Began ‘dabbling’ in photography as a teen with something cheap and probably Russian. Moved, during my twenties, through a Pentax SLR to Canon, the brand I now swear by (and occasionally at). Having fought against switching from the purity of film, via a little Canon P&S to what I use now, a fancy-schmancy 5D Mark ii, I am well and truly converted. The freedom to take a hundred photos when in the past I would have waited for the ‘perfect’ shot and perhaps have pressed the shutter only once or twice, has been liberating – not to mention a severe drain on my hard drive.

Influences: It’s all in the light; when it’s ‘right’ I grab my gear!

Preferred Work Environment:Outdoors

Philosophy: I struggle to see the ‘bigger picture’; instead I peer at the world with one eye closed and see bokeh sparkles in the bottom of my wineglass…..but that might just be an alcoholic haze!

Thank you, Jenny, for licensing your work through Creative Commons and sharing your work with the Lovelorn Poets. Considering how time-consuming being a “teacher of small people” can be, your energy and passion for photography is an inspiration for all of us who have to battle the couch-potato trap at the end of the work day! Your 100smallhappinesses blog (2 cameras – 100 photographic challenges – 1 a week – or at least that’s the plan!) is a great idea for anyone looking to make time for creativity and collaborating with a friend only adds to the fun. Hmmmm… may have to give that one a try with a few writer friends… 🙂