Open Show Bay Area #34 Feb.16th (Thurs) 7-9pm
Open Show Bay Area #34
Feb.16th (Thurs) 7-9pm
Rally | 144 2nd Street San Francisco
Join me and my friends at OpenShow.org for our first show of new work in 2012 with all local stories this month and our first screening at the Rally Pad! Projects ranges from whimsical Oakland port film to pinhole camera experiments and personal suburbia.
PRESENTERS & PROJECTS
Dan Figueroa – Occupy
Paccarik Orue – There Is Nothing Beautiful Around Here
Ellen Lake – Seaworthy
Rachel Carbary – Visions of a Coffee Can
Claudia Wheeler-Rappe – The Mouth of the Park
the new danfigphoto.com!
Just launched the new DanFigPhoto.com!!
Thanks to the fine folks at www.PhotoShelter.com for helping me put together a great looking site with a full cart system to sell my images.
This site will continue to be my blog filled with thoughts, hopes and dreams…thanks
-dan
From the Missouri PhotoWorkshop – Shanna’s Strength
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Like her father, brother and boyfriend before her, 18-year-old Clinton High School senior Shanna Bock wants to join the National Guard after graduation.
Of the 610 students who attend Clinton High, 67 are members of the JROTC program which as been around for 19 years. The stated goal of the JROTC program is to put students through school. For Shanna the program provides much more; it teaches discipline, strength and stability.
She is a 2nd lieutenant and squad leader in the Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps program. Next month she will travel to Kansas City to take her ASVAB test for the National Guard. The test is the next step is towards her dream of becoming a combat medic.
Occupy Wall st…OccupySF
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Down Dirty Shake at the Knockout in San Francisco
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Down Dirty Shake rocked it at the Knockout in SF on Wednesday night. Check them out theyre some really cool cats with a dope sound.
photography is…having goals
Photography is…having goals
My main goal for the next ten years was set forth about two years ago. I decided, around my twenty-forth birthday that I was going to dedicate the next ten years of my life to the pursuit of becoming a master photographer. From that moment on everything that I have done, every decision, every choice, has been with this sole goal in mind.
One possible goal I have set for the next twenty years is to live that long as a professional photographer. I cannot see my career that far down the road, so making it as a photographer for twenty years seems like a good goal to have. Considering my passions and the issues I am hoping to document, simply surviving will be a huge accomplishment.
The next two years are fast approaching. I am actively seeking employment with a news outlet. Not because I believe in the main stream media, but because I feel that having that on my resume will help give me the creditability that I need to find the funding that will support my long term projects. I plan on applying for grants, fellowships and many other forms of funding to support my personal projects.
Within the next five years I hope to obtain a grant and/or fellowship in order to complete the kind of projects I feel attracted to. I believe that having a proven track record of personal projects, as well as a thick resume of professional work will make me a top candidate for funding. I see what top photographers are doing and I want a cut of that action.
International Cannabis & Hemp Expo Oakland, CA
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All roads lead to Missouri…
A couple of weeks ago I found out that I was selected for the 63rd Missouri Photo Workshop. After the initial shock wore off, I gathered my self and began to plan. Pre-production. Always the first step. Budgeting, logistics, contacts, leads, resources…budgets…it never ends… I have to remember; “Anything worth doing, is worth doing right.”
So this is my chance (It could be my only one). Either way it will be an adventure worth the risk and certainly the rewards. Spending a week amongst the best and brightest photographers in the country is a dream come true. I cant wait to meet my teammates.
The 63rd Missouri photoworkshop will be held in Clinton, Missouri. The staff that will be hosting are the best in the business. Team 63, sounds like a lucky number. Then again luck is where opportunity and preparation meet.
So this is it. Here I am. On the edge of the bench, waiting for my chance to get on the field and show the team I can hack it. Just put me in the game…
Craigslist Foundation non-profit bootcamp 2011
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Career Ladders Project – Green Automotive Technology focus group
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The Career Ladders Project and ASCCA host automotive industry professionals & educators to discuss green transportation, more info:
https://sites.google.com/site/greentransportationcommp/home
