Tuesday, October 28, 2014

intrigue of the unknown




work-fun balance is proving to be the most intriguing thing i've ever considered.  Working means less fun but also more fun plus good feelings induced by completing tasks, not working means more fun but eventually less fun minus the gratification of doing anything but somehow seems to be ever more desirable.  perhaps perfectly inline with my photographic ideals relating to instant gratification....  

ive relapsed into heavy milk use and it's been a 1L a day affair for the last week...  I don't know if my desires have presented themselves based upon my ever forgiving notions towards work ethic and GSD or if i'm just replacing snacks with mondo amounts of dairy.  

all i know for sure is that actual realisations and the intense introspection that generally follows is the easiest bit about change, it [the thought] may be odd or shocking but thats just a thought- the doing is obviously the real intrigue... i can happily tell myself anything all day, figured that one out a while ago perhaps maybe.






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He's still waiting for me, in the sense that i'm terribly organised and generally late- this was shot on one of our first ever dates.













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unrelating emotionally geared photo from the past.














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Mitch and I went on a journey to find the origin and explore the proportionality of a tranq-dank scale, a fittingly suitable idea for representing the faux inverse relationship of tranquility and discomfort that we'd only just then become witness to....











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Tuesday, October 21, 2014

when you're that deep in one basket of eggs you cant see over the edge




I feel quite lost, generally.  its not restlessness- perhaps i'm too quick to pigeonhole all wig into restlessness- perhaps its the 256mb that my 4yo laptop is powered by..  it's almost at the point where i spend more time waiting then i do doing!  it could also be my current immersion into Branka Parlic and the emotiveness that comes with that.  i also think im re-falling into the trap of assuming gratification from social media, i learnt a long time ago that there is nothing there that i consider real so i deleted my account... but then returned to make a photo-page and now i'm back in the rut.  i guess i've stripped it [involvement] back as much as I can so i just need to be aware that it does not provide contentedness and infact is probably geared to do the opposite. 



however, i've been reading a book on the brain regarding it's functions relating to photography.  the niche-ness of this book is immense but it's crazy....  every time i read something relative to brain function/self reflexivity i feel underpowered against my own brain which i think is because doing so exposes elements of self that were previously ignorable- elements that aren't negative but result in more to think about and more to consider and i have to decide whether consideration of such things are even worth concerning myself with, that is assuming i understand what im thinking.  times like these i feel the need to explore the physical world around me, not the metaphysical and i think thats why i always assume it [wig] is restlessness. 




i think i'll just go back to listening to venga boys trap remixes and return to carefreality.



these photos are from a few days in San Francisco spent with Pat Schep and Billy Bones.







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Pat Schep and pushing photos.












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Pat Schep and some real shit.  I love Pat, he's definitely one of my favourite guys to work with, not just on the hill but in the office or even the kitchen.. 100% certified rad dude.










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Billy love coffee, moreso than most...  here he's preparing for the transition from not-so-stoked to stoked.









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definitely a curve-ball for the skateboard.












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Sunset District...












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from Berkeley 






























Friday, October 17, 2014

even I tl;dr this




this is an embrace of the obscure

I’ve let this blog become too objective, too planned, too cared about and i find it now in a place far away from the impulse oriented pocket of lamb that i’ve always ‘planned’ it to be and perhaps it’s progression in the wrong direction is somewhat aligned with my photographic professionalism.   There’s something I’ve been aware of for a while now, at least the last 3 years, and it’s that by not having a website my only avenue for inspection [other than Facebook nonsense] is this blog and I’m well aware that this is the route cause for my diversion from the autonomous writing and right-brain explorations that i enjoy and what i want this blog for..   I often get spineless and tell myself its because i don’t have time or some other bullshit but it’s not.  Another problem is exclusivity in the sense that i’m becoming more concerned with higher usage of photos [print] and i don’t like the idea of using photos on here before they’re [rarely] considered for higher usage and it’s a problem because i know that i have more than enough photos to facilitate all avenues.   









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warp-speed 







Take a quick moment to scroll down to the bottom of this page and take note of the evolution in post regularity monthly/yearly….  odd because i take more photos than ever, better photos too and spend 8+ months of year as a ‘travelling photographer’ - a definition i am yet to personally define… it’s not that i’m lacking motivation [infact the last few months have shown me that i’m more motivated then ever] but it’s because this blog is my portfolio… :/…  for the 4 millionth time i tell myself ‘i need a website’  and i’m going to do it.  when i think about it, the daunting task of selecting photos is a piss in the pond compared to poorly representing myself online and giving up my freedom for fun on this blog.  i love bullshit, i’m stray an and i like talking nonsense and posting pictures of nonsense and showing you people that photos and writing don’t need to always to be logical or important or relevant or valid, i just want this thing to be mine again [not at all your fault] because the pleasure was so pure!!







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conflicting emotions as my homies drop into a run we'd not yet seen- let alone 100m infront. Taiwan.






i feel like my quest to make this [photography] a job has derailed only one aspect of my love of photomaking and it’s this freedom i just mentioned- in relation to exclusivity,  look back to 2010…  it’s sick….  Having a website makes you look infinitely better than the reality in which a photographer operates as it’s a 100% polished and designed representation of their work, it’s not impulsive, it’s logical and driven by rationality’s necessity to employ it’s intellect in order to make itself look as great as possible.  









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5 cent Mountain and Fred's Delica.





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my life and job and desire/passion are purely based upon freedom and stoke- i am employed to travel around the world finding hills to roll down on a skateboard and take photos of the skating and the journey that goes with it- most definitely a dream.  even though our trips have a plan and a rough schedule, the core of it is having the freedom to explore, something that one can not do without freedoms- hence why it bugs me that the entire photographic process [doing-taking-showing] lacks transcendence of my idea of freedom.  i think these emotions have recently proliferated due to instagram, i was without a phone for 3 months [resolved 2 weeks ago- my instagram] and during that time i realised that i had no avenue left for ‘showing’ that wasn’t without consequence, well, all exposure is consequential but the value of consequence is not relative across potential means of exposure.  i can take photos on my phone that technically suck but were shot impulsively, ignorant to my intellect/photographic concerns and pure to me, yay!!    I realised this and bought a phone [with a sick camera] and now that i’ve got a phone I’m having a sick time and it’s 100% phone photos, i take a lot of photos with a real camera and i want those feelings [freedom of expression i suppose] to, once again,  be relevant to my SLR.     








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this rant has been making some pretty direct statements relating to my thinking but i’m just trying to get a point across to my future-self, obviously when it comes to thinking about thinking it seems clear-cut but our brains don’t operate in semi-spherical fashion, there is a synergy and when you become witness to the two-sidedness of your analytical motives you’ll begin to really enjoy yourself… or not…, but it’s something that is short-lived [unless you like self-pity, in which case i do not suggest introspection]   i’m no psychologist but i often think about how i think.  












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i love spontaneity, it’s definitely a part of my psyche that has the most power over what i do in terms of stoke attainment/retention and i don’t ever want to lose that. i’m blessed by my current lifestyle’s ability to afford me much spontaneity- for example i just finished a 1 month trip through sth korea and taiwan but i’ve got the freedom to stop into hong kong on the way home to chill-out and maybe photograph the current political unrest [photographing that sort of thing is something i’ve always wanted to do but in australia everyone is happy, pretending to be or scared [all 3 at once?] so there is little unrest..] also i’ll get to skate down there because there are mountains everywhere!! 









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one of the more significant moments in lamb's modern history.  Italian Alps.









i think whats happening, to some degree, is that with the more i learn about taking photos/the better i get/and the deeper my analytical process becomes [as in, i get older] the more concerned i become with reasons for why i think a good photo is good, and for a lot of things that is great!!!  but for this blog i enjoy it because it is illogical, irrational and most importantly a representation of the beauty i get to witness day-to-day and the only avenue in which i am motivated to procure the non-sense of my thoughts for some sort of semi/permanent record for future smarter self to laugh and enjoy the inexperience of it all.   









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it’s easy to not carry my camera every day back home but I’ve recently realised its importance because on trips i’m never shooting the mundane, i’m never truly aware of the culture/aesthetic like i am when i am home and that insight [15 years or so in Brisbane], i feel, forces me to shoot impulsively- which is sick!!  on the other hand,  shooting skateboarding for a company means i’ve an overriding objective/logical process but i’ll keep doing and enjoying is as they’re casj and froth working with them as that whole situation gets me so very stoked.









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i can’t forget the most important [and costly] lesson of my life- sticking to my guns and my guns are for shooting restriction in the foot so freedom can easily win the footrace of life and enjoy all the stoke and contentedness that it deserves.  freedom is sick, we’re so fucking lucky in this day and age and i feel like we’ve got to enjoy it now because i’m coming to believe [not in any strictly apocalyptical sense] we’ll going through some pretty heavy shit in my lifetime. 











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 if i’ve got another 50 years in me i’m assuming i will see 1/4 of the population starve, millions of people displaced due to shortages/water level and who knows.. i don’t research that stuff.  and we just don’t care, we’ve gone to deep because we’re out of the food chain and feel superior as we ‘own’ this place, but we don’t- we’re just fucking it up as much as we can get away with until we have a real problem, and then the people without the power/money will pay the price :/   but it doesn’t get me down, no way, it gets me up because i know this glorious lifestyle that i’ve found myself in won’t last forever and that alone makes it all the more enjoyable.. I’m excited for change and if i plan to shoot conflict down the road i’m going to be right on time, not for war [war sucks and is semi-irrelevant] but when someone has nothing left, they get desperate and there is going to be a lot of desperate people who want their story told and i would like to be there to help them get that story across/more importantly i’ll get to shoot hectic shit!!!










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