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Wander About Wandering

June 11th, 2010

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Away

June 11th, 2010

Away

When the vino has lost its taste... When, the rage as dissolved into apathy...

When everyone wears the same mask...

When you can no longer see the dying flicker of pinpoint light at the end...

When the temple has beome just another stone-cold box...

When the godseyes have all lost their glory...

When there's no place left to hide.... no refuge...

Just drifting out into the void has vastly more appeal than being here, back there, over there, everywhere, and anywhere.



When you just want to be "Away"....


© 2010 Skip Hunt



"Sinking Stone" ~ I don't remember the act of taking this photo, which means I was probably nearing the bottom of a Guatemalan Gallo liter. By the photos taken before and after this one, I know I shot it at lake Atitlan, Guatemala.

Like Butter

June 11th, 2010

Like Butter

All I knew was that the place felt like home. Mystically alien, but with a warmth I knew not from this world. The gentle light, the whispering mountaintops, the rustling of prayer flags.... I was in a enrapt with every detail and fragrance.... I only wanted to "be" in that place forever.

I noticed a couple of old monks chatting but I didn't pay much attention. There were many old monks throughout the village and principal wat. But then something tickled my psyche. Just a playful tug, but enough to rouse me from my europhia. I noticed one of the monks, the taller one wearing a nice watch, large eye glasses, and thick wool socks in sandals. I don't know why I focused on this man, but something seemed a bit different with him. He had some kind of invisible light emmanating from his space.

I kept the feeling for a good while after that, but just blamed it on the spiced chai and opium. Until.... a man walked up to me and asked me if I knew who that man was.... I told him I didn't and then he informed me the gentleman was his holiness, the Dalai Lama himself.


"Like Butter" ~ Dharamsala, India © 2010 Skip Hunt

Decasia

June 9th, 2010

Decasia

I was just re-watching the film called "Decasia" again this evening and realized how much the beauty of decay as influenced me. Perhaps not so much the decay itself, but more that acceptance that EVERYTHING as well as ourselves is in a state of decay. I HIGHLY recommend checking out the video on Netflix.

The soundtrack is very unnerving and not so pleasant to my ear, but let me make a suggestion for a substitute. Listen to the new outtakes and live rarities from the band The Cure's recent release of the remastered "Disintegration". Not only is the name appropriate for the visuals, but the sound is a hauntingly perfect match.

Skip Hunt Particles RECEPTION

November 24th, 2009

Skip Hunt Particles RECEPTION

This show was up at Thunderbird Cafe in a different form. This time the display has changed into more of an "installation" using thin wooden dowels and tiny wooden clothespins.

"For this show I wanted to play around a bit and experiment with abstracts. I was curious whether or not the nature of composed abstract photographic images consisting of mostly color and texture... would still hold up when sliced and dissected into individual pieces.

I found that they did in fact hold up quite well! And in some cases, portions were even stronger than the whole.

The display was something I wanted to play around will as well, so I decided to slice up large abstracts into smaller pieces on a grid. I printed them and clipped them in a wooden grid using long wooden dowels and miniature clothespins and put the entire piece back together like an assortment of butterfly pieces making up a larger butterfly."

~ Skip Hunt

For your musical entertainment there will be two didgeridoos playing in different keys. The effect of this is simply amazing.

Loping Buzzard: http://myspace.com/lopingbuzzard
and
Steve Daniel: http://www.steve-daniel.com/

Hors d'oeuvres will be served and there will be reception discounts on wine. RECEPTION 6:30-8:00PM

The display will be up for November through December, so stop by and let me know what you think about it!

Here's a video using the various "Particles" abstract sections dissolving into one another: http://www.vimeo.com/7357951

Here's a gallery of all the source images used in this exhibit: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=115476&id=41399448169&l=d611e24cd1

For your pleasure.

~~~
ATTN: The book "Skip Hunt Vagabond: MEXICO 2009" is available now! Order now in time for Christmas: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/977457

Also, brand new Skip Hunt Calendars! Available here: http://www.redbubble.com/people/skiphunt/calendars
~~~

Interview with Skip Hunt for Home Work Shop: http://bit.ly/1tCNxP

Interview with Skip Hunt for RedBubble: http://bit.ly/17sF6

Interview with Skip Hunt for 1stAngel: http://bit.ly/1JDXjR


ps. Don\'t miss the Skip Hunt :: Visual Perspectives show @ Zocalo cafe! http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=188609353979

pss. Also see Skip's "Unique Perspectives" show @ Apothecary Cafe! http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=183443483400&index=1


Skip Hunt :: Austin, Texas :: http://www.skiphuntphotography.com

Making a Family Home

November 23rd, 2009

Making a Family Home

Here's a few of my favs from a recent shoot for Shannon Honeybloom's "Making a Family Home" book.

It's a very interesting study that's sort of like Deepak Chopra meets Martha Stewart.

It's out now and you can be ordered HERE


Also, check out my brand new book on blurb based on a wild 2-month odyssey through Mexico on a motorcycle! HERE


Making a Family Home from Skip Hunt on Vimeo.

Skip Hunt Vagabond MEXICO 2009 Book Release

November 21st, 2009

Skip Hunt Vagabond MEXICO 2009 Book Release

Hey there,

My new book is hot off the presses at Blurb! Take a sneak peek and place your order if you're so inclined...

It took me awhile, but I finally put together a book of my Skip Hunt Vagabond :: MEXICO 2009 Trip!

Cost is a bit steep on these books, so in order to keep my price reasonable... I edited this down to 40 pages. This includes a few stories from the trip, about 70 images, and excerpts from other stories.

I will also be putting together a more expensive and larger coffee table book that is mostly just photos from this trip with less writing. And, I will be putting together a less expensive black & white novel version with ALL of the text from the trip along with a few black and white photos for those more interested in the story than the images.

Most of the images I chose for this offering are in this video slide show: HERE

This first offering is a hybrid containing many of my favorite images and some of my favorite textual excerpts. I hope you enjoy!

If you go to this link, I included a preview of the entire book. I'm not sure if that's a good idea or not, but I know if I'm buying a book... I like to flip through the whole thing first. :-)

I just ordered my copies as soft cover with premium paper... will post how they came out as soon as they arrive.

It's a book release, and you're invited -- check out my new book at Blurb: PREVIEW & ORDER HERE

Disfruta!

Skip



New Interview Pt. 2

June 16th, 2009

Hi,

Just discovered Home Workshop added a part 2 to my previous interview.

If interested, you can read it HERE!

:-)

Juan is the Loneliest Number

June 14th, 2009

Juan is the Loneliest Number

Buzzing along in 117F Baja temps and in a road trance heading into the darkest storm clouds you've even seen... listening to Hank Williams Sr. on your headphones and floating along the scorching blacktop... wondering why THIS isn't the music they play in church? Or, in any sacred place for that matter. So real... So honest.

I can't tell you just how incredibly ethereal the desert smells in the Northern baja just after a rain in July. I really wish I could find the words to describe that heavenly fragrance.

The closest I can come to it is... imagine if the Mother of God were to be primping her holy self for a night at the opera... the perfume she'd wear might smell very similar to that intoxicating fragrance that rises from a freshly showered Northern Baja desert.

"Juan is the Loneliest Number" ~ Northern Baja, Mexico © Skip Hunt

(NEW: Leaving on a brand new Mexican Moto Trip! Ride along with me @ http://skiphuntvagabond.tumblr.com
You can subscribe via feedburner on the left column if you would like email when the vagabond blog gets updated!)

Xilitla Miro

June 11th, 2009

Xilitla Miro

So, I'd hobbled my way down this endless cobbled road... just kept going until I ran out of cobblestones, then kept right on going into the dripping balm jungle... downward still through the forest and wiping away sweat beads forming constantly and rolling down into my eyes with a final burn. My feet were slipping around in my sandals like two buttered eels, but I kept myself upright for the most part.

A small shack nestled in the wood and just above a canopied river offered an easy passage... that is until the owner's two mongrels lunged out from under some brush and nearly snagged meat off my calves. I went slipping, sloshing, and darting through the subtropical wood without concern of all the fresh scrapes and cuts I was getting from the brush and brambles... figured it was better than feral doggie-fang surprise.

Finally found my way out to the road and sat catching my breath and "licking my wounds" at a small concrete bus stop in the mountains near Xilitla, Mexico. I smoked a cigarette and tried to wipe away bits sweat that was dripping into and searing my fresh abrasions.

I realized hadn't shot anything in the woods at all and wasn't about to go back! Then I saw this little bit of arranged grafitti on the wall next to me in the tiny bus parada that reminded me of Miro's work. I snapped this one shot and called it a day.

"Xilitla Miró" ~ Xilitla, Mexico © Skip Hunt

 

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