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Thinking Of You, Wish You Were Here
Posted in abstract, Art, Photography, Toni Tiller with tags abstract, Art, billboard, found, NYC, Photography, subway, Toni Tiller on January 13, 2010 by Toni TillerSame Subject, Two Views
Posted in Art, Photography, Toni Tiller with tags Art, found, Photography, Toni Tiller on November 25, 2009 by Toni TillerThis week during my fall cleanup I found these two unfortunate little guys, the first was a victim of my cat, and the second I fear I may have had a hand in by leaving a bucket full of rain water out when I usually try to remember to turn them over. The cause of death provided for two very different results both in body and image.
I’m Learning Photoshop (Very Slowly)
Posted in abstract, Art, Photography, Toni Tiller with tags Art, found, NYC, Photography, photoshop, Toni Tiller on November 18, 2009 by Toni TillerI don’t have a very good grasp of technical things. I have a camera, and even though the whole aperture/f stop/shutter speed thing has been explained to me about 4000 times and it all makes perfect sense while it’s being explained it goes clear out of my head as soon as 3 minutes passes. It could appear to be willful, but I am also the same person who took algebra 3 years in a row and failed every year and then spent my senior year in remedial math learning how to move a decimal point. I got a C and I was thrilled. I’m not sure why but certain types of information just won’t stick, while other seemingly useless information rattles around in there forever.
I’m not much better with Photoshop (layer? what’s a layer?) but I am hoping that it has less to do with a techno block and more to do with lack of repetition in applying what I have learned. Today I took an image and split it in two to make a diptych. Granted, I had to refer to the notes Mr. Hastings thoughtfully wrote down for me (last March), but I still did it and I am pretty excited. I don’t know if I am finished working on this, but it’s finished enough for now. Maybe next I will re-learn the coloring lesson I got the other day, expect finished results sometime in 2011.
Acid Reign
Up In The Air
Posted in Art, Photography, Toni Tiller with tags abstract, Art, berkeley, found, Photography, Toni Tiller on November 4, 2009 by Toni TillerSometimes when I look at a picture I’ve taken of a large wall I kind of zero in on one tiny section. I found this one walking around in Berkeley yesterday, a small part of a big spray painted mailbox that I didn’t even notice at the time. It reminds me a little of where I am right now, in the clouds somewhere over Nebraska.
Back To The Tombs
Posted in Art, Photography, Toni Tiller with tags abstract, Art, billboard, found, Photography, subway, Toni Tiller on October 7, 2009 by Toni TillerOr more specifically, the subway. This week I am actually working on another stick project, otherwise known as the “I Really Hate My Neighbors” piece, but it wasn’t finished, so it’s back to the tombs for some abstract billboards.
Getting Off The Couch
Posted in Art, Toni Tiller with tags Art, found, landscape, Toni Tiller on September 23, 2009 by Toni TillerI decided to put my little internal art crisis to the side and go outside and play. I had a yard full of sticks that needed picking up and neighbors that I don’t much care for, so I put the two together and started building things that will provide screening from them as well as add natural structural elements for my chaotic garden. In this instance I opted to leave a “window” on to one of the nicer views, a field of wild flowers. It looks a bit diminutive in the photo, but the top bar stands at about 8-9 feet high and about as wide. I used some of the vines that were laying around to create the arch and I am probably going to continue to add to this as I find the right pieces.
Getting On The Couch
Posted in Art, Photography, Toni Tiller with tags abstract, Art, billboard, found, NYC, Photography, subway, Toni Tiller on September 23, 2009 by Toni TillerA few people have seen this back when I first made it and wasn’t sure what I thought of it. I’m still not sure what I think of it, but I am sure that I need to post something new today.
Being unsure seems to be a general theme for me in recent weeks. I am unsure about what I want to work on, or if I want to work on anything at all. New ideas seem good while they are fresh but then when I sit with them a bit they begin to fray and I reconsider, some of them are labor intensive and I’m uncertain what role that has in my ambivalence when time for large projects is scarce. I make images because they help me feel connected and as I move through a period of tautness I wonder how much I have left over to give to that, how much do I really feel like sharing at the moment? It is more appealing to go into a bubble and I wonder how much of the urge to withdraw and recharge is genuine or am I just being a big chickenshit? I’d rather get lost in mindless physical activity, move boxes, clean toilets, dig holes in the garden, anything except think about art. Did I mention that I wasn’t breast fed as a child?
I see we are out of time. Same time next week?
Another (Former) Resident Of Bed-Stuy
Posted in Art, Photography, Toni Tiller with tags Art, dead, found, new york city, Photography, rat, Toni Tiller on September 9, 2009 by Toni TillerI’ve been taking pictures of dead animals for as long as I have been taking pictures, and I can’t say it’s deliberate, but when I see one I find myself inexplicably drawn with a mixture of compassion and connection leading the way. There is something about the idea that these little lives go largely unseen and in death they go unnoticed. I watched a half a dozen people pass by this rat without a glance and I guess that makes sense, why should anyone care about a dead rat? I don’t know, but for some reason I do. Anyway, enough babbling, here he is.
Something Kinda Arty And What I Am Really Working On
Posted in Art, Photography, Toni Tiller with tags Art, found, hoarding, new york city, phtograpghy, renovation, Toni Tiller on September 2, 2009 by Toni TillerI’ve got a little storehouse of images, but most of them need some work, this is just an un-photoshopped image. I liked the patterns and the addition of the New York Bagfish made me giggle, so this is what you get today.
But the truth is that lately I have been channeling all of my creative energy into my house. My kooky pack rat father spent years building up this monstrosity of junk and now I have to unravel it all in just a few weeks. This is our cottage, a building that would be a wonderful guest house if only it weren’t filled with all of this:
I am treating it as my current long term W.I.P. so more images will come as it develops. Whatta mess.
Another Untitled One
Posted in Art, Photography, Toni Tiller with tags abstract, Art, found, Photography, subway, Toni Tiller on August 12, 2009 by Toni TillerI am not really making any art at the moment, and I’d say the reasons for that are long and complicated, but they aren’t, I’m just not all that interested. Fortunately before I lost interest I squirreled away a few things so I can dole them out slowly and hopefully I will regain my enthusiasm before I run out, but if I don’t it won’t be the end of the world.
Dead Bird Wednesday #2
Posted in Art, Photography, Toni Tiller with tags Art, found, Photography, Toni Tiller on July 29, 2009 by Toni TillerWhy did the chicken cross the road?
To get to the other…oh.
I Went Outside
Posted in Art, Photography, Toni Tiller with tags abstract, Art, billboard, found, NYC, Photography, subway, Toni Tiller on July 15, 2009 by Toni TillerI wandered down Throop street and found this outside a bodega, but i have no idea what to call it. Any suggestions?
I Almost Forgot Myself There
Posted in Art, Photography, Toni Tiller with tags Art, billboard, found, NYC, Photography, Toni Tiller on July 8, 2009 by Toni TillerThis is one of the most simple compositions I’ve worked with in this series, but one of the more complicated ones in my head, it’s based around several conversations I had over the week all connecting in one place. That is all I have to say about it for now.
There Goes The Fear Again
Posted in Art, Photography, Toni Tiller with tags abstract, Art, billboard, found, NYC, Photography, subway, Toni Tiller on June 3, 2009 by Toni TillerSometimes it creeps in when you aren’t looking. That’s a shame.
We’re Safe…For The Moment
Posted in Art, Photography, Toni Tiller with tags abstract, Art, billboard, found, Photography, subway, Toni Tiller on May 27, 2009 by Toni TillerI took the new camera out for a spin in the subway and I have to say I couldn’t be happier, it’s lighter, sharper, and somehow more intuitive (I should still probably read the manual at some point though) than the last one. Here is one of my first subway shots, comments, crits, vented spleens and etcetera are all welcome.
Deep Blue Sea
Posted in Art, Photography, Toni Tiller with tags abstract, Art, billboard, found, new york city, Photography, subway, Toni Tiller on May 5, 2009 by Toni TillerAll this rainy weather has me thinking of being back at Cape Cod, swimming in the bay in my night dress and getting all the little brine shrimp stuck in it. Or, maybe this is about the collapse of the economy. Your guess is as good as mine.
- Toni “bunnie” Tillerl
Autosarcophagy
Posted in Art, Photography, Toni Tiller with tags abstract, Art, found, NYC, Photography, subway, Toni Tiller on April 24, 2009 by Toni Tiller
Sometimes I find visual demonstrations of my anxieties in subway billboards. I can’t figure out if I find that comforting or not.
Today Is Tom Bennett’s Day
Posted in Art, Photography, Toni Tiller with tags abstract, Art, billboard, found, San Francisco, Toni Tiller on April 16, 2009 by Toni Tillerbut he isn’t able to post so I am going to post one of the billboards I found out in Berkeley. They have a very different feel from the ones I find on the G line in NYC, and at the moment I am trying to decide how I want to present them as a whole, but for now I see no reason not to post a piece of overall finished set. I don’t know if I am even done with this one yet, so lets just consider it a W.I.P. (work in progress) and feedback is welcome.
Toni “bunnie” Tiller
I Heard Somewhere That Naked People Are Popular
Posted in Art, Photography, Toni Tiller with tags Art, found, nude, NYC, subway, Toni Tiller on April 1, 2009 by Toni TillerI think it might just be a fad though, I mean all styles swing in a pendulum right? So I figure we are about due to bring back the modern version of petticoats and make ankles the raging hot mystery they once were again. Until then I am just going to have to follow the trend as best I can in the setting I work in even if it means including this salacious depiction of elbows and knees. Despite all the rumors you may have heard, naked people are not easy to come across in the NYC subway so this was the best I could do, but maybe I will have better luck out in Berkeley this week, I hear them hippie types take their clothes off all the time. And for anyone who thinks I am just being prurient I will direct you to the label for the Whitney Museum down in the lower right corner, and everyone knows if you can attach a museum to something it automatically makes it art.
Words To Live By?
Posted in Art, Photography, Toni Tiller with tags Art, found, Photography, subway, Toni Tiller on March 18, 2009 by Toni Tiller
darteboard
jdhastings
ssstephg
Tom Bennett
Toni Tiller
Jason Gray
probrucer
laelia e. mitchell
galinatodorova
