life on film

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i will do a post on my life and where ive been these last 4 months but for now im just going to post about photography.

i have started a new series on my g+ called “life on film,” it will be a while before the first ones are posted, but here is a sneak preview of what it will look like.

"life on film" series sneak preview

i have also added a new series to my film only site, “from negatives,” here is one of the portraits from the series.

jaylin (2007)

part 1 of the “elementary portraits” series is up now so check it out

that’s all for now, so stay tuned for more.

kitty on my foot and i wanna touch it

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so i got asked to take over the spanish 1 class at glencliff high school and taught tuesday-friday, and will be teaching next week as well. i took french but learned enough spanish to teach the lessons. i feel like im picking it up pretty fast. mi gusta comer las papas fritas y beber el jugo. yo soy de nashville y mi gusta montrar bicicleta. Que tiempo hacer? el frios. It’s kind of cool because I am learning spanish to teach spanish, so i am learning a language. The only problem is that I am teaching the lessons the teacher left for the kids but I am getting paid the same as if I was just showing a video. It’s not fair but c’est la vie. So work and more work is all i feel like i have done lately. But fall break is coming up soon so I will get a much needed break.

this weekend was amazing. on saturday october 1st there was so much to do in nashville. in the morning there was the international cultural celebrate nashville festival.  ”This event shows the diversity encompassing over 50 cultures that live in Nashville through dance, music, visual arts, a children’s area, a Teens United Area, an educational Global Village, and exotic food samplings.” I also saw a lot of my students there from Glencliff. After that, I went to the schermerhorn symphony center because they were having free shows in the laura turner concert hall all day. I had never been inside. It was beautiful, architecture, layout, everything. I watched the nexus chamber orchestra and they finished with a cover of Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody. After that I walked to the arcade and went to the Art Crawl, it was the 2nd annual Sound Crawl. There was a great photography exhibit, and the Society Of Nashville Artistic Photographer’s (which i just recently joined) had a gallery in the Twist. I may try to participate in a gallery in the future. I made my rounds and enjoyed a lot of the galleries. After that I went back to the Schermerhorn and met up with my Dad and his girlfriend Trish. We went in and caught Rumba, the last free show.  it’s days like these that make me love living here in nashville. All of these events were part of ARTober, where Metro Nashville is trying to make the city aware of the arts through sponsored international events and gatherings. I’d say they are doing a great job.

in other news, there has been a neighborhood cat that has been coming by my house for the past 6 months or so, and i have named her madge. She seems to come around more when erin is here. they are in lub.

in other other news, the truck that has been in the family since i bought it from steven is going to be sold very soon. it is sad, as everyone in my family except my sister has driven it at one time, but it must go. in honor of the truck, i let erin drive it one last time. I taught her how to drive a stick shift in this truck. when she got in, she drove it fast and furious style, like she had stolen it. vroom vrooms.

in photography news, i am adding part 2 of the “orange plastic camera” series. these are from the dolcim european tour at peays bay, scotland summer 2009.peays bay scotland, summer 2009. orange plastic camera with expired 200 speed film.

check this rest out at from negatives

that’s all for now.

currently listening to:  dismemberment plan, leona naess, the presidents of the united states of america, red house painters, glen hanserd, the swell season, pinback.

quote of the week: “we should probably go inside if we’re going to make out, there are old people out here.”-e

stay tuned. next, probably a portrait series of my elementary students from 2007 or so.

shoes crack where you walk: short story, music video, orange film series, digital series

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its been almost 2 weeks since the last post, i am getting behind again on here. c’est la vie.

as i had mentioned in the last post, i wrote new short story a week or so ago. it was my first i have written in years. it is called “subbing” and is a reflection on my time as a substitute. check it out. it has been posted in the words section of this site.

this past tuesday, a friend of mine david poag shot and directed a music video in my house for the country artist corey smith. i shot stills for it. it was fun. it was shot on my porch, livingroom, hallway, my bedroom, kitchen and attic. GAC even came over to film us making it and interview david. it was directed by david poag, dp by andy kugler. when there is a cut of it online, i will post it here. there are too many stills to choose from, i took almost a thousand, and edited it down to 450 or so.

in other news, in my vw golf, i hit 222,222 miles. and to document this momentous occasion i of course photographed it.

in photography news, i have added 2 new series.

digital series “recycler” up in the photography section. this will be updated more and more as i get to it.

here is one from the “recycler” series (2011)

recycler (2011) canon t2i with FD 28mm

new film series entitled “orange series part 1″ (2009)

here is one from the orange series. i know this is morbid subject matter, but i walked out of my house and this dog had been hit by a car and left in front of my house. this is in memory.

dead dog (2009) orange plastic goodwill camera with 200 speed kodak film

in endamori news, we are waiting to find out when we can get in the studio to record our e.p., and in the meantime we starting writing parts for 2 new songs for the LP.

in kafka on the shore news, i have 6 songs written and mostly recorded for the new full-length. slow and steady…

currently listening to lauryn hill unplugged, the bird and the bee, pinback, rob crow, coconut records, goblin cock

currently finishing franz kafka short stories

that’s all for now, a bunch of new links have been added to the right so check those out as well.

and stay tuned.

shaving off the minutes of life – “from negatives,” archival film site, “burn” series, leica portraits

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i have been working so much lately  it’s been difficult to find time to do anything. i have been teaching almost 5 days a week when permissible. it’s been so great and my first check since june came in the mail last week. it’s financial catch up time and im on the right track.

i did manage to write a short story about subbing last week and will be posting that to the words section very soon so keep your eyes peeled.

in photography news, i am proud to introduce my new archive film site, “from negatives.“ i will be uploading pictures i have scanned from negatives dating back to 8 or so years ago. they will be broken up into series’ based on themes. up first is the ”burn” series.  this series was shot in north carolina back in the fall of 2006. here a few from the series.

bird bath (2006) north carolina. shot on bell and howell FD35 on kodak c-41 black and white

cans (north carolina 2006) shot with bell and howell FD35 on kodak black and white

view the rest of the series on my archival film website “from negatives”

also i am finally shooting film again! although it is not my camera, it was my film. these are some portraits of seth i took with his leica 35mm with my expired 200 speed film.

seth (september 2011)  leica portrait

seth (september 2011)  leica portrait 

and some portraits seth shot of me as well

(september 2011) leica portrait by seth dana

(september 2011) leica portrait by seth dana

pictures from t rust’s show at springwater in august and those lavender whales (columbia, south carolina) at springwater are up now on digital nashville.

i’m currently drinking cuban coffee and listening to npr.

i’m halfway through tom robbins “half asleep in frog pajamas.” ive been reading it on my planning periods while teaching and i’m hooked.

i’ve been listening to the new mogwai e.p. “earth division,”  the album leaf, deerhunter, fyoelk, grandaddy, and the sea and cake

currently watching that 70′s show, and my so called life

up next i will finally edit some pictures from my last trip to europe december 2010-january 2011. dublin, munich/bavaria, deutschland, and barcelona spain.

stay tuned.

short film “time past” director’s cut world premeire

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Well this is the first real post of the new seanconley.tk
I have to say it’s a bit weird writing on here in this new format, but I will get used to it.

This site will be overgoing changes in appearance, updates, and new additions as I customize it more. I added pages at the top, but they are still under construction.
Anyway, let’s get down to business!

the past 2 weeks i have been substitute teaching full-time. It has been great because I hadn’t been able to work aside from the fireworks stand since last june. It feels good to be productive and contribute. I was at glencliff for half of the jobs, one for 3 days in theater. It was great being back in theater because I saw my former students from last semester. One of my students said “Mr. Conley, I see you so much now that I don’t even think of you as a sub anymore.” I thought that was pretty cool. Getting up early took some getting used to but I’ve gotten the hang of it now.

I haven’t had a lot of time in the past 2 weeks to do much but I have managed to do some things.

i spent last weekend color correcting and re-editing a director’s cut of my very first short film ”time past” that i shot back in 2006. it stars taylor rust and is shot in the neighborhood where i grew up and at an old donut shop. so without further adieu, the world premeire director’s cut of “time past”

this will be posted in the videos section. it is part of my old video series that i am starting. I will be re-editing/color correcting my old short films and posting them on here. next will be yolandis, then the cease upon the capitol documentary.

in endamori news, we are having some equipment issues, so we may not be going into the studio as soon as we originally planned.

currently reading tom robbins “half asleep in frog pajamas”
currently listening to npr, the new wilco record “the whole love,” elsiane “hybrid,”  my ipod on shufffle: rodan, death cab for cutie’s “we have the facts and we’re voting yes,” boards of canada, those lavender whales, third memory, ray barbee

up next: a photograph from the “burned “series from 2006, and “plastic camera” series that will be posted on my new archival film site that i will be unveiling next post.

stay tuned!

the new seanconley.tk! (starting september 2011)

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so this is the new beginning of the old site. official posts will start in september after seanconley.net is officially gone.

welcome to those of you who followed from seanconley.net/tk to here.

this will be based more on my weekly happenings, and I will leave the rest for the other websites.

this site will hopefully be updated more often because it is so easy to do posts on here.

not really sure what to say on the first post, other than welcome and start coming here in september!

up next i will start uploading photographs in a film series, from out west in 2004, to black and white over the years and more recently shot on a orange plastic camera in 2009.

stay tuned!