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Category Archives: Personal Work
the goal:
to put imagery to a poem. to practice storytelling of a different form, rather than tell the story of a orange county wedding day…to create a story from nothing but the words of a poet. the result is ‘oh pioneer! - a personal project.’
the poem:
Come my tan-faced children,
Follow well in order, get your weapons ready,
Have you your pistols? have you your sharp-edged axes?
Pioneers! O pioneers!For we cannot tarry here,
We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger,
We the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us depend,
Pioneers! O pioneers!O you youths, Western youths,
So impatient, full of action, full of manly pride and friendship,
Plain I see you Western youths, see you tramping with the foremost,
Pioneers! O pioneers!Have the elder races halted?
Do they droop and end their lesson, wearied over there beyond the seas?
We take up the task eternal, and the burden and the lesson,
Pioneers! O pioneers!All the past we leave behind,
We debouch upon a newer mightier world, varied world,
Fresh and strong the world we seize, world of labor and the march,
Pioneers! O pioneers!…
-Walt Whitman
the results:
here’s a quick frame from a recent personal project that i cannot wait to share with you all…inspired by walt whitman’s ‘pioneers! o pioneers!’
enjoy.
‘all the past we leave behind,
we debouch upon a newer mightier world, varied world,
fresh and strong the world we seize, world of labor and the march,
pioneers! o pioneers!’
-walt whitman
my goal, briefly:
to find inspiration from a new source and to create for creating’s sake. to take a break from being an orange county wedding photographer and tackle a personal project that would stretch me a bit and allow for rules to be broken.
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so, i turned to music for inspiration and decided to create imagery that reflected the selected song.
the results were challenging and moved me.
these are the results of ‘we are ghosts.’
click ‘play’ and scroll down..
http://calebjohnhill.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/ghosts.mp3|autostart=yes
song: ‘ghosts’ by james vincent mcmorrow.
shot with a 5d and iphone. edited with #vscofilm and #vscocam.
a few weeks ago i had the opportunity to take my fiancé back to my hometown to visit my family and celebrate our coming wedding. while reflecting on the future and the excitement it holds i found my thoughts drifting back to the times of old when i was still a child and when everything was so new and undiscovered.
these images are a manifestation of my reflection and an attempt to capture moments of the roads that i’ve travelled.
enjoy my ‘roads; past:’
1. my dad holding me at birth
2. seat belt of my dad’s first truck that used to carry us (my dad an i) around town
3. photo of my sister and i hanging at my grandparent’s along with a collage of other photographs documenting their lives
4. piano i would spend my days trying to teach myself music while never making any progress
5. grandma in all of her smiles
6. grandpa wearing a fishing sweater - hints back to our times on the lake hunting for trout
7. basketball hoop that helped occupy my summers in elementary
8. great-grandmother’s painting that hangs above my mom’s chair where you’ll often find her reading or knitting
9. ukrainian mandolin that’s had a home in my childhood room for some time
10. ‘grace’ - hung over our family as we ate weekly family meals at my grandmother’s home - i can still taste the love she put into every meal
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