After our Neat-o-Rama appearance last week brought hundreds of thousands of visitors to our MintyForest.com photo project, we were delighted to discover that we have just been featured on Ehrensenf - Germany’s most popular web video blog! (Oddly enough, this is the same show that attempted to send my fellow minty-photographer Nina and my friend/her husband Danny to Plano, TX back in 2006 when they let the internet vote on where they would move.)

Still, we are thrilled to have all the German photo-enthusiasts! You can watch the clip by clicking the linked image below — we come on around minute 2:00.

For those non-German speakers, my friend Tyler Mark has put together this super-quick, literal translation:

Not behind on another, but rather set next to one another, you can take a look at the pictures of Minty Forest — a project by two photographers where every day for a year they have published a photograph without consultation, with, for the most part, fully different but also to some extent astonishingly similar motifs.  And an equally interesting photographic comparison to see is found in N.Y. Secrets, namely the New York from 1961 compared with the New York of today.  Yes, and much there has actually not changed . . . OK, the time of the golden trashcan is for the most part in the past.

We recently wrapped up MintyForest.com — a 365 day daily photo project.
This is one of my favorite combos:

While it can be a bit harrowing to take and color correct a photo EVERY SINGLE DAY (not to mention the thousands of unused shots), there is something magical about it too. Especially when you can look back over a year and visually digest how much actually happens in that time — people coming and going, new haircuts, moving, parties and weddings, seasons changing, vacations, broken camera lenses…

It has particularly been a pleasure working alongside Nina Barry — she is a talented + enthusiastic photographer and placing my photos next to hers each morning was always delightful and revelatory. It is really surprising how often we were in sync — her creative vision and eye for framing most certainly raised our project to a whole new level of awesome.

Oh! Be sure to check out the Random Photo Pairing Generator — there are 133,225 possible combinations!

When I receive my MintyForest.com emails, sometimes they are stacked vertically. This can create a whole new unintended synchronicity — I particularly like this pairing from January 14th, 2009. The photo on top was taken by Nina Barry and mine is the photo of James Darling below.

View the original here at MintyForest.com.

Boulder, CO - December 2008

Production Stills from Lowered Expectations Episode 03 - the Dream Analyst below! The shoot of episode 3 went swimmingly. I think we have a lot of great material and some really fun/funny performances from the cast. I’ve started cutting and it’s all coming together really well. There are also a few fun effects to watch out for (check out the last photo in the set for a sneak preview). Those are going to take a bit longer in post-production, though we’re hoping to pull everything together in the next couple of weeks for an early September release.

Episode 03 features: Josh Shayne, Tyler Mark, Vanessa Barcus, Tasha Shayne, Vic Shayne, and Janice Shayne. Cinematography by Jason Lange. To whet your appetite as well as keep you sated for a a little bit, we’re putting up a few of the stills from the shoot for your perusal. Thanks for watching!

Vanessa Catches up on her Reading

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