About me?

Here I am writing about myself in the 3rd person
(about time for a small bio, lets get the art ball rolling!) - -

Nichole is a crazy Californian residing in the East Bay Area, who seeps artistry from the very veins of her soul. Multiple disciplines are chosen for her work, but her practices greatly dwell in photography, video, and installation. With that said, she also has a fond interest in the performing arts, illustration, and sculpture, which may often creep there way into works. Her work ponders around instantaneity and streams of consciousness. 

In 2011 she obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Digital Media Arts from The College of Humanities at San Jose State University. In San Jose she became an active student of CADRE laboratories and volunteered with the SJICA (Institute of Contemporary Art), while maintaining a spot on the Dean's List. She also showed with the SxM Guild (Sculpture and Experimental Media), upon her final solo show "get lost swirly eyes."  Before this accomplishment, much of her time was spent twiddling her thumbs at Allan Hancock College in Santa Maria, CA where an Associate in Arts was earned. Here she worked to present "My Colors," a solo show of cyanotype sun prints on a range of colored papers, created from digitally and manually produced enlarged negatives.

She continually strives to create work and develop ideas, whether it be shooting photographs with her toy cameras, or conceptually plotting an intricate multimedia installation. 

I'm not sure if this is appropriate...but I'll work with it for now.
Working on a portfolio on Tumblr...and pondering a physical portfolio book to be created on Blurb! only $10.95 for a 10" x 10" soft cover 20 pages. Not bad.

{~_@} 

Computer-phobic : Photo-centric

It's an odd thing when you DREAD going on your computer. Lately I've been feeling this way... but I understand that in today's times most people benefit from an online presence...(and I'm still pondering my entirely computer-free existence)... but in the meantime.

Today, with money needing to be saved for rent due on the first, it has been a day of grass root gardening and doggy chillin', but with the internet bill paid for and electricity running rampant in my house I figured it was time for a blog post.

With my email being flooded with notices from the Bay Area Art Grind (always inspiring and egging on the NEED to create new work), I pondered today if I really have a legitimate portfolio. I use this blog as a place for thoughts and tidbits of my works in progress and experimentations...but do I have a PORTFOLIO? 

This got me thinking...

• I need to dedicate a full website to my work rather than having it scattered all over the web. 
• I also need a hard copy so I can physically present my work if needed (this could take place in form of a DVD/CD or even a physical portfolio with high quality printed images and text.)

With that in mind... the focus (phocus, haha!) of my work has been purely photographic. I've been digging up my old cameras, mostly focus free cameras.

Loaded with film currently is 

+ Olympus OM-10 (currently not focusing/metering correctly)

+ Olympus Infinity II
(You can find my current album of photos from the above cameras HERE)

+ GP Herp (focus free 28mm) [currently have a roll being developed, loaded with a roll of Fuji Color 200 found in an old camera case at UrbanOre Berkeley]  UPDATE : The film was majorly heat damaged and did not come out at all. Bye bye $5 to a developing charge. Got it loaded currently so let's see what happens next time :) happy hopes!

Photos from 

Junkcars and Back-Yards

Film  ////////  Lomo X-Tungsten 35mm, & Fuji Provia 100 35mm

Film enthused

With my degree in the can (FINALLY), taking time to exercise one of my favorite hobbies has become somewhat obsessive. (but in a good way)

Analogue photography has always been one of my passions. I can't seem to get my butt away from lomography.com, where I am finding new possibilities and inspirations for creating photographs. I never thought about the film as one of the key elements to creating a particular photograph. For me it was always about finding the cheapest pack of color film (usually for all light conditions, as I did not want to limit where I photographed) or a pack of Kodak B/W CN 400, which would pop up on the shelves at Walgreens, etc.

When I took Black and White photography at Allan Hancock College, I began to become interested in the different types of B/W films, but most of the film that I bought was never put to use, as I leaped into an obsession with pinhole cameras using litho film and digital negatives.

Recently I have found these rolls of film that I set aside for so long, some expired, and I am quite excited and nervous at the same to use them. I hate to waste a roll of film, but I guess the old motto is "no harm no foul."

I got to go for it.

And now that I have been getting my film processed at Photolab, I know so many more possibilities can happen with my photographs. I can't seem to make decisions with what camera to pair with what film

I currently just loaded the following :

+ Olympus OM-10 with Lomo X Tungsten film 35mm

+ Lomo Oktomat with Lomo Color Negative 100 35mm

+ Olympus Infinity II with Fujichrome Provia 100F 35mm

These are some photographs taken with the Lomo Fisheye 1 loaded with X Tungsten film, then cross processed. There are multiple exposures on the 2 photographs below.

I have a Lomohome

I got the "Fisheye: Rumble in the Pond" book, and could not help but notice that the people who got published all had lomohomes. I looked into it and made one for myself. My hopes of being published one day in a lomobook linger on.

Visit my lomohome!

Or find me by searching for swirlyeye

Click here

Now time to go drop off the roll of X Tungsten film to get developed.

wacko!

feels good to feel a little wacko sometimes