Alan Campbell

• 2012-01-30

  

  Ordered some A2 gloss paper to make a huge hyper detailed version of this piece i made today.

  Source: acsnapshot

• 2012-01-26

  

  ollymoss:

  I redrew the original three starting Pokemon to better fit with the Pikachu I doodled earlier this month.

  I wish these were little stickers

  Source: ollymoss

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  ayatsato:

  I just saw this Craigslist link on my Facebook feed. Although I do not charge $3000 dollars for wedding photography I wanted to address the point of view from a wedding photographer:

  Wedding photographers do not “just hang out and take a bunch of pictures and edit them”. I take the time to plan. I meet with the couple months before, we talk, I see what their needs are. We draw up a timeline for the wedding day. There is a contract. This is a business!

  The actually wedding day is very stressful. If I don’t account for my time, I’ll miss opportunities for key photographic moments. As the couple entrusts me to capture their wedding day, I need to make sure I know the timeline, ensure my equipment is working, have back-ups, have energy, smile and be focused all day. I have to be administrative when it comes to taking family photos, bridal party photos, and photos of the couple. Administrative in a genuine, kind, way. And that’s hard. It’s hard to not come off as a cold, bossy, photographer. Because caring takes effort.

  I shoot well over 1000 photos at most weddings. Most weddings I shoot are 8-12 hour days. I look through all of them. Multiple times. I narrow down the few hundred I want to spend my time editing. The editing process is tedious and also probably my favorite part. It takes me weeks to get through it all. I choose shots for specific reasons. This is why people hire me! Couples like how I see things. I carefully craft the story of the wedding day.

  Just because your cousin’s boyfriend has a DSLR does not mean you are going to have quality wedding photos. It is not the camera. It is the craft and the vision.

  It is such a shame that people will diminish and belittle any profession. Wedding photographers work hard. We work hard to care for others. We work hard to run our business. Many of us don’t have 401K’s, medical insurance, or consistant paychecks. We have to pay out taxes, rent, food, bills, just like everyone else. Please remember that before you become outraged in how expensive wedding photography is.

  I love shooting weddings. I love people. I love, love.

  Photographing a wedding is high pressure insanity.

  Source: seattle.craigslist.org

• 2012-01-25

  

  Blue box

  New object, Being shown at the embassy gallery in Edinburgh from 

  28th Of January until 5th of February at 

  Source: acsnapshot

• 2012-01-18

  I’m shown, name dropped and have a bunch of my polaroids featured in this video about 5 minutes in

  the video is about the glasgow art fair - vault

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  I love printing things.

  Source: acsnapshot

• 2012-01-17

  Hamburg 26.10.11

  I keep considering on how to give my fiction a Germanic edge I feel it should have some quality to it that will make it stand out it should be more than just name dropping a few street names or saying quite casually how I tripped up outside Rödingsmark station in Hamburg or how the Balzac coffee shop across from the station induced a moment of embarrassment when the girl didn’t give me the correct change, Pushing me to the point of guilt at pointing out someone else’s mistake. Or to share my bemusement at the amount of objects that people or a person has spray painted smiley faces with odd swirls behind it.

   

  But noting observations and anecdotes isn’t really fiction never mind German fiction, I’ve read some

  Hesse and some kafka who are both German authors but I’ve not read Goethe, perhaps in the next paragraph a bear could attack me while I write in public no not in Starbucks on a fancy machine waiting to be discovered but with paper and a pen but siting out front of a library full of books I can’t read .

   

  Other neurosis I feel like sharing today is that I’m not settling into the cold  or that I’m getting fat as I’ve started to feel claustrophobic while wearing my jacket tightly buttoned up, Also over the last few days I’ve started to think that I recognize people who I’ve never met mostly TV people, two options so far are that my loneliness is fighting it way out to try and force me into a conversation where I have to explain that I speak klien deutsche which I’ve found so far kills most conversations or the other option that these people just happen to look like those people or a third option is that I’m just passing these actual people.

   

  The original hand written version of this story goes on for another 4 pages however it goes wildly all over the place jumping around without much sense due to a few many beers the only line I feel worth saving from the rest of the story is as follows.

   

  Have you noticed how comfortable your teeth feel in your mouth after a dozen drinks?

  and i continue 

  I arrived back at the hotel after my train ride back to berlin and stayed in the bar for one more drink while I finished off last chapter of the book I’m reading, I wish I could claim it to be a great German novel however it’s Gogol’s dead souls, making brief eye contact with two women across the room with a polite smile, I’m tired and I chicken out of making any sort of attempt at a conversation with them and I go back to my room to delete the junk emails that will have been received in my absence, I turn twenty four in 2 days’ time, I still feel like I’m 4 years old looking up at the attractive women who’s starring alongside me in the television advert for some supermarket, I think I wore a light blue t-shirt that day.

  Source: alancampbellart.com

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  oliverbraid:

  I did a little interview with Richard Taylor for a-n Magazine about what I’ve been thinking of work-wise since graduating in 2010. You can absolutely click the photo-link to check it out :)

  // www.a-n.co.uk //

  Source: oliverbraid

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  24.10.2011

  Nothing like being stuck surrounded by other people to notice what a neurotic mess of a person perhaps you are, for I the experience brings forward a phobia of needing the bathroom and having to disturb a sleeping person next to you especially if they for some reason look like a Donald Dewar lookalike but German and also the phobia that he’s currently sitting next to me while I write this down and perhaps looks over to read this.

  So I use the bathroom well before I’m in any sort of need to save bothering the former and late first minster of Scotland.

  I also hope my handwriting is unreadable. He’s reading the daily mail so I do fear his reaction to such, well I’m curious and I don’t care, in the grand scale of anything, who cares about anything, quit reading this and get on with your work.

  Source: alancampbellart.com

• 2012-01-16

  I don’t date however I had a new years resolution to go on one date this year and i had mentioned that to one friend who has now turned that in to their obsession and is forcing me to make me sign up for a dating website, which of course I’d rather not do but i can see it would be potentially good for me.

  Its been threatened that if i don’t they’ll just set one up for me.