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LOU O' BEDLAM
The blog of Lou Noble.
Photos & I = BFF
All this here is what I'm looking at, listening to, photographing, eating, doing, thinking (kinda), hating on, in love with, stalking, coveting, rocking out to.
Photography is Love.
Love is God.
Photography is God.
Fund my photographic endeavors:
Ask Me Questions!!!!
Email me: louobedlam@gmail.com
My website: LOUOBEDLAM.COM
Where I write a lot, in teeny tiny bits:
twitter
Where most of my photos are:
flickr
Where you can look at all the photos on this blog:
gallery
Burger Day: (where I try to find the best burger in LA, and write about it!!!!): MMmmmmm
Where I play chess:
gameKnot
Sites I Like:
Laura Taylor
Julia Galdo
The Last Days of Polaroid
Awkwardly Social
Grant Morrison
Photos & I = BFF
All this here is what I'm looking at, listening to, photographing, eating, doing, thinking (kinda), hating on, in love with, stalking, coveting, rocking out to.
Photography is Love.
Love is God.
Photography is God.
Fund my photographic endeavors:
Ask Me Questions!!!!
Email me: louobedlam@gmail.com
My website: LOUOBEDLAM.COM
Where I write a lot, in teeny tiny bits:
Where most of my photos are:
flickr
Where you can look at all the photos on this blog:
gallery
Burger Day: (where I try to find the best burger in LA, and write about it!!!!): MMmmmmm
Where I play chess:
gameKnot
Sites I Like:
Laura Taylor
Julia Galdo
The Last Days of Polaroid
Awkwardly Social
Grant Morrison
657am.
Being sick means waking up at all hours of the night. Weird dreams. Weird dreams mixed up with waking up at all hours of the night, while having left a surreal radio program going on the iTunes.
My head is more than a little crazy, right now.
812pm.
The things I notice:
- that her face changes into something great and curious when I give her the direction of “eyes wide open”.
- that her face changes into something that warm and inviting when she laughs, which is often and easily.
- that I am a big fan of the “dark eyebrows, light hair” combo.
- the slighly chapped lips
- the one off-set tooth
- the fact that she’s wearing a bit more make-up than at our last shoot
- the shape of her head, just slightly angular
- the space between her eyebrows
- the mole that only adds character
- the way her brown eyes glisten in the right light
These are the kinds of things I notice about every single face I see. It’s exhausting, and endlessly fascinating.
532pm.
It’s continually astonishing, that I’ll look back through my photos, and still, on a regular basis, stumble upon a photo I’ve completely forgotten about.
Shouldn’t be astonishing, my memory is a piece of shit, but still.
Maybe it’s because I shoot so much, always moving forward, always thinking about the next set of photos. I’d slow down if I could, but I can’t, it’s the monkey on my back.
Better this than ibogaine.
So, with all this shooting, a shot like this one, from last year, I totally forgot about.
Sorry, photo, you got lost in the shuffle. Hope posting you here makes up for the oversight.
mskpntsblog asked: just out of curiosity Lou, have you ever taken a photo that made you say "man, this looks sooo cliché'ed?" and what did you do about it? (greetings from Mx city!)
not necessarily cliche, but definitely I’ve taken (and continue to take) shots that I feel are bland, repetitive.
What do I do? try something different. Like, oh, I dunno, having someone punch me in the gut while I photograph ‘em. That sure mixes it up.
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
Death from Above 1979 - Blood on Our Hands
Checking out random photos, listening to random songs. Lots of “oh yeah, I haven’t listened to THIS in forever!!! I loved this song!!!”
These guys were awesome, just two dudes, rocking the fuck out. Saw a show they did, it was all sweat and chutzpah.
245pm.
I hear it’s hot outside. Wouldn’t know. Don’t think I’ll even SEE outside until next week. Don’t be surprised if you see me on Hoarders or Intervention all of a sudden.
MAN COLD.
148pm.
Sick at home = PICTURES GALORE.
My mamiya is a tricky beast, all kinds of switches and dials and buttons. Sometimes I press the wrong one. This is what happens.
(by Keren Fedida)
**IF YOU LIKE THIS SHOT, GO TO ITS FLICKR PAGE, LET THE ARTIST KNOW! SHOW ‘EM LOVE!!**
1011am.
CORRECTION: i feel like shit. I will be staying inside my home for 10000 years.
717am.
Seattle made me sick. The very next day I came down with a sore throat, then sniffles, then aches. Today I am sick. BUT ALIVE. Got things to do, a band to shoot, tomorrow, friends to see.
But in my weakened condition, the next few days will be moving a bit more leisurely than I’d originally planned. Because I am a huge wimp when I’m sick. It’s just a wee cold, not a flu, or I’d be sucking my thumb under half a dozen covers, whimpering.
And now, onto the weekend!!!
ineedsolitude asked: hi lou! first off, i enjoy your lovely blog posts, wonderful work. i also enjoy your occasional posts of photographs that you enjoy and are not yours; it's always so fun to see what you like and to open up my eyes to other amazing photos as well. i was wondering, besides working with your friends who are also photographers, of all the photographers that you enjoy, who would you want to work with and why?
first off, thanks!
AND NOW, ON TO ANSWERS!!
Which photographers would I want to work with? Um…none? There are several I’d love to Watch, but I don’t really work With photographers. We all get together, then go do our own thing, it’s not really a collaborative effort, most of the time.
I’d love to see a bunch of folks at work:
- Annie Liebovitz
- Autumn De Wilde
- Traci Matlock & Ashley MacLean
- Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin
- Martin Schoeller
All for the same reasons, really. Those folks fascinate me, the kinds of photos they create, they really get my brain going, trying to figure out how their minds are able to come up with stuff. Would love to see their brains in action.
