Master Bedroom Project

This fall I started to work on making my master bedroom a more welcoming comfortable space. The pieces are coming together so I thought I would share where I am so far and what's left on my to-do list.

The first thing I did was get a bed and then a tv and bed side tables:

Bed and side tables (same on both sides of bed)

The most recent, and to me, most exciting news is that I've picked a theme for the art work and plan to focus on scenes from north Florida. My first two pieces just arrived. Remember my pictures of foggy and misty Tallahassee? I had them printed on canvas and I'm pretty happy with how they turned out:

I still need window treatments, paint and linens, as well as a cabinet for the tv and other electronics, but I'm making a lot of progress. I'm collecting ideas on pinterest (see board below if you want to check it out).

Follow Amy Z's board Bedroom Ideas on Pinterest.

Misty Tallahassee

After all the fog we've been having, it finally got cold - down near freezing. In the mornings instead of fog, we get this amazing mist off all the (warmer than the air) bodies of water. This is Lake Leon at Tom Brown Park, taken December 17th:

into the ether - photography show

 Hope to catch my cousin Greg's show while we're in town next month. Here are the details from the Judson website: 

The Howson Gallery at Judson Park presents "…into the ether" May 18-June 22, 2012, featuring wet plate collodian photography by Greg Martin. The Howson Gallery is located at the Judson Park community of Judson at University Circle, 1801 Chestnut Hills Drive, Cleveland Heights, OH 44106. Call (216) 791-2885 for gallery hours. Free admission.

About Wet Plate Collodian process
The wet plate collodion process is an early photographic process introduced in the 1850s by Frederick Scott Archer. It consisted of three basic types: Ambrotypes (positive images on clear or opaque glass); Ferrotypes (positive images on black-jappaned metal); Glass Plate Negatives (negative images on clear glass used for printing). In the wet-plate collodion process a glass or metal plate is coated with a salted collodion emulsion, and sensitized in a silver nitrate bath. It is then exposed "in-camera," developed and "fixed," and then varnished, resulting in the final image. Because it requires "in-camera" exposures, each image is one-of-a kind, and the image is shot directly onto the plate surface.

About Greg Martin
Greg Martin is an artist and designer who grew up on the eastside of Cleveland and currently resides in South Euclid, Ohio. He has been using the wet plate collodion process as a means of artistic exploration and expression since 2005. His fascination with the cityscape of Cleveland manifests itself in a series of images exploring the city as filtered through the wet plate collodion process. He has exhibited work in a variety of group shows throughout Ohio as well as upstate New York, and his work resides in several collections, including that of Fred and Laura Bidwell.

Larger-than-Life Photo Project

I'm fascinated by this larger-than-life photography project that we found and shared with my cousin who is a professional artist. A photographer plans to build an enormous camera (see picture below the video) in a semi-truck trailer and drive around the country taking photos of vanishing cultures. Because the camera is so big, the photos it takes will be larger than life and more detailed than ever possible before. So interesting that an old-fashioned technology can be more powerful than digital. Watch the video and read the article here. You can also "chip in" to help out on kickstarter here.


Vanishing Cultures: An American Portrait by Dennis Manarchy from Distortion Design on Vimeo.