Window Light, #43

Gah, Don't Remember Where, NY, 2012. Contax G1, 35mm Film

Night Room, #42

Ocean, Brooklyn, NY, 2012. Contax G1, 35mm Film

The Church In Color, # 41

The Church, Brooklyn, NY, 2012. Contax G1, 35mm Film

Juventino, Photo # 40

Juventino Restaurant, Brooklyn, NY. January 2012. 35mm Film, Contax G10.

Maria Hernandez.3, Photo # 39

Maria Hernandez Park, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY, 2008. 35mm Film, Contax G1

Maria Hernandez.2, Photo # 37

Later

Maria Hernandez Park, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY, 2008. 35mm Film, Contax G1

Maria Hernandez, Photo # 36

Earlier

Maria Hernandez Park, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY, 2008. 35mm Film, Contax G1

Kansas, Photo # 35

Vanderbilt Street, Brooklyn, NY, 2008.  35mm Film, Contax G1

Tarp Wall.3, Photo # 34

Rooftop, Industria Super Studios, West Village, NY, 2007.  Digital Camera, Model Unknown

Tarp Wall.2, Photo # 33

Rooftop, Industria Super Studios, West Village, NY, 2007.  Digital Camera, Model Unknown

Tarp Wall, Photo # 32

Rooftop, Industria Super Studios, West Village, NY, 2007.  Digital Camera, Model Unknown

Subway, Photo # 31

Subway, NY, NY, 2008. 35mm Film, Contax G1

Cabinets, Photo # 30

South Street, Jersey City, NJ, 2007. 35mm Film, Contax G1

Ceiling, Photo # 29

South Street, Jersey City, NJ, 2007. 35mm Film, Contax G1

Photo Shoot RV, Photo # 28

RV, Brooklyn, NY, 2007. 35mm Film, Contax G1

El dia de la mort del meu avi, Foto # 27

Asil d'asians, Rhode Island, Setembre 2011. Pel·lícula de 35mm, Contax G1

This post is written in Valencià, which my Grandfather spoke.

LBI, Photo # 26

LBI, NJ, Summer 2011. 35mm Film, Contax G1

Botanical, Photo # 25

Brooklyn Botanical Gardens, 2007.  35mm Film, Contax G1

Palma de Mallorca, Photo # 24

Palma de Mallorca, Mallorca, 2006. 35mm Film, Canon, Model Unknown.

Tilton Bathroom, 2000, Photo # 23

Tilton Hall, Tufts Univesity, MA, Fall 2000. 35mm Film, Canon, Model Unknown

Grey McMurray, Shower Scene, Photo # 22

Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn, NY, 2009. Canon G10

Amy McCulloch, Sycamore Bar + Flowershop, Photo # 21

Sycamore Bar + Flowershop, Brooklyn, NY, Winter 2010. Canon G10

My Heffa-lump and fellow friend in photography. 

Berd, Photo # 20

Near Muir Woods, CA, July, 2011. 35mm Film, Contax G1

Terrace, The Living Theatre, Photo # 19

In honor of Perf Productions benefit show tomorrow: Xploration, at The Living Theatre, here's a shot from TLT's terrace.

Terrace, The Living Theatre, NY, NY. November 2011. 35mm Film, Contax, G1

17th St.2, Brooklyn, Photo # 18

17th Street, Brooklyn, NY, 2011. 35mm Film, Contax G1

17th St, Brooklyn, Photo # 17

Brooklyn, NY, 2011. 35mm Film, Contax G1

Museum Wall.2, Photo # 16

Madrid, España, Febrero, 2011. 35mm Film, Contax G1

Museum Wall, Photo # 15

Madrid, España, Febrero, 2011. 35mm Film, Contax G1

Current Window, Photo # 14

Prospect Park, Brooklyn, 2.8.11. Canon G10

From The Lost Roll, Photo # 13

Sometimes I don't know anything. 

Location and date unknown, 35mm Film, Contax G1

Portrait, Sabrina Dora López, Photo # 12

People are largely absent from my photography past 2008, but they slip in here and there.  My dear friend, Sa, is difficult not to capture.

Brooklyn, NY, 2011. 35mm Film, Contax G1

The Living Theatre, Photo # 11

1 of the 15 images of The Living Theatre that will be exhibited at Perf Productions Benefit Show: 

Xploration - A Benefit To Satisfy Your Senses

December 7th 2011 - 7pm to 1am

The Living Theatre, 21 Clinton Street, NY, NY

You can purchase tickets for this wonderful extravaganza at: A Lovely Ticket For You

The Living Theatre, 21 Clinton Street, NY, NY, 2011. 35mm Film, Contax G1

Williamsburg Bridge, Photo # 10

Camera's don't expose for light the way our eyes do, and I love this.  

Williamsburg Bridge, Brooklyn, NY, 2011. 35mm Film, Contax G1

My Brooklyn Bathroom, Photo # 9

I can't help taking pictures of my bathroom and bathrooms in general, gnarly or finished.

My Brooklyn Bathroom, 2011. 35mm Film, Contax G1

Blizzard.2, Photo # 8

Shot the night of the NYC Blizzard 10.29.11 at the Hippy Den, NY, NY

You can view the whole series on my website:

www.cristinamaria.com

West Village, NY, NY. 35mm Film, Contax G1

My Apartment In The Morning, Photo # 7

I love the light in my place around 6/7am.  Maybe the beginnings of a series.

My Apartment, Brooklyn, NY, 2011. 35mm Film, Contax G1

Natty and Rita's: The other side of the room, Photo # 6

This photograph was originally used as a mixed media piece but I felt it deserved to stand alone on this day.

Cambridge, MA, 2007. 35mm Film, Contax G1

Alphabet City Diptic, Photo # 5

My first apartment in NYC, 2006. Taken from de back window of my basement apartment. East 11th Street, NY, NY, Btw Ave B and C.

Basement Apartment, Alphabet City, NY, 2006. 35mm Film, Canon, Model Unknown

Blizzard 10.29.11, Photo # 4

In a dark room, ready to load up some speedy film (3200 iso) and you realize you have 30 shots left of the slowest film ever loaded into your camera (100 iso).  This is what it might look like to blow through your roll (color film is especially fun in these times) so you can get your fast film loaded in time for the show.....

Le Poisson Rouge, October 29th: NYC Freak Blizzard, 2011. 35mm Film, Contax G1

Digital Photo, # 3

So enamored was I with my Canon G10 Digital, purchased in 2009, that I shot no film for a year and a half.  Wow.

Brooklyn Roof, Argyle Road Apt, 2009. Canon G10

From The Archives: 2007, Photo # 2

Jersey City, NJ, 2007. 35mm film, Contax G1

Photo Of The Day, Photo # 1

Keeping in line with the purpose of this blog I will be posting a photograph of mine daily or at least a few times a week.  I hope you enjoy/react to them.  

Chella, Comunitat Valenciana, España, Febrero, 2011. 35mm Film, Contax G1

A friend recently spoke to me about the usefulness of daily affirmations.

This is part of yesterday's.

Watercolor, ink, colored pencil

I also want to learn how to speak Valencia better....or at all:

Un Abraco Mol Fort!

My Website...

Is Finally Up!

Please take a look if you are so moved: www.cristinamaria.com

To keep in line with the purpose of this blog here's a little something I did recently.

El Tercero

Featuring...

Kristina Marino: http://thedowntowndiaries.blogspot.com/

This special lady was my first subscriber and so has inspired the material for my third blog.  I was asked to design the tattoo lining the right side of her torso.  The three flowers represent Marino's grandma, mother, and herself (daffodils and one marigold) and the three hearts are the women's favorite colors.  

No hay mal que por bien no venga.

El Segundo

Ink and Watercolor, 8 x 10, 2009.

A self portrait done near the end of the first year in Grad School.  The quote below by the painter Olaf Palm describes well the process of creating this piece. 

Olaf:

“Painting is hard...you can’t ignore that. Just once in a while does it go along with real pleasure...You get tense, impatient, disgusted...Then afterward, you have this image before you and hopefully, you can say, ‘Yes, that’s how it is.  How incredibly subtle.’ Now you turn it over to the others, unless it’s very private. You hope the others can see the magic in it.”


-Excerpt from Palm’s journal, 1970

El Primero

So It Begins.

 

Cornelia St Cafe, NY, NY. Canon G10 Digi.

Watercolor and Ink on wood board. 10 x 8.5

I would like to share my art in a simple, not over thought, manner. Thus, my first blog ever.  If you have any questions feel more than free to ask.  Comments, criticisms, compliments: are very much welcome.  I chose the first image because the talented writer Jen Page is heading back to the West Coast.  The second because it reminds me of peeling back our layers, a theme that his been prevalent in my life this year.  There will be some going back to past images as well as the inclusion of new images in this here post.