Jack: HS Senior Swimming Portrait

Over the last couple of weeks, I had the opportunity to shoot in an environment I wasn't use to, a swimming pool. I wanted to try some new techniques in portrait shooting, so I was invited to shoot at to Jack's swim team practice. It took some time to familiarize myself with the lighting, but I was soon able to get some nice shots of the action in the pool.

After the practice, I was able to get some static shots of him by the pool.

Rollin' Slow in Detroit

Who needs a tour bus? The People Mover? Your own car to see the best of Detroit? This Monday I took my bike down to Eastern Market to ride the Slow Roll. Talk about an experience you don't get by driving your car. We rode our bikes by the thousands, through areas of hope and promise. People from all over Metro-Detroit shared the experience. I had my Gopro at hand and the images are as close as I can get to justifying the things I saw on the ride. If you don't know about them. Go to their website and experience the Slow Roll.

Makers in Detroit

Last week, my studio class was studying active groups or "agencies" that are located throughout Detroit. One of them was Omnicorps, located just kiddie corner to the Eastern Market. Detroit is filled with these kinds of spaces. Very unrefined, but highly active with people who are looking to start anything from a movement to a business. 

What can we take from a place like Omnicorps? How does it define space? Normally in architecture and design, it is our goal to give a particular space a designation. Omnicorps is different, the first thing you notice walking in is how little separation there is between the different users. It's almost as if the space is built in layers, of these projects over the top of one another. Omnicorp's interpretation of space is not based on area or volume, but ideas. What does that mean? It means the ideas of the users defines how they use their space. One of the studios former students, Paul analyzed this throughout his project, by recording the movement of the users in the space. His findings show little structure or containment. He recorded these paths throughout the spaces and overlay them onto a plan of Omnicorps. The paths seemed to have taken this amoebic form as ideas evolved throughout the space. A user would start at their desk or drawing board a majority of the time during the hatch of their idea, then as it evolved into a reality, the user began to expand outwards to utilize resources, sometimes regressing to a particular location. 

Omnicorps serves this kind of idea of space because of it's resources. It contains many tools and levels where ideas can cross paths as they develop. This is a healthy environment for ideas. Here's more images of the tour.

Click HERE for more information on the Omnicorps space and what they are about.