Cool how Seven Days In keeps the collections down to only 7 images with excerpts. Check out the Mexico iPhone photo collection they just published of my work! HERE
“Vamanos!” ~ Morelia, Mexico (c) 2011 Skip Hunt
“Ay Cabron!, just who do you think you are? You think you’re something special?!”
“No. Nothing special at all. Just using the marginal skills the great spirit gave me & trying to lift myself out of the cauldron of fear the most powerful have brewed for the masses. Trying to refocus away from the dark recesses that keep a soul in prison and point my lens at the utterly amazing details around all of us all the time. And, draw attention to the fact we’re all alive right now this eternal moment and attempt to cast away the black shroud that imprisons us all.”
“Uh, if you say so Cabron. You getting on the bus or not?”
“Transported from Quemado” ~ Huiricuta, Mexico (c) 2011 Skip Hunt
It was going different this particular time. I was more sick in the stomach and the pain lasted nearly two hours.
Near the peace sign I’ve been building out of stone since 2009, about 30 meters away is another primitive design of a five-pointed star. It too is in stone and was really bothering and irritating me for some unknown reason. Perhaps because it looked like a pentagram? Or perhaps the peyote sickness was just warping my imagination.
I had been somewhat ill off and on for the previous three weeks or so and just asked Mescalito to heal me during this ceremonial session. Perhaps this healing is why I was feeling extra sick this time. There’s a good reason why the indigenous call this plant “medicine”. Sometimes healing hurts a bit I’ve found.
Continue reading: http://www.kaleidoscopeofcolor.com/mexico-2011-pt2/2011/8/18/transported-from-quemado.html
Skip Hunt
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I Crush Ur Head! #Mexico #photo for http://kck.st/r92lLW (Taken with Instagram at Circulo Vasco Español)
Minions #Mexico #architecture #photo for http://kck.st/r92lLW (Taken with Instagram at Asamblea Legislativa del Distrito Fedral)
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Mix recorded with iPhone4 while walking around the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. Recordings also mixed via iPhone.
This was used for my journal while traveling via motorcycle in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi.
http://www.kaleidoscopeofcolor.com/lams-2011/
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Trying something a little different. Folks seem to dig many of my stories from past traveling experiences. So I decided to start with one that honestly changed my life. It’s not an audio version of something I’ve written, but a story told to you casually as if we were sitting by a campfire or chillin’ out with some beverages, etc.
This is a true story that is still unfolding in meaning 20 years later. I hope you enjoy.
It’s an audiobook of sorts, but without printed counterpart.
Click HERE to check it out!
To The Other Side of the Mirror is an audio recording, true account told in first person in a one-to-one casual style by fine art photographer Skip Hunt.
The journey begins on a train heading South with no particular destination as the author takes the listener deep within he Mexican interior and high up into the mountains of Oaxaca. After a few strange twists of fate the author finds himself collapsing in a thatch hut while participating in an ancient Mazatecan indian ceremony. As his indian hosts try to get his heart beating again, a most transcendent journey transpires.
File Info:
- File Size ~ 27.48MB
- Duration ~ 58:06
There is sensitive subject matter discussed so parental guidance is suggested.
© 2011 Skip Hunt :: All Rights Reserved
Just added a new online store for digital downloads on my Kaleidoscope of Color website. Only one PDF product at the moment, but more coming!
Peace Juggle (via skiphunt)
I met an Argentine juggler in the Huiricuta desert region of Mexico while I was communing with Mescalito and working on a large peace sign outlined in stone… started in 2009.
I asked if he wouldn’t mind juggling inside my peace sign and obliged.
:-) For your pleasure…
I also experimented with seeing what I could do with an iPhone 4 and a handful of apps while I was traveling. I published some “Skip Hunt 20/20” short photomags from the road and a fine art photographer friend or mine who bought one tells me the print quality is impressive. If you’re curious… those issues and more can all be previewed online HERE
After verifying the quality was indeed even more impressive than I’d hoped… I uploaded my favorites to a gallery HERE
A friend asked me about the warped composite, tiled, layered, blurred, etc. effect I got on some of the scenes from this trip, so I wrote a brief Squidoo article explaining what I was after and why. For anyone interested, I included samples, etc. HERE
Trying to travel lighter and lighter… I decided to see how I could get by with only an iPhone for shooting and post processing. I did take a second compact that I had to use a few times, but I was surprised at just how often the iPhone 4 and a handful of apps was pretty much all I needed on the road.
When I got home and started looking at the edited images on a larger desktop screen, I was even more surprised at how well they hold up.
I’ll certainly take a higher-end compact on my next trip, but the following gallery proves to me that it won’t be much longer before an iPhone is the ONLY electronic gear I carry while traveling.
Here’s a gallery of just the iPhone 4 shot and app processed images from a month backpacking in Mexico: http://skip-hunt.artistwebsites.com/art/all/mexico+winter+2011/all
