Todd Walker’s photography ephemera: theory, craft, failure, success, learning. Read, enjoy, share, discard.Tumblr (3.0; @ocularoctopus)http://ocularoctopus.com/<p>For more than a year I’ve been considering whether to put this blog on hiatus or give it up altogether. Since I shuttered my previous blog, Gallery Hopper, the effort I put into blogging has gotten smaller and smaller. Tumblr’s structure let me keep going with a minimum of effort while fooling myself that I was producing something useful or worthwhile.</p> <p>I want to grow more as a photographer. The time I have available for that seems to get more limited by the day. I need to simplify. I need to remove distraction. I need to focus. I need to make work.</p> <p>Work can be found here: <a href="http://www.toddmwalker.com"><a href="http://www.toddmwalker.com">www.toddmwalker.com</a></a></p>http://ocularoctopus.com/post/16259642949http://ocularoctopus.com/post/16259642949Sat, 21 Jan 2012 17:12:00 -0800<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/32991949?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="400" height="300" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/>http://ocularoctopus.com/post/16166552838http://ocularoctopus.com/post/16166552838Fri, 20 Jan 2012 03:08:28 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxvthq0RSv1qbq0xlo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://eyecurious.tumblr.com/post/15938831799/great-initiative-by-the-fotomuseum-winterthur-in">eyecurious</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Great initiative by the <a href="http://www.fotomuseum.ch/">Fotomuseum Winterthur</a> in Switzerland: the blog <a href="http://blog.fotomuseum.ch/">Still Searching </a>which has just launched. The blog will be run by a series of 6 guest bloggers, each with a 6-week slot. The German photo historian and theorist Bernd Stiegler will kick off the blog (January 15 to February 29), the Indian writer Aveek Sen, (March 1 to April 14), US artist Walead Beshty (April 15 to May 31), and Dutch photo theorist Hilde van Gelder (June 1 to July 14, 2012) will follow until the summer break. Geoffrey Batchen, the photo historian and theorist currently working in New Zealand, will initiate the autumn season (September 15 to October 31).</p> </blockquote>http://ocularoctopus.com/post/15947584840http://ocularoctopus.com/post/15947584840Mon, 16 Jan 2012 07:18:14 -0800<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxtl1jkE551qa13ruo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Lucky me. Just arrived. “Redheaded Peckerwood” by Christian Patterson.</p>http://ocularoctopus.com/post/15864073156http://ocularoctopus.com/post/15864073156Sat, 14 Jan 2012 19:15:18 -0800<a href="http://littlebrownmushroom.tumblr.com/post/15453643224/advice">Little Brown Miscellanea: Advice</a>: <p><a href="http://littlebrownmushroom.tumblr.com/post/15453643224/advice" class="tumblr_blog">littlebrownmushroom</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><strong><span>From Nick Hornby in the The Believer (December, 2011):</span></strong></p> <p><em><span>One of the things that did me no good at all in the formative years of my career was prescriptive advice from established writers, even though I craved it at the time. You know the sort of thing: “Write a minimum of 15 drafts.” “A good…</span></em></p></blockquote> <p>there are no magic tricks or short cuts. Just work and work and work.</p>http://ocularoctopus.com/post/15473479241http://ocularoctopus.com/post/15473479241Sat, 07 Jan 2012 14:43:31 -0800<a href="http://www.oldsf.org/">Explore Old S.F.</a>: <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://heymiki.me/post/15299414821/old-s-f">heymiki</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Really slick interface for exploring old photos of San Francisco :)</p> </blockquote>http://ocularoctopus.com/post/15299512625http://ocularoctopus.com/post/15299512625Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:30:50 -0800<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxa6ykek7U1qbq0xlo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://eyecurious.tumblr.com/post/15297428528/a-terrific-resource-no-layout-is-a-digital">eyecurious</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>A terrific resource: <a href="http://www.nolayout.com/">No Layout</a> is a digital library for independent publishers, focusing on art books and fashion magazines. It lets you digitally flick through a ton of great content<span class="s1">. Check out their <a href="http://nolayout.com/sitemedia/report2011.html">2011 annual report</a> for some headline numbers. <br/></span></p> </blockquote>http://ocularoctopus.com/post/15297617877http://ocularoctopus.com/post/15297617877Wed, 04 Jan 2012 08:03:02 -0800<p>From A Photo Editor, <a href="http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2012/01/02/top-photobooks-of-2011/">here’s the list of top selling photo books from 2011</a>. Where’s <em>Redheaded Peckerwood</em>?</p> <ol><li>Simply Beautiful Photographs (National Geographic)</li> <li>The Great LIFE Photographers (Little, Brown & Co.)</li> <li>The Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton (LIFE)</li> <li>One Nation: America Remembers September 11, 2001, 10 Years Later (Little, Brown & Co.)</li> <li>Portraits of Camelot: A Thousand Days in the Kennedy White House (Abrams)</li> </ol><p>(Originally from <a href="http://www.eyecurious.com/photobooks-2011-and-the-winner-is/">EyeCurious</a>)</p> <ol></ol>http://ocularoctopus.com/post/15227011213http://ocularoctopus.com/post/15227011213Mon, 02 Jan 2012 21:19:00 -0800<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx734apu741qa13ruo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Windsor, CO, December 2011</p>http://ocularoctopus.com/post/15210554073http://ocularoctopus.com/post/15210554073Mon, 02 Jan 2012 16:08:05 -0800<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx72z1iSKA1qa13ruo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Windsor, CO, December 2011</p>http://ocularoctopus.com/post/15208657476http://ocularoctopus.com/post/15208657476Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:37:48 -0800<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwzo2iLIan1qa13ruo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwzo2iLIan1qa13ruo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwzo2iLIan1qa13ruo3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwzo2iLIan1qa13ruo4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwzo2iLIan1qa13ruo5_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwzo2iLIan1qa13ruo6_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>Hipstamatic Disposable at the Denver science museum.</p>http://ocularoctopus.com/post/14995205419http://ocularoctopus.com/post/14995205419Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:15:06 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwznrcvqd11qa13ruo1_r1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwznrcvqd11qa13ruo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwznrcvqd11qa13ruo4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwznrcvqd11qa13ruo3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwznrcvqd11qa13ruo5_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>More <em>Star Wars</em> Hipstamatic silliness.</p>http://ocularoctopus.com/post/14992433791http://ocularoctopus.com/post/14992433791Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:26:00 -0800<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwvyhlyyjq1qa13ruo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://ocularoctopus.com/post/14885381311http://ocularoctopus.com/post/14885381311Tue, 27 Dec 2011 15:27:20 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwo76uQt8i1qa13ruo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwo76uQt8i1qa13ruo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwo76uQt8i1qa13ruo3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwo76uQt8i1qa13ruo4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwo76uQt8i1qa13ruo5_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwo76uQt8i1qa13ruo6_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwo76uQt8i1qa13ruo7_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>Passing time with <a href="http://disposable.hipstamatic.com/">Hipstamatic Disposable</a> while watching <em>Return of the Jedi</em> with my son.</p>http://ocularoctopus.com/post/14679789621http://ocularoctopus.com/post/14679789621Fri, 23 Dec 2011 10:54:29 -0800<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lte355nrjb1qc3rgmo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lte355nrjb1qc3rgmo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lte355nrjb1qc3rgmo5_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lte355nrjb1qc3rgmo3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lte355nrjb1qc3rgmo4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lte355nrjb1qc3rgmo6_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lte355nrjb1qc3rgmo7_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lte355nrjb1qc3rgmo8_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://blog.justinmhamel.com/post/11712815215/stephen-shore-revisited-in-google-street-view">jmhamel</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Stephen Shore revisited in Google Street View.</p> </blockquote>http://ocularoctopus.com/post/14623486505http://ocularoctopus.com/post/14623486505Thu, 22 Dec 2011 09:53:41 -0800<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwdcwf6tGC1qa13ruo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://ocularoctopus.com/post/14372814424http://ocularoctopus.com/post/14372814424Sat, 17 Dec 2011 14:24:15 -0800<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwa6obwfsl1qa13ruo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://ocularoctopus.com/post/14298094409http://ocularoctopus.com/post/14298094409Thu, 15 Dec 2011 21:16:59 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lw4d98UHCP1qa13ruo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://ocularoctopus.com/post/14145406484http://ocularoctopus.com/post/14145406484Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:53:31 -0800<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lv31561E231qa13ruo1_500.jpg"/><br/> Todd Walker<br/><br/> <img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lv31561E231qa13ruo2_500.jpg"/><br/> Kelly Mansfield<br/><br/> <img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lv31561E231qa13ruo3_500.jpg"/><br/> Greer Muldowney<br/><br/> <img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lv31561E231qa13ruo4_500.jpg"/><br/> Daniel W Coburn<br/><br/> <p><strong>Fraction Magazine Holiday Sale 2011</strong></p> <p>There are some great photographers participating in this year’s <a href="http://fractionmagazine.com/hps2011">Fraction Magazine holiday sale</a>. I’m fortunate to be in the bunch and there will be more coming in the next few days. I’ve included a few of my faves so far above, alongside my own offering, <em>Evening, West Oakland, 2010</em> (5x7, $50 with shipping.)</p> <p>As last year, all proceeds go 100% to the photographer.</p>http://ocularoctopus.com/post/13179373814http://ocularoctopus.com/post/13179373814Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:10:31 -0800<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lv2rorm2US1qa13ruo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.pictureblackfriday.org/main.html">Picture Black Friday 2011. Get ready.</a></p>http://ocularoctopus.com/post/13164504634http://ocularoctopus.com/post/13164504634Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:36:27 -0800