It's something that I want to do where you actually go out and handwrite in a journal take pictures on film make it old school make it analog it's really cool couple other things I want to point out do know another thing that I really like is the range of work that you have in here we go from more conventional shots to landscapes to some things that I would expect to see in here but then these bizarre unexpected things like the skeleton fishing from the lawn chair uh this is really interesting and very well done and so I will link this up below

I want to mention something else too because this wraps up in the beautiful state of Arizona and I'm really actually interested in seeing your other two books uh because I think this is interesting one of the things that I discovered oh gosh a couple years ago was 2017 I had never been to Arizona grew up in the United States been all over but I'd just never been to Arizona for some reason and I was invited out for a trip I did some videos on that and if you're interested link them up somewhere but uh anyway when I went on that trip I had never been to the Grand Canyon never been to Arizona I went to Flagstaff but I flew in and out of Phoenix and it's really amazing that when you go up that road it is one of the most beautiful places in this entire country and that's just Highway 17 and then you get to explore and you realize it gets even better than that and uh I strongly recommend everybody thinks they have to go somewhere exotic when they want to go shoot something you have to go to Iceland or you know and as a result everybody goes to those places and this is one of the Hidden gems of the United States I believe anyway I love thank you for sharing this is awesome all right next up is the Easter Island project this is really awesome

this comes to us from James Craig who lives in Marland and this is called I'm not going to attempt the uh the actual language here but in English the moon has been eaten I want to read something from the inside of this book here that'll give you some context it says the images in this volume are the end product of over a year on Easter Island and well over 20,000 exposures the plan was simple maroon ourselves for a year on the most isolated bit of inhabited land on the planet where I would amass a portfolio of black and white images while my wife painted why Easter Island

I wish I could claim that the project or the images themselves and all that turned out so well for both of us sprang up from some telling Insight or purpose on my part but that wouldn't reflect the true nature of art or life for that matter the reality is is that most art as many of life's defining moments is rooted in the Lesser wisdom that accommodates accident or something that could be best described as saying well it seemed like a good idea at the time

we wanted a major art project one that would lend itself to both my black and white photography and my wife's painting one way to accomplish this would be to put our lives on hold and take up to a year focusing on a specific subject or location totally immersing ourselves in our art possibly away from home instead of treating this as a fantas notion it became a thread to pick up and follow

we eventually agreed after my initial project outline met with rejection that would present Nan with a dozen destinations of which she would choose or not because I saw so much potential in a couple of proposals at the top of my list I was having a great deal of trouble reaching the required number most of which I can't remember in a fit of desperation I distinguished added two random but plausible ideas that came to mind

the final totally not serious scribbling spend a year on Easter Island so James this project is particularly impressive and I have to say hats off I've always wanted to go to a place like Easter Island which obviously as you know is very remote and very difficult to get to and it's one thing just to go there and take some images and it's another thing to do total complete immersion for a year and I think that's really awesome

that you guys did that and I think it shows in the work you know I typically think of Easter Island as just being the crazy sculptures that you see in pictures everywhere and it's way more than that and uh this book is really awesome so I will link up to this as well as everything else in the show description below

so make sure you support your colleagues James thanks for sharing this is quite awesome he has copies of these left by the way and I will catch you guys in the next video

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthis video is brought to you by Squarespace welcome back everyone in this video we're going to check out some viewer mails some awesome books and Zen submitted by viewers like you before we get going I do want to mention something so last week I mentioned the release of the hustel blood 907x this is the 100 MEAP pixel version it's a really quite awesome camera and I want to note something speaking of hustel blood so hustel Blood also do what they call the hustle blood Masters competition this is an annual competition that they do every year anyone can submit from around the world you submit images and the winners will receive a 100 megapixel hustle blood let me share some details with you cuz I think this is actually very cool so this is from the hustel blood website I will put a link in the show description below this video if you were interested but in a nutshell since it was established in 2001 the hosel blood Masters competition has been dedicated to providing a platform for Extraordinary photographers worldwide the hustel blood Masters is one of the world's most prestigious art competitions giving professionals the chance to make their Mark in the world photography winners will receive a hosel blood 100 megapixel mirrorless medium format camera along with two xcd lenses and a creative fund of €5,000 in addition Hasselblad will invite members to fulfill their personal photography Ventures using hosel blood cameras selected Works will then be published in the commemorative hosel blood Masters book this is an actual book that they do once a year it's really very cool of course you can scroll through here and see the esteemed jurors that will be judging the photographs the submission deadline is February AR 29th 2024 so it's coming up I'll put a link if you guys are interested to the competition and all the rules and stuff in the description below this video so definitely check it out and without further Ado let's get to some of your work this week so first up is this book called city of the Angels this comes to us from Brad Fulton and I want to share something else with you he sent me two decks of playing cards and uh his last name is Fulton and you might recognize fanol actually hold on a second I I I have something to show you all right so this is rodol this is is one of my favorite film developers the classic box the AGA box this is really old but uh anyway see what he's going for there very cool I want to start out by saying that we get a lot of stuff for Mail Time in here we've gotten books in the past we've gotten Zen sometimes we get calendars and there's other creative projects people do this is very unusual and it is very awesome and let me just get into this and I'll share it with you here so the deck of cards all have custom photographs on them so there's the Joker we've got like for instance the two of spades here three of Spades so on so forth each one of these cards has a photograph on it this is really unusual and actually man I really like this of course the back of each one of these has the fol label on it the book is card themed as well and uh Brad includes a note which reads dear Ted Forbes you are the only YouTube photography Channel I trust as a student at USC film school I used to talk to Ralph Gibson and I was planning on doing a documentary on him in 2015 and he is my hero the documentary never happened but I'm so glad that he inspires you also so I have shot only with the Leica M for decades I worked in Hollywood doing portraits and became known for shooting playing cards here I gift you my Zen and the first to my knowledge photo book in playing card format I know you will get the box a play on Rodell I now live in Austin let's get coffee someday Ted I'm a huge fan your friend Brad Fulton Brad mentions in the back here that this entire book was shot on a Leica M7 using Trix film and Brad this is fabulous I don't think I've ever seen anything like this this such a unique Niche that you got and I love the photographs I see the Ralph Gibson influence although I don't think you look like him at all I think you've taken this an entirely New Direction I love the gestures with the hands and the cards I love the grit and the graininess of all these images this is a really unusual book and I'm very impressed I I don't think I've seen anything like this ever very good job my man this is uh really quite terrific I also really like how you portray Motion in here with some of these blurry images anyway Brad it's good to meet you you're in Austin we definitely need to get coffee sometime I will link up to Brad's book below and his website and all that good stuff so you guys remember support your colleagues check out their stuff and if you see something interested to you books make really good gifts for oneself or somebody else so uh anyway Brad thanks for sending and you guys check him out so this is kind of an interesting coincidence that Ralph Gibson comes up in two books in a row here because this comes to us from a gentleman named David Kamar who I met when I did a workshop with Ralph Gibson a while back on bookmaking uh this is a really cool book called in the footsteps of Alfred and it is conceptual and I'll expl here he includes a note which reads dear Ted I hope that this finds you well I'm not sure if you'll remember me but we met during the Ralph Gibson bookmaking workshop and I am thrilled to learn of your upcoming series you're doing with him on your YouTube channel since seeing you at the workshop I've been meaning to send you a copy of my first book this was done before the workshop and tell you how much I appreciate your channel thank you for all that you do best regards David So as you may have gathered from the title here what David's doing is he's done a conceptual book and this is a really cool idea based on places that Alfred Saget shot in in fact in the last page of the book there's a little map with a guide here showing you where things were and some context over here this is very well done David I'm very impressed I love the black and white uh look that you've got throughout it's very clean uh it's very reminiscent and a nice tribute to Alfred stiglets but without being Alfred stiglets you definitely put your own mark on here I love the quotes in here it's a really cool concept actually um I think that it's this would be the kind of project where it would be really easy to go through and try to retake shots that maybe the Past Masters had done cuz I've seen a lot of that and I really like your approach on here and actually just imposing your own personality and your own take on photography but that's the glue that holds This Together anyway excellent job my man this is really awesome so I'll link up to David's book below if you guys are interested uh this is very unusual I haven't seen anything like this in a while either so uh this this is a this is a good book day today we we've got some really awesome stuff here I mean they usually are but uh this is unusually exciting so anyway David thank you for sending this is awesome I've got a couple more that I want to share with you including the moon has been eaten which is a collection of photographs done at Easter Island and then HOV which is a very cool conceptual book as well but real quick I want to take a break and give a shout out to our sponsor today who are the awesome folks over at Squarespace how easy is it to build an amazing website in a matter of minutes Squarespace has you covered it's dead simple head over to Squarespace hit get started you can start by selecting from an impressive collection of customizable templates or you can do what I do build your own something unique because you know you're not like other websites give your site a name next you can build your homepage we'll start with a few preset layouts just to get us going want to sell products like books or prints well you can feature those on your 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there's a story behind it 47 rolls of 120 film in 27 days in the open road up the west coast and back down to my home state of Arizona to preface HOV is the finale in my series of three books including my first two Heatwave and high and dry with the first two being solely based upon the weird mysterious and abandoned places of Arizona I felt it was necessary to wrap up the series by showing the skills that I built here being put to the test in a variety of different places whilst being out in my comfort zone traveling alone on the open road I made it a point to wrap up every day with the trip with a journal entry either about what I did or how I felt internally that day I think that these journal entries give great context to the photos within I hope this book book finds you well and I hope to hear your thoughts on it please let me know if you made it all the way through there are some messages in the journals about my grandparents that I believe are truly impactful thanks for your time your channel and been a subscriber for years now dino Jagger III Dino this is fabulous I really like what you're doing here I love the whole idea of making this a journal another thing that I want to point out actually a couple things I want to point out to people in here that I really like first of all I love the fact that this is treated like on the road it's one thing when people will do books and I see a lot of these where their pictures of places and whatnot and it's a journey that they've taken but you've included all these behind thes scenes shots of the car of the road and it really personalizes that quite a bit I think this combined with the handwriting for the text and the whole idea of journal entries this is something that I really want to see more people do it's something that I want to do where you actually go out and handw write in a journal take pictures on film make it old school make it analog it's really cool couple other things I want to point out do know another thing that I really like is the range of work that you have in here we go from more conventional shots to Landscapes to some things that I would expect to see in here but then these bizarre unexpected things like the skeleton fishing from the lawn chair uh this is really interesting and very well done and so I will link this up below I want to mention something else too because this wraps up in the beautiful state of Arizona and I'm really actually interested in seeing your other two books uh because I think this is interesting one of the things that I discovered oh gosh a couple years ago was 2017 I had never been to Arizona grew up in the United States been all over but I'd just never been to Arizona for some reason and I was invited out for a trip I did some videos on that and if you're interested link them up somewhere but uh anyway when I went on that trip I had never been to the Grand Canyon never been to Arizona I went to Flagstaff but I flew in and out of Phoenix and it's really amazing that when you go up that road it is one of the most beautiful places in this entire country and that's just Highway 17 and then you get to explore and you realize it gets even better than that and uh I strongly recommend everybody thinks they have to go somewhere exotic when they want to go shoot something you have to go to Iceland or you have to you know and as a result everybody goes to those places and this is one of the Hidden gyms of the United States I believe anyway I love thank you for sharing this is awesome all right next up is the Easter Island project this is really awesome this comes to us from James Craig who lives in Marland and this is called I'm not going to attempt the uh the actual language here but in English the moon has been eaten I want to read something from the inside of this book here that'll give you some context it says the images in this volume are the end product of over a year on Easter Island and well over 20,000 exposures the plan was simple maroon ourselves for a year on the most isolated bit of inhabited land on the planet where I would amass a portfolio of black and white images while my wife painted why Easter Island I wish I could claim that the project or the images themselves and all that turned out so well for both of us sprang up from some telling Insight or purpose on my part but that wouldn't reflect the true nature of art or life for that matter the reality is is that most art as many of life's defining moments is rooted in the Lesser wisdom that accommodates accident or something that could be best described as saying well it seemed like a good idea at the time we wanted a major art project one that would lend itself to both my black and white photography and my wife's painting one way to accomplish this would be to put our lives on hold and take up to a year focusing on a specific subject or location totally immersing ourselves in our art possibly away from home instead of treating this as a fantas notion it became a thread to pick up and follow we eventually agreed after my initial project outline met with rejection that would present Nan with a dozen destinations of which she would choose or not because I saw so much potential in a couple of proposals at the top of my list I was having a great deal of trouble reaching the required number most of which I can't remember in a fit of desperation I distinguished added two random but plausible ideas that came to mind the final totally not serious scribbling spend a year on Easter Island so James this project is particularly impressive and I have to say hats off I've always wanted to go to a place like Easter Island which obviously as you know is very remote and very difficult to get to and it's one thing just to go there and take some images and it's another thing to do total complete immersion for a year and I think that's really awesome that you guys did that and I think it shows in the work you know I typically think of Easter Island as just being the crazy sculptures that you see in pictures everywhere and it's way more than that and uh this book is really awesome so I will link up to this as well as everything else in the show description below so make sure you support your colleagues James thanks for sharing this is quite awesome he has copies of these left by the way and I will catch you guys in the next video so I will see you then laterthis video is brought to you by Squarespace welcome back everyone in this video we're going to check out some viewer mails some awesome books and Zen submitted by viewers like you before we get going I do want to mention something so last week I mentioned the release of the hustel blood 907x this is the 100 MEAP pixel version it's a really quite awesome camera and I want to note something speaking of hustel blood so hustel Blood also do what they call the hustle blood Masters competition this is an annual competition that they do every year anyone can submit from around the world you submit images and the winners will receive a 100 megapixel hustle blood let me share some details with you cuz I think this is actually very cool so this is from the hustel blood website I will put a link in the show description below this video if you were interested but in a nutshell since it was established in 2001 the hosel blood Masters competition has been dedicated to providing a platform for Extraordinary photographers worldwide the hustel blood Masters is one of the world's most prestigious art competitions giving professionals the chance to make their Mark in the world photography winners will receive a hosel blood 100 megapixel mirrorless medium format camera along with two xcd lenses and a creative fund of €5,000 in addition Hasselblad will invite members to fulfill their personal photography Ventures using hosel blood cameras selected Works will then be published in the commemorative hosel blood Masters book this is an actual book that they do once a year it's really very cool of course you can scroll through here and see the esteemed jurors that will be judging the photographs the submission deadline is February AR 29th 2024 so it's coming up I'll put a link if you guys are interested to the competition and all the rules and stuff in the description below this video so definitely check it out and without further Ado let's get to some of your work this week so first up is this book called city of the Angels this comes to us from Brad Fulton and I want to share something else with you he sent me two decks of playing cards and uh his last name is Fulton and you might recognize fanol actually hold on a second I I I have something to show you all right so this is rodol this is is one of my favorite film developers the classic box the AGA box this is really old but uh anyway see what he's going for there very cool I want to start out by saying that we get a lot of stuff for Mail Time in here we've gotten books in the past we've gotten Zen sometimes we get calendars and there's other creative projects people do this is very unusual and it is very awesome and let me just get into this and I'll share it with you here so the deck of cards all have custom photographs on them so there's the Joker we've got like for instance the two of spades here three of Spades so on so forth each one of these cards has a photograph on it this is really unusual and actually man I really like this of course the back of each one of these has the fol label on it the book is card themed as well and uh Brad includes a note which reads dear Ted Forbes you are the only YouTube photography Channel I trust as a student at USC film school I used to talk to Ralph Gibson and I was planning on doing a documentary on him in 2015 and he is my hero the documentary never happened but I'm so glad that he inspires you also so I have shot only with the Leica M for decades I worked in Hollywood doing portraits and became known for shooting playing cards here I gift you my Zen and the first to my knowledge photo book in playing card format I know you will get the box a play on Rodell I now live in Austin let's get coffee someday Ted I'm a huge fan your friend Brad Fulton Brad mentions in the back here that this entire book was shot on a Leica M7 using Trix film and Brad this is fabulous I don't think I've ever seen anything like this this such a unique Niche that you got and I love the photographs I see the Ralph Gibson influence although I don't think you look like him at all I think you've taken this an entirely New Direction I love the gestures with the hands and the cards I love the grit and the graininess of all these images this is a really unusual book and I'm very impressed I I don't think I've seen anything like this ever very good job my man this is uh really quite terrific I also really like how you portray Motion in here with some of these blurry images anyway Brad it's good to meet you you're in Austin we definitely need to get coffee sometime I will link up to Brad's book below and his website and all that good stuff so you guys remember support your colleagues check out their stuff and if you see something interested to you books make really good gifts for oneself or somebody else so uh anyway Brad thanks for sending and you guys check him out so this is kind of an interesting coincidence that Ralph Gibson comes up in two books in a row here because this comes to us from a gentleman named David Kamar who I met when I did a workshop with Ralph Gibson a while back on bookmaking uh this is a really cool book called in the footsteps of Alfred and it is conceptual and I'll expl here he includes a note which reads dear Ted I hope that this finds you well I'm not sure if you'll remember me but we met during the Ralph Gibson bookmaking workshop and I am thrilled to learn of your upcoming series you're doing with him on your YouTube channel since seeing you at the workshop I've been meaning to send you a copy of my first book this was done before the workshop and tell you how much I appreciate your channel thank you for all that you do best regards David So as you may have gathered from the title here what David's doing is he's done a conceptual book and this is a really cool idea based on places that Alfred Saget shot in in fact in the last page of the book there's a little map with a guide here showing you where things were and some context over here this is very well done David I'm very impressed I love the black and white uh look that you've got throughout it's very clean uh it's very reminiscent and a nice tribute to Alfred stiglets but without being Alfred stiglets you definitely put your own mark on here I love the quotes in here it's a really cool concept actually um I think that it's this would be the kind of project where it would be really easy to go through and try to retake shots that maybe the Past Masters had done cuz I've seen a lot of that and I really like your approach on here and actually just imposing your own personality and your own take on photography but that's the glue that holds This Together anyway excellent job my man this is really awesome so I'll link up to David's book below if you guys are interested uh this is very unusual I haven't seen anything like this in a while either so uh this this is a this is a good book day today we we've got some really awesome stuff here I mean they usually are but uh this is unusually exciting so anyway David thank you for sending this is awesome I've got a couple more that I want to share with you including the moon has been eaten which is a collection of photographs done at Easter Island and then HOV which is a very cool conceptual book as well but real quick I want to take a break and give a shout out to our sponsor today who are the awesome folks over at Squarespace how easy is it to build an amazing website in a matter of minutes Squarespace has you covered it's dead simple head over to Squarespace hit get started you can start by selecting from an impressive collection of customizable templates or you can do what I do build your own something unique because you know you're not like other websites give your site a name next you can build your homepage we'll start with a few preset layouts just to get us going want to sell products like books or prints well you can feature those on your homepage create a few more sections if you want let's also give it a color palette there's a whole bunch to choose from and just get it started we can change this all later next let's select the typography choices welcome to your website everything is set up up and it's all ready for you to customize Squarespace is built on fluid engine the next generation of website design select edit and fluid engine allows you to drag place and resize any element on the page you can snap these to a grid you can make them float on top of one another you can free form however you like you can even preview and adjust how the site looks on either desktop or mobile the layouts are independent of course you'll want a portfolio for your work creating an image Gallery is as easy as dropping a folder of images on your web browser once uploaded you can drag to Resort customize the look and Squarespace writes all of the code for you everything just works and it looks fabulous want to sell your own prints books or Zen Squarespace has the capabilities to not only set up your online store and collect payments but they also give you all the tools that you're going to need to be successful managing shipping and payment options manage your orders and engage with your customers they even give you the tax tools that you need to keep things organized and stay compliant you should try Squarespace for yourself it's absolutely free no credit card required just go to squarespace.com aop sign up for that free trial if you decide Squarespace is right for you I can save you an additional 10% on your order by using offer code aop on checkout that's right the code is aop so stop procrastinating go build your website today and I want to give a special shout out and thanks to Squarespace for sponsoring this video all right so next up is this book called HOV which comes with a cool bumper sticker this comes to us from Dino Jagger and Dino includes a note which reads dear Ted okay I know it's big but hear me out there's a story behind it 47 rolls of 120 film in 27 days in the open road up the west coast and back down to my home state of Arizona to preface HOV is the finale in my series of three books including my first two Heatwave and high and dry with the first two being solely based upon the weird mysterious and abandoned places of Arizona I felt it was necessary to wrap up the series by showing the skills that I built here being put to the test in a variety of different places whilst being out in my comfort zone traveling alone on the open road I made it a point to wrap up every day with the trip with a journal entry either about what I did or how I felt internally that day I think that these journal entries give great context to the photos within I hope this book book finds you well and I hope to hear your thoughts on it please let me know if you made it all the way through there are some messages in the journals about my grandparents that I believe are truly impactful thanks for your time your channel and been a subscriber for years now dino Jagger III Dino this is fabulous I really like what you're doing here I love the whole idea of making this a journal another thing that I want to point out actually a couple things I want to point out to people in here that I really like first of all I love the fact that this is treated like on the road it's one thing when people will do books and I see a lot of these where their pictures of places and whatnot and it's a journey that they've taken but you've included all these behind thes scenes shots of the car of the road and it really personalizes that quite a bit I think this combined with the handwriting for the text and the whole idea of journal entries this is something that I really want to see more people do it's something that I want to do where you actually go out and handw write in a journal take pictures on film make it old school make it analog it's really cool couple other things I want to point out do know another thing that I really like is the range of work that you have in here we go from more conventional shots to Landscapes to some things that I would expect to see in here but then these bizarre unexpected things like the skeleton fishing from the lawn chair uh this is really interesting and very well done and so I will link this up below I want to mention something else too because this wraps up in the beautiful state of Arizona and I'm really actually interested in seeing your other two books uh because I think this is interesting one of the things that I discovered oh gosh a couple years ago was 2017 I had never been to Arizona grew up in the United States been all over but I'd just never been to Arizona for some reason and I was invited out for a trip I did some videos on that and if you're interested link them up somewhere but uh anyway when I went on that trip I had never been to the Grand Canyon never been to Arizona I went to Flagstaff but I flew in and out of Phoenix and it's really amazing that when you go up that road it is one of the most beautiful places in this entire country and that's just Highway 17 and then you get to explore and you realize it gets even better than that and uh I strongly recommend everybody thinks they have to go somewhere exotic when they want to go shoot something you have to go to Iceland or you have to you know and as a result everybody goes to those places and this is one of the Hidden gyms of the United States I believe anyway I love thank you for sharing this is awesome all right next up is the Easter Island project this is really awesome this comes to us from James Craig who lives in Marland and this is called I'm not going to attempt the uh the actual language here but in English the moon has been eaten I want to read something from the inside of this book here that'll give you some context it says the images in this volume are the end product of over a year on Easter Island and well over 20,000 exposures the plan was simple maroon ourselves for a year on the most isolated bit of inhabited land on the planet where I would amass a portfolio of black and white images while my wife painted why Easter Island I wish I could claim that the project or the images themselves and all that turned out so well for both of us sprang up from some telling Insight or purpose on my part but that wouldn't reflect the true nature of art or life for that matter the reality is is that most art as many of life's defining moments is rooted in the Lesser wisdom that accommodates accident or something that could be best described as saying well it seemed like a good idea at the time we wanted a major art project one that would lend itself to both my black and white photography and my wife's painting one way to accomplish this would be to put our lives on hold and take up to a year focusing on a specific subject or location totally immersing ourselves in our art possibly away from home instead of treating this as a fantas notion it became a thread to pick up and follow we eventually agreed after my initial project outline met with rejection that would present Nan with a dozen destinations of which she would choose or not because I saw so much potential in a couple of proposals at the top of my list I was having a great deal of trouble reaching the required number most of which I can't remember in a fit of desperation I distinguished added two random but plausible ideas that came to mind the final totally not serious scribbling spend a year on Easter Island so James this project is particularly impressive and I have to say hats off I've always wanted to go to a place like Easter Island which obviously as you know is very remote and very difficult to get to and it's one thing just to go there and take some images and it's another thing to do total complete immersion for a year and I think that's really awesome that you guys did that and I think it shows in the work you know I typically think of Easter Island as just being the crazy sculptures that you see in pictures everywhere and it's way more than that and uh this book is really awesome so I will link up to this as well as everything else in the show description below so make sure you support your colleagues James thanks for sharing this is quite awesome he has copies of these left by the way and I will catch you guys in the next video so I will see you then later\n"