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Special Shoutouts

We'd like to extend a special thank you to two talented artists who have recently sent in their work for our consideration. First, we're delighted to feature Marcus Kirchhofer's stunning Zen piece, "Vintage Race Weekend." This beautifully crafted image was shot on black and white film and developed in Rodol, creating a distinctive grain that adds depth and texture to the piece.

Marcus, thank you for sharing your incredible work with us! We were fascinated by your note, which mentioned that this was a new experience for you - we highly recommend revisiting vintage racing cars to see where it takes you. Your compositional sense is impressive, and we'd love to see more of your work in color as well.

Next up are two pieces from Matt Adam, "Unwrap" and "Steel." These striking black and white images feature a bold, graphic aesthetic that's reminiscent of the works of Da Vinci. We're not sure what inspired these images, but they certainly evoke a sense of energy and movement.

Matt, thank you for sharing your art with us! Your website is filled with intriguing projects and ideas - we'd love to explore them further in future videos. Keep creating, and who knows? Maybe one day we'll see more of your work featured here on our channel.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthis video is brought to you by Squarespace all right welcome back everyone it is time once again to look at some awesome viewer work these are some zenes and books s in by people like you we're going to go ahead and get started this is from ettien rine this is a beautiful piece this is done in a newsprint format and ettien enclosed a note which reads hello Ted this journal contains photographs of the images that I pasted on the walls of the city of arls between 2019 and 2023 pasting in public space allowed me to make my work known and aroused real enthusiasm during the ront a 50-year-old and quite famous French photography Festival in the street the images take on an intense Second Life altered by the irregularities of the walls the weather and the interventions of passerbys the photographs can have a particular charm the newspaper medium through its paper and format resonates with the posters thank you Ted for your inspiring work best wishes at the end so by the way the title here translates into torn arls which I think is great I love everything about this love the title I love the images I love the fact that etn is taking images pasting them up they become public art and then he's photographing them and then making a Zen out of it I think the newspaper format is absolutely perfect for this I love the sense of color that goes on in here the design the layout this is absolutely incredible and for those of you who don't know ARL um in France has a wonderful very famous photography Festival that they do every year they've done it as he mentioned for 50 years in fact this year when it was going on my uncle happened to be in arls at the same time and he was texting me all the time he's not even a photograph grapher and he said it's just really it takes over the city and something that's really neat I would like to go one day I think that should be on my bucket list but anyway back to your project at end this is absolutely amazing I love everything about this I think the newspaper format really speaks well towards this I love the fact that you're zooming in and you're getting in tight and you're getting a lot of those textures that come out um it's just really really well produced this is another one of my favorites here uh the weathering is part of the whole thing the people passing by and the fact that these images kind of start to get torn up pretty quick this is just fabulous the the the size is appropriate everything about this is good and so uh ET and I have nothing to uh critique on here uh you guys should get a copy of this and I'm going to link up to eten and everyone else in the show description below so make sure you support your colleagues this is outstanding my man oh and while we're on the subject people ask me quite often Ted when are you going to do another Zen Workshop well we have one scheduled October 26th is when this one starts I will put a link in the show description you can find out all the details if you want to take the class this is online you can be anywhere in the world uh the way it works is we get on Zoom we meet once a week for 4 weeks and you're going to have assignments the whole idea is that you are going to make a Zen during our time together uh I've done this a couple times now I just I absolutely love it seeing the student work that comes out of this is so good I've shared a lot of that in these videos you've probably seen some of it it really is a very cool and special experience and the way that we work is it's assignment based and so we'll meet once a week and you guys will have a week to complete another section of your project of the Zen that you're going to produce and then we'll bring it back and the third week we actually take a week off from the main class and then I break everybody down into small groups and so you're going to get some one-on-one time with me and some feedback directly about what's working maybe some things that could be worked on and people come out of this with really exciting projects and I it's something that I absolutely love so anyway check that out I'll put it in the show description but it is online you can be anywhere in the world and take it and we'd love to have you there so uh check it out all right so next up is this very beautifully produced book that comes to us from Spencer Sanderson this is called typographic photography a photo book by Spencer Sanderson Spencer also enclosed a note which reads hi Ted I am sending you a copy of my first photo book typographic photography volume 1 which is a 64-page collection of analog images centered around typography or graphic elements and compositions due to some confusion with the printer I was told to use the wrong color profile and the images appear slightly less saturated they should be and are lacking some contrast despite that I hope you'll still be able to appreciate their Concepts compositions and the way the photos work together in the layout hope you enjoy and look forward to hearing your feedback Che here's Spencer okay Spencer the Golden Rule at the Art of Photography here is that we don't apologize for our work now I do understand and I've been there uh where something goes wrong at the printer and it does not come out exactly like you thought it would look um I wouldn't worry about it honestly because I don't know what these images look like normally and they don't feel desaturated to me it kind of has an analog vibe to it and I really don't see it's a problem and if you hadn't mentioned that I probably wouldn't have noticed anything uh more importantly let's talk about your work and the book this is very beautifully done I absolutely love love it I love the Stitch binding on here if you guys can see that uh the way this is done is it's actually stitched with thread together and it's just held together with the two cardboard covers it's very cool and very beautiful um I will make an admission to you I was a little skeptical when I pulled this out of the packaging because typography and graphic elements are very difficult to work with allow me to explain so my point of reference is really my own approach to work as well as work that I've seen and the problem that I have with using typography and graphical elements as the main focus of the photography is and hear me out on this is that when it's a language that you understand it colors your perception of what's going on in the photo and it's easy to get gimmicky with that really quick having said that though Spencer you have changed my mind of how this can be approached and how it can be done first of all it's not overdone that's something that I love you're mixing in the graphic elements with other images and that I love this too that you have a sense of dialogue on each spread of how each image relates to the next one and it lifts it from being gimmicky it lifts it from being just kind of too obvious I really really like this uh I think it's absolutely outstanding um I like your sense of color on here I know you didn't intend for it to be faded out but it kind of works actually with this book especially when you have just you know kind of the organic cardboard cover I love the way that you've uh embossed the type in there this is this is really nice um I really don't have any criticism of this at all other than I'm really excited that you were able to change my mind of the way that I kind of looked at a specific type of subject matter also I dig the little subtle references in here the four 31 is on page 43 so it's not too obvious but it's in the ballpark but this is this is really cool I I really love the work in here and uh you know I love it when somebody sends somebody something in that challenges my perceptions of stuff this does it so check out Spencer's work I will uh put a link to his website below check it out folks we are on a roll today I have a couple more that I want to share with you these are really awesome but real quick I want to give a shout out to our sponsor this week 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 section if you want let's also give it a color palette there's a whole bunch to choose from then 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 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 capability 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 I've got two little pieces that I want to share that come to us from Germany these are from Marcus kirchhofer Marcus included a note which reads dear Ted I am a fan of your channel for a long time and it has been a great source of inspiration I'm sending you two things first of all a little Zen that I made recently it's about a vintage race weekend at a racetrack here in Germany that was completely new to me as I'm not into Motorsport at all but it was nice to see the dedication of the people to preserve these old pre-war racing cars to enhance the Vintage Vibe I shot this little series on black and white film and developed it in rodol to create a little more grain I'm curious to know what you think the second item is a lell about a trip to Istanbul from last year I tried to capture The Melancholy feeling that I experienced during that trip all the best and keep going greetings from cologne Marcus all right so Marcus you've got a really nice range to what you're working on here this piece is color and I don't know if this is a metallic ink or how you did this but it's really beautiful uh very nice work I do want to talk a little bit about your Zen though on auto racing this is one of my favorite things I absolutely love it I think that you've got a really interesting start here you mentioned that this was new to you and I think it's something that maybe you should revisit I would highly encourage that you've got an interesting compositional sense um you know developing your film in rod certainly creates a vibe to that I'd almost like to see some of these in color as well uh but anyway there's a lot of potential here and I would just suggest that you keep going this is really nicely done uh I'm kind of a sucker for vintage cars so uh you know it's something that I'm kind of drawn to anyway but uh anyway man nice work I think there's a lot you can do with like maybe slower shutter speeds getting motion blur uh just explore this and see where it goes uh but anyway thanks for sharing I will link it up in the show description below all right so next up are two little Zen that come to us from a gentleman named Matt Adam and there is no note in here but these are both called unwrap and steel I did go to Matt's website and he seems to do a lot of Street type art and that's reflected in these um a lot of black and white and color images mixed together I love the strong daylow colors that he's used on the cover of both of these uh I did go to his website and yeah it's there's a lot of interesting stuff that he's got going on in terms of art projects so you might want to take a look at that um other than that I don't have a note so I really can't go off of much and I don't know what these are about but I do like the aesthetic it's kind of interesting it reminds me sort of a macro version of Da morama or something but it's very gritty very inyour face and very interesting so Matt thank you for sending I appreciate it all right so I want to thank everyone who sent stuff in today and remember I will link stuff below and if you have any questions or comments leave them there as well I will see you guys in the next video Until then laterthis video is brought to you by Squarespace all right welcome back everyone it is time once again to look at some awesome viewer work these are some zenes and books s in by people like you we're going to go ahead and get started this is from ettien rine this is a beautiful piece this is done in a newsprint format and ettien enclosed a note which reads hello Ted this journal contains photographs of the images that I pasted on the walls of the city of arls between 2019 and 2023 pasting in public space allowed me to make my work known and aroused real enthusiasm during the ront a 50-year-old and quite famous French photography Festival in the street the images take on an intense Second Life altered by the irregularities of the walls the weather and the interventions of passerbys the photographs can have a particular charm the newspaper medium through its paper and format resonates with the posters thank you Ted for your inspiring work best wishes at the end so by the way the title here translates into torn arls which I think is great I love everything about this love the title I love the images I love the fact that etn is taking images pasting them up they become public art and then he's photographing them and then making a Zen out of it I think the newspaper format is absolutely perfect for this I love the sense of color that goes on in here the design the layout this is absolutely incredible and for those of you who don't know ARL um in France has a wonderful very famous photography Festival that they do every year they've done it as he mentioned for 50 years in fact this year when it was going on my uncle happened to be in arls at the same time and he was texting me all the time he's not even a photograph grapher and he said it's just really it takes over the city and something that's really neat I would like to go one day I think that should be on my bucket list but anyway back to your project at end this is absolutely amazing I love everything about this I think the newspaper format really speaks well towards this I love the fact that you're zooming in and you're getting in tight and you're getting a lot of those textures that come out um it's just really really well produced this is another one of my favorites here uh the weathering is part of the whole thing the people passing by and the fact that these images kind of start to get torn up pretty quick this is just fabulous the the the size is appropriate everything about this is good and so uh ET and I have nothing to uh critique on here uh you guys should get a copy of this and I'm going to link up to eten and everyone else in the show description below so make sure you support your colleagues this is outstanding my man oh and while we're on the subject people ask me quite often Ted when are you going to do another Zen Workshop well we have one scheduled October 26th is when this one starts I will put a link in the show description you can find out all the details if you want to take the class this is online you can be anywhere in the world uh the way it works is we get on Zoom we meet once a week for 4 weeks and you're going to have assignments the whole idea is that you are going to make a Zen during our time together uh I've done this a couple times now I just I absolutely love it seeing the student work that comes out of this is so good I've shared a lot of that in these videos you've probably seen some of it it really is a very cool and special experience and the way that we work is it's assignment based and so we'll meet once a week and you guys will have a week to complete another section of your project of the Zen that you're going to produce and then we'll bring it back and the third week we actually take a week off from the main class and then I break everybody down into small groups and so you're going to get some one-on-one time with me and some feedback directly about what's working maybe some things that could be worked on and people come out of this with really exciting projects and I it's something that I absolutely love so anyway check that out I'll put it in the show description but it is online you can be anywhere in the world and take it and we'd love to have you there so uh check it out all right so next up is this very beautifully produced book that comes to us from Spencer Sanderson this is called typographic photography a photo book by Spencer Sanderson Spencer also enclosed a note which reads hi Ted I am sending you a copy of my first photo book typographic photography volume 1 which is a 64-page collection of analog images centered around typography or graphic elements and compositions due to some confusion with the printer I was told to use the wrong color profile and the images appear slightly less saturated they should be and are lacking some contrast despite that I hope you'll still be able to appreciate their Concepts compositions and the way the photos work together in the layout hope you enjoy and look forward to hearing your feedback Che here's Spencer okay Spencer the Golden Rule at the Art of Photography here is that we don't apologize for our work now I do understand and I've been there uh where something goes wrong at the printer and it does not come out exactly like you thought it would look um I wouldn't worry about it honestly because I don't know what these images look like normally and they don't feel desaturated to me it kind of has an analog vibe to it and I really don't see it's a problem and if you hadn't mentioned that I probably wouldn't have noticed anything uh more importantly let's talk about your work and the book this is very beautifully done I absolutely love love it I love the Stitch binding on here if you guys can see that uh the way this is done is it's actually stitched with thread together and it's just held together with the two cardboard covers it's very cool and very beautiful um I will make an admission to you I was a little skeptical when I pulled this out of the packaging because typography and graphic elements are very difficult to work with allow me to explain so my point of reference is really my own approach to work as well as work that I've seen and the problem that I have with using typography and graphical elements as the main focus of the photography is and hear me out on this is that when it's a language that you understand it colors your perception of what's going on in the photo and it's easy to get gimmicky with that really quick having said that though Spencer you have changed my mind of how this can be approached and how it can be done first of all it's not overdone that's something that I love you're mixing in the graphic elements with other images and that I love this too that you have a sense of dialogue on each spread of how each image relates to the next one and it lifts it from being gimmicky it lifts it from being just kind of too obvious I really really like this uh I think it's absolutely outstanding um I like your sense of color on here I know you didn't intend for it to be faded out but it kind of works actually with this book especially when you have just you know kind of the organic cardboard cover I love the way that you've uh embossed the type in there this is this is really nice um I really don't have any criticism of this at all other than I'm really excited that you were able to change my mind of the way that I kind of looked at a specific type of subject matter also I dig the little subtle references in here the four 31 is on page 43 so it's not too obvious but it's in the ballpark but this is this is really cool I I really love the work in here and uh you know I love it when somebody sends somebody something in that challenges my perceptions of stuff this does it so check out Spencer's work I will uh put a link to his website below check it out folks we are on a roll today I have a couple more that I want to share with you these are really awesome but real quick I want to give a shout out to our sponsor this week 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 section if you want let's also give it a color palette there's a whole bunch to choose from then 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 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 capability 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 I've got two little pieces that I want to share that come to us from Germany these are from Marcus kirchhofer Marcus included a note which reads dear Ted I am a fan of your channel for a long time and it has been a great source of inspiration I'm sending you two things first of all a little Zen that I made recently it's about a vintage race weekend at a racetrack here in Germany that was completely new to me as I'm not into Motorsport at all but it was nice to see the dedication of the people to preserve these old pre-war racing cars to enhance the Vintage Vibe I shot this little series on black and white film and developed it in rodol to create a little more grain I'm curious to know what you think the second item is a lell about a trip to Istanbul from last year I tried to capture The Melancholy feeling that I experienced during that trip all the best and keep going greetings from cologne Marcus all right so Marcus you've got a really nice range to what you're working on here this piece is color and I don't know if this is a metallic ink or how you did this but it's really beautiful uh very nice work I do want to talk a little bit about your Zen though on auto racing this is one of my favorite things I absolutely love it I think that you've got a really interesting start here you mentioned that this was new to you and I think it's something that maybe you should revisit I would highly encourage that you've got an interesting compositional sense um you know developing your film in rod certainly creates a vibe to that I'd almost like to see some of these in color as well uh but anyway there's a lot of potential here and I would just suggest that you keep going this is really nicely done uh I'm kind of a sucker for vintage cars so uh you know it's something that I'm kind of drawn to anyway but uh anyway man nice work I think there's a lot you can do with like maybe slower shutter speeds getting motion blur uh just explore this and see where it goes uh but anyway thanks for sharing I will link it up in the show description below all right so next up are two little Zen that come to us from a gentleman named Matt Adam and there is no note in here but these are both called unwrap and steel I did go to Matt's website and he seems to do a lot of Street type art and that's reflected in these um a lot of black and white and color images mixed together I love the strong daylow colors that he's used on the cover of both of these uh I did go to his website and yeah it's there's a lot of interesting stuff that he's got going on in terms of art projects so you might want to take a look at that um other than that I don't have a note so I really can't go off of much and I don't know what these are about but I do like the aesthetic it's kind of interesting it reminds me sort of a macro version of Da morama or something but it's very gritty very inyour face and very interesting so Matt thank you for sending I appreciate it all right so I want to thank everyone who sent stuff in today and remember I will link stuff below and if you have any questions or comments leave them there as well I will see you guys in the next video Until then later\n"