Guest-Directed Self-Portrait #7

Image | July 27, 2012September 12, 2018 | Paul Greer

You will flip a coin.

“Heads” – Inside

“Tails” – Outside

Heads

Inside Prompt:
Take one photo right before going to bed and one right after waking up through one evening of sleep. Post both in a set or place side by side in a single image with Photoshop/Gimp etc and post that.

If you have a tripod, I would prefer that you use it. That way, each shot is from an identical angle and shows the change in your bed area over one evening of rest. If not, then an attempt should be made to have it show your space in more or less the same position as the night before.

I seem to have broken a few rules. But I do not have a tripod, and never just take “one photo”, so there we are.

(see other GDSP7 submissions here.)

Guest Directed Self-Portrait #05

Image | May 2, 2012September 12, 2018 | Paul Greer

As directed by withoutpretense.

“i would like you to choose a song that is important to you. find the emotion it stirs up in you and run with it. show me how you listen to it, show me what it makes you feel, show me what it makes you want to do.”

My song is You Can’t Quit Me Baby by Queens of the Stone Age.

It’s a love song.

(T)

Guest Directed Self-Portrait #06

Image | April 11, 2012July 20, 2018 | Paul Greer

GDSP #6 – Noir

Directed by J Scott Grand

“Everyone has a little darkness inside of them. Let’s see yours.”

Work In Progress

Image | March 11, 2012September 12, 2018 | Paul Greer

Animated Journal (Long Version)

Video | July 30, 2010December 27, 2025 | Paul Greer

I’ve been keeping an Animated Journal over the last year.

I’ve always liked the picture a day format, video diaries etc, and animation is, traditionally a long drawn out, painful process, this is me trying to free it up and make it a bit more ephemeral.

Stan Brakhage said that he considered what he did to be his home movies and these follow a similar vein.

I generally capture whats going on around me and funnel it into 250 frames.

Art doesn’t have to be a career objective, or a total obsession, or something you make money from, or even something that other people will like. It can be just something you make for yourself, in the cracks of your life, and if you put it up somewhere and other people connect with it, then that’s cool.

It’s made using a variety of software & techniques including Maya, flip book drawings, After Effects, old cameras, roll film, digital photography and so on.