Tag Archives: Bay Area

Fotografo | Pictorialist | Raconteur

Posted on September 14, 2014 by rorydean

My photos are part Blow Salon’s group Fall Art Show 2014, available from August through November in Berkeley, California. Prints of varying sizes, framed and unframed are available. Please contact me directly for further information. My photographs are inherently exploitative, a mélange of traditional and contemporary techniques based on the transformational principles of pictorialism. In this way my images bridge the chasm between personal expression and collective observation, melding the shifting social and cultural attitudes of today. Continue reading →

Posted in Essays on art, Online, Speak-Freely | Tagged above the line, Bay Area, berkeley, blow salon, dissave pictures, el cerrito, Fall Art Show 2014, Fotografo, from the everywhere, melissa k. smith, photographer, pictorialism, Pictorialist, Raconteur, rory dean, San Francisco | Leave a comment

Blow Salon ‘Spring Art Show’ features Melissa K. Smith

Posted on April 16, 2014 by rorydean

Blow Salon’s Spring Art Show features the acrylic painting “Veilbreaker” by Bay Area native and multi-disciplinarian Melissa K. Smith. Melissa lives and works in the Bay Area as a fine artist, photographer and independent film and video producer with ties throughout Northern California. Her works include original art and multi-media creations that are available for sale, commission and exhibition. She is also the blogger in charge of content for From The Everywhere, co-owner and contributing editor of Dissave Pictures – an independent production company by artists and for artists, serving the greater San Francisco Bay Area, and she is also available by appointment for one-on-one and group instruction of photography and art lessons. In addition she is the artist, creator and publisher of the graphic novel series Blood Roses in its fifth print edition. Continue reading →

Posted in Essays on art, Online, Speak-Freely | Tagged acrylic painting, artist, Bay Area, berkeley, bleuravyn, blood roses, blow salon, California, dissave pictures, from the everywhere, graphic novel, jfk university, melissa k. smith, never cry wolf rescue & adoptions, painter, photographer, seventhwolf, spring art show, vampire comics | 5 Comments

Rory Dean featured in “Splice” magazine

Posted on September 30, 2012 by bleuravyn

“..Rory Dean’s tribute to Godard does an excellent job in emulating Raoul Coutard’s signature camera angles from behind the characters, indoor panoramas and plain-air portraits, like the ones framing a beautiful girl on the beach through the lens of Eddie’s camera. What makes this film truly Godardian, however, is the postproduction intervention in its black and white colour regime (amounting to what the director calls a “whimsical palate”) and in its sound design.” Continue reading →