Wednesday, May 05, 2010
Tuesday, May 04, 2010
High-End Bars starting to curate local artists? Yes!!!
I had this idea awhile back, but it looks like a local firm is actually doing it now, ie. using high-end bar plasmas as "curated galleries" of local artists. I made this slideshow to be played in a soon-to-be-open tequila bar in downtown Austin.
Monday, May 03, 2010
New Skip Hunt Print gallery now Open!
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Soon... On the Road Again
After far too much deliberation, I think I’ve finally settled on searching for the “exotic” within the familiar landscape of my own country, the United States.
I will be dispensing tidy morsels along the way free of charge with links to more text, image & sound rich versions that will be easy to buy via paypal and will only cost between the cost of a cup of coffee and a well drink. ;-)
I don’t know if anyone will value my efforts enough to toss a few pennies my way, but I’m hoping for the best. I plan on also kickin’ the quality of my dispatches up a bit and spending the time necessary to whittle it down to nothing but the cream. :-)
I have a couple projects to wrap up & I need to get a bit of maintenance done to my steel steed “Betty Blue” and then I’ll be off into the great unknown. To where exactly, I haven’t a clue. But, will likely ask for suggestions from you all along the way.
More to come. Stay tuned! :-)
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Thursday, April 22, 2010
New Skip Hunt Print Gallery Site!
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
4th CNN Travel Photo of the Day!
Just got my 4th CNN Travel Photo of the Day! Made this image atop a mountain at this very mystic place in Mexico called Tepoztlan. :-)
Monday, April 19, 2010
Lonely Planet giving away free iPhone guides in honor of Eyjafjallajökull messing with Europe
The aptly-named "Volcano Relief Sale" is being held in hopes of helping travelers stuck in unfamiliar places find "access to practical information as well as suggestions on what to do whilst stranded," according to Tom Hall, Lonely Planet Travel Editor. "That's why we're giving away iPhone city guides to major affected destinations."
Those destinations include: Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Budapest, Copenhagen, Istanbul,London, Moscow, Munich, Paris, Rome, Stockholm, and Vienna.
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/04/19/lonely-planet-giving-away-free-iphone-guides-in-honor-of-eyjafja/
Spectacular New View of a Cosmic Cat’s Paw
This new image of the Cat’s Paw Nebula reveals new details laid bare by the near-infrared imaging of the VISTA telescope.The Cat’s Paw, located 5,500 light-years away in the Scorpius constellation is filled with dust that makes for a beautiful image (below) but obscures many of the stars. The European Southern Observatory’s VISTA telescope in the Chilean Atacama Desert is the most powerful near-infrared imager on Earth with a main mirror that is more than 13 feet across as well as the largest infrared camera on any ...This message was shared via my6sense
Friday, April 16, 2010
"Anticipation Gold" ~ 10th floor of the Hard Rock Hotel, Las Vegas © 2010 Skip Hunt
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Conscious Stream ~ 04.14.10
You’ve read about mutilated livestock and it’s always speculated that those dastardly extra-terrestrials were likely to blame. I wonder… do they ever find human’s with their organs mysteriously removed with surgical precision? If not, I find that highly suspicious.
I watched a woman in high heels teetering along the asphalt parking lot with the focus and easy determination of a Barnum’s stilt-walking clown. I get that the extra height has a slimming effect and that the look is considered attractive in western culture. Still,I always wonder why. Who was the first person who decided making shoes that balance atop a spike was a good idea?
Wouldn’t it be funny to discover the original inventor was a male, and the only desired result was to make it harder for women to run away?
A friend sent me a note listing other foods believed to have psychoactive properties. Along with pure cacao chocalate was avacado, assorted nuts, etc.
Some items I couldn’t locate, but I packed up all I could find as lunch and road my motorcycle to this lovely park to dine alone under a large willow tree.
I am feeling quite euphoric to be honest. So maybe there’s something to it. Or, perhaps it’s just the fact I’m waking in the Springtime sunshine after a fancy lunch in a park along the lake among the willows. ;-)
I know people who work very hard all of the time. I mean ALL of the time. They set goals, budget their time, and spend their time and resources wisely. And, they all have such nice things to show for it. In a few years they’ll be all set to spend their last years in this life without a financial care in the world.
Me? I’m wasting time meandering around a lovely park nibbling on dark chocolate and thinking of opening a bottle of cheap red wine with no money and nothing to show for my time. What’s wrong with me?!
Maybe tomorrow I’ll wake from my careless slumber and make something of my life like all of those “winners” do. But for now I think I’ll take another stroll along the shoreline and see if I might find a suitable skipping stone.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Digg Story: WikiLeaks clip will show US massacre of Afghan civilians
Teen Emerges From Coma Fluent in German
Monday, April 12, 2010
"Gravity" ~ Barcelona, Spain © 2010 Skip Hunt :: skiphuntphotography.com
much like mine.As I pondered the reflection, it became more real
than the one I had known...Until, I realized the mirror was the truth, and my perception......was only the valid twin of all I had dreamed.”"Gravity" ~ Barcelona, Spain © 2010 Skip Hunt :: skiphuntphotography.com
Friday, April 09, 2010
"Bird Can't Fly" ~ Old Foosball Player in Oaxaca, Mexico © 2010 Skip Hunt
sinuous sea.
"Bird Can't Fly" ~ Old Foosball Player in Oaxaca, Mexico © 2010 Skip Hunt
Thursday, April 08, 2010
Wednesday, April 07, 2010
Is Dark Chocolate Psychoactive?
Get'm while they're HOT! :-)
As a promotion with Fine Art America, a very limited (ONLY 10) stretched-canvas prints my "The Birds" (Smithsonian Finalist) image is being offered until 4/10 at near cost! Get'm while they're HOT! :-)
The Buddha Documentary on PBS 4/7!
Tuesday, April 06, 2010
Monday, April 05, 2010
Digg Story: Incredible Video of Using Light to Control the Brain of Mice
Saturday, April 03, 2010
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Monday, March 29, 2010
"Betty" ~ Austin, Texas © 2010 Skip Hunt
Grabbed some fresh snaps at the Fairgrounds on Friday.
Your Friend is sharing the "Why Buy a Car When You Can Travel Via Jet Pack?" article with you.
Jet packs have been available before but this latest design from Martin Aircraft Company is perhaps one of the most affordable options yet for those seeking new and exciting personal travel options. Marketed as good for personal use, emergency services, and even the military, each duel-propelled pack boasts 200hp and can travel up to 30 miles in 30 minutes on a single tank of fuel. Plus the unit is light enough that no pilots license is required for use (in the UK, anyway), so on a nice day the average Joe can forget hopping in the car to go pick up a gallon of milk and strap on a jet pack instead.
The New Zealand-based company is looking to start production soon and hopes to produce up to 500 jet packs per year for sale at pound;50,000 each.
(Via Dvice)
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Friday, March 26, 2010
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
"El Pintor de Orizaba" ~ Orizaba, Mexico © 2010 Skip Hunt
I'm wondering... do you suppose this subject would make a nice documentary if I could find this guy again? This man was considered a mad man in his city of Orizaba. The locals avoided him. He paints on this abandoned building everyday and stands by his morning's work for the afternoon. He was so happy that I didn't think he was crazy and wanted to make his image. He's a true "artist" in my book.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
"Fado" ~ Coimbra, Portugal © 2010 Skip Hunt
Friday, March 19, 2010
"Varanasi Symphony" ~ Dawn on the Ganges in Varanasi, India © 2010 Skip Hunt
sweet journey....and... return back into Her mystic... Eternal womb."
"Varanasi Symphony" ~ Dawn on the Ganges in Varanasi, India © 2010 Skip Hunt
Monday, December 14, 2009
New Skip Hunt Vagabond: MEXICO 2009 Book Available NOW!
Oh man! I am SOOOOO happy with out great this book printed! As many of you know, I tend to go for the most saturated and rich coloring in my images… which is not always easy to transfer in print. Well, I’m please to report that the printing is absolutely beautiful! The images just leap off the page.I bought the soft cover for myself, but I think I would prefer the hard cover on my next ordering. I actually lowered the price on my hard cover options to encourage that choice over the soft cover option, but it looks pretty sweet too.
Likely, I’m biased ;-) but I’m confident this would make an amazing Holiday gift for yourself or anyone you think would like to take an amazing journey on a motorcycle through Mexico. Think about it, 70+ images and the best of the best journal entries all in one book!
The deadline for ground shipping to get your Skip Hunt Vagabond: MEXICO 2009 book in time for holiday delivery is Dec. 10th.
Order yours today!
Click HERE for preview and ordering
Monday, June 15, 2009
New Interview!
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
On the Road Again... Soon!
Getting excited now! Got my new front tire yesterday, and a new chain, new back tire, and new front fork seals a month ago.
Now dealing with the last few days of anxiety about going... always get that for some reason... then after I'm finally "on the road"... anxiety melts away into sublime vagabond Nirvana. Ahhhhhh!!!!
I shot mostly black & white on my last Mexican adventure, but I think I'm going to get back to HOT vivid color (like the Xochimilco image on my first post. Here's one of the b/w images from the last adventure:
NEW! Skip Hunt Vagabond Travelblog here: http://skiphuntvagabond.tumblr.com
Stay Tuned!
Monday, May 04, 2009
Skip Hunt's Mexico: Artist Reception May 9th 7-9PM
This collection is from my recent motorcycle journey in Jan/Feb of 2009. I was reading Edward Weston's Mexico: Daybooks on the trip and decided to shoot mostly black and white. Digital yes, but set as b/w and not raw... so there would ONLY be black/white versions. It was an interesting exercise for me and am quite happy with the results!
These images were made while touring in Mexico ~ Jan/Feb of 2009. And take the viewer into a part of Mexico most never see. Because most of the images were focused more on the literal, and traditional... I thought it'd be interesting to have half the show be the opposite but still Mexico. The other half is all abstract, and textural in brilliant color. There will be reception drink specials, hor'deurves, the photography of Skip Hunt, and live music by Paul Finley! http://www.paulfinleymusic.com
So come on out and join us for some fun, art, music, and vino! Here's the collection many of these images were taken from: http://skiphuntmexico2009.carbonmade.com
Interview with Skip Hunt for RedBubble: http://bit.ly/17sF6
Interview with Skip Hunt for 1stAngel: http://bit.ly/1JDXjR
Hope you can all make it! Disfruta!!!
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Skip Hunt Photography ~ Guatemala 2008
Enjoy!
Skip Hunt Photography ~ Guatemala 2008
Monday, November 10, 2008
Saturday, October 18, 2008
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Wednesday, March 05, 2008
Exhibition: The Unique Perspectives of Skip Hunt [Photography]
Drogos do Brazil ~ Austin, Texas ~ 2nd and San Jacinto ~ MARCH 1-31 ~ Opening March 7th, 7pm till 9pm
Skip Hunt is a photographer who lives in Austin, Texas. Well, I mean that’s his residence, but his mind, his heart and his camera are always traveling to find and catch exotic places and then share his feelings with the lucky people that can see his images, so incredibly wrapped up in a unique atmosphere that lets you feel and taste colours and light, but also – as if in a magical ether – the sounds, the flavours (mostly spicy ones), scents and vibrations.
Each Skip Hunt photograph is the synthesis of a life experienced, it is not just the reporter’s curiosity – that often dominates in photography today, linked to an event or a precise narration – but the willingness to walk next to the subjects of the photos through their worlds and let us live the feelings he absorbs and perceives. For a second, for a minute… or for all the necessary time. Have a grand journey through the photos of these emotions and feelings reported, look at his gallery and sink into one of his wonderful worlds. You likely won’t want to leave…
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
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Saturday, February 04, 2006
Photo Gallery of Orizaba, Mexico
The link above is to a little online photo gallery from Orizaba, Mexico. You'll need your monitor res settings at at least 1024x768. If you're using a smallish monitor, or have your screen resolution set low and can't see the bottom thumbnails when vertical images are displayed, just use the little control panel on the page to the bottom right-hand side to navigate the gallery or hit the little play button to start an automatic slide show. Disfruta!
ps. next gallery presentation coming after a few more miles down the road and likely Puebla.
(The following link is from an ongoing live travel
journal as I head into Mexico on a dual-sport Kawasaki
KLR650 with the Panasonic LX1 as my only image capture
device to explore the East Coast of Mexico. If you
would like to read the entire installment, go to
http://www.poppinfreshmedia.com/skipmexmc.html and
read the most recent blog entry. This blog started
last Summer as I traveled the interior of Mexico and
the Baja. It's complete with photos, photo galleries,
and now LX1 video clips. If you would like to get an
automatic email when the motorcycle blog is updated
with new content, there's a place on the right margin
of the blog that allows you to subscribe for updates
for free!)
Photo Gallery of Alvarado to Catemaco, Mexico
The link above is to a little online photo gallery from Alvarado to Catemaco, Mexico. You'll need your monitor res settings at at least 1024x768. If you're using a smallish monitor, or have your screen resolution set low and can't see the bottom thumbnails when vertical images are displayed, just use the little control panel on the page to the bottom right-hand side to navigate the gallery or hit the little play button to start an automatic slide show. Disfruta!
ps. next gallery presentation coming after a few more miles down the road and likely Orizaba.
Tuesday, January 17, 2006
Skip's Mexican Motorcycle Odyssey Part II
(The following is from an ongoing live travel journal as I head into Mexico on a dual-sport Kawasaki KLR650 with the Panasonic LX1 as my only image capture device to explore the East Coast of Mexico. If you would like to read the entire installment, go to http://www.poppinfreshmedia.com/skipmexmc.html and read the most recent blog entry. The entire blog started last Summer as I traveled the interior of Mexico and the Baja. It's complete with photos, photo galleries, and now LX1 video clips. If you would like to get an automatic email when the motorcycle blog is updated with new content, there's a place on the right margin of the blog that allows you to subscribe for updates for free!)
Mexico ~ January 12-17, 2006
I don't know why it always takes be several hours to get ready and pack for one of these trips. It's always check, re-check, tighten all the bolts twice, etc. I mean, it's not like I'm going off into the void or anything. You can always find just about anything you need in countries like Mexico (except decent chain lube). But, at 2AM I was finally convinced there was no more packing and rechecking to be done.
Naturally, I didn't get on the road as early as I'd hoped. There was the last minute drop off at the post office that ended up taking an extra hour, etc. But soon I was blazing down the highway South.
The weather was a bit ominous which didn't help my launch jitters. It was overcast, grey, windy, and a bit of chill in the air. As I neared the border there was a huge fire to my right that sent a blackened-grey smoke cloud up into the already ashen sky. The smoke pillar's torso seemed to glow a dirty yellowish brown and I tried not to look at it. It sort of made me uneasy for some reason.
Every border crossing I've encountered so far as been pretty straight forward with the signage. Such was not the case near Reynosa. I think there are several crossing points, but the one I happened to land at was called something like Fhatt I think. I really was skittish about crossing this time. Didn't know why, but I thought I might spend the night on the U.S. side and cross in the morning when I'd be fresh. Figured I'd pick a room close to the bridge so that I'd get up, grab a shower, and hit the Aduana with all my faculties.
I turned a couple streets and the next thing I knew was that I was inline for crossing. Oh well, no time like the present. It was already around 5PM so I thought maybe if it went smooth I'd try to ride past Reynosa and to the next town to get a room for the night. Such are the best laid plans. ;-)
There was a pretty long line to cross, but it did move pretty quick. In no time I was on the Mexican side trying to find the office for vehicle permits. You'd think it'd be right there on the other side of the bridge. There was a sign pointing left and I followed the already harried traffic until I saw a building that looked "official". A half hour later and many circles around the area, I still hadn't found it. Turns out it's only about 3 blocks away, but it's tucked behind some other buildings. Luckily someone pointed me in the right direction and again I was inline.
I should've remembered from the last trip all the hoops you have to jump through. After waiting in line for the permit, I was directed to another line for a new tourist Visa. This is where it really started to go down hill. After another wait in line, the official raised his eyebrows, counted days on his fingers, then rushed back to enter something in the computer. When he came back he told me my permit and visa had expired by six days. I explained that I knew this, and had been given instructions by both the Mexican Consulate in Austin, and Bancerito (or something like that) in Mexico City, that it was quite alright if I turned in the vehicle permit late instead of making two trips to the border. That's about when my stomach sunk as I realized he wasn't talking about the vehicle permit, but the tourist visa. He seemed pretty disgusted and said I hadn't even paid the $210 pesos for the original visa. I protested to no avail that I had paid the fee and he shook his head and said, "We know you're lying.. you have no stamp on your visa..." I again told him I paid but that the Laredo border officials must have neglected to stamp my form."........
(continue reading and see more photos, etc. from this trip in this blog ~ http://www.poppinfreshmedia.com/skipmexmc.html)
Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Cool travel camera Panasonic DMC-LX1
I've been looking for a little compact for motorcycle trips that give me a nice image, high res, is compact, and shoots 30fps video clips for future trips.
Since some have expressed interest in my photo gear I thought I'd share a few images from my latest discovery.
I've been testing this little Panasonic DMC-LX1 compact digital camera that I think might be my next travel cam.
I shot a few snaps a couple days ago here in Austin, Texas. Here's a few I shot this afternoon. Click the title link, or paste the following url into your browser to see more lovely samples from this digicam.
http://www.poppinfreshmedia.com/lx-1
~Skip
