The Daily Camera

Thank You

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TDC
03.15.07 - 03.13.10

Books can be ordered and/or viewed
here
here
and here

I'll still be working on/contributing to these websites:
jacobkoestler.com
(Portfolio site, updates coming soon)

My Idea of Fun
- My Idea of Fun 101 (videos, photos, live recordings, fliers, etc.)
- MIoF Blog (anonymous postings by MIoF contributors)

Rubber Necking
(communication blogging between Ian Rummell and myself)

Endless thanks to my closest friends and the people I've met on the road over the last three years. This project was only possible because of your involvement, both as subjects and collaborators.

See you on the other side...
<3 Jacob

Saturday, March 13, 2010

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Thursday, March 11, 2010

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Something Else

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Two upcoming shows:
April 26 - May 21, 2010
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 29th, 5 - 7pm

The Center for Emerging Visual Artists
1521 Locust Street, Lower Level
Philadelphia, PA 19102

This exhibition exchange is part of an ongoing collaboration by CFEVA and PF/PCA created in order to strengthen the artistic dialogue between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. Cluster was originally presented at The Pittsburgh Center for the Arts and curated by Adam Welch. The Philadelphia presentation of this exhibition was curated by Amie Potsic.

The Pittsburgh artists exhibiting in Selections from Cluster include Dee Briggs, Connie Cantor, Nayda Collazo–Llorens, Kyle Houser, Ben Kehoe, Jacob Koestler, Michael Sherwin, and Lenore Thomas.

May 7th – May 30th, 2010
Opening Reception: May 7th, 6-10pm (with live performances)

New Wilmington Art Association
4 West 5th Street
Wilmington, DE 19801

The Rules for Staying Young explores the impact of baseball as an inspiration and conceptual model for historical and contemporary American artists, while investigating the ties between the game and the visual arts. From Thomas Eakins to Stephen Shore, baseball has captured the imagination and eye of American artists since its conception. The parallels between the timeless nature of our pastime and the evolving artistic studio are abundant, and remain profoundly relevant to contemporary practice. This exhibition highlights the rich territory between game and artist, where the perpetual moments of art and baseball meet.

Curated by Brookes Britcher / Developed in partnership with the NWAA

Participating Artists:
Geoffrey Aldridge (courtesy of Conner/*gogo art projects) / Brookes Britcher / Thomas Buildmore / Peter Capano / Mike Ellyson / Brian Patrick Franklin / Alex Gartelmann / Brandon Herman (courtesy of Envoy Enterprise) / Tom Judd / Michael Kalmbach / Jacob Koestler / Hiro Kurata / David Levinthal (courtesy of David Levinthal) / Ahlen Moin / Christopher Motta / Roger Patrick / Bryan Patrick Rice / Daniel Potterton / Mark Stockton / Brian Stuparyk / Morgan Thomas / Lee Walton

Something Else

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A 709 Railroad Street Benefit Show

With music by Rob Szabo, The One and Only Matt Miller, The Sleepy Trees, The Sunflower Spectacle, Cursed Knife and Drought

And photography by Devon Dill, Laci Hess, Kelly Lanzendorfer, Olivia Locher, Laura McAllister and Shayna Stonecypher

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

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Something Else

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Christopher Bell, Laci Hess, Laura McAllister and I will be sitting behind the My Idea of Fun table at the PPAC Book Fair. We hope to see you there!

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Something Else

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GREEN, GREEN GRASS
April 2 – April 30

Opening reception:
Friday, April 2
7 to 10 pm

IMAGEBOX
4933 Penn Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15224

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Some write-ups about CLUSTER:
Pittsburgh Post Gazette article
Pittsburgh City Paper article
Pittsburgh Trib article

Way to go Adam!

Something Else

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Put on your dress clothes and bring your fifteen minute mixes.

They'll be a reception and slide show for the third and final Daily Camera book (You can preview and order the first two here.) this Friday, March 13 at 709 Railroad Street.

Directly after, there will be a My Idea of Fun show in East Conemaugh at Buster's. We'll have other books on hand and performances by Higher Fives, The Hit and Miss Engines, The Sunflower Spectacle, Technological Epidemic, Laika the Astro-Hound and others.

If you're in the area, I would love to see you here tonight. It's a more important night than most for me. Also, if you have one, please bring your camera along with you. I'd like to include as many shots as I can on this day...

Thursday, February 18, 2010

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Something Else

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RS002 features work by Justin Visnesky, Laci Hess and Bree De Stephano.

You can order your copy here.

Also, we're always looking for submissions.
Please send an email to info@myideaoffun.org if you're interested...

Thursday, January 28, 2010

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Something Else

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If you're in Western Pennsylvania this weekend...

Frozen and Trapped Forever (detail), Jacob Ciocci, 2010

I'll have some photographs, a few of which will be shown for the first time, at PCA this Friday. Here's the deal:

Join us for the opening reception, Friday February 5, 2010

Pittsburgh Center for the Arts and Pittsburgh Filmmakers announce Cluster, a group exhibition of more than 20 Pittsburgh-area artists, curated by Adam Welch. It is on view February 5 – March 28, 2010. An opening reception will be held on Friday evening, February 5 from 5:30 to 8:00pm. It is open to the public; $5 requested donation; free to PF/PCA members. Beginning with this show, PCA will extend Thursday evening hours to 7:00 pm. The Dialogue Series continues on the second Thursday of each month, and the pavilion series will resume on Thursdays in the summer.

Cluster takes over all PCA's gallery spaces at the Shadyside campus and features invited artists who've investigated the spatial device of connections. These connections might be obvious, esoteric, direct, or juxtaposed, and elicit a fundamental element of artistic discourse. Welch says these artists are, "working within their interests to profess what they know or do not know, for a purpose that is both self and collectively informing."

The show offers a wide range of visual works in a variety of mediums from regional artists. Artworks with dissimilar processes and formations will be displayed around the building creating multiple levels of viewing experiences. Some of these are:

* A large-scale mixed-media installation by Jacob Ciocci titled, "Frozen and Trapped Forever." This piece employs HD video with painting, combining outtakes of TV/film, comics and self-drawn animations, rapidly cut and collaged together to create an overload of information.
* A site-specific installation by Jason Lee, which further extends his "Euthenic Set Series," made up of elements of safety-orange painted light boxes containing photographic imagery, wires, plastic ducks and picket fences arranged to present contemporary landscape as sanitized, congenially pristine and compartmentalized.
* Individual video works by Robert Ladislas Derr and Julie Perini, both of which investigate the relationship of history and social constructs through filmed performance acts.
* Interactive installations by Sean Derry and Amanda Long. Derry's piece, "Rehearsing Spring," combines monochromatic panels and heating elements, which hold a temperature close to natural body heat. Long’s work involves color and pattern with multi-channel projectors. When the viewer interacts with it, it takes on different special arrangements of color fields.
* Sculptural works by Dee Briggs, Will Giannotti, Kyle Houser and Anita Sulimanovic, all of which navigate the object as a process of expression.
* Painted/printed/drawn/cut works by Connie Cantor, Brian Brown, David Montano, and Nayda Collazo-Llorens.
* A series of black and white photographs by Jacob Koestler, and digital color photographs by Michael Sherwin.

A few of my closest (Laci Hess, Olivia and Brandon Locher) and I will have some new work in this silent auction. If you're in the area, please come out and spend some money on what will be an incredible asset to Johnstown's art scene.

Serious riffin' all night. Oh, and we'll have new MIoF books and prints...

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

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Something Else

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Lay Flat 02: Meta
104 pages, perfect bound
7.75 x 10 in. / 19.7 x 25.4 cm.
Edition of 2,000

Edited by Shane Lavalette and Michael Bühler-Rose.

Lay Flat 02: Meta brings together the works of contemporary photographers whose images are conceptually engaged with the history, process and conventions of the medium itself. Photographs by Claudia Angelmaier, Semâ Bekirovic, Charles Benton, Walead Beshty, Lucas Blalock, Talia Chetrit, Anne Collier, Natalie Czech, Jessica Eaton, Roe Ethridge, Stephen Gill, Daniel Gordon, David Haxton, Matt Keegan, Elad Lassry, Katja Mater, Laurel Nakadate, Lisa Oppenheim, Torbjørn Rødland, Noel Rodo-Vankeulen, Joachim Schmid, Penelope Umbrico, Useful Photography, Charlie White, Ann Woo and Mark Wyse are accompanied by the textual contributions of Adam Bell (Co-editor, The Education of a Photographer), Lesley A. Martin (Publisher/Editor, Aperture Foundation), Alex Klein (Editor, Words Without Pictures), artists Noel Rodo-Vankeulen and Arthur Ou, as well as an interview with James Welling by Lyle Rexer (Author, The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography).

Lay Flat 01 is sold out, and this one'll probably do the same. Shane and company have a really good eye and put together a really solid look-at. If you'd like to reserve a copy, they're taking pre-orders until January 31st.

Visit Lay Flat's website for more information.

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