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The video clip above is from the January 11th broadcast.
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Art Walk Nashua happens once a year and it’s an open studio event where artists and businesses from all over (but mostly downtown and in the Nashua mill yard) open their studios up and invite visitors to stop in, ask questions and learn about all the awesome stuff located in Nashua.
2020 was different; Covid-19 shut everything down and people couldn’t go and gather in groups to visit studios and businesses.
City Arts Nashua (those in charge of Art Walk Nashua) teamed up with Nashua’s local public access television station Access Nashua, and we interviewed artists in their studios that would be broadcast on public access as well as streamed online. We made a weekend event into a week-long event and I think it went pretty well all things considered.
I even got to be the host of all the interview stuff.
The video above is a 20 minute interview with me in the studio. It gave anyone who watched it a chance to get to know me a little better.
If you have any questions after watching this, please leave a comment down below and let’s keep the discussion going!
Enjoy!
Boston Voyager featured an article about me back in September of last year. You can read it here.
Right about the time I posted this in September on social media, Boston Voyager started to get a bunch of negative press on how they conduct their interview process. I didn’t experience anything crooked or underhanded; they interviewed someone else and at the end of the interview questions, they ask the person to recommend 5 other people that might be interested in being interviewed. Someone had given my contact info, and I was asked. I did the interview and at the end I suggested five artists who I thought would appreciate the FREE PRESS of having an article about them that they could then link to.
That’s it. That is all this website is doing. They populate their website with free interviews. They ask for more people, probably to create some kind of marketing list or database, and that’s pretty much it. After the article came out someone did contact me asking if I’d like a buy a framed version of the article that I could hang on my wall, which I declined, but that was the only “hard sell” I got.
Everything felt totally legit to me. It only took a little of my time answering the questions, I get featured on a website that I can then hotlink to and add it to my list of “cool things about Sid” for people that want to dig deeper and read up about me.
Either way, I’m happy with what I wrote, so if you are interested in digging a little deeper about me, give it a read :)
People have been asking me how photographing with my Hasselblad 500C/M & Phase One P30 digital medium format back has been going.
The answer to that is a bit complicated: It turned into a Mamiya 645DF with DM33 digital back.
Wait, wut?
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HACK ATTACK!
My websites for Sid Ceaser Photography, Sid Ceaser Fine Art, the Portable Portrait workshop and Sara Ceaser's website were hacked a few days ago and damage was done.
Most of ceaserphotography.com is back up, but the other three are currently down as the structure is rebuilt for those sites.
If you were looking for those specific sites, please pardon as attempts are made to get those sites back to working condition as soon as possible.
Thanks!
-Sid
I've always surrounded myself with music - in my primary school days I was buying cassettes and records and would sit at home and just listen and digest all these forms of music; from rock to new-age to film soundtracks to rap - I would just absorb it like a sponge. And that has never changed and there isn't a time when I'm not listening to music. I recently brought a record player and all my records to my photography studio so I can spin while I'm working on client images, and I always have a playlist going when I'm photographing someone or something.
I'm not in any way a music critic, nor do I contain a music critics vernacular, but I thought I'd mention a few artists/albums I've been playing a lot lately and maybe find some new ears and make them a few new fans, because they are all awesome.
Read MoreHead on over to ThinkTank's blog to see a secret about my photography origins! :)
Thanks @thinkTANKphoto for sharing my Secret Origin! https://t.co/hewlIBfVap
— Sid Ceaser (@sidceaser) July 19, 2018
I recently nabbed my Force FX Lightsabers out of storage and brought them to the studio to house them on the wall. I've always wanted to find a simplistic mounting option that didn't look big or bulky, and after doing a little internet searching, I found out that Force FX Lightsaber handles fit perfectly in these mounting brackets made for Maglite flashlights.
They just screw right into the wall and after popping the handles in them, you can hardly see them, and it looks like the lightsabers are floating off the wall a few inches. The above image was taken a few moments after getting all three installed. How awesome is that!!
If you are a nutjob like me and have to have lightsabers, these are the classiest, simplistic way of displaying them. So excellent. Click the small image above to order them through Amazon.
I LOVE the 1978 movie Alien. The atmosphere, the design, the cast, the ambience, the pacing - everything is just darn perfect. Toy company NECA has been making figures based on the movie Alien and it's franchise, and I've been picking some up, making some dioramas here at the studio and making some more "cinematic" photographs using the toys. I wanted to share a little about how I'm making them and share some of them here on the blog.
Read MoreAaron is currently the hottest thing in the world of design. You might have seen his book. You've very probably seen some of his work, somewhere. You might even jot notes down in his Field Notes branded notebooks. I've been a big fan of his work for a while now, and when my wife Sara told me she booked him for an appearance at NHIA as part of his cross-country tour, I knew I had to make a portrait of him.
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