Stutter on screen posted on November 1st, 2009
Now that Bravo! TV has screened our little short nationally we can share it with you here online and in full format. Enjoy!
Stutter from Artist Bloc on Vimeo.
Keri KNAPP
Jordan Shoot a Wrap! posted on October 7th, 2009
Completed shoot for an NFB (National Film Board of Canada) interactive documentary on poet Jordan Scott. We captured Jordan reading to an audience and interviewed him on his experience growing up with a stutter and how they relate to the poems in his book Blert. All of this will be weaved into a flash based interface. I’m pretty excited about the concept we have come up with. Check back later to find a link to the work.
Stutter - after show! posted on June 3rd, 2009
Jolene..Jolene..jolene…jolene… posted on April 16th, 2009
This will be my first official post to the artist bloc blog…
Since I finished school 5 years ago, like many artists I’ve felt a constant pressure to discover a way to make a living doing what I love. Last may I found it in the very place I swore I never would look…weddings…I won’t ramble on about my business as it has consumed by life completely over the past year. It has had me dabbling in occupations I never thought accounting, administration, customer relations, design, web design, computer programming. Drifting me further and further from what I love most about photography… Photojournalism.
I miss the excitement…the adrenaline rush of the experience, being completely consumed ..working to tell the story to capture the emotion of a moment. I love the thrill when you click your shutter its when you know you have that 1 image…its real, its honest it hides nothing… a picture that is truly worth a thousand words.
My inspiration is fueled by a passion, an idea, I’m on a hunt and ready for a new journey. I feel close but I am not quite there. I’ve been looking in the eyes and minds of my close friends artists…Dancers, Painters, Musicians, Photographers.
I’m suffering from an artist bloc.
Here are a few images of my friend Jolene, Jolene is a beautiful woman and talented Dancer. I photographed a recent performance, a dance piece called Neema choreographed by her best friend and neighbour Jonathon…thank you Jolene for your inspiration.
Inspiration posted on April 16th, 2009
CONTRASTS posted on January 25th, 2009
happiness…it is a small place I find in between someone else and myself. It is that small place I search for that makes me break out in a smile and in a sense of bliss that i know will pass possibly as soon as it comes. I am ready yet surprised by it each time. I think of the colour blue and of green and the red sunset and I think of that someone that “you”" and i feel like I can let myself forget all that sadness and all that i couldn’t be or do and i can just feel the soft kiss of the sun and watch the birds fly in the clear sky and i can finally smile to myself and thank that I am alive.
Photos by Keri Knapp
lack of inner space posted on January 19th, 2009
Photo by Keri Knapp
As I struggle to write a script which is my first one, I asked my friend to take some photos of the talented young woman who I envision as the main character. The stage has been set, the characters have been chosen now I just have to give them a purpose..and what purpose will they serve, what demons will they help me exorcise. The art I want to present should be challenging and inspired and speak of the human condition in a profound way not only as an externalized, claustrophobic manifestation of my very private neurosis.