First and foremost, come out to our studio this Saturday from noon to 5pm for the annual spring open house. We will be doing demos on the image transfer process and have samples from a bunch of the classes we will be teaching this spring and summer at the Art League School, The Washington Glass School and The Brentwood Arts Exchange. Come see image transfers, pinhole images and cyanotypes. And for those who have not yet seen it, come see our fancy new studio at the Gateway Arts Center at 3901 Rhode Island Avenue in Brentwood Maryland.
While you're there check all the other artists on the second floor of our building, as well as the Washington Glass School, Red Dirt Studios, Flux Studios, DC Glassworks, The Prince George's County African American History Museum and others.
On a second note, the picture you see above is my friend Jeff Kavanaugh with a couple of guys you may recognize. Well, at least one of them. Jeff is the longtime assistant to Heinz Kluetemeier, a world renowned sports photographer for Sports Illustrated. Heinz is also one of the pioneers of putting remote operated cameras in the pools during swimming competitions. The 2008 Beijing Olympics were no exception. Well, Heinz had recently had shoulder surgery was not able to jump in and out of the pool and help set up the gear for the races, so this became Jeff's task. Jeff was also operating the camera from a laptop during the race itself.
Some of you may remember the disputed race between Michael Phelps and Milorad Cavic where Phelps won by the narrowest of margins causing an immediate complaint by Caivic's coach. As Jeff recalls:
"...this photo basically stopped a mess of arguments. Immediately after the race, when Phelps was announced the winner by .01 seconds, Cavic and his coach filed a protest of the results, saying there is no way Phelps won......that the results were faulty or rigged (considering Omega is the official timing system, and also sponsors Phelps.....). The IOC (International Olympic Committee) immediately held a meeting with both teams and officials. We showed the photo to the Photo manager on the pool deck, and he told us to come with him and bring the computer. When Cavic and his coach saw our photograph, they dropped their protest. Was pretty cool."
Well, almost 2 years later, they were able to arrange a meeting of the two to autograph the photo together. They signed about 100 copies that will be sold by the International swimming Hall of Fame for fund raising. Considering the heated debate on the race itself, I think it is pretty cool that they got together to do this. On a side note, Heinz made sure that Jeff got some credit from SI when it was published. An unusual and nice gesture by one of the greats.
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