CactiWhile my parents were visiting, we went on an excursion to Huntington Gardens. I was impressed by the library, and took some photos of the Japanese garden, but when I downloaded, the cacti were the stars of the show. My eye was transfixed by the textures, colors, and shapes.
Theaters in Downtown Los AngelesRecently I did a black and white series of downtown theaters. For three years I worked as a projectionist in a jazz age theater, and I realize now how fortunate we were that our theater was still operating; hopefully some of these will be restored as downtown is renovated.
Bridges in Downtown Los AngelesThe bridges in downtown were introduced to me via a group ride following the 2009 LA Bike Summit. I previously only really used the Broadway Bridge. I love the symbolism of a bridge as much as its engineering.
Fotobox: the Early DaysOriginally, most of my photos were heavily processed in Gimp, an open source graphic manipulation program. Nowadays, I generally do less processing, and my primary software is Aperture. I still use Gimp for all my vector graphics, though.
Photoshop, etc.Before I went open source, I was using Photoshop like everyone else. Its a wonderful, powerful program, but I feel its kind of heavy for web work. This is a casual portfolio of graphics I did for various personal projects: postcards, t-shirts, stuff.
RetrospectiveHere is a gallery of my work before I went digital. While I still enjoy working with my hands, it has been very freeing to have my whole process come down to a laptop. Some of these paintings go back to when I was in high school, including a self portrait I did when I was sixteen years old.
The visual work I’m publishing at the moment is all photography, though I am moving into video and returning to animation. The photographs began as a collection of work for a website. Munjeli Fotobox was built as a demo for the software iWeb; I wanted to show my customers interested in web design how configurable the templates could be, and address some of the layout issues typical to blogs.
Since I was working nights, most of my intitial photos were of empty buildings in downtown Los Angeles, shot while I was commuting by bike from work. After the first ten or so I realized I had a theme: Voilá! It was an architecture blog! My photos have changed alot, becoming more spontaneous and less processed; a result of blogging, which demands new content regularly. One thing I didn't realize when I started was that I would better understand and appreciate downtown LA by seeing it through the lens. The photoblog has not just improved my photography skills, but educated me about LA architecture.
The other works here are older. They include graphics I did while learning Photoshop, and a retrospective of images in conventional media (i.e. paintings and drawings) that date back to my high school days. Check out my Flickr page or the blog for more information and photos.
