Jeremy Gonzalez

The nose. Oh no, the nose! Anonymous. Like a deep breath.

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 02:29:32 -0500

The nose. Oh no, the nose! Anonymous. Like a deep breath.

Into the C of uncertain T

Tue, 25 Sep 2012 05:45:00 -0400

At last glance I think I was somewhere in between here and then, shifting back and forth in my metaphysical chair scratching notes into the underside of my desk. That sounds about right. But, now I awaken in the midst of another adventure altogether. The sea looks warm and the sky is in full illumination. And here I am, on the wake of a third decade, with tracks that seem to be modestly spaced. I find a train ticket in the breast pocket of a worn button up dress shirt. I wonder where that ride might have taken me. I guess it doesn’t matter now, I am well on my way towards a different destination. How many chapters can one expect from an unfinished book? Is there even any way to gauge something like that at the beginning of an unwritten chapter? Perhaps not, but I am reminded of a single droplet gathering mass around the lip of a silver faucet. At some point gravity always wins, and that might not be such a bad thing. The restless never sleep, but I ought not fulfill that expectation

Back, Without A Trace

Sat, 18 Aug 2012 05:33:45 -0400

Oh, it is time for another tumbl, but I am not sure what to say. So, I will say, “hey”, I redid my website and now I need to make new content. http://jermzv2.com/

I used to do stuff like this all the time, but now that I have a...

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 01:40:53 -0400

I used to do stuff like this all the time, but now that I have a new sketch book and a scanner I want to start playing around again.

The Battle Of The Introspective

Thu, 26 May 2011 08:38:04 -0400

And how do you look through the eyes of the defeated? A punched up tourniquet sparked with fear and envy. She sits alone with two pieces of hurt between her lips, a ghost of past libations. They offer nothing. Instead, you feel the sting in your solar plexus — I will bring you forth, but for the good of the good. And doeth no wrong as henceforth you are my shadow — She thinks her unearthly thoughts and picks apart the Constructs. Will you be heard? They chase off the balance of the Center, off the path to the bold of darkness. There are rumors. They slide down the walls around us all — For each is his/her own empathy, and through our collective calm we shall proceed into that which ties us all — I pay attention but rarely do I give much thought. I hear it ringing. It attacks my senses, but I pay no head, for I am not the defeated — And in this truth we will rise to realization that we are not ourselves. We are not our broken bodies. We are not our misdeeds and misguided charities. We are everything — She sits alone, and rarely do they pay her any mind.

Napi Designs Photo Shoot

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 06:27:13 -0400

So, me and Nichole had been wanting to collaborate again ever since our last photo shoot for the Bakotopia News Years cover. We’ve had several things planned that fell through for various reasons before she moved to Santa Barbara. So, once the new year rolled around again, we decided to make a better effort to get things done. We finally set a shoot date at the end of March and were all set and ready to go. That was until a crazy storm decided to roll through and flood everyone out. Fortunately, we had better luck a week later and had some fun. Here are some of the images that I put together. All of the outfits were create by Nichole. You can check out more of her work at www.napidesigns.com

Photos by Jeremy Gonzalez (No Image Photography)
Clothes by Nichole Patino (Nap Designs)
Model Heather Berhosky (Antietam)

Alien conspiracy: Trend or Obsession?

Sat, 22 Jan 2011 15:50:58 -0500

Hello tumbl town. It’s been a long time ‘tween. I’ve been doing a lot of events lately and have neglected to post anything here. I was building my blog on my photography site, but got distracted so it still isn’t live. I have been doing a lot of photo manipulation lately. Most of it just sits on my computer and gives me a laugh now and then. I do notice a theme trending. My fascination with space and alien life forms has definitely made its way into my work. Here are just a few examples of what will probably be a recurring theme.

Close encounter of the first kind. Epic jam session is halted by an unlikely observer.

Close encounter of the second kind. Our visitors are a bit more curious this time around.

Close encounter of the third kind. Their work in alien human hybridization is quite advanced these days. One can only imagine what the future holds.

Fast and Ridiculous: Compositing Ever After

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 06:00:43 -0400

Those who know me, know I love to mess around with my photos. Most of them never get posted up anywhere, and most of them are usually just to make me laugh. Lately, I’ve been thinking of taking this a bit more seriously (or as close to serious as I can realistically come) and decided I want to develop a portfolio of my quirky images to be used as ad campaigns.

I messaged my cousin a last week and asked if he wanted to help me with a car test-shoot. I never really photographed cars before, so I thought I would give it a try before I took up a project for a body shop. My cousin has a few cars he was fixing up so I thought he might want to have them model for me.

We took his blue Toyota out and shot a couple on the east side. I just set up some lights and took some different shots. Of course, whenever me and my cousin get together, things can get pretty random. So, I ended up with the image below.

Larger version here: http://www.noimagephotography.com/hit-and-run.php

My original idea was to add my cat into the image and make it look like was holding him on a leash. He’s always has these incredible leaps when he plays “string,” but as expected, he was camera shy. So, I opted for my best Harry Potter impression instead.

Circa Survival of the Fittest

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 18:35:13 -0400

The first time I witnessed a Circa show was a few years back when they came to the Montgomery World Plaza here in Bakersfield. My brother Jacob and my friend Jessica were both fans so I decided I would go check out the show. Once they hit the stage the crowd went nuts. The show stopped a dozen times just so Anthony Green could instruct the audience to “get the fuck back!” So, when I heard they were going to play a drastically smaller venue, Jerry’s Pizza, I knew it was going to be crazy. So, when it came to the day of the show, I still wasn’t sure how it was going to work but I grabbed my camera and headed out to the venue.

Circa fans wrapping around the block before the doors opened

Oh Brother - Sound check

Dear Hunter guitarist manipulating some pedals

Anthony Green gets the packed crowd riled up.

Stage starts to disappear and security does it’s best to control the crowd.

More photos:

Bakotopia.com - Seen on the Scene | Matt Munoz’ Weekly Lowdown
No Image Photography - Event Photos

Event access courtesy of Bakotopia.com

Something old, something new

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 04:44:23 -0400

Every once in a while I will go through some old photos and give them a new edit, or just post them somewhere. It’s like having new pictures, only they are old.

These two images come from the second part of a shoot I did with Kyleigh. It was totally random. I think we spent some time at Target looking for random props to use. For this part of the shoot I just decided to throw some duct tape in to match the bow. I could go for some more duct tape, but it was kind of fun.

So, I had come up with an idea to work together with a few other photographers. We were each going to take a scene from a popular story and create our own image to put in a series. The model I had chosen to work with sent me a text saying she was going to dye her hair and asked if that was a problem. Since the main point was for her to have blonde hair, I invited her over last minute to see if we could get anything done. It wasn’t really what I was going for, but the image was kind of interesting.

I think it was around Halloween that I spoke with Amber about doing a photo shoot. Amber was a friend of my good friend Brittany, and so Brittany came by towards the end of the shoot. I’m really not sure how we ended up in the bathroom, but I do recall all of us thinking it would be a good idea to wrap Amber up in toilet paper. The lighting was bad and I’m pretty certain I wasn’t in focus, but the image was kind of fun so I tried to clean it up a bit.

Slow couple of weeks, new image posted...

Sat, 03 Jul 2010 15:38:00 -0400

So. Not too much going on lately. I still need to post the Korn photos, but I was waiting for Bakotopia to use them first. I will probably post a few next week. In the meantime I have just been moving from the office (my day job) to work from home. Business is slow and my boss is trying to cut costs. So I am officially in this new arrangement, and as settled as I can be. The bad news is I won’t be getting paid full time and my hours will depend entirely on projects he can get. The good news is that it frees me up to do other stuff like photography.

I am hoping to get more of my own projects going; that was the reason for picking up a camera in the first place. I came into photography through the graphic design door. It wasn’t until later that I was concerned about getting a good, clean photograph. Now I have all these tools and willing participants available for use. So, I’m hoping to get back into the fun stuff.

The image below is one of my latest projects. The concept was just to shoot people individually and come up with different scenes in post production. Basically, I am working on composite images. My always helpful friend Juliane came over to help me with this first attempt. I liked this one of her reaching, so I got the idea for the floating text. I placed her in an image that I had shot a while back and left in the original texture because it gave it an odd, not-quite-set-not-quite-real feel. I used a moon texture in the background, because I love introducing celestial bodies into ordinary photos. Then, I painted in the stars and some flying saucers. The abductees are copies of my cat Orion.

Click the image above to see it on Facebook. It is always nice to get feedback on my projects.

The Rozzes @ Take 2, Ventura CA

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:17:15 -0400

I took my little brother (his girlfriend and friend Matt) out to Ventura this Saturday for a gig. The venue was a little bar & grill called Take 2 off of Main ST. At first visit, it did not seem to be conducive to a performance by The Rozzes — walking in felt like a scene from a movie. You know, that scene where the main characters walk into the bar and all the regulars stop what they are doing to glue their eyes to the foreign visitors. We had an hour to kill so we went to the Ventura Mall to watch everything close down before heading back to the venue. This time the rest of the family had arrived and the crowed seemed to be a bit younger and more music-ready. The Rozzes put on another good show and then we headed back home. My little brother turned 20 on the ride back just after track 6 of the new Circa Survive Album.

Check out more photos from the show here

My Life in a Paper Boat

Wed, 09 Jun 2010 21:36:55 -0400

It was the eyes of the past that brought me here. My gaze was always much more natural. There were no walls, no unfamiliar voices. I knew that everything could be deconstructed. I knew the truth was hidden in these unfathomable details, hidden by the limits of our own perception. In each disconnected particle lives an answer. Answers are the only truth. They are pure. One truth per unit of matter. The questions are the purpose; they are the engines that set time into motion. Each question has more than one destination…more than one answer. This is the art of it all. The truth is just the medium, how we form our questions and how we choose our answers is the art. It’s like a dance between the asking and the answering. It is like the rippling of the waves before they break and start anew. Ask a better question, choose a different answer. Rinse. Lather. And repeat. This is the journey. Like what you do.

Rockin' Roots Fest 2010

Wed, 09 Jun 2010 19:13:23 -0400

Well, Bakersfieldfield is heating up, and that usually means it’s time to find different ways to cool off. Unfortunately, for those attending Rockin’ Roots fest 2010 at Stramler Park, this was no easy task. Saturday had turned out to be a lazy day for me and I didn’t make my way out to the grounds until about 6pm. When I did finally get there, I was immediately starting to sweat. There were a ton of bands. It took me a while to get all the stages mapped out. There was everything from screaming, to auto-tune. I tried to snap as many quick shots as I could from all the different stages, but I ended the night at the main stage with Hyper Crush and Mickey Avalon. I ran into Hyper Crush backstage and they were pretty nice and even accommodated me for a quick photo.

Backstage with Hyper Crush

Mickey Avalon

More photos from Rockin’ Roots Fest 2010

KRAB’s Free 4 All III

Fri, 28 May 2010 19:56:29 -0400

Last Saturday (5/22) was KRAB’s 3rd Free 4 all concert at the Brighthouse Amphitheater in Riverwalk park. I originally thought the concert was starting around noon and I was stopping by to see if I could catch some action and maybe get some shots. Apparently, I showed up just in time to catch it from the beginning. The lineup included performances by: Neon Trees, Carney, Needtobreathe, Hawthorne Heights, and A Day to Remember.

Below is a little panorama of the view from the KRAB VIP tent.

More of my photos from the KRAB’s Free 4 all - includes photos seen in the 5/28 issue of Bakersfield Californian and The Bakotopia Lowdown 5-27-10

Battle of the Salons Week 2

Fri, 21 May 2010 17:49:00 -0400

Last night I met up with my lovely assistant for a belated birthday dinner and to check out the Greek Week talent show at CSUB – my little brother was drumming it up for Kappa Sigma’s version of Batman. Unfortunately, I didn’t have my camera on me, but you can imagine the wackiness a bunch of college kids could come up with.

Once that was over, it was time to head downtown to check out Battle of the Salons at The Metro Gallery. The Lizbot (AKA my friend Liz) had to skip town, so she missed all the fun. I caught the second half of the previous week, so I made sure I got there early for the full event this time. I have to say, this week was even bigger and more exciting. The victors of the night were Le Chic and Atomic Kitten who will both advance to the second round. Below are just a few quick snaps from the night.

Busy weekend

Mon, 17 May 2010 19:15:48 -0400

It is odd when a Monday back at work feels more like a rest than the entire previous weekend. Such is the case, but as exhausting as it was, it was equally as fun. I took some live shots for local band Age of Trinity as well as some promo shots, experienced my first media access at Rabobank Arena for the Paramore show (thanks to Matt and Bakotopia.com), and had a fun photo shoot with Tiffany under a bridge—Underbridge seems like it could actually be someone’s last name. Many of these photos will be public soon on one of my various, over-neglected sharing outlets (Paramore photos might be seen in the Bakersfield Californian). I will be postings links soon. But here is a preview for now.

Paramore @ Rabobank

Fun performing at Rabobank

Tiffany chilling under the bridge after being ogled by passersby.

Tumblring down the blogging hole.

Mon, 17 May 2010 18:27:00 -0400

I’ve always been a reluctant social media drifter. I am never on top of the latest and greatest, but I will eventually come around if I think I’ll find it useful – or I will at least give it an opportunity to win me over. But, as much as I like to write, rant, and generally confuse, I never seem to keep up with the world of blogging. Maybe it just isn’t as convenient as something like Twitter, or maybe I am just too impulsive and erratic to maintain a blog. In any case, I now have a Tumblr and I shall soon see how it feels to me.