The Nest Egg
48 Wall Street
New York, NY 10005
Tel: 212.908.4110
Fax: 212.908.4601
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
05:00 PM to 07:00 PM
Celebrate the completion of the Museum Shop, and meet some of the artists and authors whose works are featured in the Shop. Our special guests will be on hand to discuss their projects and autograph copies of their works. Participants include Lori Savastano, Mike Rollins, Ellen Fisch, Scott Laperruque, Johnny Swing, Naima Rauam, Albert Crudo, Hedy Pegranmanski, Ken Winans, Robert Gambee, Matthew Fink, Dorothy Laager Miller, Joanne Medvecky and Barbara Rizek, among others.
Nest Egg sculptures are delicately balanced pyramids of real eggs on which images of financially related items have be transfer using a Polaroid technique called " Emulsion Transfer ". Using this technique along with changes in camera angle, color filtration, and exposure I transform the familiar faces and engravings found on world currencies, stocks, bonds, into photo-sculptures. These copyrighted sculptures represent one of the most universally understood symbols in the world, and pushes money into the realm of surrealism. Originally produced as a prop to be photographed and the image of the Nest to be sold as stock photography. As people saw the sculptures there was interest in purchasing the actual pieces. There are many Nest Eggs currently in private collections. The Museum of American Finance currently as one of the last large Nest Egg for sale, it is of international currencies, beautiful in color, on a base of brushed brass.
Each sculpture is hand built, unique and is dated and signed. The Nest Eggs were built in various sizes over the years. Unfortunately the " Emulsion Transfer " process ran into technically difficulty. After directly working with Polaroid for over a year I stopped producing the sculptures. Currently I will not be making any more, this will of course make the ones produced more rare.
The image shown above can be licensed for use by going to; http://alamy.com
and searching image file; BFABYM
More Nest Eggs images will be uploaded to Alamy or can be viewed by contacting me.
Transferring BIG Files
A little knowledge spread around. Here is some info for sharing, if you are looking to send image files that are a bit large for email here are some solutions that could help. Below is some insight and lessons learned, please contact each service listed below, and confirm my findings, this is meant as a starting guide and of course is subject to change.
URL; www.pixoasis.com
Free Option ; YES!
Free Option Specs; 50 MB
Next Option; 500 MB $ 11.95 US monthly
Pros; Made by Bob Adler, a professional photographer. Good
look on the client end, easy download on client side.
Cons: Takes a little effort to get up to speed on the work flow
Free Option ; YES!
Free Option Specs; 100 MG per file
Next Option; $10. per month, 2 GIGs of space + more
Pros; Nice look on client’s side, fast up and download,
my clients use it.
Cons; With the free option you can sent only one file at a time,
you can not receive files from clients
Free Option ; YES! – for 60 day trial only – then $ 99. per year
Free Option Specs; 10 Gigs combined email & Storage / 200 GIGs transfer per month
Next Option; $149. per month, 40 GIGs of space + more
Pros; It’s Apple, upload and download speeds were fast, 25 MG file in 60 sec. w/ FIOS
Cons; Need to go with a subscription after 60 days
Free Option ; No
Free Option Specs; None
Next Option; Not the next, but needed, 250 MGs for $150. per year
Pros; Has worked, now part of Norton Systems
Cons; Cost, client’s moving to other sources.
If your client has the software set up it is very good, most agencies,
design firms do, but I have had clients surprise me when they don’t.
This becomes an issue, and a web based models can be very useful,
and easier for that client.
URL; www.networksolutions.com
Free Option ; No
Free Option Specs; 0 MB
Next Option; Lots to pick from
Pros; Has everything from Domain names to web hosting,
and so far the best price for FTP server space at 300 Gigs
with 25 FTP addresses @ $90. per year and breaks for
longer subscriptions.
Cons; Have been told that customer service can be an issue, not
so far on my side.