I’m running behind, so I’ll keep this brief. Another solid week of submissions for this week’s theme – HANDMADE:
![WEEK 57 - HANDMADE - ANGIE DEWAARD](https://photos.smugmug.com/Photography/WEEKLY-PHOTO-CHALLENGE-YEAR-4/i-j6tkKn7/0/XL/057_AD_HANDMADE-XL.jpg)
Angie DeWaard
![WEEK 57 - HANDMADE - BILL WENTWORTH](https://photos.smugmug.com/Photography/WEEKLY-PHOTO-CHALLENGE-YEAR-4/i-jn77JMH/0/XL/057_BW_HANDMADE-XL.jpg)
Bill Wentworth
![WEEK 57 - HANDMADE - JODIE BENNETT 1](https://photos.smugmug.com/Photography/WEEKLY-PHOTO-CHALLENGE-YEAR-4/i-L86Cdq2/0/XL/057_JB_HANDMADE1-XL.jpg)
Jodie Bennett 1
![WEEK 57 - HANDMADE - JODIE BENNETT 2](https://photos.smugmug.com/Photography/WEEKLY-PHOTO-CHALLENGE-YEAR-4/i-MbmtSVt/0/XL/057_JB_HANDMADE2-XL.jpg)
Jodie Bennett 2
![WEEK 57 - HANDMADE - MICHELLE HAUPT](https://photos.smugmug.com/Photography/WEEKLY-PHOTO-CHALLENGE-YEAR-4/i-wdLFGDf/0/XL/057_MH_HANDMADE-XL.jpg)
Michelle Haupt
![WEEK 57 - HANDMADE - CHRISTOPHER D. BENNETT](https://photos.smugmug.com/Photography/WEEKLY-PHOTO-CHALLENGE-YEAR-4/i-cxmCz2x/0/XL/057_CB_HANDMADE-XL.jpg)
Christopher D. Bennett
![WEEK 58 - HANDMADE - TERESA KAHLER](https://photos.smugmug.com/Photography/WEEKLY-PHOTO-CHALLENGE-YEAR-4/i-HVs3cMJ/0/XL/057_TK_HANDMADE-XL.jpg)
Teresa Kahler
![WEEK 57 - HANDMADE - KIM BARKER 1](https://photos.smugmug.com/Photography/WEEKLY-PHOTO-CHALLENGE-YEAR-4/i-qfMg578/0/XL/057_KB_HANDMADE1-XL.jpg)
Kim Barker 1
![WEEK 57 - HANDMADE - KIM BARKER 2](https://photos.smugmug.com/Photography/WEEKLY-PHOTO-CHALLENGE-YEAR-4/i-FQbkRdG/0/XL/057_KB_HANDMADE2-XL.jpg)
Kim Barker 2
![WEEK 57 - HANDMADE - SHANNON BARDOLE](https://photos.smugmug.com/Photography/WEEKLY-PHOTO-CHALLENGE-YEAR-4/i-BQRxhhw/0/XL/057_SB_HANDMADE-XL.jpg)
Shannon Bardole
![WEEK 57 - HANDMADE - CARLA STENSLAND](https://photos.smugmug.com/Photography/WEEKLY-PHOTO-CHALLENGE-YEAR-4/i-VKM6Gqv/0/XL/057_CS_HANDMADE-XL.jpg)
Carla Stensland
![WEEK 57 - HANDMADE - DAWN KRAUSE](https://photos.smugmug.com/Photography/WEEKLY-PHOTO-CHALLENGE-YEAR-4/i-QS2ZJTW/0/XL/057_DK_HANDMADE-XL.jpg)
Dawn Krause
![WEEK 57 - HANDMADE - STEPHANIE KIM](https://photos.smugmug.com/Photography/WEEKLY-PHOTO-CHALLENGE-YEAR-4/i-3ZJpV9D/0/XL/057_SK_HANDMADE-XL.jpg)
Stephanie Kim
But enough dwelling on the past. Time to look to the future. We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. And remember my friend, future events such as these will affect you in the future! This week’s theme:
![WEEK 58 - POP ART](https://photos.smugmug.com/Photography/WEEKLY-PHOTO-CHALLENGE-YEAR-4/i-6zwXTSg/0/XL/058_AA_POP_ART-XL.jpg)
POP ART!
POP ART might be a little hard to explain. But it isn’t a difficult concept. Here is a Google definition:
art based on modern popular culture and the mass media, especially as a critical or ironic comment on traditional fine art values.
You should be looking at logos, magazines, newspapers, comic books, advertising, and labels. Just as a beginning. Andy Warhol (another overrated baby boomer icon) made lots of money by exploiting weak people… I mean by making art out of Campbell’s soup cans and paintings of Marylin Monroe.
A way to look at POP ART it is art that you see every day, but maybe never thought about as art. But a graphic designer did have to come up with the design on that label on the bottle of Pepsi that you are drinking. Put a frame around it and put hang it on a wall. That is all the Pop Artist is trying to say.
I’ll throw in one wrinkle to consider. POP ART is also a style of painting. If you have access to any kind of painting filter, you could consider using it.
HOUSEKEEPING
A MESSAGE FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHY 139 RULES DIVISION
1. The picture has to be taken the week of the theme. This isn’t a curate your pictures challenge. This is a get your butt off the couch (my personal experience) and put your camera in your hands challenge. Don’t send me a picture of you next to the Eiffel Tower, when I know you were in Iowa all week. I will point out that I have let that slide some in the past. I will not in the future. Since it is literally about the only rule.
2. Your submission needs to be emailed to bennett@photography139.com by 11 AM on the Monday of the challenge. It should be pointed out that this blog auto-publishes at 12:01 on Mondays. So it wouldn’t hurt to get your picture in earlier.
That is it, them’s the rules.
A MESSAGE FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHY 139 SHAMELESS SELF-PROMOTION DIVISION
Nothing new to report. I’ll try to do better next week.
That’s all I got for today, so if the good Lord’s willin’ and the creek don’t rise, we will commune right here again next Monday. Hopefully it will be a very popular Monday!
What a fun collection!