Polowick

firewood

Mon, 20 Sep 2010 00:02 -0500

a necessary part to the wood stove we use to cook and keep warm. temagami in 2010.

sometimes

Sun, 19 Sep 2010 15:46 -0500

one of my favourite places to be. always so beautiful. those who have seen most my other images might realize they've seen quite a few from this getaway called temagami. taken late august this year during a well-needed rest.

Foxhound Studio

Sat, 24 Jul 2010 21:17 -0500

Well it’s been a long three months since I’ve posted on here. I’ve been hard at work establishing my own studio alongside my business partner W. Shane Duquette. The two of us started a design studio that can handle any type of job (large or small) and while we specialize in web design and motion design, we have a strong passion for illustration and photography as well. If you ever need any work done, please give us a shout on Foxhoundstudio.com and say you came from my personal blog.

Speaking of blogs, we’ve posted a few ongoing fitness experiments we’ve been doing on our Foxhound blog. Don’t forget to check back and look out for some upcoming photography tips. Thanks to all those who continued to support my personal website. It isn’t dead – but my attention has shifted to my business.

Thanks again for reading this, as it’s visitors like yourself that inspire me to create these outlets.
God bless,
Jared

Die Hard – Custom Movie Opening Titles

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 01:25 -0500

Die Hard – Custom Movie Opening from Jared Polowick on Vimeo.

Class assignment to storyboard, film, and edit together a new movie intro for a film we either loved or hated that had no title openings or a terrible one.

I am a big fan of the movie Die Hard. I decided to focus on the struggles John McClane has in the movie with his wife, physical strains, and keeping focused.

Credits:
Actor: W Shane Duquette
Music: Original track from opening sequence of Mr. Brooks, heavily edited to fit this project (feedback, looping, conversations).

Extra props to Payam Rajabi for lending me his 100mm lens, and Michelle Paquette with her 18-55mm lens. I couldn't have pulled off a lot of shots without that help. Thank you.

Live The Moment – Motion Design

Tue, 30 Mar 2010 23:20 -0500

Live The Moment – Video One from Jared P on Vimeo.

Live The Moment – Video Two from Jared P on Vimeo.

Live The Moment is a project for I researched and developed for school. The task was to research the idea of ‘time’ for one semester. This research of time lead me to the fact that people often live their lives through technology – they are truly not living the moment. Who is really doing the living? Is it the camera they are photographing their cherished moments with, the video camera taping the concert they’re at, or the cellphone communicating with their loved ones?

I then began to research the effects of technology and what it is doing to us. I was exposed to the term of Digital Natives. Digital Natives are the first generation to ever be raised entirely in a digital world. According to an article on Macleans.ca, constant access to technology is rewiring this generation's brains negatively. It claimed technology is replacing the development of social skills, literacy and the will to read, etc. with the development of tech. related skills such as the ability to sort through lots of information quickly. Knowledge is no longer about how much information one can retain mentally, but rather how efficient they are at finding that information through Google.

This led me to analyze my peers and current social situations (as I am included in the oldest age bracket in the digital natives generation) and how I could help relay some awareness to my generation of how truly bionic we have become…and how unnatural it is. This generation requires constant entertainment to pay attention (as our attention spans are shortening), so my solution would have to be extremely engaging to ensure they would remain interested. How could I poke fun at some of the countless situations where technology has negatively entered our social sphere?

Credits For Video One
Music: Alexisonfire – Heading for the Sun
Actors: Kate Shaw, W Shane Duquette
Extra Help: Evan VanRooy, Michelle Paquette

Credits For Video Two
Music: Boyz Noise – Jeffer
Actors: W Shane Duquette, Payam Rajabi, Michelle Paquette, Chantalle Lovery, Mark Francais. Samantha Madonik
Extra Help: Evan VanRooy with lighting

Credits For Poster
Actors: Willem Shepherd, Michelle Paquette, Shane Duquette

bubblegum girl

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:59 -0500

been a long time since i've updated this. partly because i've been doing a lot more motion work, which always seems to be in production and never really finalizes. wrapping up my last year at university, so i'll have a ton of new work to post on here. waiting to post some of the grad show portraits i took for our exhibition we're putting on at the fermenting cellar in toronto.here's a shot of michelle i took as a test photo before i took it again using film (my digital camera is my light meter). thanks to payam for the lending of his studio lights.

swim to the sun

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:28 -0500

michelle is enjoying the sunset on an island just off of cape coral in florida. good lighting tips? just go out at sunrise or sunset and you'll be sure to snag a few good keepers.

a fresh start

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:08 -0500

i think a good way to start a new year off is by being surrounded by good people. here's a shot of willem, payam, and shane enjoying good drinks with good company.

happiness

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:32 -0500

mr and mrs darren and amy hendriks, they've been married for 5 days now, congrats to them, it was a beautiful ceremony. just though i'd post one more set from their engagement shoot awhile back. i'm almost done school for the semester, looking forward to actually using my digital camera again and shooting something new.

disaster series

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:42 -0500

this is a series of 5 shots i had to do for my film class. the idea was to make a fictional documentary story. so my fictional story was this character returning home after a natural disaster had torn through his home. the prints look better in real life, things never look as good scanned as they do first hand.

special thanks to mike sicoli for helping me out with the shots and borrowing his lens.