Jump Around

Plenty of people have sang about it, from Van Halen, to Kris Kross, to House of Pain: jumping. What's the fascination? Perhaps, it;s because it's such a big part of growing up. Regardless, it's pretty dope, and on my recent trip to Baja California, me and a group of friends decided to do just what we did so much of as kids.....Jump Around. So, below is what I hope to be the first in a series of many "Jump Photos." I recommend it to all. And shooting it is even more hilarious. It kind of gives everybody a reason to do it, if they're to shy to do it just to do it at first.

Furthermore, I've seen these types of photos around before on different personal websites, and so after a quick little websearch I found an article describing one of the first people to employ this technique or style.

Here's an excerpt...

The freezing of motion has a long and fascinating history in photography, whether of sports, fashion or war. But rarely has stop-action been used in the unlikely, whimsical and often mischievous ways that Philippe Halsman employed it.

Halsman, born 100 years ago last May, in Latvia, arrived in the United States via Paris in 1940; he became one of America's premier portraitists in a time when magazines were as important as movies among visual media.

Halsman's pictures of politicians, celebrities, scientists and other luminaries appeared on the cover of Life magazine a record 101 times, and he made hundreds of other covers and photo essays for such magazines as Look, Paris Match and Stern. Because of his vision and vigor, our collective visual memory includes iconic images of Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Robert Oppenheimer, Winston Churchill and other newsmakers of the 20th century.

To read the whole article click here

And here are some of Halsman's photos.










And here are mine.

Peace. Marcel