Tagged: Nanoka

  1. emmafred: Naked with Nanoka I know this is late, and that everyone else has done this already, but here I am. I got my copy of Nanoka about a month ago, probably. I just read it tonight. I’m going through a really busy time of my life. This is the first time I’ve gotten my “nice” camera out in a long time. I am having body issues, artistic expression issues. I have often felt that I hold no artistic self worth. I am not the greatest photographer, and I don’t have the equipment to execute most of the shots I think of. But that shouldn’t stop me from doing photography. The fear that my boyfriend will think I’m weird or not like my art shouldn’t stop me. I want to create. I don’t have the most free time, but I need to get up off my ass and shake and move and photograph and write. Reading Nanoka was beautiful, the pictures are beautiful, and Katie and Jack are beautiful. So, if you know me, push me. Ask me about the art I’ve been doing lately, ask me if any words have been drifting repeatedly through my mind. I want to get back into this. I want to create and grow and learn about myself and this new place I am in. Emma, emma. Make more, you know I love it so. emmafred: Naked with Nanoka I know this is late, and that everyone else has done this already, but here I am. I got my copy of Nanoka about a month ago, probably. I just read it tonight. I’m going through a really busy time of my life. This is the first time I’ve gotten my “nice” camera out in a long time. I am having body issues, artistic expression issues. I have often felt that I hold no artistic self worth. I am not the greatest photographer, and I don’t have the equipment to execute most of the shots I think of. But that shouldn’t stop me from doing photography. The fear that my boyfriend will think I’m weird or not like my art shouldn’t stop me. I want to create. I don’t have the most free time, but I need to get up off my ass and shake and move and photograph and write. Reading Nanoka was beautiful, the pictures are beautiful, and Katie and Jack are beautiful. So, if you know me, push me. Ask me about the art I’ve been doing lately, ask me if any words have been drifting repeatedly through my mind. I want to get back into this. I want to create and grow and learn about myself and this new place I am in. Emma, emma. Make more, you know I love it so.

    emmafred:

    Naked with Nanoka

    I know this is late, and that everyone else has done this already, but here I am. I got my copy of Nanoka about a month ago, probably. I just read it tonight. I’m going through a really busy time of my life. This is the first time I’ve gotten my “nice” camera out in a long time. I am having body issues, artistic expression issues. I have often felt that I hold no artistic self worth. I am not the greatest photographer, and I don’t have the equipment to execute most of the shots I think of. But that shouldn’t stop me from doing photography. The fear that my boyfriend will think I’m weird or not like my art shouldn’t stop me. I want to create. I don’t have the most free time, but I need to get up off my ass and shake and move and photograph and write. Reading Nanoka was beautiful, the pictures are beautiful, and Katie and Jack are beautiful. So, if you know me, push me. Ask me about the art I’ve been doing lately, ask me if any words have been drifting repeatedly through my mind. I want to get back into this. I want to create and grow and learn about myself and this new place I am in.

    Emma, emma. Make more, you know I love it so.

  2. Rosie sent me these pictures awhile ago and then I thought I had posted them, but I didn’t. This is Rosie reading Nanoka naked. Also, a picture of her inspiration wall, with a picture of me taken by Jack Scoresby right in the middle. :) Rosie sent me these pictures awhile ago and then I thought I had posted them, but I didn’t. This is Rosie reading Nanoka naked. Also, a picture of her inspiration wall, with a picture of me taken by Jack Scoresby right in the middle. :)
    Rosie sent me these pictures awhile ago and then I thought I had posted them, but I didn’t. This is Rosie reading Nanoka naked. Also, a picture of her inspiration wall, with a picture of me taken by Jack Scoresby right in the middle. :) Rosie sent me these pictures awhile ago and then I thought I had posted them, but I didn’t. This is Rosie reading Nanoka naked. Also, a picture of her inspiration wall, with a picture of me taken by Jack Scoresby right in the middle. :)

    Rosie sent me these pictures awhile ago and then I thought I had posted them, but I didn’t.

    This is Rosie reading Nanoka naked. Also, a picture of her inspiration wall, with a picture of me taken by Jack Scoresby right in the middle. :)

  3. thedvsmonkey: It took me awhile, but since My Queen and I didn’t have to work again thanks to Snowpocalypse 2011 and the morning light was just right, here is my Nanoka pic! Thanks to My Queen for taking and editing the pic. I’ve followed Katie West for a while now on various sites. She mentioned Nanoka in one of her posts so I decided to buy it. That led me to follow Jack Scoresby as well. I can relate to a fellow Navy brother as well as one who is a wonderful photographer. I’d like to thank them both for re-sparking my enthusiasm for shooting again; more importantly, for making me actually share what I shoot. I shoot every day but until recently I haven’t posted anything. I’ve changed that and I’m posting something every single day. So thanks Katie and Jack. You two rock! :-D OO Bender ass tattoo? Yes. thedvsmonkey: It took me awhile, but since My Queen and I didn’t have to work again thanks to Snowpocalypse 2011 and the morning light was just right, here is my Nanoka pic! Thanks to My Queen for taking and editing the pic. I’ve followed Katie West for a while now on various sites. She mentioned Nanoka in one of her posts so I decided to buy it. That led me to follow Jack Scoresby as well. I can relate to a fellow Navy brother as well as one who is a wonderful photographer. I’d like to thank them both for re-sparking my enthusiasm for shooting again; more importantly, for making me actually share what I shoot. I shoot every day but until recently I haven’t posted anything. I’ve changed that and I’m posting something every single day. So thanks Katie and Jack. You two rock! :-D OO Bender ass tattoo? Yes.

    thedvsmonkey:

    It took me awhile, but since My Queen and I didn’t have to work again thanks to Snowpocalypse 2011 and the morning light was just right, here is my Nanoka pic! Thanks to My Queen for taking and editing the pic.

    I’ve followed Katie West for a while now on various sites. She mentioned Nanoka in one of her posts so I decided to buy it. That led me to follow Jack Scoresby as well. I can relate to a fellow Navy brother as well as one who is a wonderful photographer. I’d like to thank them both for re-sparking my enthusiasm for shooting again; more importantly, for making me actually share what I shoot. I shoot every day but until recently I haven’t posted anything. I’ve changed that and I’m posting something every single day.

    So thanks Katie and Jack. You two rock! :-D OO

    Bender ass tattoo? Yes.

  4. resoulution: So I purchased the NANOKA magazine by Katie West & Jack Scoresby. “When you get it you should tell everyone, and maybe post a picture of you reading it. A picture of you reading it while naked.” Jack Scoresby Check. I don’t think I reblogged this one yet. But I really like it. You people are really into getting naked on the internet. YOU PEOPLE ARE INSANE.

    resoulution:

    So I purchased the NANOKA magazine by Katie West & Jack Scoresby.

    “When you get it you should tell everyone, and maybe post a picture of you reading it. A picture of you reading it while naked.” Jack Scoresby
    Check.

    I don’t think I reblogged this one yet. But I really like it. You people are really into getting naked on the internet.

    YOU PEOPLE ARE INSANE.

  5. inchesgiven: My copy of Katie West and Jack Scoresby’s Nanoka came the other day. I know, I’m trailing behind the bus, but I needed money. Reading it, I understood that money, though, was the least relevant aspect between myself and getting this magazine. I needed to realize that I had not taken photographs, real photographs, since the last time I saw Emma. Katie and Jack and the pieces of themselves they put on those glossy pages made me want to become not a better artist, but to become my own artist. To become myself. And I owe them for that. So I read the magazine and got undressed and followed the rules and took pictures that felt real to me and to the experience I was having. I left the image dark because that’s how the book made me feel. Not the bad-dark, the depression-dark, the lonely-dark; it’s a melancholy shade tinged with the shadow of everything I have yet to discover about myself, my art, my words, the collections of people I surround myself with who confuse and delight me on a regular basis, sometimes in perfect unison. I am okay with crawling into the shades to exist within myself as a number in relation to a whole, the way Katie is comfortable with full-frontal nudity in red lighting and the way Jack is comfortable with his ass exposed in contrast to the brilliant views of hotel windows. We all want to be comfortable somewhere, and by god, they are telling me to settle in. This just delights me. inchesgiven: My copy of Katie West and Jack Scoresby’s Nanoka came the other day. I know, I’m trailing behind the bus, but I needed money. Reading it, I understood that money, though, was the least relevant aspect between myself and getting this magazine. I needed to realize that I had not taken photographs, real photographs, since the last time I saw Emma. Katie and Jack and the pieces of themselves they put on those glossy pages made me want to become not a better artist, but to become my own artist. To become myself. And I owe them for that. So I read the magazine and got undressed and followed the rules and took pictures that felt real to me and to the experience I was having. I left the image dark because that’s how the book made me feel. Not the bad-dark, the depression-dark, the lonely-dark; it’s a melancholy shade tinged with the shadow of everything I have yet to discover about myself, my art, my words, the collections of people I surround myself with who confuse and delight me on a regular basis, sometimes in perfect unison. I am okay with crawling into the shades to exist within myself as a number in relation to a whole, the way Katie is comfortable with full-frontal nudity in red lighting and the way Jack is comfortable with his ass exposed in contrast to the brilliant views of hotel windows. We all want to be comfortable somewhere, and by god, they are telling me to settle in. This just delights me.

    inchesgiven:

    My copy of Katie West and Jack Scoresby’s Nanoka came the other day. I know, I’m trailing behind the bus, but I needed money.

    Reading it, I understood that money, though, was the least relevant aspect between myself and getting this magazine. I needed to realize that I had not taken photographs, real photographs, since the last time I saw Emma. Katie and Jack and the pieces of themselves they put on those glossy pages made me want to become not a better artist, but to become my own artist. To become myself. And I owe them for that. So I read the magazine and got undressed and followed the rules and took pictures that felt real to me and to the experience I was having. I left the image dark because that’s how the book made me feel. Not the bad-dark, the depression-dark, the lonely-dark; it’s a melancholy shade tinged with the shadow of everything I have yet to discover about myself, my art, my words, the collections of people I surround myself with who confuse and delight me on a regular basis, sometimes in perfect unison. I am okay with crawling into the shades to exist within myself as a number in relation to a whole, the way Katie is comfortable with full-frontal nudity in red lighting and the way Jack is comfortable with his ass exposed in contrast to the brilliant views of hotel windows. We all want to be comfortable somewhere, and by god, they are telling me to settle in.

    This just delights me.

  6. Joel sent me this late submission for the Naked Nanoka pictures collection. (NOTE: It is never too late.) Joel also sent me a touching story to accompany this photo, and it’s a polaroid! It was a great email all in all. :) Joel sent me this late submission for the Naked Nanoka pictures collection. (NOTE: It is never too late.) Joel also sent me a touching story to accompany this photo, and it’s a polaroid! It was a great email all in all. :)

    Joel sent me this late submission for the Naked Nanoka pictures collection. (NOTE: It is never too late.)

    Joel also sent me a touching story to accompany this photo, and it’s a polaroid! It was a great email all in all. :)

  7. Things about Katie

    Matthew Sheret is one of the best people I have met from the internet. I know we only met once, at SDCC in 2009, and I think we were both sort of mental at the time, but he’s brilliant, and inspiring, and lovely (to look at too). He wrote this on his blog today and it, well, I really appreciated it. You should read it.

    I’m listening to Chromatics and reading black and white, a collection of self-portraits by Katie West.

    I really do mean reading. Katie’s created a set that has this visual language somewhere between prone victim and complete control that feels pretty extraordinary. It’s a more ‘honest’ autobiography than most I’ve read, be they diary comics, books or blogs, and a huge step up from the erratic low self-esteem collection (which I liked, but didn’t love).

    Chromatics’ Night Drive feels like the right soundtrack. It’s fabulously fake, a score to a film that doesn’t exist, coated in mood music and sequenced to take you on a journey that’s part TRON and part Slackers. Noir for those suffering future-anomie.

    Katie’s one of the internet’s hyper-connected bright young things, existing for readers in a place between Toronto and everywhere. I met her at San Diego Comic Con, the most unreal experience of my life to date, where days of blistering sunshine and nights of all-the-booze made four days of conversation feel like a tell-all confessional. The view from the hotel room a bunch of us shared looked onto a warren of ducts and shipping containers, the convention hall itself some chaotic cartoon market. It was completely overwhelming, and the end of a very long journey that I really needed to take.

    Nanoka, Katie’s MagCloud collection with fellow traveler Jack Scoresby, served to emphasise the SUPERFUNPOP parts of the Katie I’d met. It’s a riot of colour and artifice, this overblown reaction to the madness of Japan condensed into 88 pages of gloss-pop. It’s a hell of a ride, and manages to be sexy and hilarious in the space of a shutter click. Nanoka’s visual language felt like a cheerful Blade Runner, and inspired quite some envy.

    black and white doesn’t. black and white is too sad to be sexy. It feels like the emotional hangover of pop. It’s a book about the reason I keep using ‘somewhere’, ‘like’ and ‘between’ to describe it; a collection of moments that bridge the journey between comfort and adventure.

    It’s really moving for that, particularly when shadow and focus come into play; as a monochrome collection it works at its best when the deep hues stop you seeing all, when the focus forces you to project your own context, the complete opposite of Nanoka‘s SUPERFUNPOP. I really love both, and they compliment one another fabulously.

    Get a copy. Start the year with it. Make something as good in the following twelve months.

    <3

  8. Jesse sent me this way back in November but I seemed to have missed it. So here it is! Better late than never! Also, another Nanoka submission where the naked reader is AT WORK. Says Jesse, &#8220;I only had a my phone and a couple of minutes while my boss stepped out for lunch.&#8221; Oh man, I love that so much. :D Jesse sent me this way back in November but I seemed to have missed it. So here it is! Better late than never! Also, another Nanoka submission where the naked reader is AT WORK. Says Jesse, &#8220;I only had a my phone and a couple of minutes while my boss stepped out for lunch.&#8221; Oh man, I love that so much. :D

    Jesse sent me this way back in November but I seemed to have missed it. So here it is! Better late than never! Also, another Nanoka submission where the naked reader is AT WORK. Says Jesse, “I only had a my phone and a couple of minutes while my boss stepped out for lunch.” Oh man, I love that so much. :D

  9. temptationtwo: Me, reading Katie West and Jack Scoresby’s Nanoka naked, as requested.  I’m quite late on this, and on top of that I put it off for a few days because its been so cold. Oh, but I loved every bit of it and wished there was more. I’ve always been an advocate of photographic adventures, although never really being able to leave the state or the country to do so. After reading On the Road, I Started having that “let’s pack a bag and take a bus/train/plane as far as it will take us and plan later” mentality, more so than I did. And Nanoka is that adventure, put neatly into an 87 page magazine filled with cute little anecdotes and real, beautiful photos. You know what else I love about these posts besides the naked people reading something Jack and I made? I love the way people have responded to what Jack and I made. I&#8217;m so glad people love it as much as I do. That is inspires people to have adventures and go out and do stuff. I can&#8217;t explain how great that is. temptationtwo: Me, reading Katie West and Jack Scoresby’s Nanoka naked, as requested.  I’m quite late on this, and on top of that I put it off for a few days because its been so cold. Oh, but I loved every bit of it and wished there was more. I’ve always been an advocate of photographic adventures, although never really being able to leave the state or the country to do so. After reading On the Road, I Started having that “let’s pack a bag and take a bus/train/plane as far as it will take us and plan later” mentality, more so than I did. And Nanoka is that adventure, put neatly into an 87 page magazine filled with cute little anecdotes and real, beautiful photos. You know what else I love about these posts besides the naked people reading something Jack and I made? I love the way people have responded to what Jack and I made. I&#8217;m so glad people love it as much as I do. That is inspires people to have adventures and go out and do stuff. I can&#8217;t explain how great that is.

    temptationtwo:

    Me, reading Katie West and Jack Scoresby’s Nanoka naked, as requested. 

    I’m quite late on this, and on top of that I put it off for a few days because its been so cold.

    Oh, but I loved every bit of it and wished there was more. I’ve always been an advocate of photographic adventures, although never really being able to leave the state or the country to do so. After reading On the Road, I Started having that “let’s pack a bag and take a bus/train/plane as far as it will take us and plan later” mentality, more so than I did. And Nanoka is that adventure, put neatly into an 87 page magazine filled with cute little anecdotes and real, beautiful photos.

    You know what else I love about these posts besides the naked people reading something Jack and I made?

    I love the way people have responded to what Jack and I made. I’m so glad people love it as much as I do. That is inspires people to have adventures and go out and do stuff. I can’t explain how great that is.

  10. adasancerre: So, this is me reading Katie West and Jack Scoresby’s Nanoka, naked and photographed as requested. Nanoka is beautiful and interesting and makes me want to run off somewhere and take lots of photos. Even if that place is my bedroom, because it made me realise if I don’t do it now, when will I? I read it through in one sitting and keep going back at odd moments to look at a page or two, letting it trigger new thoughts and curl back to old ones. (Although doing this late at night did lead to me being woken up in the small hours by Nanoka falling off the stack of pillows I’d placed it on and onto my head.) Fabulous. But what a way to wake up! adasancerre: So, this is me reading Katie West and Jack Scoresby’s Nanoka, naked and photographed as requested. Nanoka is beautiful and interesting and makes me want to run off somewhere and take lots of photos. Even if that place is my bedroom, because it made me realise if I don’t do it now, when will I? I read it through in one sitting and keep going back at odd moments to look at a page or two, letting it trigger new thoughts and curl back to old ones. (Although doing this late at night did lead to me being woken up in the small hours by Nanoka falling off the stack of pillows I’d placed it on and onto my head.) Fabulous. But what a way to wake up!
    adasancerre: So, this is me reading Katie West and Jack Scoresby’s Nanoka, naked and photographed as requested. Nanoka is beautiful and interesting and makes me want to run off somewhere and take lots of photos. Even if that place is my bedroom, because it made me realise if I don’t do it now, when will I? I read it through in one sitting and keep going back at odd moments to look at a page or two, letting it trigger new thoughts and curl back to old ones. (Although doing this late at night did lead to me being woken up in the small hours by Nanoka falling off the stack of pillows I’d placed it on and onto my head.) Fabulous. But what a way to wake up! adasancerre: So, this is me reading Katie West and Jack Scoresby’s Nanoka, naked and photographed as requested. Nanoka is beautiful and interesting and makes me want to run off somewhere and take lots of photos. Even if that place is my bedroom, because it made me realise if I don’t do it now, when will I? I read it through in one sitting and keep going back at odd moments to look at a page or two, letting it trigger new thoughts and curl back to old ones. (Although doing this late at night did lead to me being woken up in the small hours by Nanoka falling off the stack of pillows I’d placed it on and onto my head.) Fabulous. But what a way to wake up!
    adasancerre: So, this is me reading Katie West and Jack Scoresby’s Nanoka, naked and photographed as requested. Nanoka is beautiful and interesting and makes me want to run off somewhere and take lots of photos. Even if that place is my bedroom, because it made me realise if I don’t do it now, when will I? I read it through in one sitting and keep going back at odd moments to look at a page or two, letting it trigger new thoughts and curl back to old ones. (Although doing this late at night did lead to me being woken up in the small hours by Nanoka falling off the stack of pillows I’d placed it on and onto my head.) Fabulous. But what a way to wake up! adasancerre: So, this is me reading Katie West and Jack Scoresby’s Nanoka, naked and photographed as requested. Nanoka is beautiful and interesting and makes me want to run off somewhere and take lots of photos. Even if that place is my bedroom, because it made me realise if I don’t do it now, when will I? I read it through in one sitting and keep going back at odd moments to look at a page or two, letting it trigger new thoughts and curl back to old ones. (Although doing this late at night did lead to me being woken up in the small hours by Nanoka falling off the stack of pillows I’d placed it on and onto my head.) Fabulous. But what a way to wake up!

    adasancerre:

    So, this is me reading Katie West and Jack Scoresby’s Nanoka, naked and photographed as requested.

    Nanoka is beautiful and interesting and makes me want to run off somewhere and take lots of photos. Even if that place is my bedroom, because it made me realise if I don’t do it now, when will I?

    I read it through in one sitting and keep going back at odd moments to look at a page or two, letting it trigger new thoughts and curl back to old ones. (Although doing this late at night did lead to me being woken up in the small hours by Nanoka falling off the stack of pillows I’d placed it on and onto my head.) Fabulous.

    But what a way to wake up!