Sept 2, 2009
Johnson, VT
I have completed the first round of edit of on the new images from Latin America and now I am scanning/cataloging them. It is a boring task, a tedious task, but it needs to be done. When the images gets scanned, you have name it as you file it away on your hard drive. Each image are filed under country, month/year and the city the image was shot in. Then each individual image gets roughly named, along with the twin check number and frame number on the roll. So a sample name for an image would be “meat_7991_12.”
I don’t get very creative with these preliminary names, once the images have made it through another round of edit is when I start to think about what to title each image, but even then, I still struggle. After naming numerous files “meatlady” over the course of the day, of the years, of the life of “Wok the Dog,” I am starting to wonder how many files do I have that are called “meatlady” and if you could have too many “meatlady”? When I hit that creative block on what to name each file, I began to think that maybe there might be something to calling your art “Untitled” after all.
What you title your art work tends to be some what important and can be very helpful in the reception and success of your work. For example, do you think Damien Hirst’s tiger shark would be as successful if it was not titled “The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living” but simply called “Dead Shark” instead?
