It took me something like 15 hours to get from Venice Florida to New York. This documents some of that journey. Missing is footage of the room at Comfort Inn that Delta set me up with and the strange food I was able to get at 1 a.m. with my $6 food voucher…
A 9-year-old boy from East L.A. takes the excess cardboard from his dad’s auto shop and builds his own arcade. What happens next is sort of magical.
This video is so great. The power of social media and Internet giant Reddit put to a great cause. Well shot, well executed, great content. Someone even made a song about Caine that they used in the doc!
The folks who put the film together are trying to raise money for Caine to go to college. You can read more about his project and donate to that here.
Thanks for being so awesome Caine!
Things I saw while thrifting in Florida.
Happiness by Raymond Carver via Bryan Schutmaat →
Happiness
by Raymond CarverSo early it’s still almost dark out.
I’m near the window with coffee,
and the usual early morning stuff
that passes for thought.
When I see the boy and his friend
walking up the road
to deliver the newspaper.
They wear caps and sweaters,
and one boy has a bag over his shoulder.
They are so happy
they aren’t saying anything, these boys.
I think if they could, they would take
each other’s arm.
It’s early in the morning,
and they are doing this thing together.
They come on, slowly.
The sky is taking on light,
though the moon still hangs pale over the water.
Such beauty that for a minute
death and ambition, even love,
doesn’t enter into this.
Happiness. It comes on
unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really,
any early morning talk about it.
I cherish the window seat.
I feel like when one lives in New York it becomes really easy to forget just how vast it is and how far the subway tunnels can take you…
AMSTERDAM 5/79 HORIZONT is scrawled in lovely chicken scratch across the yellowing onion skin sleeve of negatives…
All I know about these photographs is that four years before I was born my dad was touring Amsterdam with a lady and a Russian camera.
Like father like son is the cliche. Is it true? I have a penchant for making panoramic images. Can something like that be passed down through DNA? The base desire to grab the whole scene as your eyes take it in, the entirety of what this wild world offers up.
I can’t know that. It’s something that science won’t be able to extract from me. I just have to follow my intuition and be content in the knowledge that before I was even an idea, beautiful photographs were being taken by a person who is now a piece of me.
I have more of these old sleeves that I’ll share every once and awhile on here. Look out for that and see my dad’s other images here.
Automotif
Looking through my archive it seems, unconsciously, that I like taking pictures of cars…
Night time is the right time.
The Polaroid Big Shot. It’s big, it’s plastic, you have to shuffle around to use it, it blasts people with light from a magicube.
I like it. So did Andy Warhol. You can read about that if you want. You can look at mine here.
I’m playing teacher assistant to Lynn Saville’s class New York at Twilight at the International Center of Photography. In short it means I get to run around iconic NYC landmarks with a bunch of folks carrying tripods. The other week we headed out to DUMBO…
streetwalker
Digital meets analogue in the best possible way or just the latest hipstainstamagraphic thingamijig?
I like to think it’s the former. With it’s minimalist design and the inability to see the photographs as they’re shot the Holga D distills the best parts of it’s analogue counterpart into a sleek and very accesible design.
In words of it’s creator Saikat Biswas
“The biggest ‘feature’ of the Holga D is lack of features! It has absolute bare minimum feature set that you need for unobtrusive photography.”
Right now the camera is just a dream on paper but Biswas hopes to get it funded and out into the world. I for one hope he does too.
You can read a much more in depth breakdown of the Holga D on his website. I highly recommend it.
What are your thoughts? If the Holga D were to go into production would you buy one?
Do you see a reason one should purchase a Holga vs. downloading an app that simulates an analogue experience app like Hipstamatic disposable for example?
summer
On the edge of Brooklyn aging monoliths of a bygone era of aviation rest their crumbling bones on empty runways.
Once upon a time Howard Hughes and Amelia Earhart blasted off of this tarmac and flew around the world…
A man named Wrong Way took off from here and landed in Ireland triggering a ticker tape parade in Manhattan once he got back…
Today kids come here to play soccer in the sports complex, people drive their cars in circles, park rangers keep the curious ones from exploring too much and kids with spray paint cans update the more out of sight ruins…
I went away and came back and then left all over again and when I finally returned from my sad little sojourn I thought I might be missing a few pieces but I actually ended up with more than I started with…
A couple weeks ago I flew out to Eugene Oregon to watch and document my first ever roller derby tournament. I was there shooting as part of a new film project called Talk Derby to Me. This is the resulting trailer for what will be an ongoing documentary project on roller derby, microbes and what it means to be human.
If you’re interested you can read a bit more about the idea here:
Talk Derby to Me
“there’s a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I’m too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I’m not going
to let anybody see
you.”
Latest video by Zack Canepari and Drea Cooper of California is a Place. Their stuff is so so good.
I’ve always been a fan of Bukowski. It’s hard not love that gritty alcoholic view from the underbelly that he gives. It pairs so well with the visuals in this. I can’t stop watching it.
Be sure to check out their other videos as well if you haven’t seen them already (even if you have). Their short Aquadettes was recently shown at Sundance. They describe it as a story on “life, death and synchronized swimming.”