I had the pleasure of photographing the talented Serena Andrews and Brian Wenner for their upcoming live musical collaboration. Read the rest of this entry »
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Took a nice little trip with friends up to Bear Mountain to view the scenery and possible location scouting. The trails are beautiful this time of the year with all the snow. Armed with our cameras we walked around for about 2 hours trying to reach our goal: Doodletown, an abandoned town dating back to the 1700′s. Unfortunately, to our dismay there was not much left to see. Most buildings were just rubble and blanketed with snow. Shortly after arriving to Doodletown we had to start our trip back as it was quickly getting dark. Another 2 hour walk through the trails at night, where all you could hear is the echo from your footsteps and the occasional snow falling off branches. Quite a trip. Thanks to Elaine and Steve for dragging us out there :)
Is it just me or are most musicians leaning towards more electronic sounds? This year I saw a big influence of electronic across many genres, is this a cause of how easy it is to create music with computers? or a communal aesthetic that we have comforted with? Whatever it is, it’s been an awesome year for music. The rockstar as we know it is dead. Pop stars are the new icons which is sad, with the likes of Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber. The only people with talent seems to be all those introverts locked away in their parents basement making music. Let us see what 2011 has in store for us. In the meanwhile let’s take a look back at 2010, here’s an awesome graph of my listening trend for 2010:
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If you’re on Last.fm make sure you add me as a friend here. Read the rest of this entry »
Take a look at the latest website completed. It was for a NY based pop rock band, Days of Season. We wanted to create something different and non-conformist from what’s out there right now. Instead of doing a boring vertical blog based website, I came up with this horizontal scrolling website. I created a panorama that spans through the website and takes you from day to night as you scroll to the end, symbolizing the change of seasons. The panorama was inspired by their album cover, but had to be fully composed using other images. Read the rest of this entry »
This is exactly how I’m feeling right now.
The government funds an art piece that comments on advertising. A provocative new sculpture has opened at the U.S.-Canada border crossing near Vancouver, BC. It’s a billboard advertising…well, nothing.
[via Fast Co Design]
Mind you, these are not photographs but composites by veteran CG artist Jim Kazanjian. Beautifully eerie. Read the rest of this entry »
Back in late 2oo8 Adobe released Photoshop CS4 along with one of the most impressive image editing features to date, Content Aware Scaling. Take a look at this in depth video and see what’s going on behind its technology.
Two years ago I was in Harlem exploring the area with my friend Alicia when in an impulse we decided to check out El Museo del Barrio. We had only one hour before the museum closed. As we quickly walked around the galleries none captured our attention as this one did; Dulce Pinzón’s Immigrant Superheros. I was deeply inspired by her photographs and the way she exalted and romanticized the everyday NYC worker. Read her description of the project: Read the rest of this entry »
Castle, I don’t even watch the show but I have a lot more respect for the writers who finally brought image enhancing back to reality. Read the rest of this entry »
A few years ago, French photographer Sacha Goldberger found his 91-year-old Hungarian grandmother Frederika feeling lonely and depressed. To cheer her up, he suggested that they shoot a series of outrageous photographs in unusual costumes, poses, and locations. Grandma reluctantly agreed, but once they got rolling, she couldn’t stop smiling. Read the rest of this entry »
My good friend and super star stylist, Karin Elgai. Check out her work here: www.karinelgai.com
I can’t get enough of this video. I urge you all go and get his album now!
I know I know, you may be asking what happened to October’s mix? Well this is it. Things were really crazy last month (birthday parties, Halloween, new website launches) so it has been pushed to November. Look at it on the bright side, you now get two mixes this month :) Without further ado here’s this month’s first mix. Read the rest of this entry »