Latest Flickr Upload

Got around to scanning a few rolls of film and the fruits of my labor are up on my flickr. Included: Berlin's Festival of Lights and various travel adventures. Go check it out and enjoy :)

What the...?

You might be wondering what the heck is going in these photos.
This photographer lives in San Francisco and took these shots of the hilly streets there, but tilted to flatten them!
A new perspective on one of my favorite cities :)

Passport Photos of the Rich and Famous

This photoset on flickr of famous artists' passport photos is so awesome!
Mary Cassatt:

A very "earnest" looking young Ernest Hemingway (ha! geddit?) sans beard:

Gertrude Stein:

Man Ray:

TS Eliot:

Frank Lloyd Wright:

Edward Steichen:

Langston Hughes (looking very surreal):

Walt Disney (how this passes as a passport photo I don't know):

Peggy Guggenheim (I've never see her look so...ordinary):

And more including three of e.e.cummmings, Thornton Wilder, Isadora Duncan, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Lewis Hine, Berenice Abbott, the Marx Brothers (they got the crazy eyes!), John Singer Sargeant (with a large mustache, who knew?), Grant Wood, Edith Wharton, Edna St Vincent Millay etc...

From the Family Vault

My mom and aunt:

My mom as a wee one!:

My aunt as a little one putting on shoes:

My beautiful grandmother as a young woman:


My brother on his first Halloween:

My dad as a young rugger:

Lomo's Russian Winter in New York

Last week I went to a workshop kinda thing at the new Lomography shop in Manhattan. There were loaner Diana+ cameras (though I had my own with me of course!) and free rolls of 120 film for all. We went walkabout in lower Manhattan and took some pictures, including experimenting with the Diana's pinhole setting, as in my picture above. More on my flickr. If you're interested in future events, you can get on the mailing list at the Lomography website.

Dead Squirrel

Encountered this guy on the street last week. I only had my cameraphone on me but it's amazing what that thing can do. The neat thing about this is the bones that show through--the intact vertebrae of the tail, etc. Couple more shots on my flickr. Some day I'll do a real project with these roadkill shots. Maybe a print series. I can just see some lovely layered silkscreens...

Best Saturday Ever

The "Cop a Snack" car careening down Dolores Street during the Red Bull Soapbox Race in San Francisco. A fun way to spend the afternoon, especially if you can get into the VIP tent and snag free eats!

Estelle, Gym Class Heroes, and The Roots later in the evening at the San Jose Event Center. Goes without saying it was an epic show.
Couple more shots on my flickr...

Spoon @ the Fillmore 9/22

More on my Flickr.