Hell's Kitchen Flea Market

Hello!

I recently went to a flea market in Hell's Kitchen, on West 39th between 9th and 10th ave. It is 9-5 every Saturday and Sunday, all year long (unless it's raining or snowing). They have a lot of camera supplies: brownie cameras, polaroids, lenses, flashes, pretty much anything you could think of! Here is their website, check it out sometime!

"Beauty Captured by Google Street View"

Also, JUST found this online.

I'm usually not a huge fan of images like this, but they're interesting.

Check them all out here!

also, doesn't it remind you of Doug Rickard?

Here's his work if you've forgotten.

Barbara Crane

I had this page bookmarked for awhile and thought I'd share it.

Click here to see more!

New York Times "Lens"

For those of you who do not know, the New York Times has a section on its site entitled, "Lens," which is dedicated to photography, video and visual journalism. Enjoy!

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/

Created Equal by Mark Laita

Here's a good article on Mark Laita's new book Created Equal. He juxtaposes to completely different people and then then sets them side by side. I think its really creative, and well done.

Hey guys,

I watched this really good performance type documentary the other day that is worth checking out. Its called The Cruise by Bennett Miller. I suppose its not really photography related, but it centers around this one guy and his internal experience of New York City. Being new to the city, I found it really interesting so I figured I'd recommend it to you all. The main and only character, Speed Levitch, is incredibly engaging to listen to. Its pretty funny at times, and there are also a few scenes about the twin towers that I thought were a nice little valentine to 9/11. Check it out if you get a chance!

PhotoBooth: The New Yorker

Photo Booth, The New Yorker's photography blog provides great summary of recent art shows and coverage of recent political events including slideshows and links to guide you to more information.

Click here to check it out!

Google Commemorates Louis Daguerre

Click here for a Washington Post article on Google's latest doodle.

"Back to the Future"

Buenos Aries photographer, Irina Werning has blown me away with an ongoing project that consists of reproducing old portraits. Click her link below to view the images--there are tons! And not one of them is worth overlooking:

http://www.irinawerning.com/back-to-the-fut/back-to-the-future/

"I love old photos. I admit being a nosey photographer.
As soon as I step into someone else’s house, I start sniffing for them.
Most of us are fascinated by their retro look but to me, it’s imagining how people would feel and look like if they were to reenact them today...
A few months ago, I decided to actually do this.
So, with my camera, I started inviting people to go back to their future."

Her images come from those who volunteer to share their vintage portraits and then reenact them for her to "re-capture". Her work consists of many types of different people, as she travels all over the world and looks for her subjects in that given country.

Everything is precise--to the poses, the location, the clothing, the scratches on the print, the lighting, to even the minute characteristics such as other objects in the frame of the original portrait are replicated.

I found this to be so enjoyable and fascinating!

visual news

visualnews.com is probably my favorite website and in the hopes that you guys will also fall in love with their amazing illustrations of both fun, hilarious, and poignant news (basically news in a visual format, hence the name) I thought I'd start you off with some of my favorite archived "articles:"

Instagram Filters: Their Real Life Formulas

Songs To Live Life By

The Recurring Themes of Hollywood Blockbusters

An amazing poster for any aspiring architect or architect lover

Build a Hasselblad Camera

(I also use a really well designed app on my mac called Pulp to organize all the RSS feeds that I try to read. It keeps things really organized and will archive all of your favorite articles. I highly recommend it!)

Events; things to do, seen and noted

Harun Farocki Images of War (From a Distance): MOMA 

Very interesting exhibit showing computer simulations of actual firefights recreated on computers and relived by veterans as part of their "after action" analysis on what went wrong.  Incredibly moving at times as the veterans watch their friends die in virtual reality and relive the experience

Richard Serra at Gagosian Gallery (shot using the pan and stitch feature of my Fuji x 100)

This a real once in a lifetime experience, everyone should run, not walk to see one of the greatest masterpieces by one of the world's great sculptors.

Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, an abandoned pre-world war II airfield now reborn as a national park, lots of stuff to do.  This is a hangar where a bunch or volunteer mechanics rebuild and restore old military aircraft.  There's also a sports center with 5 or 6 ice skating rinks, basketball courts, rock climbing, flight simulators etc.  Lots of cool abandoned army barrack and aircraft hangars.   I do a lot of car shoots here because I can rent a hangar for $ 150 bucks a day and on weekdays the Park Rangers don't mind if we run the cars on the airstrips at 100mph.  It's a great day trip

 

Face in the floor at Sikkema Jenkins gallery, it's a miracle!

Spotted: Double Rainbow?

sometimes ya gotta love fim

I know I teach digital, but I think most people suspect that I "swing both ways"  (how many more double entendre can I come up with?)

For all you luddites who like to your movies emulsified I give you the lowest tech video camera ever, the Lomokino, load it up with some color transparency film, turn the crank and make movies.  Get the film processed then put it in the hand-cranked personal viewer to watch your next Sundance entry.

http://gizmodo.com/5855969/lomokino-is-lomographys-dinky-35mm-video-camera

http://vimeo.com/31363383