jazzed is the word to describe my delight...

not one but TWO nominations (for the NYPhoto festival awards) !! "the future of contemporary photography"..woop de woop!
well, my name is misspelled (louis ingalls sturges) in the fine art series category+for some reason my book entry went in under the student category. but details aside, it's a huge honor to have been chosen amongst all these talented photofolk. my fingers are crossed, as one of the awards is a small book run by powerhouse, which would be a dream come true. +i have to say, if i don't win, it'll be aiyght..this alone is a really great step in the very right direction.
what a great week.
xL

so tangled up in blue, i'm nearly just blood on the tracks

i've been staring at these 3 computer screens for months now..prepping for the show+the books+i have to say, in the end, i'm feeling pretty glad. (given that i didn't how to even scan a negative when i began this process)..
+the photo stickers arrived yesterday!!!
+ learned how to vacuum seal candy bags yesterday, cause my dear darling friends at papabubble have made besosyfotos candy!! so jazzed.
soo, we've got yummy candy+sweet sticker promo all ready to go, come get your own this friday!

flowers on the mind+bows on her legs

coco.sunday.2009.

our dear and handsome polaroid friend, mr. grant worth has an opening tuesday night at heist gallery. it's a polaroid show, called 12 instances, curated by molly surno (who i think went to icp at the same time as me)...

(GG@TG)(babes+bellinis)

..
spotted on GG: flashback sequence featuring angela's headband!!!

oh + i found out at dinner tonight that, as of last week cheek-ie is on sale at COURT!! (yet another reason to come to 178 mulberry on friday, just saying..)

gratitude for the greatness of instamatic awesome...

my dear photo buddy's claire+jeremy blogged this recently+i liked it, so i'm sharing...
+congratulations on your pdn win day19, a more perfect advertising match could not have been made!
xL

hoping for the best on the other end.

rainbow from last night's rainy walk home, on meserole and leonard st.

fingers crossed that my prints are perfect tomorrow.
because, there's no time for them not to be.

a cedez cinco fantastico

when ms singleton dropped by yesterday to preview the final edit of the books. she surprised and delighted me with this teeny tiny perfectly jaunty sombrero just all casual-like.
i happen to know that this treasure was found for her gato in new mex last year.. it's always good to be able to borrow from your roomates:)
her topper made the studio a lot more jangly+festive in a flash.
major groovy.

we didn't stop moving until her feet touched the sky.

please see here for the facebook invite.
hope you can make it.
xL

rough draft!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

thank you endlessly to my beautiful and talented new friend, miss chrissie abbott, for designing such a radical flyer! and thank you to the stunners at COURT for making all this possible!
(+to suze for lending her ass to all kinds of promotion!)

resizing, reviewing, recalling my days away..

but i'm nearly there.

another very busy day at the office.

i updated all the photography folders on my website for the first time in YEARS.

SEE HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(and please forgive some of the photoshopping, i'm still learning)

the dandelions reminded me to think of you.

working on a submission for hey hot shots!
in doing some research on past winners i discovered these two images by matthew tischler. they make me glad.

been listening to a lot of '90's hip hop, i get around.

haven't done a global screen grab in awhile..besos to all my new australian+spanish viewers+whoever you are in romania.
xL

orange you glad you came.

birthday guapissima.ADF+cedez
ADF+KAC
profoundly prophetically pink.
orange you, yes you are.
kiki's carrots+cape
silly string set.
monsieur elliot posing in the lolli garden.chris's brown on the town, showin some leg (ready-ing ADF for some short short summer competition)
concentrating gremlin.
ladies by dustin.
the fam. (i have an almost identical shot of C+R on las ramblas in barcelona'03 sin nino)

miss rachel had a stupendous birthday party, with a sweet theme, as usual: dress in one color ..which was so righteous+fotogenic, we all have decided should probably happen once a month, or until we run out of monochromatic options. there was wacky sting+balloons+color coded food+a lolli garden installation (which i would like to re-shoot cause the polaroids didn't do it justice)..
also i found out that papabubble might maybe host the afterparty for the COURT show?!?! (fingers crossed+i'll keep you posted).

bed stuy on high.

first barBq of the season was fittingly on tom mylan's roof. you may be familiar with his work. he's the famous butcher of brooklyn and part of the marlow posse.

(serious apologies from the crappy quality of these polaroids, xabi took his laptop to spain+i don't have the scanner software on mine..)