yossi milo and clampart

[last one by sir defrancesco]

coldtime crew

gallery night guy

beret and boozE
10th ave.

hans peter feldman at the int'L center of photography

super fantastic installation.
an astute and analytical viewpoint on the impact of 9/11 around the world.
definitely my favorite room in the whole archive show.

sorry the pics are kinda shit. but you are not allowed to fotograph in the museum, which makes for compromised cropping.

sunny disposition

not quite springsteen

put it on your calendar for next saturday

DFA records dance party and "color chart" preview.
tix are $12 in advance and they recommend buying them ahead of time as they might sell out.
tickets

muzi quawson opens at yossi milo tonight

"pull back the shade"
525 w.25th

ry fyan opens at perry rubenstein tonight

"i can give you what you want"
527 w.23rd st

departure

nj transit flair

she was happy i liked her brooch.
and i was happy she let me take her picture.

me"how much is it?
she"two twenty five
me"that's a great pin
she"smile, thank you
me"can i take a picture?
she"it's like 50 years old
me"yea, looks like vintage. i love it.umm let me just take a close up
she"okay
me" thank you

she walked up the aisle
i got off the train

deer in headlights

i need to go spend a few days in a row at home, so i can shoot this properly. with my mamiya. but this is the way it goes in the new jersey suburbs..
dear deer accessorized with a plastic earring and choker.

decisions, decisions

he's a fan of my work

a day with the folks

in brief:

take away lunch with mumsa.
opera interruption, kombucha, a hawk sighting, divine garlic broccoli, gabbing and giggles

lifeplan talk with popsali.
grad school, princeton future, art teaching, exercise, and tennis ball chucking with dezziedog

my mum's green thumb

mercedez's rad middle name

and also, perhaps and most likely, my future child's.

total eclipse of the heart

and dark side of the moon.

i.e.go outside or look out your window,like right NOW.

last time until 2010.

pardon me?

usually there is some pointed accuracy in the ads. but this? this is just plain old amazing nonsense. who do they think i am?
see, it's surprising because the body of the email was २ [people-free] american landscape fotos and with that google adsense came up with this fine selection.
i am terribly curious as what person is interested in all these things at once? who's the target in this pitch? and perhaps i should meet them and start a photo essay. [my imagination can really expound on this fictional character.]

communication theory

passing notes.

sketchbooking

an activity that pre dated the blog by 7 years.

i've found myself months behind.

as i sorted through my analogue foto life and clippings and receipts and instamatic squares, i started feeling really guilty.
for, as you may know, polaroid 600 [which i used to use on a bi weekly basis] will no longer be in production as of 2009.
right up until the launch of besosyfotos in the fall, i had defined myself as a die hard analogue fotographer. a person holding onto the past principles of the craft, one of the last in my generation, la la la.thus polaroid was my stickin' it to the digi revolution.hell, for a long time, i felt like i was the only one at my cvs buying it [almost once a week]..
though now that i find myself spending [quite some time] daily on this virtual sketchbook, i have taken to carrying and using my digital all the time. [albeit guiltily] i have followed the path of ease, of simpler visual communication, of memory cards and the like.
don't get me wrong. i still shoot with film. but as a daily process, i have crossed over to the other [more pixelated] side. my confession is this: while my lumix is with me at all times, the contax, leica, nikon and mamiya sit on the shelf and wait for vacation or a special guest.

i guess the point is that i feel a little personally responsible for polaroid 600's demise.
though i know it's grandiose to think.
and the eventual [or inevitable] termination has been impending for awhile. shoot, we all knew it when they stopped making time zero film.
the cheating feeling remains.

so, that said, i will be pointedly spending more time with my polaroid camera and my sketchbook. as a testament to the principles of tactility and a nod to nostalgia.

brian finke opens at clampart thursday

flight attendant series.
521-531 w.25th St, btw 10th and 11th, 6-8pm

st. marks on steroids

i find myself rather into these massively oversized studded belts from alter

int'L blogger visits

as of last night.
kinda fun...