I actually wish she had a different outfit on, just so people would get over that aspect. Yes, she’s scanty clad – but this is obviously simply an admiration of “the Body” not in a lustful way, simply respectful and awesome. Beautiful POV, cinematography, sense of color, vision, and of course amazing physical feats…
South Carolina Primary for the New York Times
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Romney in SC for New York TImes by Logan Mock-Bunting
I’ve been covering the South Carolina Primary for the New York Times. Romney Slideshow HERE, and more to come soon…
Romney in SC for New York Times by Logan Mock-Bunting
Moons and star scratches
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Photo © Sharon Harper/Courtesy of Galerie Roepke, Cologne and Rick Wester Fine Art, New York City. Above: Moon Studies and Star Scratches, No. 2. November 8, 2003. Greensboro, North Carolina.
For her series Moon Studies and Star Scratches, Sharon Harper photographed the moon over a period of days, weeks and months on a single sheet of film. Harper says the camera is “a metaphor for the pervasive presence of technology within the landscape, a presence that often interrupts our experience of the natural world. The camera here, however, creates possibilities for re-interpreting contemporary experience as it mediates and records, generating images that cannot be seen without it. In the images from the series…the moon links our understanding of time in terms of a monthly calendar with a celestial realm where time is measured in light years.”
The intent is a little too cerebral for me, but I love the supernatural feel I get from some of these images. They remind me of little poems: what worth do they have? what scientific purpose? Maybe none. Are they factually correct? Not really, but they are beautiful and moving.
Moon Studies and Star Scratches is featured in Daylight Magazine’s current issue, Cosmos. Harper’s newer series, Sun/Moon (Trying to See through a Telescope), is currently on view at Galerie Roepke in Cologne through January 21st. More HERE.
Impressive Videos of Late
Monday, January 9, 2012
There are couple of videos I’ve discovered lately that I can’t get enough of – keep watching them over and over again. Thought I’d stick a couple into one blog post:
Battles “My Machines”
I had a similar incident with a treadmill at my old gym once.
Also, my sister has been dragging me to the mall for decades and I’ve never once seen a microphone just laying there for singing.
But seriously, an amazing video, amazing concept, great story, attention to detail, and incredibly put together. I was very excited to find a “making of” spotlight elsewhere on the web.
Flight of the Frenchies
Not everyone could do this. Just watch.
I mean, fucking world-class. Amazed from the start, totally blown away after 4:15…
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When you come out AFTER the spit, you were pretty far back…
Superhero Martin Stepanek casually changing an anchor line at 230′… I just can’t imagine being that far down and being so casual about it…Even with him being a World Record holder, I was relived to finally see the safety diver at 4:01…
The Lovings
Friday, December 30, 2011
This is so ridiculously powerful. Every time I get cynical about human beings and how slow change can be in coming, I have to remind myself that things like this existed less than a lifetime ago.
From LOOK – NYTimes.com
Photographs by
Grey Villet
In 1958, Richard and Mildred Loving were arrested in a nighttime raid in their bedroom by the sheriff of Caroline County, Va. Their crime: being married to each other. The Lovings — Mildred, who was of African-American and Native American descent, and Richard, a bricklayer with a blond buzz cut — were ordered by a judge to leave Virginia for 25 years. In January, the International Center of Photography is mounting a show of Grey Villet’s photographs of the couple in 1965. That exhibit is complemented by an HBO documentary, ‘‘The Loving Story,’’ directed by Nancy Buirski, which will be shown on HBO on Feb. 14. The film tells of the Lovings’ struggle to return home after living in exile in Washington, where Mildred, gentle in person but persistent on paper, wrote pleading letters to Robert F. Kennedy and the A.C.L.U. Two lawyers took their case to the Supreme Court, which struck down miscegenation laws in more than a dozen states. The Lovings’ belief in the simple rightness of their plea never wavered. Asked by one of his lawyers if he had a message for the Supreme Court, Richard said he did: ‘‘Tell the court I love my wife.’’
Julie Bosman
Dear 16-old-year Me…
Thursday, December 29, 2011
A really powerful, well-done PSA. Worth watching and passing along.
Photographers we lost in 2011
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
TIME has a nice little article on several photographers who died in 2011. Although I’ve already written about the two who most affected me personally, it was nice to read about other people, their specialties and their journeys.
Rest in Peace, all.
Chris, I miss you.
Human Canaries
Saturday, December 17, 2011
Besides this being:
A) an amazing, intriguing story
B) shot in a beautifully stunning and eloquent manner
C) an intimate yet concrete look into people’s lives
it also has a intensely person hook. One of the best collection of story-telling and revealing images I’ve seen in a long time. A+
Thilde Jensen/ Courtesy of Light Work/Community Darkrooms at Syracuse University