Posted in Canon PowerShot S100, Food, Objects on Jan 27th, 2012 5 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. Great dinner with friends. The room was pretty dark and just a few candles were lighting the table and the light on Anne’s plate was inviting me to try out the S100 in low light.
Posted in Art and Design, Objects on Jan 6th, 2012 No Comments »
From Motorcycles to Mad Max: The Found Objects Work of Michael Ulman This is an incredible collection of machine-art and the Mad Max association is spot on. [via core77]
Posted in Objects, Process, Video on Dec 9th, 2011 1 Comment »
Fascinating process. I never would have guessed the brush rolling the lip or how they get them off the forms. Gotta go out and get some balloons now, I have a whole new appreciation. [via The Kid Should See This]
Posted in Collections, Objects, People, Video on Nov 17th, 2011 2 Comments »
I have this “disease” and there’s a very fine line between hoarding lots of stuff looking for patterns and the kind of high end collecting these folks do. Each class of collecting (hooding and high end collecting) has its extremes. What these folks do that I haven’t done yet is curate their collections; my various [...]
Posted in iPhone Photography, Objects, Places on Nov 7th, 2011 No Comments »
The iPhone 4S camera really is spectacular. I’m blown away by the clarity of the images I’m getting from it. This was taken today on a hike up Bear Mountain.
Posted in Food, Objects, People, Process, Video on Nov 4th, 2011 10 Comments »
Made by Hand / No 2 The Knife Maker from Made by Hand on Vimeo. “Buckets of blood and sweat.” (practice) “Convergence of handmade and food” (a bit of luck but more like smarts) This is an excellent video and Joel’s narration makes it even better. What he says about the satisfaction he derives from [...]
Posted in Objects, Photography, Video on Oct 26th, 2011 No Comments »
Booths & Bodies: The life and work of Anthony Vizzari from Philip Bloom on Vimeo. A wonderful documentary by Phillip Bloom on Anthony Vizzari who collects vintage cameras and vintage photo booths. [via Devour]
Posted in Canon PowerShot S95, Ice, Objects on Oct 10th, 2011 No Comments »
Wassaic, New York. We went to a great wedding on Saturday night and during dinner this ice water was just crying out to be photographed with dozens of small candles on the table behind it.
Posted in Macro, Objects, Photography on Oct 1st, 2011 No Comments »
Candies Photographed in Water Drops PetaPixel has a nice post on how to shoot water drops on a glass or acrylic surface so that objects placed underneath the surface seem to be contained in each drop. This would be a fun setup and shot to try with different objects and various kinds of lighting.
Posted in Canon PowerShot S95, My mother, Objects, Places on Aug 23rd, 2011 2 Comments »
Los Angeles, California. Out to dinner with my mother and decided to see how well the Canon PowerShot S95 would do in Av mode, wide open at f/2 with something close up and a background in blur. While it’s not a 5D or even an X100 it isn’t bad and this shot is my kick [...]
Posted in iPhone Photography, Objects, Shadows and reflections on Aug 19th, 2011 2 Comments »
I was paying the check at a restaurant and saw the shadow, had to shoot it. Not easy to shoot with an iPhone actually. Wish Apple would allow the volume buttons to act as a shutter button.
Posted in Canon PowerShot G12, Macintosh, Objects, Tech Stuff on Aug 13th, 2011 6 Comments »
For those of you who are Mac users, this is a self-made Mac OS 10.7 Lion install on a USB flash drive. I could have gotten a 4 gig drive but the 8 gig was cheaper. Why do this? Because Apple is phasing out optical drives and this will boot any modern Mac and do [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Objects, People, Photography, Places on Aug 9th, 2011 No Comments »
Gravity Glue Mike Grab likes to balance rocks. His piles are less cairns, more sculptural balancing acts. [via Boing Boing]
Posted in Objects, Process, Tools, Video on Aug 9th, 2011 No Comments »
Many years ago a friend and I cleaned out a very old barn in Woodbury, Connecticut. Inside we found thousands of cedar blanks which we found out later were blanks for making pencils. This barn was well over 100 years old and the pencil operation had been run by water wheel. I still have many [...]
Posted in iPhone Photography, My mother, Objects, Patterns, Places on Jul 26th, 2011 8 Comments »
Art deco family gravestone at my mother’s family’s plot at Mt. Hebron Cemetery in Queens, New York. I stopped by there today on my way to Kennedy Airport to pick up a friend. My mother’s parents and her two sisters are buried there. Her brother was cremated. My mother will be here at some point [...]
Posted in iPhone Photography, Objects on Jul 25th, 2011 No Comments »
My friend Gary Sharp who used to do a lot of creative photo work with plastic cameras and alternative film processing is having a blast with the iPhone 4 camera and the various photo manipulation apps available. This one is processed using a bleach bypass app which no doubt is mimicking an effect one might [...]
Posted in Food, Objects, Photographers on Jul 23rd, 2011 3 Comments »
My flickr contact Chien Chung has posted a nice top view of what looks like a great meal on some great placemats.
Posted in Objects, Photographers, Places on Jun 29th, 2011 2 Comments »
My long time flickr contact Ronn has posted a wonderful shot of baskets on a cart in Bangkok, Thailand.
Posted in Art and Design, Objects, People, Video on Jun 27th, 2011 1 Comment »
Tom Sachs, A Selby Film from the selby on Vimeo. The Selby has done a nice bio piece on the American sculptor Tom Sachs. Worth watching full screen. Tom Sachs (official web site) Tom Sachs (wikipedia) Ten Bullets is currently running on the front page of the Tom Sachs site. It’s a parody (I hope) [...]
Posted in Objects, Photographers on Jun 23rd, 2011 No Comments »
vivian.chang has a nice collection of images including this still life with camera and vintage rubber stamps. [via Coudal Partners]
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