subway jam, j train platform, 2008

featured photo on FriendsorEnemies/Buzznet.com

hey all, a photograph I took on set at the video shoot for VersaEmerge's "Past Praying For" was featured on Friends Or Enemies, aka Buzznet. The photograph is of Devin Ingelido, the band's bassist. The video premieres this Thursday. Enjoy!

http://www.friendsorenemies.com/web/foe/photos/versaemerge/?id=70737611

preview of versaemerge interview pix

sierra k. biting one of our "classy" (index card) interview cards


intense band discussion? i love jerry's face, i feel like he's astonished at whatever is coming out of sierra's mouth.

hope you enjoyed the small preview of photos from last night's shoot. the video and more pictures from the interview will be up asap. these guys were pros! <3

shoots w/ versaemerge, halestorm

i haven't posted many images this week, apologies. we had an InklingsTV shoot with the kids in VersaEmerge last night. if you don't know them, check them out. i think what they are doing musically is definitely different than a lot of what's out there. so many times I see interviews with bands who have been interviewed a billion times by a billion people, and it starts to sound flat. we always try and make bands feel like we're working for them and not the other way around. i'd say we did a good job with Versa, every question was definitely met with a genuine appreciation and interest. it's so rad when we have a shoot with a band who are still eager to answer questions in interviews. they are just starting to go places as a band (early this morning they left for their first stint in the UK - good luck guys) and each time i see them they are doing something they have never done before. the one thing they'll always do - make Anchorman references. good thing i have that movie memorized line for line. the behind the scenes photos I took for Atlantic on the set of "Past Praying For" will eventually be featured on Buzznet, so if you haven't got an account, get one (free) and friend VersaEmerge for all their updates. i'll let you guys know when they are planning on posting these.

at some point in the last week, i also shot for Atlantic on the set of the new Halestorm video, "I Get Off". without revealing anything (it's in post right now and not out yet) it's going to be an amazing video. pretty intense. the whole band were super sweet, and it seems like they have a really loyal & bad ass road crew family. i overheard that they are selling CDs like bottled water on the Shinedown tour. good for them!

so, that's all for now. i'm going to be editing photos all afternoon so maybe something will catch my eye and i'll post. later.

news

be honest with me today.

did you see my work up at gallatin arts festival this past week? it was taken down yesterday, unfortunately. what are some of the questions you had about it? some of the reactions? aesthetically, which do you prefer, the newer collages (what i call the "sculpture" colored ones - the paler skin) or the older ones with a more "painter-friendly (yellowy)" quality. i know my titles were wrongly ordered (it was my own fault, maria was following the labels i had given & some were covered up from me re-taping the backings onto them) but if you noticed i was using a lot of song titles, band names, or book titles. does this bother people? attaching the titles of other works of art to a new piece of art?

for those curious, "andiatarocte" is the native american word for something like "lake that is closed in" and it is what the native americans called my hometown "Lake George" before the white settlers came.

i will tentatively be having some work in an upcoming gPhoto exhibition which should be on view from April 21 until May 7th. Same location, different work. i'm thinking about showing a first cut of photographs from my "images of my wandering" series/exhibit/retrospective travel photography bonanza. it's less boring than it seems, i assure you. it's more "transit" than travel, which are two words people mistakenly interchange. it's not about the destination i am travelling to but more about the similarities that come from being constantly in transit. these are places i captured not with intent (ie. going to the Eiffel Tower and taking a picture of the Eiffel Tower) but with meandering, with transitioning, interruptions on my way to perhaps, take the picture of the Eiffel Tower. except none of my photos are from France, as i've never been there. <3

some random shots.

sleeping on the subway : new york, ny. 2008


a man's sport at the meadowlands : east rutherford, nj. 2005