Some NYC Instagrams
I took a quick business trip to New York City yesterday, and I had some wander time in the middle of the day. I was at the edge of SOHO and the Village and I took a few pictures with my iPhone. I was in an Instagram mood, so I shot the photos with Instragram cropping in mind. Here are few of the photos. Follow this link to Flickr to see more.
Fallen Princesses
Photographer Dina Goldstein has created a series of photographs called Fallen Princesses where she looks at the next chapter in the lives of fairy tale princesses, but set in the modern world.
The Best Camera
Photographer Chase Jarvis has taken loads of photographs with his iphone, and rather than continue to use a variety of post-processing apps, he developed his own. It is $2.99 from the itunes store and it has lots of positive ratings. This is first prong of his three-prong approach, which also includes a book and a photo sharing site, thebestcamera.com.
The Bain Project
The Bain Project was a site specific artwork created in the deserted and decommissioned waterworks plant south of downtown Raleigh. In the late 1930s, as Raleigh was growing, the city built a new plant to handle the water needs of the area. Here’s a link to historic information about the Bain Waterworks. This artwork project combined found objects in the plant, organic materials like branches and grass with a deteriorating industrial building. I was more interested in photographing the aging machinery and peeling paint than in the artwork, but some it made interesting photographs.
Here are the rest of my photos on Flickr and here are photos from other local photographers.
One of the most creative endeavors was a musical piece played by creating sounds on the building itself. A plant buzzer sounded, and a corps of white-coated employees marched down the main aisle and took their positions in the water holding tanks. They proceeded to shake, shudder and pound out the sounds of a working plant. Here’s some video of the piece.
100 Abandoned Houses
I found this great site, one of the handful of interesting things I have found using StumbleUpon, called 100 Abandoned Houses. It is a collection of photographs by Kevin Bauman of abandoned houses in Detroit, Michigan.
The abandoned houses project began innocently enough roughly ten years ago. I actually began photographing abandonment in Detroit in the mid 90’s as a creative outlet, and as a way of satisfying my curiosity with the state of my home town. I had always found it to be amazing, depressing, and perplexing that a once great city could find itself in such great distress, all the while surrounded by such affluence.
Superheroes in Real Life
Mexican-born photographer Dulce Pinzón has spent much of her career dealing with issues related to the duality of Mexican immigrants trying to find their way in the US. Her Superhero project shows Mexican immigrants who toil away in regular jobs, normally unnoticed, but dressed as American and Mexican superheros for the photos. For many of them their real superpower is to provide money for their family back home, each caption includes the amount each sends home each month.
Bikini Clad Plane Promotes Magazine
Photo from Flickr
I am a big fan of decorated airplanes, especially Southwest planes, but this promotional stunt to create the “SI One” and hype the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated, the one issue of the year that generates enough hype on its own, is an odd combination. Not the least because of a recent situation where Southwest kicked a woman off the plane for her revealing outfit.
Now there will be a bleary-eyed salesman in seat 3A looking out through the bikini top of a supermodel.
Raleigh Twestival Photo Booth
At last Thursday’s Raleigh Twestival, I wanted to document everyone who supported charity:water and came to our event. I enlisted the help of John Rees and Nathan Walls who shot and uploaded all the photos.
I made this photobooth layout from the Flickr thumbnails and arranged them as one long strip in Photoshop. I thought I wanted a slide show, but I like the look of these thumbnails better.
We raised nearly $2300 through ticket sales, a raffle and online donations. Not bad for nine days work to organize the event.
We Have A New President
President Barack Obama waves alongside his wife, Michelle, Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, as former President George W. Bush and his wife, Laura, leave the U.S. Capitol by helicopter after Mr. Obama was sworn in as the 44th President. (Pool photo by Saul Loeb via the NY Times)
Hattip to Ryan
Martha’s Cats Can Haz Bowtiz
I have never been much of a fan of Martha Stewart, but I was intrigued when I saw that she celebrated New Year’s in the company of her cats. Is she a cat lady, or did she berate her staff to dress up the cats and take photos for her blog?