May 2011
37 posts
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Jake Stangel
I feel like I have done a lot of tooting my own horn on here lately and as satisfying as that is, I don’t think anybody really cares so I am going to highlight a friend of mine who I think is a pretty neat guy/photographer/human.
I first met Jake Stangel when living in NYC last year. I was familiar with him in the internet from both his photo work and his community photo website too much...
Table numbers for the wedding
When Dani and I sat down and started to plan our wedding last year, we wanted to incorporate my photography somehow without it being super cheesy. We settled on the idea that I would go out and take photos of numbers out in the real world and use them for our table numbers. I started photographing them with my holga and quickly realized it was going to be a huge pain in the ass to scan and spot...
current game changers in my life
1.Getting married next week (!)
2.Neti pot
3.Steel cut oats
4.Living across the street from the sunflower market (a blessing and a curse)
5.Freezer full of film
6.Granite counter tops
7.Bourbon
Standards of living: IKEA meatballs and overhead...
Last wednesday, Dani and I descended upon IKEA to purchase furniture for our mostly empty apartment. We went in with a plan and did remarkably well. I saw other young couples obviously disoriented, exhausted lost in the maze of plastic storage units and picture frames. The overhead lighting there is some of the worst I have ever experienced so I apologize for the lack of mid-tones in these...
Thoughts on the necessity of sheets and area rugs
I wake up in a queen-sized bed and attempt to untangle myself from the sheet that is wrapped around my legs. I’ve never used a sheet before. It just seemed extraneous. All I needed was something to cover the mattress and a blanket to keep me warm. There was even a period of time where I was just sleeping on a mattress with no bottom sheet (it seems barbaric but I didn’t have a bottom sheet and...
Four Spring Polaroids
I went out and shot a bunch of polaroids the other day while it was warm. Now it’s snowing.
Watchjoshuantaylor:
It’s performances like this that make me re-imagine everything. It also makes me so bored and impatient with unimaginative music.
James Miska (by Michael Friberg)
Things I saw last week PT 2
This is the second in a two part post about things I saw last week while location scouting for a commercial I was a DP on. And no, DP doesn’t stand for “douchey photographer” although maybe it should.Although there are grand landscapes included here that are certainly incredible to look at, for me the entire thing becomes about the strange little idiosyncrasies and details you...
things I saw last week PT 1
Last week I DP’d a commercial for a client that will remain nameless until the thing has aired and on top of shooting it, I also did a bunch of location scouting. I put in some serious time on the road alone with nothing to keep me company but the voice of random NPR corespondents (and my friend evan one day). I am by no means a landscape photographer (in fact, it is probably my weakest...
on the satisfaction of shooting tourists
Back when I had first moved to NYC in 2009, I was taking a workshop from David Turnley that I had won a scholarship for and we had been assigned to go out and shoot a project of our choosing over the week. It was so open ended I was caught off guard and I had only been living in the city for about two weeks.I couldn’t think of anything. I had been separated from my girlfriend of 4...
Glen and his metal detector
Wandering around shooting fauxloroids (fuji) today and met this guy Glen in the park with his metal detector. He was amused by my old polaroid camera. I was amused by his metal detector. He said the best thing he has ever found was a gold nugget on the end of a necklace at the beach in San Diego. He showed me the change he had found so far today.
Today I....
Shot 20 polaroids
photographed two cops against their will
shot an album cover
drank a miller high life
finished the table numbers for my wedding
switched my renters insurance
made a grilled cheese
Bought a new tripod and fluid head
went to a graduation dinner (almost)
and it’s only 3:47!
