Stills, Requiem For A Dream, 2000

Empty Coal in Minnesota, Mike Brodie, 2007

The one-and-only Mike Brodie, a.k.a. The Polaroid Kid, has updated his photo-site with a new set called The Rockaway Summer.. Be sure to check it out.

Still, Taxi Driver

Helvetica85-Heavy, self-portrait 1967

John Berryman, poet

Quotes on Berryman:

“We were brash in our own ways.”

“Phile Levine punched Berryman in the eye one night, breaking a pair of glasses and establishing a life-long friendship.”

Op. posth. no. 3

It’s buried at a distance, on my insistence, buried.

Weather’s severe there, which it will not mind.

I miss it.

O happies before & during & between the times it got

married

I hate the love of leaving it behind,

deteriorating & hopeless that.

The great Uh climbed above me, far above me,

doing the north face, or behind it. Does He love me?

over, & flout.

Goodness is bits of outer God. The house-guest

(slimmed down) with one eye open & one breast

out.

Slimmed-down from by-blow; adoptive-up; was white.

A daughter of a friend. His soul is a sight.

Mr Bones, what’s all about?

Girl have a little: what be wrong with that?

You free?—Down some many did descend

from the abominable & semi-mortal Cat.

Wiki John

More of his poems

photo by Yannick Grandmont

For I have never seen the sun / That did not bury his head in the side of the world / When the day is done

Watch, Listen

Shooting in studio was, and still is, for the most part boring to me, until today. We got the chance to shoot portraits & use strobes for once instead of continuous lighting. What does that mean? No more still-life! I’m falling for the 4×5 view camera & want to start shooting 8×10 when I have the funds. Film is expensive, but incredibly well worth the time & money. Try shooting at F64 with your digital camera.

Here is what i’ve shot so far:

Week 1: Still-Life (Perspective Control)

Week 2: Still-Life, Object (Continuous Lighting)

Week 3: Portrait, Francesca Fiorentini (Strobes)

More as time goes by.

Maybe it’s just my fascination with security and a general interest in circumventing it, but i’d like to recommend the film Street Thief to people interested in handheld-documentary style movies.

watch trailer

“official” site (myspace)