Thanks to my awesome girlfriend (this is becoming a theme!), I got to attend a great lecture by fine art photographer Ralph Gibson at the New York Film Academy on Saturday morning!
I hope you had a great week! Today is my first installment of “Casual Fridays”, a series of Fridays in which I will attempt to write humorous posts! I’m writing as I listen to Brazilian Disco in Midtown, New York City, thinking way back to Wednesday night…
Longtime subscribers may remember this blog was originally called The Wandering Humorist. I said I’d write about all my funny adventures around New York City.
The weird thing was, it just didn’t happen. I could write easily about photography, directing, my creative process, but somehow, my comedic mirth just didn’t come through. I was perplexed.
Hey people!
I recently became extremely interested in creating my own zine, after reading a zine making tutorial in Rookie Yearbook One. I scored the awesome zine above by artist Sarah Oleksyk at PS Bookstore in DUMBO on my birthday recently. If you come across any copies of Roadside out there, snatch them up, they’re awesome!
My awesome girlfriend took me to BookCon today as an early birthday present! At the end of the day, we were able to get into the panel that I was most looking forward to: a discussion with Brandon Stanton of Humans of New York moderated by WNYC’s Manoush Zomorodi.
Amazingly, I was able to get Brandon’s advice about a fundamental street photography issue that’s been bothering me for years!
Happy Friday!
There’s been a lot of exciting stuff going on for me this past week!
I’m super excited to say that I just received some great film from Kodak for my next photo shoot!
I’ll also be shooting two 35mm test rolls with my new used Nikon F3HP and I will also be testing a new used Polaroid Colorpack II instant camera this weekend! And I’ve also been researching… Zines (more on that later).
I hope you all had a great weekend! New York City has become humid and sticky. Arg!
Over the weekend, I went to get a roll of 35mm film processed, which I shot with my Panaview Opti-Wide panoramic camera. And my local film shop wasn’t there anymore! I began to freak out. Luckily, I saw a little sign with their new location. It was then that I began to appreciate that they’re probably the cheapest place to process 35mm in all of New York City! I walked right over and there they were. Thank the Lord!
Here’s a new track from electronic band Stranger Cat with my thoughts on producing:
Although I’ve been writing a lot about my photography, I’ve been working behind the scenes on my next directing project.
I hope you all had a great weekend!
Exciting things have been going on for me in New York City, so stay tuned!
In the meantime, I wanted to share the photo above with you. It’s an experiment I did in Photoshop CS6, combining a texture with a street photo I snapped with my cell!
