Muse Hotel, Midtown Manhattan

Its been several months since I’ve posted to this blog.   My original intent was to focus on my practice of film based photography as I had been almost exclusively shooting film for about 3 years at that point.   There was even a time when I was renting a darkroom and spend many [...]

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This weekend I’m going to take a Cambo 4×5 out for a test drive.  This is the first time I’ve touched a large format camera and I’m hoping that using a polaroid back and referring to largeformatphotography.info as well as Horenstein’s celebrated B&W 102 text, Beyond Basic Black and White Photography will be enough to [...]

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Last night Mrs. Obama was in NYC for the ballet and for the reopening of the MET’s American wing which I have missed rather sorely in my time of unemployment.   She paid the usual lipservice to the arts using a phrase we’ve all heard 1000 times before, that arts “define who we are as a [...]

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I haven’t been updating this blog very much as I’ve been incredibly busy at work.
It surprising how much effort producing the death throes of a company requires.  This is to say that my employer will be shutting its doors tomorrow afternoon and I will be joining millions of other Americans in solidarity on the public [...]

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A common trait among photographers is the tendency towards being a complete gear whore. I stole that term from a friend who does electronic music and uses it to describe people who tend to accumulate a bunch of expensive gizmos which they may or may not need with the excuse that they can do [...]

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Another date to mark on your calendars is the first of May better known as May Day,  Transcontinental Up With Bolsheviks Day, So That’s What They Do For Fun in North Korea Day, Beltaine, Let’s All Go Naked And Lay In A Great Big Pile Day, and now International Commie Camera Day for people who [...]

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Lately I’ve been tuning into NPR’s Planet Money podcast in order to get a better grasp of the current economic climate.  While I take a keen interest in politics two areas I do not have a strong academic background in are law and economics.   My actual studies were in the sciences and humanities.   My profession [...]

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Following on my brief commentary on the economics of creativity I’d like to follow up on an interesting talk one of the graphic designers at work forwarded around to the company.
Elizabeth Gilbert at TED
Elizabeth Gilbert wrote Eat, Pray, Love which is a bestseller that I’ve never read.   She talks about the psychology of dealing with [...]

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There’s a few ways I could title this piece.

Roses
My Grandfather’s Roses
My Grandfather’s Roses the Day After He Died
My Grandfather’s Roses the Day After He Died Which No One In The Family Expected Him To Do So Well Tending After My Grandmother Left For The West Nearly Two Decades Ago.

They’re just a couple of roses next [...]

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It seems that an Austrian businessman and Polaroid enthusiast has purchased the polaroid factory in Amsterdam and hired 11 of its former employees to kick production back up.   They’re partnered with Ilford to start reproducing the SX-70 and 600 line of film.   There was some talk about Ilford licensing the B&W line of Polaroid products [...]

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