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2009-09-06T16:51:00.000-07:00

Platon is fear.less

2009-07-07T15:57:00.000-07:00

fear.less "is a movement borne from our right to live without fear. It’s where human potential meets the courage to act." They are compiling stories from notable people who have faced or conquered fear and will be releasing an ebook, I believe.

I was happily surprised to receive their first story from photographer Platon.

This quote is the last bit of the article and I think sums it up nicely :

"It’s not about achieving or winning or acquiring something. It’s more visceral than that. It goes back to “Who am I? Am I happy? Am I really living? Am I mastering the art of living, or am I just being played here?” If you can really answer those very difficult questions, I do believe it’s the core of overcoming any fears you may have."

I think the better we know ourselves, the more at peace we are with ourselves, the less fear can effect our lives.

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2009-06-29T12:11:00.001-07:00

"say things that have not been said
hear things that have not been heard
see things that have not been seen
feel things that have not been felt
learn things that have not been taught
fight things that have not been fought
create things that will blow your fuckin' mind"
- spike lee

2009-06-23T22:53:00.001-07:00

"Ideas are like fish. You don’t make the fish. You catch the fish." - David Lynch

My sister at the beach

2009-06-17T10:00:00.000-07:00

I still can't believe that I get to see the ocean every day now

Equator Books

2009-06-15T09:53:00.000-07:00

I'm in Santa Monica for a month! Yesterday I was wandering the streets and stumbled into this really cool place called Equator Books. They have collectible art, design and photography books (and lots of old issues of Playboy also.) What I really liked about the store was that it is also a gallery space which rotates monthly. This month is celebrity photographer Brad Elterman's series "Like it was Yesterday."

There are so many great little galleries and stores around here and so much to experience. I'm going to go see what else I can find...

Supermodelquins

2009-06-09T15:39:00.000-07:00

The economy is so bad, Old Navy has replaced real life people to model their clothes with manikins.

They're cleverly using it for some fun marketing also.

2009-06-07T14:15:00.001-07:00

I saw this big piece of glass in my basement the other day and for some reason I thought of the Blue Man Group show I went to see last summer. There's a part in the show where they take a huge framed piece of glass, cover it in shaving cream and do all kinds of mind blowing magic with it. I thought it would be fun to use their technique for a portrait, so I grabbed my little sister and here is what we got.

Adapt or Die

2009-06-01T13:50:00.000-07:00

Check out the New York Times website today and you'll see that a video about the GM bankruptcy has replaced the area normally filled by photographs. I am really glad they spent the time and money to produce this video since it is such a big story. It is neat but also scary for photojournalists. Scribes should also take notice because the 10 minute long video is very informative and to me, takes the place of reading the article.

Sweet Music Video

2009-05-30T16:17:00.000-07:00

Music Video by Noah Webb for Sara Lov's "A Thousand Bees"

Via PDNpulse

3 week Photo

2009-05-26T14:56:00.001-07:00

I finally got my film back from Wal-mart yesterday after convincing myself that the roll was lost forever. Yeah I suck for supporting walmart but they develop a roll of 120 film for $1.50 and even give you 3x3 prints.

Oxford, Ohio

Derrick

This one is my favorite of the roll. I was wandering around town and found this little boy named Derrick playing in the dirty snow. I talked to him to make sure he was alright and then asked to take his picture.

Craig

2009-05-21T19:30:00.002-07:00

Lately I've just been feeling completely uninspired to go out and shoot. Finally last week I decided I had to break through the funk and just go out and take a picture for once. Thankfully my friend was down to do mess around and do a bit of modeling for me.

Promo photos, jumping, and the maiden voyage of my blog

2009-05-14T19:14:00.000-07:00

This is from a shoot I did a few weeks ago. I took photos of the principle cast of a mini-series that the film club on campus is producing. We took these in the t.v. studio of the communications building. It was hard at first figuring out which lights to choose to turn on out of the 20-30 on the ceiling. I also used a continuous light softened by a chimera soft box.

More important than the photos or lighting setups is what I learned before the cast arrived. I was using my friends Kelley and Lauren to stand in for lighting tests and somehow that progressed into them jumping off chairs. It was a lot of fun and killed time that could've been spent sitting around waiting for people. It was a spontaneous little shoot that gave me some photos I am happy with and didn't expect to get. For more on spontaneity visit my recent inspiration Nick Onken's blog