youtube videos on photography... thats awesome...

Duane Michals




Garry Winogrand



Joe Mcnally



thats it for now... :D

dan... right after i finished putting the thing together...

....its finally done... the past week i have been spending a lot of time at the woodshop trying to make a 11x14 camera... and its done...

dan at the workshop did most of the woodwork, and i put together the plan... it looks gorgeous... the bellows is finally on...

i took the front standard off a Linhof and the monorail and made a 11x14 back standard for it... cannot wait to try it out... soon images will be done.... some final touchs have to be done... but its basically ready to take photos... initially i thought i would take it outside to take portraits... but the thing probably weighs 20 or 30 pounds... so we will have to see...

here are a few photos of the beast...
this is the basic starting point...

the ground glass...

i made my own film back... so these are the boards that hold the negative...

the lens mount...

the bellows getting put together...

the bellows mounted...

WALA!!! the library...

...5 photographs...

...i think thinking of putting in 5 portraits for the hasselblad online showcase... i think i have the 5...

...where i should be now...

...i should be in philly right now... i really should be...

as i lay dying is touring the east coast again... and i was in worcester with them yesterday... only real downside was... they were part of metal fest... and there were a thousand other bands... so photographing them was quite the challenge... i am still trying to work on individual portraits of theirs... but that clearly didnt happen... i needed a break... and it was awesome to see the peeps catch up and such... i gotta eventually look and see if i got any good photos out of the last trip... hoepfully i will get to go out again when they are in NY and boston next month... cant wait..

....oh yea... the venue across from the palladium... had the Greatful Dead playing... and the parking lot was a ruckus... really...

...stuff i grew up with...

so... last wednsday Cliff and I decided to go and work on our Masking exercises at the North Station... one of the call force firefighters, sam, was kind enough to keep us company and help us through... it was great...

well... at the end of our little training session... i heard Sam hum the tune from Airwolf... yes... fuckin airwolf... i use to love that show... when i was 10... :D

so... thanks to youtube... here it is... and a few other shows i grew up with...



streetHawk...



and obviously the A team... i LOVED that van...



mcgyver... yes... thats why i carry the swiss army knief everywhere... its no secret...



my fav:




there ends tonights thoughts...

...so... amanda and scott are off....

...my good friends Amanda and Scott left for Oregon earlier today... they will be driving a dodge van across the country for two weeks... i wish i could go with them...

they are both artists... and i know scott from engineering... but... apparently as it turns out... neither one of us ended up using what we spend four years of our lives because our true calling is somehwhere else...

he is an awesome painter... and an ace guitarist... no wonder we got along so well... they will be missed... but i am sure i will be able to go out and visit them soon enough...

the story behind the photograph... well... i spent days planning this out... we had a costume at hand too... when i was setting up lights last night... one of the local security people came up and said... we coudlnt have the van on the grass, understandable, and we couldnt take photographs without a permit...fuckin retarded... we live here... anyway... pissed i started packing up... then decided... we should do a photo anyways... cause i think we have every right too... went along to do some serious strobist stuff... light painting with a sb800... came out pretty well i thought...

all for now... class start tomorrow... i am still setting up my studio... going NUTsssssss

...so... just another saturday night...

...chris and I drove into northampton saturday night... i had a crappy morning... so decided to go on a little adventure...

of course... being early... we had an opportunity to mess around... and got carried away. chris got a pair of glasses and we were now late meeting up with jordan... :P



... as you can tell the scene outside the bar was very phototogenic... with the perfect light... we meet a couple of the band memebers... they were sitting right across from us... and apparently... one of them was from vienna... check them out... www.thesimiplepleasure.com

we decided to jump around and take some photos obviously here is how the overall lighting was... i didnt have my camera... so was using chris' 20d... for the life of me... i couldnt figure out how to use the autofocus on it...




...once we got a couple of jumps in... tamara from simple watching us all this time decided she wanted in on it tooo... what an awesome jump it was... alas... i wish we had more time to play around... but there was a show inside to go toooo... :D