Jun 27 2008
Kevin Costner and Modern West performing at the Gibson Guitar tent, CES 2008. ‘Back in the day,’ photographer Asia Lee lived by the lens snapping pics of Madonna, Michael Jackson, Bon Jovi and others – her photos often landing on VH1.
Today she lives on the little league field, coaching her son’s Half Hollow Hills little league team and nabbing a few choice photos now and then. Congrats: Reds win the championship game!
Jun 25 2008
Gregg Ellman was in town shooting the NASCAR Sprint Cup series during its only Northern California stop of the 2008 racing season. From Infineon Raceway, he nabbed this shot of the Toyota/Save Mart 350.
Ellman writes and photographs for the Star-Tellegram in Fort Worth.
Jun 24 2008
The first in a new series titled Found Objects; and a bonus since this also intersects another new series titled Grammar in Action.
Possibly the strife in Jeff O’s life could be lessened through better sentence formation. The poor chap is a run-on and dearly needs to meet someone at the wedding with whom he can bond. Maybe then he will get beyond this dreadful circumstance.
Found: Napa, Main Street, 2005
Jun 13 2008
Kathy Leistner, NYC 2007 Renegade, is in full swing this season capturing community sports stars. Inspired by the 1979 book, Rites of Fall - High School Football in Texas by Geoff Winngham, she photographs school sports beyond the traditional action shot.
The “King of Swing”
St. Dominic’s High School player Dan Lackner has earned a baseball scholarship to Texas A & M; he’s also a professional fashion model. This gem was shot for a feature story in the May issue of Long Island Ultimate Athlete Magazine. Lackner stands in the Charles Wang Sports Complex, Muttontown, New York.
Winning Hit
The Mepham High School baseball team celebrates a run that pulls them ahead of Calhoun, to ultimately win the game and a playoff spot. Shot on assignment for the Merrick Herald, one of the 15 publications in the Herald Community Newspapers group. Leistner has been photographing this team for five years.
Jun 08 2008
June Showers
According to one Cisco volunteer, the cool hotspot during the biennial Zero One Festival in San Jose was RainDance.
“RainDance is an interactive sound installation by electronic media artist Paul DeMarinis. Jets of water modulated by audio signals carry sound vibrations that are inaudible to the human ear. The sounds cannot be heard until the water jet is intercepted by a large umbrella. The sound is then decoded and resonated from the surface of the umbrella. The umbrella thus becomes a new and different kind of loudspeaker.
Diverse electronic and acoustic material is modulated onto the streams so that individuals strolling along under the water jets can listen to, mix, modify, and sequence a variety of sonic material, ranging from musical standards to rhythmic and electronic music.”
The Video Diaries of Molotov Alva
And on a second playbill of non-reality, filmmaker Douglas Gayeton’s short film My Second Life: The Video Diaries of Molotov Alva trooped through avatar dominion at Camera 12.
Crafted entirely in the virtual world of Second Life, Molotov leaves his “straightworld” life behind and travels to new vistas, encountering everything from Furries to Cyberpunks to Neo-Luddites to Sex Slaves to the King of the Hobos, Orhalla Zander. Zander becomes Molotov’s seer and helps him find Abilgail, the creator and the meaning of life. http://01sj.org/
Jun 05 2008
“If I only make people look good my work is temporary. If I capture their heart and soul it’s timeless,” shares wedding photographer Jim Hicks. Husband and wife team Jim and Lara Davis-Hicks are the vision behind Davis Photography, an Ohio-based studio. This image was captured using a Nikon D2X.
The duo is also co-founder of Thirst Relief International, a philanthropic global organization with a mission to overcome death and disease resulting from the consumption of contaminated water by providing safe, clean drinking water to those in need. Davis serves as the organization’s volunteer president and works tirelessly aside other volunteers, many well-known within photography circles, to bring long term water solutions to people in the Amazon, Cameroon, Zambia, Kenya, Tanzania, India and Mexico.
Jim has also recently revealed to the world that he used to be a competitive bass angler.
Jun 02 2008
El Niño Bien, Buenos Aires
Says Frommer’s, “This is one place where the concept of milonga eyes — staring across a room to draw a man and a woman together onto the dance floor — is forcefully maintained.
A passionate moment captured by Marty Katz, a D.C.-based editorial and commercial photographer and writer, whose own tango steps have touched several continents.
From the smoke-filled room at 3am, Katz framed images using the latest in high-iso low-noise cmos cameras such as the Nikon D3 and Canon 5D and 40D. More tango imagery can be seen at tangoproject.net
