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Kerrilynn and I went to Rockaway yesterday. It was a bright day and that West Coast looking filter-y yellow light I love was very much alive as the sun was setting. The best time at the beach is always 4-8 in my book. Less crowds, cops, and chance of skin cancer. The water was cold [...]

Art For Haiti is having a print auction to benefit Doctors Without Borders‘ Haiti relief effort. These guys are heros. They provide primary and secondary care at no cost and have treated 127,000 people since the earthquake on January 12, 2010. You can support them and buy a photograph. Bidding goes until June 17th. This [...]

Here’s the last Dora post for a couple of weeks. This one is at the Cape May NJ Lighthouse. It was a beautiful day at the beach: I got a sunburn, drank a Bud tall boy in a parking lot after the shoot, used a new (to me) light–the ARRI fresnel, climbed a lighthouse for [...]

Here is another Dora the Explorer shot. This one we shot in Grand Central Terminal (they request you don’t call it Grand Central Station… it’s the end of the line not somewhere in the middle… which seems like a half decent way to think about NYC). (double click to start it/space bar to stop) embedded [...]

This is the second commercial I shot for Dora the Explorer. It was shot at the Queens County Farm Museum. (double click to start it/space bar to stop) embedded by Embedded Video Download Video

I’ve recently shot a handful of television advertisements for the 10th anniversary of the Nickelodeon show Dora the Explorer. It’s been an amazing experience working with the Nick crew (Liza, Mary, Chad, Tiffany, and Jessica) and visiting some excellent locations. We scouted a new location last week and I wept with joy at how cool [...]

I’m pretty excited about Aperture’s re-publication of Black Passport by Stanley Greene.  He is a serious badass having covered wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Chechnya, Darfur, Mali, and Mauritania. If you see these two guys running with pipes what would you do? a) take a picture b) run away c) shit yourself Obviously he is not [...]

Russian magazine F5 ran a piece on me in their last issue. It was issue 101 which reminds me of Joe Strummer’s pre-Clash band the 101′ers:

I love a good 50 cent word. This one I looked up to be sure I understood  it properly. _____________________________ Verisimiliar Main Entry: veri·sim·i·lar Pronunciation: \ˌver-ə-ˈsi-mə-lər, -ˈsim-lər\ Function: adjective Etymology: Latin verisimilis Date: 1681 1 : having the appearance of truth : probable 2 : depicting realism (as in art or literature) — veri·sim·i·lar·ly a [...]

I’ve been shooting lots of television ads for the Nickelodeon show Dora the Explorer (you can see one here). But I managed to shoot another picture for the Ladies of Castor & Pollux. Here’s Julie Engell: