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Danger Mouse has a summer playlist in the latest New York Magazine. I haven’t been through the whole list but so far I really dig the Black Moon remix. Here are a few songs that have been ringing my bell lately and think might be missing from the playlist: Helado Negros’ Venceremos: Alhaji K Frimpong’s [...]

There is a new picture in The Ladies of Castor & Pollux series over at the Loving Blog. Hanging out with Justine Birbil was a pretty fun. She’s a hoot and her answers are good! Head over to Loving to check them out. Her father, Greg Birbil, has a great blog called An Ad Man [...]

My most recent The Photo I Didn’t Take: I’m talking to my wife, Kerrilynn, and Xan Cassavettes yesterday evening at the store when Xan turns around mid sentence and says “holy shit, what’s that?” Directly across the street, curtains are on fire in a ground floor apartment. Like a real fire fire. I run to [...]

My wife pointed out the first firefly siting of the summer last night while eating in the garden at Franny’s. It is such a pleasure to see that light. It evokes strong childhood memories of Virginia summers and backyards full of them. Sadly I don’t see as many as I used to but I was [...]

The Vain Glorious section of the New York Times T Magazine blog is running a picture I took of the apothecary MiN on Crosby St. It’s a great space and the people that work there nursed me back to health with cappuccinos and good vibes after a 16 hour shoot the day before. Check it [...]

“My real job description is to light a set and the ideas all come from a 300-400 year period of painting during the Renaissance throughout 15th, 16th, 17th century in northern Europe. All ideas about how to create images that are expressive and use light as the metaphor for understanding a meaning of what the [...]

I’m pretty excited that Alessandra Sanguinetti‘s “The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and the Enigmatic Meaning of their Dreams” is finally coming out. I’ve been hoping to find an inexpensive copy of Light Work’s Contact Sheet 120 for a while. This body of work was first published there as far as I know. There is [...]

The New York Observer (June 14, 2010 issue) in an article about the Ron Galella doc Smash His Camera refers to Harry Benson as a paparazzi photographer. That’s weird.

I used to read more when my day job was a 45 minute commute to midtown, but I finished Scott Bradfield‘s The People Who Watched Her Pass By a couple of weeks ago. The book is sad and hilarious and there are passages so descriptively vivid I swear I’ve already seen the photograph: “Grandma was [...]

I got this book of painter Maurice Denis‘ photographs at the Musée d’Orsay a couple of years ago in Paris. They are very Summer Friday. His paintings express his interest in the flatness of the picture plane, line and pure color shapes and his photographs from 1901 (left) and 1911 (right) show a similar concern [...]