YOU'RE THE STAR OF MY MOVIE

I hung out with Lucy Punch last week and she was both funny and a delight to be around. You can see her in Dinner for Schmucks which opens today. She is getting raves from critics saying she stole the show. The picture is for the Castor & Pollux blog Loving.

I went to opening night of Christopher Nolan’s Inception last night at BAM. Kudos to Warner Brothers. It was a 160 million very well spent dollars on their part. Opening night raked in $21 million in the US alone. This is what mass entertainment should be. It looks good. There’s enough intrigue to happily spend [...]

I saw a Jason Bell picture in the new Vanity Fair. His site led me to Derringer Cycles which led me to a state called desire. WANT THIS SO BAD (board track racing motorcycle by Adrian Van Anz):

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 [...]

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 [...]

“I like to think of myself —as an artist— as being in a nondescript swamp, alone, up to my knees in mire, painting the vital beauty I see there, in my own way, not caring a damn about tradition, or anyone’s opinion.” — Charles Burchfield Gardenville, February 8th, 1938 I was at a party last [...]

This Barry Stone photograph (up at the Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery) reminded me of this New York Times article about doctors using hallucinogens. Kinda tangential but the photograph gives me mild vertigo and an itchy feeling. Mr. Stone has two blogs “yes yes yes” and “o empire wide and glorious.”

I shot stills for a couple of days on the set of Breaking Upwards. They made a feature for $15,000 i.e. you should probably do something really cool with your spare time too. This blog is entitled “You’re the Star of My Movie.” It’s kind of like a song title… somehow it just seems right. For [...]

Playboy Playmates 1953-2008 (depending on your job possibly NSFW). This is a crazy … I suppose you can look at this in many different ways (!) but I totally geeked out and went for lighting setups (1973 is my favorite year). I suppose that is the equivalent of the old “I get it for the [...]

A picture of jewelry designer Anna Sheffield for  Castor & Pollux. I never do night shoots but it was fun hanging out with Anna and after the shoot I had dinner instead of rushing to the computer. Nothing wrong with that!