I think musician/graphic designer/artist Kim Hiorthøy shot the cover of this weekend’s party starter: “Lovesick” on the Real Life is No Cool record by Lindstrøm And Christabelle. Sometimes the internet is a little tricky and I can’t be too sure. I am sure I like Kim’s multiple hat wearing though.
Katie Finn of Elizabeth Street Jewelry is a virgo, makes stuff out of gold and diamonds, has NOLA pride and likes the ocean. This pic is for LOVING where you can see her interview. She really doesn’t like having her picture taken so I was tempted to offer up some tequila but is wasn’t even lunch yet… I do wear white after labor day but drinking before five? I reserve that right for picnics and funerals. I dig the oxalis over her shoulder in the background, and the blue shirt/red hair combo but wish she was wearing one of her diamond necklaces. There was a crazy moire pattern in the fabric which I hadn’t encountered before. I’d been warned about it though and Mr. Rothenberg was right: a nightmare. Every portrait is an adventure and in this case it was mostly photoshop-related. Hanging out with Katie was cool too.
The BBC doc “Cracked Actor” about David Bowie circa ’75 is up on Vimeo (for at least a little while).
He talks in a limo while driving through the desert, applies makeup, plays with Burroughs’ cut-up technique, mimes, talks death… The Ziggy Stardust-era footage of dressed up fans alone makes it worth the watch.
It was never officially released so you should see it while it’s up:
Director Josie Whittlesey came by my little studio set up on West 10th street a few weeks ago. I prefer natural light but…
1) my long term plans include laughing at my current light setup and I was thinking I should first really understand exactly what a couple of $3 photo floods can do.
2) Baby, It’s Cold Outside and it’s pretty toasty in my studio.
I’m pretty happy with the almost Northern-European soft light I got out of the bulbs though. Vellum works!
Josie hired me for a portrait and now you can too!
This one goes out to all my favorite photo editors! You’re gonna love Meredith German’s label Meredith Wendell,which she runs with her husband Ross. Perfectly constructed accessories, in Pop Art color hits on leather and glass, make the constant barrage of desperate photographer emails just that much more bearable. Check it out… you’ll love it. Here’s her portrait for The Ladies of Castor & Pollux series. She knows a thing or two about color, no?
Note 1: I haven’t sent my book out in quite a while (that is about to change STAT btw because that is kinda my job, right?) but in my rather meager experience, if you exclude Rob Haggart and Darrick Harris, the profession seems mostly run by women. Thus… I apologize to all the male PEs who can’t picture themselves in neon pink double waist belts.
Note 2: Harper’s Bazaar is giving props to Meredith and the previously featured Anndra Neen sisters at their Accessories Baazar.
Note 3: Art Department’s Frederike Helwig‘s pictures at West Virginia’s Greenbriar Hotel for the Meredith Wendell catalog are awesome.
I love Ruby Washington’s photo in the Saturday’s New York Times Art Section which accompanies and a review of Trajal Harrell‘s “Medium (M)” also known as “(M)imosa.” It’s printed in black + white in the paper, but runs in color on the website. Here’s a cellphone snap of the paper juxtaposed with a color screen shot. I think I prefer the black and white. The open-ness in the 3/4 tones (dropping science: that’s printer talk… If you think of a spectrum that goes from 0%, or totally white, to 100%, totally black, the 3/4 tones are the area between 75%-100%) gives it an otherworldly glow that makes the gesture and costume–which is already amazingly freaky–that much stranger. Thoughts?
(Side note: Mentioned in the article is Doug Elkins’s amazingly titled “Where Was Yvonne Rainer When I Had Saturday Night Fever?”)
The Westminster Dog Show is for serious next level dog-loving. I mean, I love dogs (my wife and I have a pitbull-mix and a chihuahua-mix who is something of a star in Puerto Rico)… and hair too (even though I’m follicly challenged), but I am purely an amateur as evidenced by our mutts. If you love dogs, the Westminster should provide you with some prime people and dog watching. It is a hoot, in a “wow, the world is full of people-flying-their-freak-flag-high” kinda way. But also totally inspiring to see such dedication… The trainers are serious! And it’s on Valentine’s Day so you can take a date!
(Thanks for the press pass WNYC… weirdly these ran on the NYTimes T Magazine blog instead.)
Need more dog? Brooklyn fixture Kate Lacey‘s Show Dogs book is the answer!
I have a new portrait up of Molly McCommons at the West Village’s favorite store Castor & Pollux. I stayed up late prepping the file, with a basketball game on (high five: the Lakers lost), listening to Bob Lind (who has a record entitled “Photographs of Feeling”), and wondering what kind of picture I’d made.
“Sparkly and Smudgy” are words I have on a post-it as inspiration for how I want my portraits to look but I’ve been having focus issues. Sometimes the wrong parts are too smudgy… I’m just a soldier in the war between focus and bokeh. As for sparkly: I can never have too much and it is in this picture in small doses.
Good news teaser: It seems some people are interested in my work and they keep very good company. I’ll let you know what happens. Cross your fingers for me.
The new Toro y Moi is a shout to the gods: “End This Winter!” Play it enough you’ll start shopping for disco pants.
Mark Flood’s Artist’s Statement! I give it a “wow!”
(New Work up at Zach Feuer Feb 26-Mar 26 2011)