21 posts tagged “moriza”
Summer in NYC, is the best time to catch great street performances. One of my favorites, and I think is also the best street performance is The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble. The group is from Chicago, and during the summer they travel to Europe for shows with stops in NYC. I have been very fortunate to be able to see them perform three times this summer alone, all three times in the heart of the city, Times Square. They also perform in Union Squares and few other places in the city. Their performances are like summer treats, their music is amazingly in the spirit and the beat of the city.
They are always able to pull large crowd, and make them stay for sets of their amazing music. Members of the band, and the style of their performance in many ways are very attractive. The seven siblings in the band have great dynamics lending their performance to be ultra photogenic.
HBE music can be found for purchase in iTunes store.
At first it was a couple "unlucky" captures I found when editing my photographs in iPhoto. Instead of discarding them, I hid them, since I really don't believe in deleting photos, specially in my early photographing history. Memory was expensive then. When I have about four of this unlucky picture that I started to like, I put them up on flickr. Surprised by the responses I got on them, I decided to make it a set. I started looking carefully in my library, and actually put this concept in my mind when photowalking. Capturing the right blink then becoming my "lucky" shots.
I now carries DSLR, with a collection of sharp lenses, large memory card and continuous shooting mode. It seems easier to capture sleepwalkers, it is now just about getting the right moment.
What is it about leaving our mark, physically I mean, that is still
much more satisfying than virtually. We started young with long crayon
marks on the living room wall, or pencil or cutter mark on the wooden
desk in the elementary school, then permanent marker and even bold
spray paints later on. I haven't done that in ages, looking around,
people do that as art. Some are spectacularly great, rebellious art is
one of my fascination. I once started to take pictures every time I seen
one I like, but got overwhelmed, there are just so much to cover. Then
I found Luna Park, she has been documenting NYC street art
fabulously, I checked her site once in a while to see her latest
discoveries.
Now we all leave our mark so often on the web, by blogging,
commenting, twittering, flickring. Unlike leaving our mark on the side
of a building, we know when one seen or read it. But yet it is still
much more satisfying do in it out there, I just wish I have the
courage and being a bit more rebellious.
Last Saturday, I got an email through my Flickr account from Ricardo Galesio at CRU-A, a non-profit online publication with links to 16 of my photographs on Flickr. He ask if I am interested in including them in their next issue. After checking on the photos, and think that they will make a good set, I agreed. On Monday they launched this issue! This guys are fast! A good friend of mine on flickr Farl is also onthis issue :)
To download the issue go to www.cru-a.com
Or rather, work your lunch. So often do I find my self cleaning out those pieces of dried rice, crackers, granulated sugar, petrified fruit from between the H and J of my keyboard or the scraping bottom of my mouse? I bet you, even more often you find your self eating lunch and browsing at the same time. We take our lunch break, so that we can do more other things non work related, and while at it why don't we eat? Not the other way around.
Yeah, we sometime blamed the stinking weather outside. To hot to go out or freezing rain out there, so I'll eat in here on my desk.
I like what I feel with my eyes closed, since with them open... I see blank, feel blank.
One thing that I have been wanting to do is to start doing portraits. I have done portraits work with other medium before, but never photography. There are so much to learn, techniques, principles, motivation, technical skills. story telling, nuance and ambiance. But I have time and I have motivation and I will see this through.
I need a sitter other than my self, I have to start with people I know, family, friends, colleauges, then later on, gather enough skills and courage to ask total strangers.
I have found some great inspirations on Flickr and from inspiring local photographer such Bill Wadman and his 365 portraits project.
Until then I'll continue to blink from time to time, hoping to skip some of these blanks and spot some of the gems I am seeking.
I have an obsession about chairs, I think I am one of many. It is easy to like chairs, they have long history, we depend on them for all this time. I started my fascination about chair design in college, while studying ID. Ever since, I have been drawing chairs, thinking about chairs, whether I am sitting on it or not. It goes on for many years. But rin the recent years I have been preoccupied with other stuf, stuf not as important as chairs, such as working, photographing, drawing robots and other silly little things. Chairs have been put in the back burner. Until last week.
I had lunch with a friend, who brought a book as a gift to me. It was a history of chairs, I had to contain myself from being rude and start browsing the book there during lunch or start talking about chairs. I waited till I got home and spent hours on the book. I dug my sketchbooks and rekindled with my universe of chairs again. I am suddenly inspired! Sparkling chairs in my head.
I am starting to rework my Chairama site, and start a new sketchbook!
1000 pages of chairs. Thanks Sofia!
I walked by this place many times before trying it. The sign is in Japanese so I was never clear if it was a resaturant or just a sake bar and it was always crowded. I never had interest to try it specially by my self, not until a friend initiated me to it. We were early, place wasn't packed, we got really nice table (all with short little chairs, and a basket on the floor, to put our belongings). Kenka unique ambiance, sort of familiar, with half of it lighted with florescent light. The menu is ranging from the basic japanese tapas, to noodle and rice to some unique dishes (fatty pig feet, anyone?). I think it would take many visits before I can really say about the food, or to suggest a favorite. But, I do like that they give you a small cup of sugar and a stick at the end, to make cotton candy on your way out.
