Archive for March, 2007

Union Square Protest

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

When I got downtown last night there was a large gathering of people protesting the brutal police shooting death of Sean Bell in November. The protesters were holding a life-size paper cutout of police commissioner, Raymond W. Kelly, on which appeared to be illustrated bullet wound for each police murder on Kelly’s watch. I captured [...]

Dear Lord

Tuesday, March 20th, 2007

C’mon New York Times. Al Gore is FAT. We know this. Stop rubbing his face in it!

Apple TV Shipped

Tuesday, March 20th, 2007

Way back in January I ordered the much anticipated AppleTV, a computer to TV component that I’ve been waiting for ever since I realized that I didn’t need a DVD player or a VCR to watch TV. I used to run video through my iBook to my TV, but since that died and I upgraded [...]

Ringlight Test

Monday, March 19th, 2007

I bought myself an ABR800 as the next addition to my personal studio lighting set up and I’m very excited. I haven’t gotten to do much playing around with it, but grabbed a few shots of a coworker and am very pleased with the results.

This sucker is powerful. As you can see, my subject got [...]

Shooting Money

Monday, March 19th, 2007

These days I am constantly looking for ways to increase my photography assignments. Whenever I see photos being used around the office I try to see if it’s something that I could do, and if possible I try to convince the designer to hire me to shoot what they’ve comped up before they purchase it [...]

Heartbeat on Stupidity

Tuesday, March 6th, 2007

I was watching TV last night and saw a Volvo ad, which touted Volvo’s ongoing campaign of “life being the ultimate luxury”. Well, duh. But they’ve added many “life luxury” features to their newest car, including a fancy braking system, a blind-spot eliminator and a heart beat monitor.
Yes. A heart beat monitor.
This little feature doesn’t [...]



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