Modest Mouse/Williamsburg Waterfront/Brooklyn, NY/9.14.10
Let's chat about how cool it is that all of these bands who play the Waterfront get to look at New York's skyline as they rock out. From the angle of the top photo, you can see the Chrysler Building in the background.
Super rad.
Monday, September 27, 2010
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Marcellus Hall opening for Modest Mouse/Williamsburg Waterfront/Brooklyn, NY/9.14.10
Just FYI, kids, Marcellus is also an illustrator whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, Time, The New York Times, GQ, New York Magazine and The Wall Street Journal - just to name a few.
You know how much I love successfully multi-talented people, so please check out his stuff: http://www.marcellushall.com
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Top Photo: Junko Yoshioka fashion at Ivanka Trump's jewelry launch in the penthouse of the Trump SoHo on September 12th.
Bottom Photo: You are looking at an illuminated Woolworth Building (tallest building in the world from 1913 to 1930) from the south windows of the Trump SoHo's penthouse on a soggy early autumn night.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
In New York,
Concrete jungle where dreams are made of,
There's nothing you can't do,
Now you're in New York
These streets will make you feel brand new,
Big lights will inspire you,
Let's hear it for New York...*
Concrete jungle where dreams are made of,
There's nothing you can't do,
Now you're in New York
These streets will make you feel brand new,
Big lights will inspire you,
Let's hear it for New York...*
Top Photo: (L-R) Lin-Manuel Miranda and Karen Olivo of In the Heights perform Jay-Z/Alicia Keys' "Empire State of Mind" at the Broadway on Broadway 2010 finale on September 12th.
Times Square? Confetti? Sweet song about New York? Celebrating, dudes, just celebrating.
Middle Photo: Times Square post-finale confetti.
Bottom Photo: Times Square worker groovin' to the beat! Why stand there when you could be dancin'? Get it, Girl!
*I bet you are all shocked that this is the first time these lyrics have popped up on this blog.
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Top Photo: Mandy Gonzalez of Wicked performs "The Wizard and I" at Broadway on Broadway on Sunday, September 12th.*
Bottom Photo: Fans of the new Beatles show Rain attend Broadway on Broadway in Times Square on Sunday, September 12th.
*I should NOT be allowed to photograph these things professionally. That's the second time this sap got misty-eyed whilst shooting Broadway. For those not in the theater-know, however, the real gem from Wicked is "Defying Gravity" - so I thank goodness Ms. Gonzalez didn't bust that one out.
Haha, yeahhh... about that rock chick rep...
Monday, September 20, 2010
Friday, September 17, 2010
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Top Photo: Flag and flowers left in memoriam of those who perished on 9.11.01. Looking through the gate, you can see the progression of the new towers as of 9.11.10.
Bottow Photo: Man burns pages of the Quran as part of the protest outside the controversial mosque site near the WTC site. The full sign behind him reads: Real Americans don't burn Qurans. (9.11.10)
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
After wrapping up with my work at the Getty office on Varick following my BVLGARI shoot, I packed up my gear to head home. "Great," I thought, "The 1 train is right on Canal! Super easy to get home."
Wrong. No downtown 1 trains that night.
Fortunately, while I was in a dress and it was close to 1 a.m., I had packed flats in my camera bag just in case I felt like walking home from wherever I happened to end up. Yes, my gear weighs about as much as me these days, but the weather was impeccable. Walking it was.
Because I live downtown and often pass the World Trade Center site, my walks home can get pretty interesting - particularly on nights like September 10th into the early hours of the 11th.
I will be honest in saying that I was completely consumed in Fashion Week and chatting with one of my best friends on the west coast rather than thinking about 9/11, that is, until I stumbled upon this little motorcycle rally as I approached the WTC. Immediately hanging up with Shasta to un-sling my camera bag, I hopped up on one of the police barriers to get a better angle - dress and all.
Shockingly, the NYPD didn't care in the slightest that I was playing leap frog on their concrete barriers. Like Steve Manuel always used to say: Don't ever ask permission, just shoot until they tell you to stop.
So, I kept shooting. Hopping from concrete slab to concrete slab, the full, pleated 3/4-length A-line of my black cotton Calvin Klein dress unfolding with each leap, I waited for someone to tell me to stop, but no one ever did.
Very anti-climactic, I know, but strange as well.
Why didn't they ask me to stop?
Top Photo: Motorcycle rally heading north on Church Street past the WTC site.
Bottom Photo: Fellow carrying an American flag south on Church Street past the WTC site.
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Monday, September 13, 2010
Shootin' at the walls of heartache,Bang! Bang!
I am the warrior
Well I am the warrior and heart to heart, you'll win,
If you survive the warrior...
I'm not really one for 80s hits, but Patty Smyth's "The Warrior" (along with Steve Winwood's "Higher Love" annnnd Whitney Houston's "I Wanna Dance with Somebody") really makes me happy. You better believe I was dancing on the other side of that lens! Great song, great song.
Patty Smyth Performance/Fashion's Night Out/BVLGARI Fifth Avenue Store/New York, NY/9.10.10
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Too much content, too little time... more content coming, less time to add images and write.
As many of you know, it's Spring 2011 Fashion Week here in this old, grand city. It's one of my three busiest weeks per year in New York and I love it. If Someone Up There can just grant me and my fellow colleagues nice weather to move about the city, I'm all good.
Great art, great food, great wine, great fashion and an absurd amount of fascinating people.
Photo: Elite model Lyndsey Scott wears Bulgari's 2010 "Save the Children" ring during the BVLGARI celebration of Fashion's Night Out at the Fifth Avenue store on September 10th, 2010 in New York City.
Wednesday, September 08, 2010
Cait is still on her honeymoon in Costa Rica and I'm posting pictures she's not seen yet. Like I said in a previous post, she loves me no matter what, right?
Also, I needed at least one more speedlight with a soft-box to make these what I really would have wanted, but desperate times call for... no, not desperate measures... just some ingenuity!
Tuesday, September 07, 2010
Top Photo: I love this photo. Bridesmaids annnnd the beautiful Sarah Swaintek (far right) and Mike at the rehearsal dinner. Photo courtesy Sean Middleton via my Nikon. Not bad, Kiddo!
Bottom Photo: These three goobers (L-R: Mike, Maria (Cait's youngest stepsister), Cait) are looking at a scrapbook put together by the bridal party (thank you, Kate Leister for your fabulous organization skills) for the soon-to-be newlyweds, Cait and Mike. I'm not quite sure which photo they've stumbled upon, but the faces? Priceless.
Cait and Mike's rehearsal dinner/Philadelphia, PA/8.27.10
Friday, September 03, 2010
When four separate pieces of her mail* failed to make it from Philadelphia to my apartment in New York, time and time again, Cait wrote a letter to the United States Postal Service on the envelope flap of a letter she wrote to me. Short of her coming to hand it to me personally, this was the greatest mailbox surprise I've received in a long time. Not only was this hilarious, but clearly effective. I adore her.
*Despite their inadequacy as of late in my neck of the woods, USPS/snail mail is still my favorite form of communication (depending on circumstance, sometimes it's better than face time). I think everyone should write a letter today to someone they care about. Maybe it's someone you see everyday or maybe it's someone you haven't seen in years. Take time in its art. See what happens...
Note: The smudge was of my own doing.
Wednesday, September 01, 2010
You go home for your cousin's wedding and you end up a personal sous chef/server for Paul McCartney and his band for three days at the two-night grand opening of the Consol Energy Center, the new home of the Pittsburgh Penguins.
Typical.
Photo of arena and McCartney's rig taken from my crappy pocket camera.
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