Penthouse party with Akon at the Gansevoort Park Rooftop. NY is so good.
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The above photos were taken from tarynsimon.com.
Another great exhibit at the MoMA right now is Taryn Simon: A living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters I-XVIII on the third floor until September 3rd. Below is some info about the exhibit from the MoMA website and you can visit the website for more info. Taryn Simon also did Contraband and The Innocents.
This exhibition is the U.S. premiere of Taryn Simon’s (b. 1975, New York) photographic project A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters I–XVIII. The work was produced over a four-year period (2008–11), during which the artist travelled around the world researching and documenting bloodlines and their related stories. In each of the 18 “chapters” that make up the work, external forces of territory, power, circumstance, or religion collide with the internal forces of psychological and physical inheritance. The subjects Simon documents include victims of genocide in Bosnia, test rabbits infected with a lethal disease in Australia, the first woman to hijack an aircraft, and the living dead in India. Her collection is at once cohesive and arbitrary, mapping the relationships among chance, blood, and other components of fate. Simon’s project is divided into 18 chapters, nine of which will be presented at MoMA. Each chapter is comprised of three segments: one of a large portrait series depicting bloodline members (portrait panel); a second featuring text (annotation panel); and a third containing photographic evidence (footnote panel). A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters I–XVIII exploits photography’s capacity to at once probe complex narratives in contemporary politics and organize this material according to classification processes characteristic of the archive, a system that connects identity, lineage, history, and memory.
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All photos by Cindy Sherman
I highly recommend visiting the Cindy Sherman exhibit on the 6th floor at the MoMA (scheduled to be up until June 11th). I was blown away by her extensive collection of work, and now understand why one of her photos sold for 3.8 million dollars last year. As of today, she has photographed the second most expensive photograph in the world (untitled 96). One of my favorite pieces in the exhibit was her 1975 stop motion, Doll Clothes, shot on 16 mm. Visit the MoMA website for more info and here for the interactive exhibit. Below is an excerpt from the MoMA website about Cindy Sherman.
Cindy Sherman (American, b. 1954) is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential artists in contemporary art. Throughout her career, she has presented a sustained, eloquent, and provocative exploration of the construction of contemporary identity and the nature of representation, drawn from the unlimited supply of images from movies, TV, magazines, the Internet, and art history. Working as her own model for more than 30 years, Sherman has captured herself in a range of guises and personas which are at turns amusing and disturbing, distasteful and affecting. To create her photographs, she assumes multiple roles of photographer, model, makeup artist, hairdresser, stylist, and wardrobe mistress. With an arsenal of wigs, costumes, makeup, prosthetics, and props, Sherman has deftly altered her physique and surroundings to create a myriad of intriguing tableaus and characters, from screen siren to clown to aging socialite.
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Karena and Katrina of Tone It Up commissioned me to film, edit, and produce this for their visit at the Oakley Store in Times Square. It was a pleasure working with Karena and Katrina, and really great to see how much of a positive influence they are on so many people. Still photography by Joanna Totolici and music, ‘I Feel Like a Polar Bear’ by Crosstide licensed through WithEtiquette.
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Amazing cover of Gotye’s ‘Somebody That I Used to Know’ by Walk off the Earth. 5 people on 1 guitar. Over 113 million views in less than 5 months. I have never seen anything like this before.
Manhattanhenge /
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Tomorrow, 8:15pm
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Don’t fly fast
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One of the greatest inventions of our time
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Up in the air
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I finally found a really good iphone case by Prink Technologies, that is well designed, sleek, made from real wood, and doesn’t make my iphone bulge out of my pockets. It’s so sleek that it still docks on my Bose speaker without having to remove it. Prink donates proceeds from every wood product it sells to a forest restoration organization as part of Prink’s Pay it Forward program. They will even replace any one piece of your phone case, free of charge with proof of purchase.
Prink Technologies was founded in a small garage in Oregon, where the surrounding landscape and scenery were the inspiration and backdrop for the company’s beginnings. Now, Prink products can be found coast to coast. To pay homage to its roots, Prink donates proceeds from every wood product it sells to a forest restoration organization as part of Prink’s Pay it Forward program. Each contribution helps to replant our forests and fund other national service organizations.
PrinkTech also offers a Piece of Mind Guarantee - they will replace any one piece of your phone case, free of charge with proof of purchase. Buy yours from their website: http://www.prinktech.com/ or from Digital Fix located in Brooklyn and SF.
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House made of 6 shipping containers & insulated with NASA ceramic infused paint. Pure genius (Taken with instagram)
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Here is a promotional film I directed, shot, edited, and produced for Teaspiller, a website dedicated to helping you find the best accountant. I actually found my accountant (who is amazing) through their website before I was commissioned to produce this. Music - Building Houses by Wesley Jensen & The Penny Arcade licensed through withetiquette.com.
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Shooting green screen cycling with Leroy + Clarkson at Industria Superstudio for Mr. Porter and USA Network’s Suits
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On set at Industria Superstudio for Mr. Porter and USA Network’s Suits
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I had the wonderful opportunity to watch and take photos of JR pasting his Lakota Portrait on the NYC Highline yesterday. I’ve been a huge fan of his work since I discovered him after he won the Ted Prize last year. One of the lines that stood out to me from his Ted talk is that “Art can change the world” and he’s definitely changing the world through his art. According to his website, he owns the biggest art gallery in the world and exhibits freely in the streets of the world. Check out http://jr-art.net, http://insideoutproject.net, and this 5 minute [video] about JR and his work. I also recommend watching his TED Prize talk from last year [here]. Marc, JR’s studio manager, was gracious enough to chat with me for a few minutes and allow me to take a few photos of him holding up the portrait. The portrait is up on the Upper Highline off 30 street until it gets weathered away.
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Beautiful, inspiring, engaging work @JR_artist @insideoutproj @highlinenyc (Taken with instagram)
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JR installing @insideoutproj at the @highlinenyc @JR_artist (Taken with Instagram at Upper Highline)
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This is inspring
One day, quadriplegic Hilary Lister and her friends smashed up and cannibalised a wheel chair, some metal pipes and a few electric circuit boards. The result was a unique technical invention that led her to conquer the oceans of the world and set her spirit free…
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Forgive. Instagram photo taken in Brooklyn, NY