Shot 100% with the new Wi-Fi BacPac® on the HD HERO2® camera fromhttp://GoPro.com. More info: http://gopro.com/hd-hero-accessories/wi-fi-bacpac-remote-combo/

What would you do with 50 GoPros at the touch of a button? World- renowned skateboarder, Ryan Sheckler, shares his idea: an epic run from the top of the Manhattan Bridge to the storied Lower East Side skate park in New York City.

Brooklyn Bridge. Manhattan Bridge. Empire State. East River Ferry (Taken with Instagram at Brooklyn Bridge)

Over the past two months NASA has been releasing a number of wonderful long exposure photographs taken by astronaut Don Pettit aboard the International Space Station. While there are many photos like these taken from the perspective of the Earth’s surface, Pettit’s images are unique in that they incorporate the passing blur of entire illuminated cities, aurora, and the sporadic flashes of lightening from thunderstorms. Check out many more photos from the series here. Via Colossal.

USA Network Upfront 2012 at Lincoln Center, NYC

Produced by Jeff Smith and XA, The Experiential Agency

Cinematography by Reuben Hernandez and USA Network

Edited by Jessica Thompson

My work projected on a 60 foot LCD screen in front of hundreds on the NYC Highline. How surreal. #humblebrag #suitsstyle (Taken with Instagram at Highline NYC)

Mr. Porter and USA Network’s Suits #SUITSSTYLE (Taken with Instagram)

Rainy Pike Place Market. Seattle, WA (Taken with Instagram at Piroshky Piroshky)

Shot primarily with the Phantom HD Gold at 1000fps, the piece is designed to showcase food in a beautiful and unusual way.
The idea was brought to us by our friends at marlinnetwork.com, for their annual breakfast event.

More at our blog: brutonstroube.com/blog.aspx?post=122

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PSA: Say NO to Vertical Videos

I just watched TimeScapes projected in HD and it is absolutely stunning and breathtaking. It is a cinematic work of art, featuring beautiful and incredible timelapse work. Do yourself a favor and buy a copy here and prepare to be blown away. Well done, Tom Lowe, and thanks for inspiring us all.

PS Here is an interesting and inspiring article about how Tom received $100,000 to fund his first feature, TimeScapes, after posting his first short film on Vimeo: http://www.fastcocreate.com/1679331/its-full-of-stars-behind-tom-lowes-stunning-timescapes.

419 Premieres at Seattle International Film Festival

Associate produced by Jessica Thompson. Watch the trailer and buy tickets for the Thursday, June 7th premiere in Seattle, WA

Innovative, courageous, original: Kilian Martin sets new standards in the world of skating. We joined forces with him and filmmaker Brett Novak to create his next video “Kilian Martin: Altered Route”. Read the interview with Kilian and Brett on mb! by Mercedes-Benz: mb.mercedes-benz.com/kilianmartin

Directed, Filmed and Edited by Brett Novak
YouTube.com/Bragic

Music:
Patrick Watson - “Adventures in Your Own Backyard”
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Image copyright Ira Lippke

Congrats to Ira Lippke for being named one of the top ten wedding wedding photographers by American Photo Magazine this year. I’ve had the honor of working with Ira ever since I moved to New York, and have learned a lot from him and the rest of the team at Ira Lippke Studios. Check out the full article here.

Love (Taken with Instagram at Smorgasburg)

Brooklyn Pride (Taken with instagram)

Akon

Tonight, Akon whacked me in the face during his performance while I was filming him. Afterwards, he smiled and gave me a secret handshake. It was awesome.

Penthouse party with Akon at the Gansevoort Park Rooftop. NY is so good.

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.

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.

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.