Once There Was a Hushpuppy composed by Dan Romer and Benh Zeitlin for the film, Beasts of the Southern Wild. This is my favorite song from the soundtrack and I highly recommend purchasing the entire album which you can do from here.
/
On set at Isaac Mizrahi NY. I had a blast filming Isaac today with director, Mo Scarpelli. (Taken with Instagram at Isaac Mizrahi NY)
/
The best season in NY. I can’t wait for it to come! (Taken with Instagram)
/
Humanae is a portrait project that aims to catalog all possible human skin tones! The series is centered around the PANTONE® color scheme, which is simply a color guide meant to allow easy recreation of specific colors.
/
Through the window at Ira Lippke Studios. I’m really going to miss this view! (Taken with Instagram at Esquire Building)
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/beasts-southern-wild-music/id539534975 /
I HIGHLY recommend purchasing the Beasts of the Southern Wild soundtrack. I just listened to the entire album 7 or 8 times straight on my drive upstate and back to the city today. It’s now my favorite soundtrack. It was also composed by Benh Zeitlin, the director of the film.
/
If you enjoyed Beasts of the Southern Wild, check out Benh Zeitlin’s short film, Glory at Sea, which landed him 1.3 million from Cinereach to make Beasts (Zeitlin estimates it would have cost 10-14 million if shot conventionally).
As for being privileged, Zeitlin isn’t quite a trust-funder. His parents help run the New York nonprofit City Lore, dedicated to preserving modern folklore, which fueled his interest in traditional bayou culture. To shoot his pre-Beastsshort film, 2008’s Glory at Sea, he moved to New Orleans nine months after Katrina and maxed out his credit cards to the tune of $37,000. He was able to get out of debt thanks to an insurance payout that came after a drunk driver hit his car on the way to Glory’s South by Southwest premiere. (He won an award; his friends brought it to him in the hospital.) Check out this article for more info: How Beasts of the Southern Wild (and Its 8-Year-Old Star) Became a Film-Fest Phenomenon.
TRT 25:48
/
Manfrotto 501PL Rapid Sliding Quick Release Plate
Earlier this year, I modified my fluid head tripod, shoulder rig, and monopod to all be compatible with the Manfrotto 501PL Rapid Sliding Quick Release plate so I could easily remove my camera and connect it to the stabilization system of choice. I recently discovered another benefit of having this plate attached to your camera. The plate allows for my camera to stand on its own (HDSLR body with medium telephoto lens) acting almost like a mini tripod. I’m realizing there are so many practical uses for this! Just last week, I shot timelapse of the 4th of July fireworks without access to a tripod. I placed the camera with a 24-105 lens and base plate on the window sill (I really don’t recommend this by the way, it’s not the safest or best business practice especially 6 floors up off the ground!) and the base plate was sufficient to allow the camera to stand on it’s own. My shot otherwise would not have worked out without this base plate. I highly recommend it! Here is a link to my 4th of July timelapse, thanks to the Manfrotto 501PL plate: fireworks timelapse.
Other practical uses would be shooting low, ie having your camera on the ground.
/
Flying Over the Moon, Literally (Taken with Instagram)
/
PS22 Chorus rocks Adele's “ONE AND ONLY"
The best part of this profession is that after all these years going at this gig, I can still be thoroughly blown away like I was at yesterday’s rehearsal! I’m still not even sure how this performance happened, but I’m thankful it did! Kevin is uncanny, Kiarah is sublime, Daniel-san is awesome (and hilarious) on the drums, and the chorus is PERFECT in this rendition of "One and Only” by the one and only Adele! Kiarah brought this song to me the day before with a beautiful a cappella rendition she will be singing at her aunt and uncle’s wedding, and inspired this arrangement, of which I am most proud! The kids are approaching the end of the school year, but are certainly making the most out of the time they have left… RIDICULOUSLY AMAZING!! - Gregg Breinberg
The PS22 Chorus closed the 83rd Annual Academy awards and has also been the feature of a documentary by Jonathan Kalafer called Once in a Lullaby: The PS22 Chorus Story.
/
Public School 22 in NYC has more than just an amazing chorus, they have an amazing story.
These 5th graders went from performing in their school auditorium on Staten Island to closing the show at the 83rd Annual Academy Awards! It all started when their dynamic and caring teacher Gregg Breinberg started posting videos of their performances on YouTube. The videos went viral captivating viewers from your house to the White House (where they performed for President Obama) with the students’ pure love of music. Celebrities and Indie Rockers alike started flocking to the elementary school to visit and perform. Then, at their annual Christmas concert they got a surprise visit from Oscar Co-Host Anne Hathaway who invited them to perform at the 83rd Annual Academy Awards. With unprecedented access our crew follows them from the hallways and streets of Staten Island to the Red Carpet and backstage at the Kodak Theater for their big Oscar performance. Back stage drama combines with homesickness as the 10 year olds navigate the world of the entertainment elite. The drama culminates when the chorus director and the producer of the Oscars broadcast clash over creative differences and half the chorus looses their voices screaming at Disney the day before the big show.
This documentary is an inspiring feel-good story that shows us children have a lot to teach about music, and that a talented teacher can teach his students the most important lesson of all; within themselves is the power to do anything.
/
I saw Once the musical this weekend and absolutely loved it. It’s one of my favorite films and is now my favorite musical. Here is my favorite song from the film, Say It To Me Now, by Glen Hansard. Once the musical won 8 Tony Awards this year including Best Musical.
/
Guggenheim New York. Check out Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective on exhibit until October 8, 2012 (Taken with Instagram at Guggenheim Museum)
/
Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective
Guggenheim Museum New York
June 29–October 8, 2012
Since the early 1990s, Rineke Dijkstra has produced a complex body of photographic and video work, offering a contemporary take on the genre of portraiture. Her large-scale color photographs of young, typically adolescent subjects recall 17th-century Dutch painting in their scale and visual acuity. The minimal contextual details present in her photographs and videos encourage us to focus on the exchange between photographer and subject and the relationship between viewer and viewed. Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective brings together more than 70 photographs and five videos in a major mid-career survey, offering the most comprehensive presentation of the artist’s work to date.
Dijkstra has also photographed individuals repeatedly over the course of several months or years. Her ongoing Almerisa series began in 1994 with a single photograph of a young Bosnian girl at a Dutch refugee center for asylum-seekers, and has grown as Dijkstra continued to photograph her regularly for more than a decade, as she became a young woman with a child of her own. The outward signals of her transition into adulthood and her integration into mainstream Dutch culture reveal themselves incrementally over the course of many years.
—Jennifer Blessing, Senior Curator, Photography
More info at the Guggenheim website
/
My timelapse of the 4th of July Macy’s fireworks in NY. 1,064 still images captured at 1 fps. Best viewed in full screen at 1080. Enjoy!
We hope you feel the fireworks. You are certainly meant to be free. May the skies of your life be filled with color. - TWLOHA
/
Fireworks (Taken with Instagram at Esquire Building)
/
4th of July Sunset (Taken with Instagram)
/
Magic Hour (Taken with Instagram)
/
Here are my photos that exhibited at Photoville. The shipping container gallery next to us featured the work of Stephen Dupont, one of my favorite photographers. It was exciting and such an honor to be part of Photoville, a veritable village of freight containers transformed into temporary exhibition spaces occupying more than 60,000 square feet in the heart of Brooklyn Bridge Park. Huge thanks to everyone that came out to support me!
/
Lincoln Harrison photographed star trails over the Australian outback!
Star Trails in the Australian Night Sky
via firsttimeuser