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Read/view while listening to Blind Pilot. Yesterday was one of those travel days where everything goes wrong. I should have been westbound on a plane from MKE to LGB that would have had me in before noon with a rental car awaiting me on my arrival. But because I missed my flight it ended up [...]
Haiti. Day 5.
Continued from Day 1, 2, 3 & 4. Day 5 At around 3:30 AM Ben woke me up from my spot in the back of the truck. Incredibly groggy, but only a little stiff, I climbed out, pulled on my shell to warm up, and followed him into the main compound of Villa Creole. Ben [...]
Now That I Can See
Last week Nate Pelz picked up my camera and experimented a little shooting out the window on our drive from Brooklyn to Harlem. After I uploaded the card (which also had some photos on it) I dropped the raw footage– along with some video that I had shot– into a pending blog post folder. I [...]
Camp.
For those of you that have a self-hosted WordPress site like I do, you might be experiencing the same unbelievably aggravating image-upload issues that I am… It’s frustrating when you go through the trouble to upgrade software, and it’s a downgrade. Fix this, WordPress. You’re making my blogging life not-so-fun. Now that I have that [...]
Fauxchella 2010
I spent the weekend in Santa Maria, CA with 25 friends– old and new– for the 3rd annual Fauxchella. It’s our own gorilla music festival where we hang out, eat, and collaborate making music for 48 hours– culminating in a Saturday night concert and dance party. You can see last years post from Fauxchella here, [...]
Haiti. Day 4.
Continued from Day 1, 2, & 3. Day 4 There are some things on my travels in the past that I’ve chosen to share, through stories and photographs, with friends, family, and Loose Luggage readers. Most things, actually. But on several of the trips I’ve been on there have been certain sacred moments that were [...]
Haiti. Day 3.
I apologize for the delay in getting day 3 up here. It’s both time consuming and personally exhausting to write these. Continued from Day 1 & Day 2. Day 3. At approximately 5 o’clock in the morning I heard the panicked and urgent voice of Doug. He had ripped open the zipper of the tent [...]
Haiti. Day 1.
Over the course of the next 7 days, I’m going to be publishing here on Loose Luggage a seven-part article about my recent trip to Haiti in the wake of the 7.1 earthquake that has now claimed some 200,000 lives. Each part of this article will correspond (roughly) with 1 day of my trip. Day [...]
LiNK up for $250,000
Back in October I had the honor of traveling with my friends from LiNK (Liberty in North Korea) over to China to document the work they’re doing over there. You can check out my images/stories from that trip here. Well LiNK has some great news– they’re in the running for $250,000 from Pepsi. It’s exciting [...]
The Pearl of the West Indies: Images from the recent earthquake in Haiti
I’ve finally finished my photos and slideshow from my trip to Haiti, thanks to “Soundslides,” which is a powerful program for documentary photographers who want to share their work with the world. Click on the link below which will take you to the slideshow and then you can watch it full screen, toggle the sound, [...]
The Pearl of the West Indies
I’ve been working hard to try and get all of my images/stories from Haiti ready… but I’m having some difficulties with my slideshow/website and need to spend a little time to get it right. However, I did want to get something up in the mean time so I can start sharing these stories and experiences [...]
Haiti/D.R.
As things stand I’m taking off on a flight for Santo Domingo, DR tomorrow morning. From there I’ll attach with an NGO to head over to Haiti to help in any way I can. If anyone wants to donate funds towards medical materials and transportation, you can shoot me an e-mail here. Additionally if anyone [...]
New York Dust…
After a crazy week of juggling post-production for jobs that I need to wrap, meeting with clients, and running errands, ON TOP of working every extra second of my day and night on “Shake the Dust,” I’m ready for some R&R… Although I’m not sure it’s coming any time soon. Seriously not complaining. Busyness means [...]
Shake The Dust – NYC – Day 1
Well, Patrick arrived here on a red-eye yesterday morning… and we hit the ground running. For the next 5 days we’ll be shooting an 8 minute mini-documentary as we push forward with raising funding for this film. I can honestly say that this past evening was one of the most creatively fulfilling nights of my [...]
We need your help…
I’ve been working on a side project for the last 6 months that is now finally (beginning) to come to fruition. After 1 photo shoot and a very brief video shoot, I’m moving forward with an international “blogumentary” project entitled “Shake The Dust.” The documentary, which will ideally be shared in the form of videos, [...]
Green gloves.
So my current early-to-mid-fall-New-York-subway-commute music of choice lately has been The National‘s album “The Boxer.” My favorite song on the album, a song that is both haunting and soothing, is “Green Gloves.” Well yesterday morning I opened my mailbox and pulled out a padded envelope. When I saw the return address I had a pretty [...]
Trevor Gray.
Confession: I’m more stressed now then I think I’ve ever been in my life. (Well, maybe with exception of my 28-unit senior semester of college.) It feels good to send that out into the cybersphere. I mean, this is a blog, right? That means I can talk about my feelings, right? But really, work has [...]
You are welcome to travel by our plane.
iPhone photos from the last few weeks… mostly from China. All of the below photos were edited IN my iPhone with Chase Jarvis’s Best Camera application.
The Vacaville Sessions.
Nothing to post of my stuff today. But a real treat instead… While on the bus to the odd Tiki Bar we went to in Staten Island, all 7 of us took a turn on my iPhone to have a listen to the song you’re about to lay ears on. A song sent to us [...]
Up on the roof.
This past weekend was jam packed with goodness. I put my camera down (except for my father’s old Konica and some rolls of 1600 slide film) and just enjoyed the absolutely glorious weather. Saturday, in particular, was amazing. We had a wonderful breakfast at Janelle’s new home in Cobble Hill. Delicious eggs, potatoes, coffee, orange [...]
I’m back (sort of).
Not posting this last week has been really unsatisfying. I’ve just had gobs of photos from over the past month or so piling up– from personal and work-related shooting. And now, with a computer to use (for now) thanks to Eric, I’m trying to get back on top of things. I apologize in advance for [...]