Since I was a little girl, I remember seeing this guy around the city (usually in Union Square) playing the drums on buckets, pans, and anything else he could find that made the right noise when hit with a drumstick. He’s still around, and has expanded his resources. He was spotted at the Islands a few weeks back while we were shooting, and I thought I’d post a clip…
A floating tree, invisibly suspended over our dining room table.
UK-based artist, James Hopkins, creates various forms of sculpture, installations, and multi-media pieces that encourage alternative perspectives from the viewer. He has two major shows coming up in the UK in 2010.
I’m in the process of working on a video project, shooting with the HD video feature with manual focus on my 5D Mark II camera. Here’s a clip that I shot on the way home from work the other night, riding the ferry across the bay.
I highly recommend watching it in High Quality with the sound off.
New York Times – November 26, 2009
Sitting down with friends and family today, there will be thanks for the steady currents, flowing out of the past, that have brought us to this table. There will be thanks for the present union and reunion of us all. And there will be prayerful thanks for the future. But it’s worth raising a glass (or suspending a forkful for those of you who’ve gotten ahead of the toast) to be thankful for the unexpected, for all the ways that life interrupts and renews itself without warning.
What would our lives look like if they held only what we’d planned? Where would our wisdom or patience — or our hope — come from? How could we account for these new faces at the Thanksgiving table or for the faces we’re missing this holiday, missing perhaps now all these years?
It will never cease to surprise how the condition of being human means we cannot foretell with any accuracy what next Thanksgiving will bring. We can hope and imagine, and we can fear. But when next Thanksgiving rolls around, we’ll have to take account again, as we do today, of how the unexpected has shaped our lives. That will mean accounting for how it has enriched us, blessed us, with suffering as much as with joy.
That, perhaps, is what all this plenty is for, as you look down the table, to gather up the past and celebrate the present and open us to the future.
There is the short-term future, when there will be room for seconds. Then there is the longer term, a time for blossoming and ripening, for new friends, new family, new love, new hope. Most of what life contains comes to us unexpectedly after all. It is our job to welcome it and give it meaning. So let us toast what we cannot know and could not have guessed, and to the unexpected ways our lives will merge in Thanksgivings to come.
Canadian-based leather artist, Ken Diamond, creates simple, high quality leather goods with classic designs. All of his pieces are completely hand-made!
Installation in Vancouver, Canada by Martin Creed
From Detroit…
From Paris…
From Chicago…
From London…
From Sweden…
From New York…
An homage to my past life…
…30 Seconds to Mars was one of the first bands I ever came in personal contact with when I first started working at EMI back in 2002. I remember being so disappointed by Jared Leto’s oversized ego after adoring him as Jordan Catalano for all those years. Despite his diva-esque nature, 30 Seconds to Mars has done pretty well for themselves, and I’m actually really impressed with their new album, “This is War.” Leto’s vocals, while always pretty strong, have matured significantly, and he finally cut off that God-Awful mane.
This video for their first single, “Kings & Queens,” is, in my opinion, amazing. The video quality is phenomenal, and I can’t help but love it for the LA shots (especially the Griffith Park Observatory that was a part of my daily surroundings for 6 years), AND the Critical-Mass theatrics through the City of Angels.