Oprah’s announced that Middlesex is her current Book Of The Month Club Selection. I too this photo of author Jeffrey Eugenides talking with Judy Blume at the 2007 Key West Literary Seminar--maybe she was telling him what it is like to sell a whole lot of books. Now he’ll know for himself.
Absolutely mad after hours party in the Sanderson hotel with fellow journos on Beefeater press junket. This is some French dude we picked up in the lobby.
As I ran alongside
the coastline of Key West listening to The Bends and watched the colors along
the horizon as a storm system blew in, changing the ocean from pale green along
the horizon to milky blue to an angry grey break against the shore I wished,
for the thousandth time, that my iPod contained a camera to capture all the amazing
things I see on my runs but that I never, really, even begin to remember to
return to later, camera in hand. It’s the hunger for ceaseless, universal connectivity, perpetual all-encompassing high grade music and the ability to always document the moment.
As they say, be
careful what you wish for, because you will surely get it. While it’s doesn’t quite solve the
iPod/camera quandary the Nokia N93 addresses a related convergence flashpoint,
the cell phone/camera question. Nokia’s previous hat-toss into this slice of
the multi-use pie, the N90, produced some undeniably gorgeous pictures for
something made on a phone-sorry, Nokia, a device. But while the Carl Zeiss lens on the N90
yielded admittedly soft, fuzzy, pleasing results like this:
Lovely image quality, but with only 2 megapixels this is about as big as you can get the image before it starts to break up and lose its virtue.
The shot below, taken with the Nokia N93, shows that the bump up in megpaixels (to 3.2) yields the startling clarity and fine detail of this:
and this shot of sunset over White Street Pier
Suddenly there's this precise clarity and rich depth of field. You're first reaction is one of delirious excitement: now the phone really can function as a proper camera, and But wait. Because after a few days of playing with the N93 you may realize that as long as you have the phone on you you’re never really off duty from putting thought and care into taking good pictures, from being concious of your surroundings and the possibilty of making a rich, eloquent photograph. Except at night because the flash is painfully weak. But believe me, the daytime pressure can be crushing. I've spent a month with the N93, and if you'll allow me, I'd like to share some insights into how to maximize the strengths and bypass the weaknesses of the device.
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Five days in
Wandering
around-lost as usual-I came across a crowd of people flowing between stores and
galleries on the Rue Portefoin. My
French language shyness prevented me from finding out any details about the
gathering but it was a lovely moment to find by chance.
I knew this triple
image of JT on the cover of this French mag looked familiar. 'Sexy Back' is still in heavy, heavy rotation here.
And more to come.
This weekend in Los Angeles I met Kevin, who is quite possibly the world’s biggest Marc Bolan fan.
My photo essay on a dreamy, sex-drenched
weekend at the Island House for
reFRESH has taken on a life
of its own online. The spread and shots got mentioned on a ton of blogs which was
really cool including my beloved DudeTube
as well as Kenneth in the 212,
who made the little collage below that I think is pretty spiffy. Now Beautiful has created a three part
weekly series complete with an original narrative,
inspired by some additional shots I’d sent them. I'm not quite sure what they're doing but I'm pretty excited to be entering the realm of the telenovela. That debuts Tuseday the 22nd
and will continue for the following two Tuesdays. There are also more outtakes
at Beautiful and I’ve got more shots here
and here, as well as a 'room 103' album to your right.
My photo essay for reFRESH on the Island House in
My story for the Travel
Issue of reFRESH is online here (you've got to turn the pages of the magazine to get to the spread) and it hits stands August 10th. The photo essay about a
harried urban media guy who travels to the Island House in Key
West, gets some much-needed rest, gets a tan and
gets laid was a real joint effort. None of it would have been possible
without
my model, Scott Wilson. He’d never posed for anyone before but he was
completely
natural and uninhibited in front of the camera. In fact, I think his
non-pro
status helped the project, lending the shots a more intimate quality,
like you're watching a real person have a real experience. That's what the shoot felt like, and I think it comes across.
refRESH was great to work with and really gave me a lot of freedom to develop the story. Greg Needham worked
on layout and editing the photos with me and as always his design work was spot-on. Jon
and Martin of the Island House were enormously accommodating and let us
have free run of the property for one very long weekend. And Joseph
from
Key Hole helped with swimsuit styling-where we used any. There are even
more
pictures in the second part of this post as well as in the ‘room 103’ album on the right, and I'll be putting up more shots later in the week. Enjoy.
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