Jan/101
a few years back and beyond
I'd completely forgotten about this until A friend sent it back to me the other day.
I took it 3 years ago while still in grad school and living on my sailboat "Samsara". If I remember, I was still half drowsy on a warm spring day - had just made coffee and was listening to the birds on the dock pilings and the lapping of the still water against the hull, disturbed only by the morning boat traffic of fishermen and the tugboats silently heading out for the day. Nowadays, it seems like such a drastically different world, but the smell of the air those mornings won't leave me. Even now, it's intoxicating.
Jan/101
truth
La photographie, c'est la vérité, et le cinéma, c'est vingt-quatre fois la vérité par seconde
~ Jean-Luc Godard, from "Le Petit Soldat"
Thanks to my friends Kat for the quote and Nicolas Laborie for the clip.
Jan/100
pierogi
Making pierogi in the kitchen of the Polish Village Cafe in Hamtramick, MI
Leica M4 - 50/2 - Ilford Delta 400
Jan/100
more from detroit
American Legion Post 447 in Wyandotte. The "downriver area" is a blue-collar suburb closest to the Rouge River industrial area of Detroit, marked by small brick houses with aluminum awnings on postage-stamp lots. At any time of day, you can find retired, jobless, and working veterans in this windowless 154 year old train depot.
Speed Graphic 4x5; Heliar 135/3.5; Portra 400NC.
Jan/100
she’ll hate me
This is my aunt ... who wanted desperately to be serious ... but whose nature (and some behind-the-camera idiocy) got the best of her. She'll forever hate me for posting this, though I love her and this series. Being drummed out of the family must be worth the sharing.
Don't worry Teri - other than a measly hundred people a day, nobody sees this blog.
Jan/100
first of the Detroit images
This is the first of a handful of images I took during my trip. Since Detroit (and Dearborn specifically) has one of the highest mideastern populations outside the fertile crescent, I thought it was appropriate to capture that culture as part of my work on the area. The subject is a Lebanese butcher named Abdullah, and he was very happy to learn I'm 1/4 Lebanese myself, and know how to make kibbi nayeh.
Tech notes:
Speed Graphic 4x5 to Provia 100F chrome. I think all the magic of this image is in the lens: a very rare 1924 Rietschel Prolinear 135/1.9. Less than 100 were produced, with a price tag equivalent to $9,000 today.
More to come ...
Jan/101
stop-motion elegance
Oren Lavie - Her Morning Elegance
Co-directed by Oren Lavie and Yuval and Merav Nathan
Cast: Shir Shomron and Oren Lavie
Photographed by Eyal Landesman
Jan/101
b-roll outtake
this is a raw clip from a few months ago. while I was on the sound stage at the teleprompter directing our actors, my DP Jesse was off in the offices shooting b-roll to intersperse with the speaking parts ... trying to get small everyday moments of our actors at "work".
It's hilarious what comes out when the audio isn't being used.
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