27 Jan 12

On NYC descriptors:

  • Alex: Is it a good chinese restaurant or a bulletproof glass one?
26 Jan 12
New toys! Woo!

New toys! Woo!

25 Jan 12
Light comparison featuring our very own CoJanks.If you ask me, the DP90 looks amazing over the rest. But you all know that already.
All images shot on Hasselblad H2 w/ 80mm lens on af to Phase One P45+ H-mount digital back tethered (Capture One). All images ISO200, 1/125, f/11, no processing/adjustment except for adjusting whitebalance to “flash”. Exposure correction adjusted via flash unit output, umbrella distance is uniform in all images.

Light comparison featuring our very own CoJanks.
If you ask me, the DP90 looks amazing over the rest. But you all know that already.

All images shot on Hasselblad H2 w/ 80mm lens on af to Phase One P45+ H-mount digital back tethered (Capture One). All images ISO200, 1/125, f/11, no processing/adjustment except for adjusting whitebalance to “flash”. Exposure correction adjusted via flash unit output, umbrella distance is uniform in all images.

25 Jan 12
I love technical writing.
Perhaps, in a parallel universe, I’m a technical writer.

I love technical writing.

Perhaps, in a parallel universe, I’m a technical writer.

24 Jan 12

theodorepython asked: What exactly is it that you do?

EVERYTHING THAT IS PUT BEFORE ME.

But to be honest, I’m currently and technically labelled the Equipment Manager and In-House Gaffer of a boutique/high-end lighting and camera rental house in the West Village. We mostly work with fashion and portrait photographers: do a lot of Vogue, W, Interview, clothing campaigns, couture shit, real fancypants like stuff. I don’t dig on fashion in the least (as Oscar Wilde once stated: “what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. From the point of view of science, it not unfrequently violates every law of health, every principle of hygiene.”), but I do like clever and interesting lighting quite a bit as I went to skool for furniture design (dual majored in the aforementioned and photography).
Anyway, outside of student films (which don’t pay anything) and music videos (which don’t pay you, period), fashion and portrait photography are the only places you’ll find interesting and creative lighting, which is what I truly enjoy. Unless of course it’s a Spielberg film … and, um, his lighting guy is a good buddy of ours and pretty much only Spielberg-level budgets can afford to rent our gear for three months straight.
/namedropping & pomposity 

In addition to my majors in skool I’ve spent two decades doing construction, carpentry, plumbing, painting, locksmithing, welding, electrical work, electronics, cement/brick work, lathe and millwork, managed and repaired heavy-truck fleets, worked in hardware stores and I’m a skilled glazier, white-glove art handler, seamster (male version of someone that can sew?) and Ikebana-ist(?) … I’ve worked grip, dolly grip, electric, best boy, gaffer, worked in art department, built sets, I’ve run crews, generator op’d, was hired on full time to fix gear for a huge lighting/grip/electric rental house, worked as the sound guy for a comedy club and the adjacent live music venue, all sorts of things. Worked for a while at a bike shop, a headshop/record store, a boutique Japanese import place, did accounts receivable/payable at a trucking logistics firm. Had a job making pizzas once. Now I direct the dispersion of photons.

Which is to say that I pretty much SysAdmin the physical world. That’s what I do.

I’m aware that I’m coming off like a prat jack-of-all-trades, but evidently the people I work with and for think “eh’s a cool guy and doesn’t afraid of anything.”

My hobbies include but are not limited to: camping, cooking and baking, canoeing, skiing, hiking, fishing, mountain biking, motorcycle restoration, drawing and painting, model-building, skull collecting, boating, collecting vinyl and mid-century furniture and cowboy boots, reading, classical music, and archery.

22 Jan 12
Perfect. Except for the baby crying just outside the studio…

Perfect. Except for the baby crying just outside the studio…

22 Jan 12
Whirkin’ on the sabbath like a heathen.

Whirkin’ on the sabbath like a heathen.

20 Jan 12
Ring flash overhead, 220cm fill, standard reflector from rear off-center to light up the smoke.

Ring flash overhead, 220cm fill, standard reflector from rear off-center to light up the smoke.

20 Jan 12
Ha! Caught part of the flash. Reflexes like a cat ovah heah.

Ha! Caught part of the flash. Reflexes like a cat ovah heah.

20 Jan 12
Another day in the grinder.

Another day in the grinder.

20 Jan 12

Okay. So I know La Perla and Agent Provocateur…

This post will self-destruct. Valentine’s Day shopping, etc.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, who else am I missing? I have about 15 tabs open and need about ten more to really get to honing.

Please do not reply “What about a VS gift certificate?”

19 Jan 12
teainwonderland:

birdhives:

i’ll take it!

Oof.

Oh hell yeah oof on that thang.

teainwonderland:

birdhives:

i’ll take it!

Oof.

Oh hell yeah oof on that thang.

19 Jan 12
pi4nobl4ck:

what even

I’ve made them. In the film industry we call this type of connector a “suicide”. They’re mostly used to heat up a lunchbox off a wall outlet when you need to flick a bunch of lights off and on from one spot (one spot is less work, yo) and don’t have/feel like using/have the time to set up a DMX control board. I use ‘em for other things, too.
Then again, we do things … differently. 

pi4nobl4ck:

what even

I’ve made them. In the film industry we call this type of connector a “suicide”. They’re mostly used to heat up a lunchbox off a wall outlet when you need to flick a bunch of lights off and on from one spot (one spot is less work, yo) and don’t have/feel like using/have the time to set up a DMX control board. I use ‘em for other things, too.

Then again, we do things … differently

(via gravyholocaust)

19 Jan 12
Don’t even ask

Don’t even ask

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