When such derives from a pure controlled attachment to the constant.
Shinkansen ver.2 is a pretty fantasy for all of us who are not in the country of the cherry trees.
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In account for the endless hours spent at work the last two – three weeks I’ve been able to take two days off in addition to the weekend, how liberating it has been. Much much needed. Naturally It does make little sense to spend more time on a screen so I’ve been a terrible blogger. Every second I am able to be here is so special so I just try to make the most out of it. Instead of blogging I’d rather photograph. But as more people ask me for sharing, I’m happy to do so, and look forward to doing it more often and openly.
from the last weeks in new york.
I told you about the joyspreader. He will help you articulate that life consists of joy and we shall not subject to forget that.
I screamed with him. just one of the thousand reasons to be fascinated about williamsburg. that place has to be one of the most creative places in America.
Mercer street, where the design office I work for is located, it gets quite nice approaching spring and prince street.
wouldn’t have expected to see views like this. what they’ve done along the hudson stretch is really quite lovely though, almost chicago level i’d say. just thinner. kudos for new york gardeners. they do great work!
Canal street by lunch.
the jewish area in Williamsburg is the most surreal place I’ve set ground on. challenging to photograph for sure.
then to another continental shift.
happy birthday girl! they were very keen to pose. sweet people.
Memorial Day nightride home to brooklyn. Brothers from Nicaragua, fascinating relationship. Can you imagine a photographer going unnoticed to make such a photo. Inspiring connections.
last night I took the 5d for a walk in Ludlow, Manhattan.
event at the mill, production company based right over the ideo offices. it would be a big mistake to miss out on this. great music!
fellow electro affiliate and new york admirer Byron joined for the views and the funky house.
no photos of the irish lady but a selection of others (which i barely remember).
roisin murphy was imaginably the crowdpuller, and she was playing already as I made it there with my friends (thanks to them I could get in). wish I had some images from when she was playing, even of her and better with her, but she left when the night was still young, or it might have been that my recollection of time was distorted with all those aperitivos..
it was wild and crazy, remotely an intact memory so it was a revelation to see what I photographed this night.
Roisin Murphy : Mommas Place (beaumont remix)
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Martin, thank you for that night!
Zona Colonial – Santo Domingo – Dominican Republic. Hasselblad + Carl Zeiss 80 mm.
Loved that balcony view but had the odd moments there too.
Somehwere there are numerous slides from these days. Will post these one day.
From John F. Kennedy to Heathrow two winters ago.
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Pantha du Prince: Saturn Strobe
As part of a project during my internship, the team and I travelled to Italy for the initial phase. I had the chance to fly back to Munich for the weekend, but a friend of mine – Stefano had moved there, to finish his thesis at Politecnico and saw I got the chance to hang out with him. My choice obviously, was then to spend the weekend in Milan. For the great benefit, I had color film with me and this was a great time to start using medium format 400 iso film. Learned later from a lot of mistakes; it´s far too easy to underexpose this during a rainy / cloudy day. You really need to get down to 1/60th or otherwise photoshop will be your next best friend, but not any form of guarantee for cranking it back to its level.s Even this image could have been exposed a stop higher, but I think the result is quite balanced. I´m getting more excited about doing street with the hasselblad; I have some 400 VC film waiting to be used during my now last two weeks in Munich. Just hope to kill this cold that has hit me the last days.
There is a number of imagery I am interested in sharing in the lapse of time; basically because there is a history of travelling and there was a time when I neither blogged nor flickred and so there is much on disk, which i perhaps never shared.
Cambodia is one of those place that made a lasting impression. It´s probably the most intruguing place I´ve set foot upon. What shines less, as you learn of the past though is that the history of Camobodia is shadowed by a very dark story of which there is much learning to be made from. Above those layers of horror and disruption, the country has a mystic face with tempels and nature as you have seen nowhere else.
Little Mowgli met me during a one day visit to Siem Reap. I have no words for how incredible it was to visit this place. Incredible wonders; yet reminders for the opposite.
I promise to post more from various travels. I don´t even know who I´m promising to cause I do not know my readers. But that´s another story.
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A series of diptyches taken last October; it might just grow. They might be speaking in tones of romaticizing the area, but there really is something exquisite and clean about the place, in that it might sparkle imagination or zoom out and seeing cultures cross. What I´ve wanted to do is capture the experiencing of this place. I know half a million people go through her everyday, but the experience by itself is something interesting, particularily for the young and oriental.
One korean guy travelling with 4 girls. They had been through Switzerland and Paris, and they happened to sit in on the same wagon as me. We conversed, joked, misunderstood. Later we bumped into eachother by the entrance and I was amused by his manner of posing for photos. His spirit caught onto me and I decided to take the Hasselblad out and finish the color film. He showed me polaroids he had taken during his trip and I was impressed with the vividness and flavour of the “prints”.
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2 days,7 ilford delta 120´s, 3 neopan 1600 and some regular ilford delta. What am I trying to do? well, the Madame and I have been reflecting on that on the trip back.
so last week we were planning a trip to Berlin, but it did seem a bit far fetched to buy train tickets there for the price of a trip where you could cross the atlantic. I don´t think so. Vienna was still an option but just for curiosity of possibility we checked Prague, and found a very good deal on a train/bus journey from Munich via Nurnberg. Took us 5 hours. We did some useful research on where to stay, and although none of us have been there we recognize that the older parts of Easter cities can pull of charm and offer something authentic. In the case of Prague that meant proximity to the castle itself, which we loved. It was very cold, I partly lost my voice (as I know it) on saturday, and it was tricky for misses Mariposa to not get caught by the motion of the cough and sore throat. This meant we had plenty of tea and took it generall easy. Even some shoes hopping was not a bad idea, given summer shoes won´t last much this winter. A little late to figure, but shopping is not a top priority.
We had a very awkward day today, very different from yesterday, twofolded though, a great morning with the slowest snow dive and beautiful light. we were listening to classical music in the hotel room in the morning, opened our windows towards the river and it was something i will always remember. i´ve never been so eager with my hasselblad.
there is little hesitating the statement, Prague is a work of Art! Now art is not about beauty only. It is a ground for communication, what is reality. It may be an escape, but with the tools at hand it is working towards truth, at least attempt wise.
In only these two days we had many encounters, those which were the regular meetings, for food or drinks, accommodation were of course mixed. i dare say we were lucky with the hotel but we have mix feelings for the attitude among some people we met. whenever that is the case you have to zoom into the landscape of tourism, and look at the fact that you are part of this conglomerate, and Prague does pull great force and god knows what crowds overall look like going in and out of this place all year long. anyhows, we are small dectectives who strive to find beauty but today we found ourselves in a complete discomfort on the return trip.
I am reminded by Obama´s speech at the nobel conerence, not of which originality should be claimed, but of who a big crowd will listen more carefully at, and that is which is the dark side of our existence, which cannot be denied.
my brave lady made a small clip with her new ipod on the train, while we were sitting next to what we believed was explicit anti semitism. her ipod is pink flash and we were sitting opposite isle of these very obnoxious people. we acted in with as if we were listening to music, but right now we would just be happy we are safe home and have what we recorded translated. I dare say it was not any good. maybe we will find a way of posting it. the only thing we know is that ( although we don´t understand german) we know when you hear a muslim prayer on a ringtone disrupt into the sound of a bullet, you are not surrounded by people of any good intentions.
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This Monday my team and I took off to Switzerland for project matters, and stayed in lugano 2 nights. We were met with a mild snowstorm on the roads of switzerland, just as we crossed from Austria all the way through San Bernandino, until the tranformation became the less favourable rain. The whole snowfield slowed us down, but it was adventurous nonetheless. The weather did get much better though and specially this morning was perfect. I woke up at 7ish, to go out for a morning jog by the lake, and figured I might as well do a little recording of the moment the sun was rising behind the massive mountains that really are the border to Italy.
Ulrich Schnauss playing subtly from the mac. This is Switzerland, probably the country with the highest standards globally, and also such captivating sceneries. I felt very lucky waking up to this. Might be sorta lengthy, i might make a speeded up version. And sorry about the stupid alarm clock :/
Lugano Dawn from Joachim on Vimeo.
A retrospective into some night photography I was doing in Auckland, New Zealand back in 2006. This was the beginning of my love for film. I had attained a 12 mm lense acquired by londonxpress, which seduced me to try architectural and urban photography. I borrowed a variety of nikon analogue bodies to use it with via the university camera hub. It was interesting do go so wide for a while, particularily downtown Auckland, but there seems to always be more to get where the people are. That mindset pulled a little bit led me to K road, a very particular kiwi street and just try to photograph people.
(1st image)Street names are very classical British in the core of the city. The maori (native) names are much more interesting I think.
(2nd image) Used to live right to the right of this tower in the city core of Auckland. It displayed vivid colors interchangably through the year, adding diversity and character to the city. The view from there was quite the sight too. Every night I´d walk under someone jumping down from it.
(4th image) I Came to their attention too early to get a candid frame, but it was an interesting motif anyways, they were whispering something and later I had a chat with the guy with the hood. He knew the photography teacher of the third years, Deborah. She was a hero of mine, so that always made me curious of wheter they had collaborated on projects. Karangahape road, Auckland.
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Marcos just posted this lovely snippet of his post master/forget the stress of the world trip. It´s so fucking beautiful!
Northeast Coast 2009 from umcosta on Vimeo.
Sailing trip along the northeast coast of Brazil. Origin: Rio de Janeiro. Destination: Fernando de Noronha.
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