Lesley Taplin's memorial was really moving. Amazing how many people she brought together. What a wonderful soul. Smiling down from heaven [10:14 pm]
video i shot today of the new S'Mores cake from The Nickel Diner http://tinyurl.com/dfxozy mmm good stuff. [3:21 pm]
at #thenickel with @peneloper for lunch. good stuff. also got my manual focus mamiya 55m f/1.8 lens for video on 5d2. yay for fast M42 glass [12:23 pm]
Photo Project: Bad Religion New Maps of Hell Deluxe Edition http://bit.ly/2lShXw [11:59 am]
just posted up pics of the Bad Religion album project I shot for @OblivionPact and @epitaph : http://bit.ly/bk9Sh [11:53 am]
Photo Project: Bad Religion New Maps of Hell Deluxe Edition
Last year I worked with Brett Gurewitz and Epitaph on a photo project for Bad Religion's newest album: New Maps of Hell. The photos I shot around Los Angeles were used for the Deluxe Edition of the album.
The project was really fun and I really enjoyed working with Brett and the folks over at Epitpah. I just got around to photographing the album artwork and booklet. You can check out the work below:
More photos after the jump...
this looks good, going to be a tear-jerker though: http://www.apple.com/trailers/newline/mysisterskeeper/ [10:19 am]
most beautiful thing I've seen all day: http://bit.ly/uaEH8 (other than @peneloper) [7:20 pm]
safari and bluebird are my top 2 memory leaking apps on OS X. quitting and restarting them fixes problem. what are your favorite leakers? [7:14 pm]
7:02PM up 342 days, 3:23, 0 users, load averages: 0.28, 0.31, 0.24 [7:03 pm]
RT @fofo13 http://tinyurl.com/cy96a5 - Slap Chop Rap... Awesome! [4:58 pm]
shot the fastest camera ever built... uses lasers: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/04/fastestcamera/ .. digg it: http://bit.ly/AP26R [2:55 pm]
RT @blogdowntown Reminder: Thursday evening is the celebration service for Lesley Taplin at Vibiana -- http://bdtwn.com/4248 [2:25 pm]
RT @MackReed / @sooon2b / @randizuckerberg: http://twitpic.com/4838g - Ok, this photo is officially cracking me up. [11:31 am]
awesome, another service that steals your twitter password: @twinfluence ... do not use. [11:08 am]
so yes, spoiler: babycakes is moving into the PE building http://tinyurl.com/c3up2l [10:10 am]
looking forward to the vegan (although i'm not even a vegetarian) bakery opening across the street from my loft. good stuff! [8:46 am]
i realize that the regular flu kills hundreds of thousands annually, but are these healthy young people in their prime? [6:21 pm]
back from another great meeting of the Skid Row Photo Club. btw we still need cameras, we have new members. the more megapixels the better. [5:50 pm]
RT @Veratect US, California: Additional influenza-like illness cases being tested in Coachella, Corona, and Temecula for swine influenza. [3:32 pm]
RT @CamiloSmith People coming of their homes SWINE FLU X EARTHQUAKE.....gotta love MExico [Camilo is a journalist in Mexico City] [9:53 am]
Coachella 2009 Photos
Keeping up with tradition, I photographed Coachella last weekend. This time around I shot for Wired, URB and of course, my blog. As I mentioned in a previous post, I also wrote the Official Coachella iPhone application for Goldenvoice.
I had a great, albeit busy, time at the festival this year and took about 50GB of photos and 10GB of video. If you look through some of the Coachella VRs, you will see me in about half of the panoramas shooting from the photo pit.
Here are some of the photos I shot:
Coachella Crowd for The Killers
Robert Smith
Photogs Shooting Morrissey
Henry Rollins
More after the jump...
Coachella 2009: Thursday
Made it to Coachella yesterday around 5pm. Got our RVs situated and our base camp set up then took a walk through the field and camp site. Here are a few photos to get you excited for Coachella:
A string of balloons blows in the wind above a row of tents in the Coachella Camp Site on Thursday night.
The Do Lab's new look includes a plethora of shipping crates and a wooden trough fountain, which they estimate will use up to 7,000 gallons a day.
The field is nearly empty for Paul McCartney's rocking sound check.
People from all over the world travel to Coachella, many of them camp.
A worker puts the final touches on The Do Lab on Thursday evening at Coachella.
Keep your eyes on Wired and Urb for more of my shots throughout the weekend.
Coachella iPhone App / Cartifact Map Portal
For the past few months I've been spending all my evenings and weekends working on two big projects: the Coachella iPhone App and the Cartifact Map Portal. I am really happy with the results and ecstatic that I am not currently working 14 hour days and weekends!
I've been doing web programming work for Coachella and Goldenvoice since 2005 when I wrote the Coachooser, a online scheduler where concertgoers could choose who they want to see. As soon as the time-slots were announced the Coachooser then allowed the user to print out their schedule for the event. I have programmed the Coachoooser each year since then.
This year I pitched Goldenvoice on an iPhone application for the festival. They finally gave me the green light a bit over a month ago. Considering that it was my first iPhone application I think it came out really well. The Coachella iPhone App has been up on the iTunes store for about a week and has been downloaded thousands of times. It was hard work hammering out this application in a month, but the response was worth it.
Another project I recently finished is an interactive map portal for a really cool mapping company called Cartifact. This project is the most advanced javascript application I have written. It does some really cool things, especially the lens tool which let's you see a different map over the top of the map you're viewing.
I enjoyed the hard work, but I'm looking forward to enjoying my evenings and weekends again!