LAND AND SEA

this is land and sea. they make amazing things. want to see? a lovely insight to chris duncan’s studio here.

they invited shock to perform this evening at berkeley art museum as a part of the ongoing L@TE series. a children’s choir will join us and we’ll be standing inside of an intergalactic installation created by kenny. it will look a lot like this, a set he just built for a short film that takes place inside of a space ship. lights and visuals by colleen and luke. think prisms and shadows. i’m really excited. i hope to see you, floating on the moon.

CLIP BOARDS

with some inspiration from a beautiful object, jason and i made these clip boards for family christmas presents this year.

FUTURE BRIGHT

let’s make some really good things happen in 2012, like a drive down this empty road in hillsdale, new york.

WORLD CAFE

NPR included one of my photos in a nice segment about hiss golden messenger which prompted me to resurrect this shot, one of my favorites from that day.

once i joined these guys on a US tour when their regular bass player bailed at the last second. of all the songs i crammed into my head, this one is still my favorite.

STILL

waiting so patiently for the BFG.

INTERVIEW

i just did an interview about the making of the “into the night” video.

for whistle whetting purposes, here are a few stills. hopefully they won’t give too much away though, since it really is worth watching.

DAYGLO

DAPHNE IN THE WOOD

it was such a cold and dreamy all-white sort of night at scribe winery during the filming of the lia ices “daphne” video. here are extras, vintner andrew and his little buddy, ready for action as they say. some choice cameos in this video… can you spot em?

RÜCKENFIGUR

literally meaning “back figure”, the term rückenfigur (traditionally associated with german romantic painters) describes a viewpoint that includes another person seen from behind. this figure directs us, the viewers, to behold the landscape in the scene. with no visible face, the figure feels anonymous, making the scene more universal and thematic. as viewers, we share the figure’s vision, thus the art is forcing us to participate in this vision. the figure becomes a surrogate for the viewer.

and get this, when i brought this roll of film to the lab, i wound up in a discussion about these sorts of photographs with jessica caisse, who happened to be working on the very same thing.

WHEN WORK IS A PLEASURE

i’ve worked with this same beautiful face a few times recently, for different clients, on location, in my studio … lina is always so good.

here are a few shots i did for erica tanov‘s fall 2011 line, one of which was featured in 7×7.