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The Secret Lives of Great Filmmakers
A couple of weeks ago I was waiting on line at a brunch place called Cafe Colonial with some friends. We were excited at first, because this normally crowded place had no line.
But then we waited... and waited...
It was a surreal situation for New York. Everyone in the entire place was lounging, half were still eating and half were just relaxing and taking their sweet time. Nobody was leaving! It felt like we were in a foreign country. Thirty minutes into it and I wanted to shake some of these people and say 'Hey you ****ers, don't you know we're in New York!!'
At one point one of my friends noticed the guy above and he became the epitome of the entire restaurant for us. Planted there for at least the entire time that we were waiting, with only an espresso and glass of water, reading The Secret Lives of Great Filmmakers. I have never felt more hatred towards a man in my life.
And then we got seated, and the food was really good :)
Tattooed Woman, East Village
It's not that often that a photograph from directly behind a person works. I wasn't even going to take this photo until the woman reached into her purse from behind, showing off her tattoos.
Roadtrip Picnic
This was taken on one of my grandfather's road trips around the east coast around the 1940s. Gramps is the one front and center cooking and making coffee.
I love all of the details that you can make out in this photo that show the day-to-day lifestyles of their road trips. The portable grill, coffee pot, sugar, milk, a large egg, metal cups and pots, shirts drying on the car, and a hungry (or possibly hungover) friend on his hands an knees staring at an empty plate.
Printing Digitally
I now realize that this photo looks like I just pushed a button and the print magically came out.
I read a great quote today by Mike Johnson of The Online Photographer blog and it made me realize that many people have no idea how hard printing digitally is.
"And may I just say, I really have no idea why people keep repeating the old platitude that to print digital, "all you have to do is press a button." What? Have those people never printed digital? That's nothing close to my experience. Printing digital badly might be easy. Printing digital really well is hard. It requires attentiveness, knowledge, investment, preparation, and a certain thoroughness of mind." - Mike Johnson
The Faceless Worker
Tanning on the High Line
Old Postcard - Yard of a Tenement
Titled: Yard of a Tenement, New York. Copyright, 1900 by Detroit Photographic Co.
I really enjoy how this photograph was colorized, with detail taken down to the small undergarments on the laundry lines.
The postcard reads (from what I can best make out):
Cousin Fox took me to New York in 1910 - Stayed at Hotel Aberdeen for a month.
In 1912 - We spent a week of New York at Holland House - next to several plays - "Beauty Pulls The Strings", Disraeli, "Little Boy Blue", and Kismet.
I prefer it when old postcards have writing on them, because it often helps to add another historical aspect to the photo. The Hotel Aberdeen (now the La Quinta Hotel) was located in a gorgeous building on 17 West 32nd Street.
Above: The Former Hotel Aberdeen
The Holland House on the other hand was an 11 story marble hotel named for Lord Holland's mansion in London. It was built in 1891 and considered one of the premiere hotels in the world at the time.
Above: The Holland House
Lottery Tickets and Cherry Blossoms
Back in the grind. Had a very fun weekend for Sara's birthday and Happy Birthday to my brother, Bob.
Here's a photo I took this weekend while showing Sara's cousins around the East Village. It's such a vibrant place to shoot. There are people of every ethnicity, age, orientation, and fashion type.
Here some scaffolding workers take a break to check out their lottery tickets.
