It's been a while, but I've been busy...

It's come to my attention that I have been neglectful of my poor blog and I aim to fix that right here and now. First up I've been playing with the folks at Gawker quite a bit lately and the image to the left here was taken at one of their fabulous Gawker Artists parties at the soho office. Photographer Mark Mann photographed their whole staff and a few of us very lucky guests with his vintage graflex. 

In a similar vein, Liz Dimmit, esteemed Gawker Artist curator asked me to be a G.A. myself andto send them the box project images. So I done it and you can now check out my Gawker Artist profile here.

In other Gawker news, I have been asked by that self same curator extraordinaire, Liz Dimmit, to create a Box Project installation  for Truck Yeah on October 2nd. Hit the kickstarter page here and help us get this moving!

This particular box project is a come one, come all, family friendly photobooth installed in the back of a 10' moving truck. Check out the Box Project images so far and then come out on October 2nd at the corner of Broome and Ludlow in NYC to get your picture taken in the first ever Truck Box! For more info just email me or check out http://truckyeah.org. 

The fabulous, the marvelous, the wonderful... Hazel Honeysuckle!

And the subject of yesterday's shoot for the Box Project. I met HH at burlesque show on my birthday back in May last year. A small piece of advice for all you budding portrait photographers out there: If you want to photograph someone it would be better not to be staggering drunk when you approach them about a shoot. Particularly if they are wearing only a couple layers of gauze and feathers when you do. However despite this initial... let's call it a tequila induced handicap, I was able to describe the project well enough that she was at least intrigued.

And despite this somewhat questionable beginning (and this is where an iphone portfolio comes in handy!) once she saw the images she loved the project and agreed to sit for me. Then it only took 8 months to coordinate our schedules, come up with a concept and shoot. Here are a couple of quick edits from the day. Final images coming soon!

Alice in a Black and White Wonderland

This is from last weekend's Box Project shoot. One of my favorite collaborations to date, the masks and mushroom were designed by Launa Eddy and Daniel Olshansky of http://www.thecompoundeye.com. That's Metteliva rockin' out as Alice. I met all three of them at this crazy art salon in a dilapidated tenement building on the LES a few weeks back courtesy of Adam Aleksander of www.UnprecedentedEvents.com. It was one of those perfect evenings where everyone you meet is cool and creative and so far two awesome collaborations have come out of it. Keep checking back 'cause the next one's even better!

A quick outtake from the shoot.