This Thursday, come out to Williamsburg...

This Thursday, my group, The Brooklyn Filmmakers' Collective is having a fundraiser at Knitting Factory, Williamsburg! 381 Metropolitan Ave @ Havemeyer. Come out and help support the best filmmaking in Brooklyn right now.

7pm doors

8pm shorts screening (2 minute films by us themed: "In The Beginning")

9:30 Dynasty Electric plays: killer indie-rock power-pop you won't forget!

Check their music on Myspace: www.myspace.com/dynastyelectric

Come on out...

Paper Mag is on stands today...

New studio fashion spread from the current Paper Magazine - Fashion Editors Zandile Blay and Luigi Tadini sport their monthly picks of killer fashion looks.

Ink(ed) and Paper

From the now-on-stands issue of Paper Magazine, some men's studio fashion (yes, I shot this.)

From the recent issue of Inked, an NYC-based tattoo magazine. Still waiting on copies of other mags from this month...

I Shot Lindsey Van - The Other Lindsey.

Awakened by the media din surrounding Lindsey Vonn, the US Olympic Alpine Skier, I looked back into the photo archive. I remember shooting a ski jumper by the same name at the Olympic Training Facility in upstate New York. I brought up the photos and found it strange that the woman in my pictures (see below) bore no resemblance to the Lindsey on TV... A quick check of the Wiki revealed something both fascinating and appalling: Lindsey Van, a world champion US Ski Jumper, (as opposed to Lindsey Vonn of alpine/downhill olympic fame,) is one of the main plaintiffs in a lawsuit brought against the 2010 Olympic Committee...

Apparently the Olympic Committee hasn't evolved into this century - or the last one for that matter, and would rather see women walking three metaphorical steps behind their male counterparts in one of the most exciting and difficult of all winter sports. Ski Jumping is the only Olympic Sport which doesn't allow women to participate. (Click here to read the Time Mag article.)

The wretched irony? Lindsey has jumped on that very same track in Vancouver that the men will be launching from this week - and she holds the world record for the longest jump from it for both men and women. Ever. The committee's stated reason for the only case of exclusion of women in any olympic sport? "Not enough widespread support for it." Hmm. Please see: "curling," "2 man luge" and "skeleton..." I've seen both curling and ski jumping up close, I would liken the two experiences to: Going to the grocery store with your elderly grandmother versus snorkeling with schools of fish and baby sharks in Turks and Caicos.

I'm no sports fan, but you have to wonder why such a supposedly prestigious institution would intentionally bring this PR nightmare upon themselves, year after year. It's truly inexcusable that half of this event, (one of the few actually exciting ones if you ask me,) is being kept from the public. Ski Jumping is the original extreme sport - and no offense to you snowboarders, but it requires a much larger pair to launch off a 120 meter ramp at 80 mph than it does to ride a halfpipe. If you're looking for a weekend escape from the city, check out the schedule at Lake Placid, it's amazing to witness.

I'd say "It's criminal," but last time I checked, sexual discrimination is actually illegal in most of the civilized world. So I'll just leave it at "It's pathetic."

Some tears, some resolutions, some news.

That's "tearsheets..." With 2010 comes resolve to post more often and, perhaps, even get people to read. So some coming attractions: interviews with some of my favorite photographers, interviews with some of my favorite subjects, some lists, some links, and a lot less about "me," because if you're reading this, you probably already know...

That said, there are a few things floating around my desktop that I wanted to get up, so here they are:

Tearsheets from a new Cigar Aficionado story I shot about

an exclusive duck hunting lodge in Louisiana.

A ticket stub from the NYC premiere of Prisoners, a new short film directed by Lawrence Kim, Cinematography by me.

And a few holiday-esque photos from my Alaska sojourn...

It snowed in NYC.

It dumped snow in NYC last night, bringing with it that rare and unmistakable silence. Just a few seconds of the flakes on their reluctant downward paths.

Alaska Interrupted...

Traveling around New England this week put a halt to the Alaska back-log. Just got this scan of a recent Deli Magazine cover, check it out.

Updates coming to the "Music & Celebrity" section on the site later this week. More Alaska to follow.