Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Panda Bear - Noah Lennox of Animal Collective at Bowery Ballroom for The New York Times


This was a very interesting show. I left it feeling like I had been listening to the Beach Boys re-interpreted for the age of the internet and pro-tools. Despite Noah being alone onstage with just a bunch of knobs to twiddle and his voice it was fairly mesmerizing show.

Saturday, June 02, 2007

Nite out with Fred Durst for The New York Times Style Section

Just to be clear, despite the implications in the article Ms. Valevich is not a hooker by any means, regardless of how she is maybe portrayed in the story. Never having met Fred before I was somewhat worried at the beginning of the night that things would suck however exactly the opposite was the case. Fred turned out to be a really personable, intelligent and nice guy who was obviously completely infatuated with his son and a doting father. Rock on Mr. Durst!
Here's a link to the Gawker article about it,http://gawker.com/news/sketchy-nights-out-with/fred-durst-cant-make-bloggy-times-say-porn-256560.php and above the Times piece by Mickey Rapich, since the times article is archived you'll have to join select to read it.
About this shot. We'd been out for around four hours at this point and got back to Fred's hotel , Soho House after dinner at Morimoto. They have a pretty strict policy about no shooting in Soho House but I managed to talk them into letting me shoot in the lounge when Fred's son Dallas came down. I love this shot.