I’ve had the good fortune over the past two months to begin shooting for local food ‘zines Edible Manhattan & Edible Brooklyn. The Edible community spans the country and crosses our northern border in the name of sustainability and in support of cooking with and consuming locally-sourced goods, while celebrating the gastro-pioneers of the culinary …
JAKE HILL MUSIC DOT COM
I spent the better part of the past two days putting the final touches on a website and blog for good friend and heavy drinker folk singer Jake Hill, and just unleashed it onto the interwebs. Tour dates, music videos, an online shop, a soapbox for Jake to stand on, one mean crosscut saw logo, …
COLUMBUS DAY/LAST ENTRY IN THE CAPTAIN’S LOG OF THE SANTA MARIA
I hadn’t accounted for your continent being there, but I digress, and we can share.
AS THE MUSIC DIES
Friend, graphic designer, and fellow Bushwicker Jason Tam has just unleashed his premiere line of T’s and tanks upon the masses, replete with catch phrases for the disenfranchised and references to the 1976 coming-of-age-classic The Omen, under the moniker As The Music Dies. To celebrate the launch, Jason is offering free shipping in the States …
SIGNS OF LIFE #8
Welcome. San Pedro Sula, Honduras.
VIDEO PREMIERE: CATFISH BREAKFAST
The third video in support of Jake Hill’s album, In The Mountain’s Shadow. Filmed entirely on location in Susquehannock State Forest, Clinton County, Pennsylvania. Special Thanks to Gordy, Danny, and Dave (for the suspenders). (See a larger version of this video here.)
LEMME TELL YOU A STORY ‘BOUT A MAN I KNEW
Catfish Breakfast. Coming soon.
MARY JEAN, IN REMEMBRANCE OF
When Mary Jean had left this place she couldn’t remember the names of her children. There were: eight sisters, three brothers, two sons and two daughters, one husband of sixty-nine years sitting on the back porch watching the highway that cuts through the farm now and thinking about Mary Jean.
THE SGB BOOK CLUB: SAVING DAYLIGHT BY JIM HARRISON
Earlier this week, I picked up a book of poems by Jim Harrison called Saving Daylight. Good friend of former Poet Laureate Ted Kooser (with whom he published a book of, shall we say, correspondence poetry entitled Braided Creek), Harrison is best known commercially for penning the novella Legends Of The Fall in 1979, from …
PERISHABLES: A CULINARY CULTURE COLLECTION
I’ve spent the last few days putting a new photography portfolio together, the gastronomically-themed Perishables. The goal was to incorporate plated food shots, establishment interiors and atmospheres, chef and restauranteur portraits, and a hint of travel/destination photography under the overarching banner of a food lifestyle collection. Culinary culture, I like to call it. You can preview …
WEEKEND WARRIORS
A BTS look at Sunday morning’s look book shoot for Eubiq NY‘s Spring 2011 collection. Everybody say hi to Shirley!
HOW TO WRITE A BLOG POST FROM SUSQUEHANNOCK STATE FOREST
Susquehannock State Forest is in central Pennsylvania, along the northern border, just south of New York state. Susquehannock State Forest is located in Potter County God’s Country, with a few tracts of forest stretching into nearby McKean and Clinton counties. Susquehannock State Forest contains 262,000 acres of woodlands and 89 miles of hiking trails. Susquehannock …
PICTURES OF A SNAIL
I recently hopped a train to Red Bank, NJ to photograph chef Adam Sobel- creator, owner, and…..driver of The Cinnamon Snail. The Cinnamon Snail is the country’s first 100% vegan food truck, currently servicing Hoboken, NJ and soon to be making the rounds in Brooklyn. An in-depth interview with Adam (and a few of the …
WILL WORK FOR FOOD
Kitchen La Bohème. The Bohemian Kitchen. It’s a vegan pure vegetarian food blog that I’ve been shooting for lately. A vegan food blog, you say? Yep. Well, Scott, are you vegan? Nope. Are you, at least, vegetarian then? Not even close. So, a carnivore taking pictures for a vegan food blog? That’s right. But why? …
SIGNS OF LIFE #7
Houses in the window.
AN EVENING OF FOLK AND TACOS
Come for the tacos, stay…for the tacos.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU: SNOW UP ON THE MOUNTAIN VIDEO PREMIERE
The music video for Jake Hill’s ‘Snow Up On The Mountain’, taken from his third album, In The Mountain’s Shadow. Happy birthday to you. (See a larger version of this video here.)
LUNCH QUEST! TOM & JOE’S, ALTOONA, PA
Tom & Joe’s has the best Breakfast Mess. Ever. There, I said it. Now if you happen to be the skeptical type that has to see eat to believe, then you can hop on The Pennsylvanian (with an empty stomach) from the Amtrak concourse at Penn Station, get off fourteen stops later in Altoona, walk three …
RETOUCHING THE FAMILY TREE
Every time that I ride the rails homeward for a small town respite from the concrete jungle, I make time for a visit with my grandpap. He’s got a lot of great stories to tell, and he always likes to hear about what I’m up to in the big city. And it usually seems that, …
HAPPY (BELATED) BIRTHDAY
Coming soon.
SIGNS OF LIFE #6
Vacancy.
JAKE HILL VS. THE BIG APPLE
Jake Hill will be playing The Living Room on Manhattan’s Lower East Side on Thursday, May 27th in support of his new album, In The Mountain’s Shadow, which will be available for purchase at the show and is now available as a digital download at Amazon. You can read a nice write-up on the album …
CAMERON LIVE! AVAILABLE JUNE 1ST
A little while back I had the distinct pleasure of working on a two-day shoot with friend and Grammy-nominated organist Cameron Carpenter. The focus of the shoot was to create a number of striking image options for the covers of his soon-to-be-released double album, Cameron Live! The CD portion of the set contains a live concert …
SIGNS OF LIFE #5
More than one, actually.
LUNCH QUEST! NEW ENGLAND EDITION: WOOD’S SEAFOOD
Just a stone’s throw from the Rock in Plymouth, Massachusetts is Wood’s Seafood, an end-of-the-pier seafood shack and fish market that you’d expect from any harbor town, but especially from this harbor town, because this harbor town is America’s Hometown. After passing on a refreshing dip in the Governor Bradford Inn‘s fish-shaped pool, then feeling …
IN THE MOUNTAIN’S SHADOW
Four states in four days. It’s been a busy week, riding the rails and rolling down the highway, shooting commercial interiors and editorial portraits. Wednesday found me in Eastern Pennsylvania, Thursday it was Southern New Jersey, and today- upstate New York. Tomorrow I’ll be on a bus to Boston followed by a train to Plymouth …
THE TWO JAKES: DOWN FROM THE SUN VIDEO PREMIERE
I just wrapped up postproduction on the music video for Jake Hill‘s Down From The Sun, the lead track from Jake’s forthcoming third album, In The Mountain’s Shadow. I may have spoken a bit prematurely when, in a recent post, I proclaimed Jake to be The New Man In Black. After watching the video below …
A PORTRAIT OF A LANDSCAPE
The recent purchase of a two thousand gigabyte external hard drive for photo archiving purposes has lead me down the tedious road of making back ups of my back ups. A small pleasure I’ve found in this process has been the rediscovery of old images, some of which I shot while on a cross country …
SIGNS OF LIFE #4
Yes please.
THE NEW MAN IN BLACK ARRIVES APRIL 24TH
A message in a (Miller High Life) bottle lapped up on the shore of Pho(Blog)graphy Island early this morning while I was out making my daily rounds with the metal detector. Still can’t find that Sac that I lost. Anyway, the message was from the home office of the Cape Cod Bay Arts & Entertainment …
SIGNS OF LIFE #3
You’re welcome.
さよなら。
(Sayonara.) Tokyo Juxtaposed came down today after an extended exhibition at Supercore in Brooklyn. Thanks once again to Hiko, Yoko, Hideki, and the rest of the Supercore staff for having us, to Loud Objects and Nori for their tag team performance, and to everyone that came out on opening night and showed their support. If …
A WORK IN PROGRESS: JAKE HILL
I wrapped up a project this week with New England-based singer/songwriter Jake Hill. Over a two day shoot we completed the cover for Jake’s soon-to-be-released third album, In The Mountain’s Shadow, shot a wide range of promotional portraits, and filmed a video for lead single and album opener ‘Down From The Sun’. While I can’t …
IMITATION IS THE SINCEREST FORM OF FLATTERY, AND QUITE POSSIBLY THE QUICKEST PATH TO A COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT LAWSUIT
It’s been a slow week here on Pho(Blog)Graphy Island, and the natives are enjoying some much deserved R & R after last month’s beachfront property overhaul, which proved to be a massive undertaking (but now my hut has wi-fi, and a mini bar!). On days like these when the sun is high and the tide is …
SIGNS OF LIFE #2
Midtown yoga.
EUBIQ NY SITE UPDATE
Shirley & Co. over at Eubiq NY have updated their site with some new looks from their Spring 2010 collection that I recently shot for them. Follow this link to see what you should be wearing in the city come springtime (if you’re a contemporary young urban male, that is).
LUNCH QUEST! GRAVESEND GASTRONOMY: BRENNAN & CARR
A recent commercial interiors shoot for Superpages led me to the ghoulishly-named neighborhood of Gravesend in Brooklyn. Much to my masochistic dismay, Gravesend is home to more Chinese restaurants and Kosher markets than haunted houses and fog-shrouded cemeteries. A ten-minute walk east from the Q train on Avenue U will lead you to a well …
PHO(BLOG)GRAPHY ISLAND FACELIFT
The natives have been toiling away here on Pho(Blog)graphy Island, replacing the thatched roof of my seaside hut and making a throne for me out of palm fronds, beer cans, and coconut shells. Oh, and I began field testing a new blog design today. It’s a customized version of Minimalist 1 by Joey Robinson over …
CLOSED OPENING: A TOKYO JUXTAPOSED + LOUD OBJECTS ÷ DJ NORI VS. THE SUSHI LOOP @ SUPERCORE RECAP
Tokyo Juxtaposed- my series of photographs pairing cultural and aesthetic imagery from modern-day Japan, went on display last Thursday at Supercore in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. A small opening event marked the occasion. Old friends came out to show their support, new friends were made, and a good time was had by all in attendance. The evening …
SIGNS OF LIFE #1
Long Island City, Tuesday Morning.
THE SUSHI LOOP: TOKYO WEEK! SATURDAY BONUS
As seen on the ceiling, Thursday evening, at Supercore.
TOKYO WEEK! FRIDAY
So we’ve made it to the bleary-eyed Friday conclusion of Tokyo Week! here on Pho(Blog)graphy Island, and the survivors are fed up with pressing the button every 108 minutes. (If you don’t know, you’ll have to start with Season One. Trust me.) Thanks to everyone who attended the opening last evening, and an extra special …
TOKYO WEEK! THURSDAY + TONIGHT @ SUPERCORE
After countless restless nights and days of breathless anticipation, the moment has finally come. Tokyo Juxtaposed + Loud Objects, 7pm, Supercore, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, TONIGHT. Hope to see you there, although, the weather should prove an adequate and believable excuse if you are unable to attend. Heck, I don’t even know if I’m gonna go, still …
TOKYO WEEK! WEDNESDAY
Hump day diptych: Progress.
TOKYO WEEK! TUESDAY
Diptych of the day: Asakusa Attractions.
TOKYO WEEK! MONDAY
In recognition of The Tokyo Juxtaposed Photography Exhibit Opening Party Gala Celebration Event and Potluck Dinner Sleepover emceed by Mr. Kunal Gupta coming up later this week at Supercore, I’ve declared this week to be: Tokyo Week! here on Pho(Blog)graphy Island. (The natives are doing sake bombs as we speak.) Each business day of the work …
WITH A SPECIAL GUEST APPEARANCE BY…
Loud Objects! Unfortunately it looks like Tristan (aka ‘The Cute One‘) will not be in attendance as he is currently ‘out of town.’ Allegedly. Did you just hear that? That was the sound of the collective heart of a throng of prepubescent Jersey City middle school girls breaking. Sad, sad day indeed. But hey, we’ve …
TOKYO JUXTAPOSED @ SUPERCORE
Next month I’ll be showing a select number of photographs from my Tokyo Juxtaposed series at Supercore in Brooklyn. The opening event is set for Thursday, February 11th at 7pm and the show will run through the middle of March. There will be drinks (of the caffeinated and the alcoholic variety), there will be live …
47 EASY STEPS TO A SUCCESSFUL EUBIQ NY™ FALL 2010 LOOKBOOK PHOTO SHOOT
(Presented Jackanory style.) Rise and shine. Make coffee. Take a shower. Coffee’s done. Gear check. Breakfast #1. Check for updates here. And here. Travel light. Out the door, down the hall. Buenos dias. Bushwick foyer. The neighborhood. A one-eyed beetle. She’s seen better days. The station. The turnstile. The train. Mind the gap. Morning commute. …
AIRBED & BREAKFAST GREATEST HITS, VOL. 1
For the past year, I’ve been shooting residential interiors for Airbed & Breakfast, a web-based service and marketplace ‘allowing anyone from private residents to commercial properties to rent out their extra space.’ Although still a relatively new service, as of this writing Airbed & Breakfast already boasts listings in 108 countries and 2,174 cities, has …
