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The Official White House Photo Stream on Flickr. Just launched in the past couple of days. Photos by White House Photographer Pete Souza. What a sweet gig that guy has.
That’s me last summer on Bryan Schutmaat’s shoulders, trying to take this picture of a dead thing:
I really should redo this.
This is an amazing video that compares films taken on the streets of Barcelona 100 years ago with video taken on those same streets today. The infrastructure blog that brought this to my attention is more focused on how the people used the streets a century ago versus now, but I’m of course just interested in the comparisons, what is still here, what is gone, what the city was used for then, what is it used for now. It’s mezmerizing. Give it a look.
© Greg Wasserstrom
I tweaked my website a little bit this week, combining work from La Brea, The Doldrums with some newer stuff to make one body of work called USA! USA! I initially put it together for my Yale application earlier this year and liked what I came up with. I’ll also tell you that the series here is different in a pretty substantial way from the what I sent to New Haven: it has all the sexy photographs taken out. I’m not trying to be a spoil sport, it’s just that the women who modeled withheld permission to post them on the internet.
Another new addition to the site, if you’re interested, is the Blog About Technology, I started it because I’m a huge fucking geek and read more about the iPhone than I do about the economy or politics or art or literature. I’ve made three posts over there so far, which, sadly, is way better than I’ve done over here lately. I’ll try and fix it.
Also: I love you. Keep it real.
I’m still lusting after a Mamiya 7 rangefinder, but here’s something for those of you with an interest in new high-end digital gear: Mamiya’s new 33mp medium format digital SLR. It’s not a true “medium format” camera in the old school sense of the term, but the sensor is about twice the size of a 35mm frame. It’s priced at around $20,000. Start saving.
A pervious Melanie Flood print sale.
Tomorrow night, come check out the March Madness print sale at Melanie Flood Projects in Fort Greene (click for map). A lot of great photographers are included and also me. And everything’s priced for under $100. So, you know. Come out and spend a whole lot of money.
@sadkids just tweeted this one. thanks so, so much.
“Broadway from the Bowling Green, 1828″
Right now I’m researching a new project about the history of New York City, so I thought I’d start sharing some of this stuff on the blog. Here’s a piece on the history of Bowling Green, the city’s oldest public park, from today’s New York Times. The Times explains that the city leased the land to three well-to-inhabitants who in turn made it into a park in 1733. But the general public were not allowed access to it at that time. Only people who met the 18th century standard of “quality” and “standing” were aloud inside.
In the early 1800s, Lower Broadway around Bowling Green became the most desirable neighborhood for fashionable New Yorkers, as depicted in the lithograph up top. Even thought the notion of a genteel nobility that had defined the upper classes during the 18th century had largely faded, the public did not gain access to the park until around 1850.
Today, people from all over the world pose by the gigantic testicles adorning the bull statue that is modern Bowling Green’s most recognizable feature.
