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Kid Fantastic & friends at Mike Brodie’s book signing...

Mon, 20 May 2013 11:06:00 -0400

Kid Fantastic & friends at Mike Brodie’s book signing at Get This. (photo from John Ramspott & Burnaway)

Precious Cargo Today

Sat, 18 May 2013 15:18:45 -0400

Precious Cargo Today

Detail, from Unphotographable

Wed, 15 May 2013 22:00:27 -0400

Detail, From Unphotographable, by Studio Artist Michael David Murphy. On display in the lobby. #atlarts twitter.com/ACAC/status/33…
— Atlanta Contemporary (@ACAC) May 10, 2013

That’s the way. #dimesizedwearspot

Tue, 14 May 2013 20:54:00 -0400

That’s the way. #dimesizedwearspot

The personnel? It’s personal. @presssec @citykeeley

Thu, 02 May 2013 09:46:33 -0400

The personnel? It’s personal. @presssec @citykeeley

Exactly

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 19:42:18 -0400

Exactly

I time-synched the two videos of the brawl on Hippie Hill in San...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 01:12:00 -0400

I time-synched the two videos of the brawl on Hippie Hill in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park from the 4/20 celebration. On youtube.

They’re gonna have trouble giving away these black...

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 23:16:58 -0400

They’re gonna have trouble giving away these black Bridgestone golf hats

Video

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 21:28:17 -0400

Scott K. Brown’s incredible photo of Adam Scott on the...

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 11:50:12 -0400

Scott K. Brown’s incredible photo of Adam Scott on the 18th green at Augusta, after winning the Masters.

Favorite video I’ve seen lately. From Michael Julius. ...

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 14:23:00 -0400

Favorite video I’ve seen lately. From Michael Julius. (Weird that it’s embedded two.)

Flight Plan at MoMA's "Abstract Currents" on April 7th

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 22:09:00 -0400

Flight Plan at MoMA's "Abstract Currents" on April 7th: I submitted a one-minute version of Flight Plan which will be screened (along with hundreds of other videos) at MoMA’s “Abstract Currents” event on Sunday, April 7th.

Sounds like fun if you’re in New York!

Flight Plan (HD).

I photographed my nephew for Stuart Pilkington’s...

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 20:33:25 -0400

I photographed my nephew for Stuart Pilkington’s “Someone I Know” project.

(via Someone I Know - Michael David Murphy)

Murphys, McAdoos & Chasing Commies - A March Madness Update from The Cap'n

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 13:01:00 -0400

My dad’s mad about college basketball, but apparently not as crazy as he used to be. Nearly everyone in the family is in the same bracket pool, and yesterday, The Cap’n had some insight about how March Madness used to be and what we might expect from the final eight:

“There are some interesting notes as we move into the field of eight. There are a number of Murphys in the pool as well as in the tournament. There is a Murphy on Florida and a Murphy on Duke. Their father, Jay Murphy, was interviewed on TNT at the last game. The interviewer did not realize who Jay Murphy was. He and Michael Adams led Boston College to a number of Big East (now the Big Least) wins in the early 80s. They challenged the Hoyas for Big East supremacy and both Murphy and Adams and another B.C. player made the Big East 2nd All Star Team in 83-84. Dom Perno or Dee Rowe were still coaching at UConn, with no sign of Calhoun, yet. I hope you all realize that the Big East put three teams in the Final Four in “85. That was Conference Success. The TNT interviewer seemed to have no idea with whom he was talking. TNT does not have a sports e-mail line that I could comment on.”

“The other interesting person was James McAdoo on UNC. His father was the second cousin of Bob McAdoo who did one year at UNC, after Vincennes Junior College, and then was the NBA rookie of the year in ‘83, followed by the NBA MVP in ‘85 for the Buffalo Braves. I know, you thought that the Buffalo teams were the Sabres and the Bills, but those are not basketball. When McAdoo was the MVP he led the league in scoring and Ernie D. lead the league in assists and was the rookie of the year. You remember Ernie D. I almost did not take my orders to Alaska because Ernie D. was going into his senior year at Providence. Claire and Dad (TPM) marveled at Ernie on TV leading Providence to the Final Four while I was in Alaska chasing Commies (and Koreans who were fishing where they shouldn’t have been). Ernie holds the Tournament record for most shots attempted in a Final Four game. Notice he does not have the record for most baskets made. It was a long night playing for third place, and it gets longer when you end up in fourth place because you missed so many shots. Maybe that is why there is no longer a third place game. Memphis St. beat Providence that night, by the way.”

“I have one more rambling. I found this week, buried under an old high school report card, a ticket stub from a basketball game that had the most electric crowd I have ever been in. It was Michael and I at the Springfield Civic Center for U. of Oklahoma vs. UMass. Billy Tubbs, an absolutely despicable character vs. John Calipari, who can be semi-dispicable at times as any coach can. The Minutemen prevailed and Michael and I had a grand time, January 4, 1992. I think that Will Herndon had a great night for the Minutemen, along with DK and Harper. What an electric crowd, one I will never forget !!!!!”

http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/viola/exhibition.html

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 19:00:26 -0400

http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/viola/exhibition.html:

I hadn’t considered the intersection and overlap of still-photography and video until I saw Bill Viola’s “The Passions” at the Getty in 2003. Weird, because as a project, Viola’s work had painting in its sights more than photography, but it opened-up to me the idea of the pure power of a moving image (in Viola’s case, a super slow-moving image) when compared to a photograph’s stillness. I remembered Viola’s show today when I came across this quote from Jeff Rosenheim:

“We started collecting videos when they have an organic relationship to photography,” said Mr. Rosenheim, who was promoted to run the Met’s photography department in September.

Which circled me back to how photographers might be able to use video in a way that reenergizes their own photography, which is what I was thinking of when I made these a few years ago. Crudely done, sure, but baby steps - a first foray.

"Typically, a photojournalist would use a wide lens for context and a long for detail, wide for where..."

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 16:13:09 -0400

““Typically, a photojournalist would use a wide lens for context and a long for detail, wide for where and long for who, wide for the hoary dowager with her numerous progeny, long for her gnarled hands. Telephoto, with its nebulous fore- and backgrounds, said naturally how important the photographer believed one element of the larger story to be and that the reader should feel as strongly about it himself. It was perhaps the main optical tool of magazine humanism, and when Winogrand began to abandon it, around 1957, he was renouncing a world of emotion and understanding. Being keen enough to read character as richly with a wide lens as one ordinarily did with a long, he was starting to make photographs in which a sprawling space gave certain unmoored facts a prominence vivid and sometimes even weird. Now the details worked against, not for, the unity and logic of the story. The picture no longer brought you intimately in upon a pair of rueful eyes, but told you that the world was a jumble of fragments, that the truth was more complex than any account could be. It seems likely that Winogrand felt now that telephoto expressed a phony sympathy between photography and subject. In his way of seeing, long now expressed sentimentality; wide, neutrality. Long meant sincerity; wide, authenticity.””

- Thank you for this tremendous essay, Leo Rubinfien.

A ten-year old thank you to David Rees.

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 21:24:20 -0400

A ten-year old thank you to David Rees.

I listen to a lot of podcasts, which might be the only upside of...

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 12:59:00 -0400

I listen to a lot of podcasts, which might be the only upside of sitting in Atlanta’s traffic jams. Aside from the consistent brilliance of Radiolab, On the Media, & 99% Invisible, there’s a slew of comedians who’ve embraced the form (to varying degrees of success) as a way of keeping the laughs rolling.

But the most memorable episodes I’ve heard in the last year have been two interviews between standup-comedian Duncan Trussell and his mom, who’s currently dying of cancer. The first conversation (embedded in this post) was from October, and their second conversation was posted yesterday.

`They’re both worth a serious listen.

I’ve seen a few of these etchings by Mark Bennett in a...

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:47:00 -0400

I’ve seen a few of these etchings by Mark Bennett in a private collection, and they’re fantastic. This particular one was created in 2000.

So it was interesting to see all the links last week for an artist (inaki Aliste Lizarralde) with the exact same idea, whose work was the “social media” version of TV home blueprints. The artist’s etsy store was so overwhelmed, it was shut down.

And there’s also the “Today Show” version of the idea, as seen in this clip from last summer.

Three executions of the exact same idea. Same same, but different? About as different as this very post that you’re reading, which I just realized (at this very moment) is a copy of something Buzzfeed posted last August.

Yay, originality!

Lampshade Crosswalk

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 09:03:47 -0400

Lampshade Crosswalk