The Chase Jarvis Shoe Project

Seattle based photographer Chase Jarvis was speaking at a Photoshelter event in San Francisco...he implied that his success was achievable by anyone who "walked his walk"....he went on to say that it took a lot to fill his size 11 shoes......

I wrote to Chase saying that it would be easier to walk a mile in his shoes if I actually had his shoes....being the all around good guy that he is...he sent me a pair of his shoes....

I have had them at my place for a while now and came up with the idea to shoot a picture of them and to have as many other photographers as possible shoot them as well....

I came to know of Chase's work through the Strobist Blog of Photographer David Hobby...So i offered up the shoes to subscribers of his blog... and the Project seems to have really blown up....within hours more than fifty photographers have wanted in on the project.....

Chihuly at the DeYoung

I have been a fan of Chihulys work for more than twenty years now and can't believe I almost didn't find out about what is possibly his largest exhibition to date........in my backyard.

KQED which carries a bunch of PBS programming in the Bay Area played "Chihuly in the Hotshop" last week to promote the exhibition which is at the De Young Museum......It is essentially Chihuly working with his teams to recreate works from his previous series'...in front of an audience at the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, Washington.

It was so interesting to hear him talking of finding Japanese Fishing Floats washing up on the shores of Washington when he was a boy.....the floats are blown glass spheres attached to nets with what are essentially rope baskets....the floats get away from the nets and become trapped in  a large  circular current system in the Northern Pacific until storms set them free.....

www.chihulyatthedeyoung.org

Dr Patel for 110 Magazine

I was really expecting to see this image used across two pages....with the right side having the title and initial text of the story laid down over it...it went unpublished....who knows what goes through the mind of Art Directors sometimes.....

The red in the foreground is the on-camera gelled 580ex......the Doctor's face is lit with a snooted 430ex and he is somewhat seperated from the background with another 430ex directly opposite .

The shadow from the machine that can be seen above his head is really beginning to annoy me...next time I'll need to get the 580 off camera....coming in from the left.

Into the bus

Just finished Jon Krakauer's account of Chris McCandless's bus ride in Alaska......there is so much in this book that just wouldn't make for a good movie.......However, the So-Much does make for a good read.....If you have seen the film, pick up a copy.

Into the Wild.

Jon Krakauer.

Anchor Books.

ISBN 0-385-48680-4