Category: photography

01 May

Cherry Blossom Timelapse at Brooklyn Botanic Garden

The Brooklyn Botanic Garden created an impressive timelapse of the famed Cherry Walk from over 3,000 photos. It’s peak bloom people so get out there before the weekend rain washes them away.

10 Apr

America’s Not So Square After All

[MP3]: Chromatics “I’m On Fire” (Springsteen Cover) [MP3]: The Cribs “I’m A Realist” (Postal Service Remix)

I’ve been obsessing over my latest web discovery, the vintage photo site Square America. Its worth wasting a couple days of your job hours, I still haven’t been able to go through it all. The curator describes it […]

21 Mar

The Ruby Suns | The Barbary 3.20.08

I found myself standing in a loosely crowded room at The Barbary last night to see The Ruby Suns who are currently touring the States with Le Loup. It was another one of those all-ages shows that make me feel like an old man. This time, instead of being in a church basement […]

13 Mar

Scenes from SXSW 2008 | Day 1

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Days 2 | 3 | 4

Here are a few shots from the first day on Wednesday. Mostly street shots and one of Cut Copy, the best live act I’ve seen so far.

Cut Copy at Karma Lounge

07 Mar

Pic of the Week | A Lemon Starburst Atop Mount Kilimanjaro

New York City playboy and FRICTION contributor/photographer, Pat, recently came back from a trip to Africa. While he was there the crazy fool decided it would be a good idea to climb to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro. Luckily, he made it and is back at home in Queens in one piece. […]

28 Feb

Pattern Is Movement | First Unitarian Church 2.27.08

I felt ancient standing among the crowd at the St. Vincent/Foreign Born/Pattern Is Movement show last night at the First Unitarian Church. Looking around I realized that I was 10-years senior (or more) to over half of the crowd, which pretty much filled a good portion of the room (Paul, this should make you […]

25 Feb

Top 10 Wired Holga Photos

It’s ironic that Nghia sent me an email this morning about Wired’s ‘Top 10 Holga Photos.’ Over the weekend I picked up my Holga for the first time in months which still had a roll of film in it dating back to sometime over the summer. I haven’t been using it as much […]

19 Feb

“The Day That No Birds Sang”

Favorite site Fecal Face has some horrific images and a personal account from photojournalist Lyle Owerko moments after the events of 9/11. These are truly intense and saddening photographs of that dreadful day. Here

NYC based photojournalist, Lyle Owerko, was one of the first photographers to the World Trade Centers on September 11th and captured […]

15 Feb

A Sunny Day In Glasgow | Johnny Brenda’s 2.14.08

While the other contributors to this site were busy celebrating lovers day by romantically going to see Band Of Horses together (HA!), I took a different route and checked out Philly favorites A Sunny Day In Glasgow at Johnny Brenda’s.

It’s been an very long time since I’ve seen A Sunny Day In Glasgow live and […]

14 Feb

pic of the week — love park

© Pedro Smith

[MP3]: Remote Islands  ”Philadelphia (Neil Young Cover)” Cover; 2007 Catch Remote Islands tonight @ Johnny Brenda’s with A Sunny Day In Glasgow

01 Feb

pic of the week — dreams

Above pic via Eugenio Recuenco

[MP3]: Kristen Hersh ”Me and My Charms” Hips and Makers, Sire Records; 2007

25 Jan

pic of the week — i have feelings too

Above pic via christopher

[MP3]: The Cinematic Orchestra ”To Build a Home” Ma Fleur, Ninja Tune; 2007

17 Jan

pic of the week — alex brown photography

Above pic via Alex Brown

[MP3]: The Big Sleep  ”Bad Blood” Sleep Forever, Frenchkiss; 2008

11 Jan

pic of the week — just shoes and rain

[MP3]: The Tallest Man on Earth  ”Walk the Line”