max s. gerber(the latest shot)

mark just sent me this link, to a contraption with a funny name. the image fulgurator. it’s a crazy thing designed to mess with tourists vacation snapshots.
it senses other cameras flashes and projects it’s own image onto whatever they’re shooting. of course, they don’t find out about it ’til later. for more understandable info, look [...]

late last night paul sent me a link to a story about the marines involved in the haditha massacre. it seems they have all been cleared, except for one.
as a bit of background, this is from the NPR website:

Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich, the leader of a Marine squad that killed 24 civilians in the Iraqi [...]

i’m a photographer, and i’m from a secular jewish family. this means i love complaining. i love it, i was raised on it, and i excel at it. but every once in a while you meet someone that just shuts you up. the plain fact is that my life is pretty damn good and i [...]

but it’s a good joke. new study finds that children are opposed to children’s health care.

yep, that’s me on TV. and that’s really charlie rose. it’s not even a photoshop trick. we were in the same room, with tv cameras and everything.
thanks to everyone who emailed me about the appearance, and most especially thanks to all the heart parents who took time to write. hearing your stories is always [...]

well, after some delay it looks like the day has come: i’m going to be on TV tonight.
the segment i taped for the charlie rose show in april is airing tonight (wednesday, june 18th, 2008) on PBS. check your local listings. i’ll be hiding somewhere, cursing the fact that my head looks weird and my [...]

i was born three months early, on a day that happened to be my grandmother’s birthday and my parents wedding anniversary. my mother always said i was an anniversary gift to my father. now, almost thirty five years later, i still have my father’s curls, his stubbornness and a mere fraction of his perfectly realized [...]

i live in pasadena, which is in the greater los angeles area. it just so happens, though, that the greater los angeles area is very, very big. it encompasses many different cities and neighborhoods, each with their own individual identities and personalities. it also happens that when people who don’t live in the greater los [...]

the hat, a gift from me, was lost some time later. there will be other hats in the future, no doubt. this was at the museum of modern art, the one corner of the museum without any modern art in it, apparently.