max s. gerber(the latest shot)

my brother and his wife are having a baby daughter in september. my father, who lives in new york, has not seen them since before emiko got pregnant, so i thought it’d be nice to make a video for him for father’s day. also, i figure it serves to mark my brother’s first “official” father’s [...]

i made this video at the competition, just to show how fast these solves really are. this might look like it’s sped up, but everything is in real time, i swear. (music by merle travis, available here.)

today brings us sebastien, alex, joseph, devin, salman and julie. (julie helped organize the event, and gave me a space to shoot – thanks, julie!)

today’s installment brings you jeremy (or, as we like to call him “supermanpants”, who won the one-handed solve competition), shelley (current record holder for fastest female blindfold solve (1 min 29 seconds, including time spent memorizing!)), michael and brandon.

today’s crop of speedcubers: cameron, sam, wei eileen, bradley and phillip. just for the record, phillip won the contest with a nine second solve.

several years ago pam fogg sent me on an assignment to photograph dan knights. at the time dan was the world champion speedcuber. that means he can solve a rubik’s cube in about twelve seconds. i had had a cube as a kid, like most people of my generation, and like most people who considered [...]

twenty years ago anissa ayala was a 16 year old girl who had just found that she had developed a very aggressive form of leukemia. at the time the national donor registry had very few names and with no matches on the donor list, and no matches in the family, the ayalas made an unusual [...]

at the end of march i went to san francisco to be a speaker at the CASE editor’s conference. i hadn’t been to san francisco for a long while, except for a couple times where i’d have a shoot there, fly up to oakland in the morning, drive straight to the location, do the job, [...]