February 8, 2010
ron bloom married sandy, his high school sweetheart, and made his fortune in real estate. in 1988 sandy died after a long battle with cancer. some time later ron met lois, and they married. lois had also lost close family to cancer, and now they’ve both given a substantial philanthropic endowment to cancer research at [...]
health, medicine, optimism
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December 18, 2009
the charming and incomparable maggie soladay has written about me for the december “editor’s choice” column on PDN’s photoserve website! thanks, maggie!
see the article here.
marketing, news, optimism
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October 16, 2009
on september 23rd at 12:36pm my niece, willamina, was born. so i’m now officially the coolest uncle in the room. (okay, the only uncle in the room.) here are pictures from her first day of life – 7 lbs, 13 oz, chubby and healthy and beautiful! happy birthday, guppy!
congratulations to my brother, james, and my [...]
family, kids, optimism, personal work
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June 29, 2009
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 [...]
family, home, kids, optimism, video
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April 7, 2009
i met vic one day by accident. i was taking pictures at the research lab where she works, it was the summer, it was hot, and i was lugging my gear around by myself. she was standing outside smoking a cigarette. i had a long list of subjects i was supposed to shoot that week, [...]
friends, optimism, science, travel
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July 25, 2008
so i was at a wahoo’s in burbank a couple weeks ago getting some lunch and i happened to come across a copy of LA citybeat with my lili haydn cover on it. this was surprising because the issue came out in april, and the copy left on the stand here was in perfect condition. [...]
optimism, photo stuff
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July 2, 2008
i just received an email from my old college saying that the dorm i lived in as a freshman is about to be demolished and rebuilt elsewhere. it’s kind of funny to me that this notice would come on this particular day, july 2nd, because i have very clear memories of that dorm, mostly of [...]
art, optimism, pictures, ramblings
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June 4, 2008
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.
optimism, romance
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October 20, 2007
i love shooting editorially, but it does have its downsides. aside from the obvious economic problems, you usually only have one day with any given subject. sometimes only fifteen minutes. it doesn’t allow for much time to really get to know the people in front of the camera, and that’s too bad. afterall an interest [...]
hearts, my heart vs. the real world, optimism, pictures, updates
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October 5, 2007
on september 15, 2007 my brother got married in carmel, california (more on this later). i was the best man, for once. these are from the rehearsal dinner the night before (my parents, and my sister, danielle.)
family, optimism, pictures
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