Beauty Story
Here is a piece I shot and saved for myself. It was created during the making of an editorial I directed and shot earlier this month and will be be featured next month in an art/fashion/culture mag.
Artist: Damien Hirst
I’m not getting in to the debate, i am just posting some of the work.
Photos by Irving Penn
Here are some of the photos that have really inspired me. It is hard because many of the great shots are still not online, but I’ve done my best with what is available.
RIP Irving Penn
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/08/arts/design/08penn.html
It’s a sad day. Irving Penn has passed away. This will be old news by the time most people find it on my blog; but right now it is pure sadness. Irving Penn changed the world and it will never be the same thanks to him.
Irving Penn is a God of photography. I have spent days worth of time studying his work and his life. It is impossible for me to shoot with a strobe in a studio without thinking “What would Irving Penn do?” Look closely at my still life and you will see heavy influences of his work. He was a master. I listed him as my favorite fashion photographer a while back. The best part of his work is that he treated fashion photography as a fine art.
Video: Skinny Dippin by Whitney Duncan
Let me start by saying “I don’t really like this song that much.” It’s OK, but it doesn’t strike me as anything special or particularly significant. My email is down and I got distracted by Facebook when I saw a friend from back home posted this song. all I could think was “Fuck! Have I been in the city THAT long or is she really singing that sloooooowwwwww?!” I grew up in an area where “face paced” meant you did three things in one day; now I live in a city where we have our own internationally recognized length of time that is different than any other city in the world (of course I am speaking of the New York Minute).
It is nice to think about home. I want to visit my friends and family soon. But this also reminded me that I enjoy the faster pace of NY. I like doing 3 things in one minute. I heard someone say “living three years in NY is like living 15 years anywhere else in the world.” I can already see that as pretty true… and now I realize I can happily live at least another 200 years.
Behind the Scenes at NY Fashion Week
I’m a bit late, I was finishing some work up for some clients and didn’t have time to upload the shots. Here are a few from some of the shows I attended this season. This was my first fashion week in NY… I loved it!
Pacific Northwest Produces Geniuses
Just a few videos of people who help add to my argument about the Pacific Northwest. These are just a few of the people from the NW:
Pushing the Envelope
In aviation and aeronautics the term ‘flight envelope’ had been in use since WWII, as here from the Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, 1944:
“The best known of the envelope cases is the ‘flight envelope’, which is in general use in this country and in the United States… The ‘flight envelope’ covers all probable conditions of symmetrical maneuvering flight.”
That envelope is the description of the upper and lower limits of the various factors that it is safe to fly at, i.e. speed, engine power, manoeuvrability, wind speed, altitude etc. By ‘pushing the envelope’, i.e. testing those limits, test pilots were able to determine just how far it was safe to go. By 1978 the phrase was in use in print. In July that year, Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine had:
“The aircraft’s altitude envelope must be expanded to permit a ferry flight across the nation. NASA pilots were to push the envelope to 10,000 ft.”
reference http://www.phrases.org.uk
Come back later to check in with the results as time passes…
Vanity Fair’s Best Dressed List
CLICK HERE to see the slideshow.
Oddly I didn’t make the list this year. There is always next!
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MICHAEL DONOVAN
http://MichaelDonovanPhotography.com
