I'll be the Judge of That

After Sunday Night: Joe Iurato
It seems hand-crafted art is alive and well. This month, New Jersey-based artist and former Urban Climber Magazine Editor Joe Iurato landed a commission to create stencil artwork - yup thats right - for NBC Sports. The resulting piece aired on NBC's Sunday Night Football, for the (highly rated) Colts-Patriots game, on November 15th 2009. Here is a compilation of clips of the final product from Joe: I worked with Joe many times during his four years at the h

Symphonic Works of Photojournalist Ed Kashi
A lot of people ask me how I came up with the idea for "Stillmotion," using a still camera to produce video-like motion pieces. Well, I didn't of course. But I was first inspired to try something like it in 2006, when I saw multimedia storytelling pioneer Ed Kashi's 2006 Iraqi Kurdistan Flipbook. This wasn't your ordinary stop-motion piece. In Kashi's Flipbook, you'll see that the sequences sort of orbit around a central, final composition. You are following the photographer's eye as he observes the situation and then, with a snap,

Manpower, Continued
Manpower, Part 2:(see Part 1)Washerwoman and Monster from camp. Zack stoking up.

Manpower : Lost in Canyonlands, Utah
The Roadless Rule was a Clinton-era gift to wilderness adventure put in place in 2001. The policy protects 58 million acres of federal land from road building. It was effectively rendered null when the Bush administration left it up to each state to draft their own Rule. For nearly a decade, the status of this policy remained in the limbo of the Courts. President Obama expressed his administration's support for a federal Rule, but there are many conflicts to resolve, and policing the federal timber inventory is not exactly high on the agenda these days. In April 2004, I photographed four friends on a unique little adventure in Canyonlands, Utah.