Eye in the sky

I forgot how I found Steph Goralnick's photos but I'm glad I did. From these aerial photos taken on flights (why don't mine ever turn out like this??) to her photos from vacations in Asia, everything is wonderful, dreamy, colorful.

Richard Mosse: North Kivu (eastern Congo)

The color treatment on these photos make it look surreal, like Arrakis.

day 19

I stumbled upon this website by Jeremy & Claire Weiss, day 19. Wonderful photographs, I had to jack them to put on here. Please visit them and look at everything, especially Claire's sketchbooks.

The photo second from the bottom is Jenny Lewis of Rilo Kiley (also of The Wizard and Troop Beverly Hills) and is my #1 girl crush of the millennium.

Interior inspirations

All images from The Selby, one of my favorite photo blogs.

From the home of Michelle & Tracy McCormick in L.A. This awesome curio display - great way to keep all my junky trinkets in one place and on display.

From the home of Elisa Nalin in Paris, France. It looks like my tattoo and I love the old school checkerboard floor.

From the home of Frederic Beigbeder, this awesome sign which translates to "Attention bizarre cat." Because yes we do!

Both of these photos from the home of Matthew Eikelberger in L.A. I love anatomical drawings, posters and toys/sculptures. And also, the cat & dog portrait is hilarryyyyyyys!

From the home of Chase Cohl in NYC. This is one of my favorite lyrics. It's not hard to guess where it's from - can you? Would it be terrible if I did a similar thing? But not with the necklaces hanging on the wall, I don't like that.

Matt Creed at home in NYC. I wish my fire escape was shaded like this. Ours looks out onto both streets (we're on the corner) and there is no privacy. Private fire escapes are better. Plus I wanted to post this pic because he's cute.

Julia Roitfeld's penguin ring

Boots on the stairs at the home of Lucy Chadwick & Duffy, London. I love all of these shoes. That's all.

Josh Connor at home in NYC, turning his bathroom into a multi-functional room. For him, screenprinting. And for me, a dark room.

I want this really bad

DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS IS?!? It's a Blackbird, Fly from Japan. Modeled after the medium format Rolleiflex, this camera shoots square images on 35mm film (rather than 120mm) which makes film hunting and developing much less of a headache. Please to put in my stocking. 12,600-14,600 Yen (US$140-160).

Especially after viewing images taken with said camera here.

On eBay it comes in white.

Available online at Superheadz or here in NYC at ICP.

I own a Holga already, wonder if this is redundant...?

Akihiro Furuta

Pair trench coat
Originally uploaded by AKIHIRO FURUTA

I came across this photographer via Photojojo's newsletter about bucking traditional family portraits. Very whimsical and fun with great colors.

On a drizzly day like today, something to lift your spirits.

Dammit!

Go to A+R to look at some nicely designed housewares. They don't allow image-linking and I am to lazy to edit my entry with all those images.

I wanted to learn more about wide angle lenses so I Googled for more information and got this crazy math equation:

Consider a 35 mm camera with a normal lens having a focal length of F=50 mm. The dimensions of the 35 mm image format are 24 mm (vertically) × 36 mm (horizontal), giving a diagonal of about 43.3 mm.

Now the angles of view are:

* horizontally, \alpha_h = 2\arctan\; h/2f \approx 39.6°
* vertically, \alpha_v = 2\arctan\; v/2f \approx 27.0°
* diagonally, \alpha_d = 2\arctan\; d/2f \approx 46.7°

Consider a rectilinear lens in a camera used to photograph an object at a distance S1, and forming an image that just barely fits in the dimension d of the frame (the film or image sensor). Treat the lens as if it were a pinhole at distance S2 from the image plane (technically, the center of perspective of a rectilinear lens is at the center of its entrance pupil.

Now α / 2 is the angle between the optical axis of the lens and the ray joining its optical center to the edge of the film. Here α is defined to be the angle-of-view, since it is the angle enclosing the largest object whose image can fit on the film. We want to find the relationship between:

the angle α
the "opposite" side of the right triangle, d / 2 (half the film-format dimension)
the "adjacent" side, S2 (distance from the lens to the image plane)

Using basic trigonometry, we find:

\tan ( \alpha / 2 ) = \frac {d/2} {S_2} .

which we can solve for α, giving:

\alpha = 2 \arctan \frac {d} {2 S_2}

To project a sharp image of distant objects, S2 needs to be equal to the focal length F, which is attained by setting the lens for infinity focus. Then the angle of view is given by:

\alpha = 2 \arctan \frac {d} {2 f} where f = F



WHAT????? I failed math you assholes! That's right. Mom was just looking through my old transcripts and confirmed my big, fat juicy F my senior year in Math Honors 2. Ugh.

Of my heart

When I first moved here I was at St. Mark's Books and bought a funny little zine that consisted of several mini publications inside a cloth pouch. Inside were some Ryan McGinley photographs, soft and dreamy, reminiscent of The Virgin Suicides. Last night his solo exhibition, "I know where the summer goes" debuted at Team Gallery in NYC. Shaved down from over 4000 rolls of film shot on a 2007 road trip are 50 of the best. Team Gallery is at 83 Grand Street near Greene in Soho. His photographs make me feel like that acoustic Ann Beretta album. Thanks to Ange for the tip.








P.S. Thanks to Bella, I've put a playlist on here courtesy of myplaylist.org