Intel: The Visual Life
For all of those who have a snow day, I encourage you to take 7 minutes and watch this video. It's a short film about The Sartorialist's life shot for Intel's Visual Life Campaign. Not surprisingly, The Sartorialist actually inspired me to buy a DSLR and take photography classes way back in the summer of 2008. I loved learning about his process and thinking from the video. You can see how he's in the zone, searching for interesting people and beautiful images. He now regularly travels around the world to different fashion shows and basically started a movement towards street fashion blogs. It's hard to believe he's just a nice guy from the Midwest.[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5NgG5koPZU&w=640&h=385]
Photography Question
As per previous posts, I'm taking a portraiture class that seems challenging and thought provoking. We have to develop a long term portraiture project over the next ten weeks and I was thinking of comparing my new neighborhood (East 66th Street) to my old neighborhood (St. Mark's in the East Village). That might be a superficial project that doesn't push the limits of portraiture but I really love street photography. Here are some shots from Sunday. What do you think? Are they too much like The Sartorialist? Please, be honest. I love his site but I don't want my project to be about just fashion.
Dream
I dreamed that I was interviewing Scott Schuman for work. Except I don't work as a journalist. It was a pretty cool, vivid dream. Garance Doré was there and I asked some good questions, like what inspired him to take pictures and start a blog? We were in some sort of large conference room and then a whole bunch of kids (students) showed up and were so loud that our conversation was drowned out. Then I woke up. I don't regularly dream about bloggers. I'm guessing it's because I flipped through his book at B&N yesterday which I'll probably end up buying. I can imagine it will be extra cool to flip through that book 10 years from now.