a beautiful scene

There is a Daft Punk concert at Keyspan Park in Brooklyn coming up we are all very excited about. I haven't seen Daft Punk since Twilo in the late nighties. A mix of that concert has surfaced in several places but I first saw it on the brilliant, cool hometaping.org. That concert sort of functions as a book end to a strange time in my life, a month later and unfortunately helped by nasty black ice on the road, I totaled my car in Storrow Drive almost killing myself. I remember the distinct clinical smell of the airbag deploying and that Homework was playing during the accident. Not good. Among the many thoughts crossing my mind at the time were "I almost died" and "I'm going to have to buy this CD again tomorrow"

I love this band unrepentantly: unmade, unhelmeted, unproduced, whatever. So, a week or so before this concert, it was exciting to see on the music thing blog (via Erol Alkan's forum) a look at their set-up, the pyramid:





So there are four, 4, cuatro Moog Voyagers on that photo. I got to carry one of those while giving a hand to ex-Cure Rodger O'Donnell when he was in town (they are heavy). Those Moog filters are some of the most beautiful sound making devices I've had the pleasure of experiencing. In a world of Ableton Live and Serato, experiencing Live Synthesis is a fairly rare occurrence, as rare as a pop star singing in the proper pitch.

Anyways, I am getting closer to the photo nugget of this post and that is that while searching for more Daft Punk photos I came across Hedi Slimane's flickr account. I was as surprised as anybody. As somebody who sorts-of-follows fashion from little pedestrian Boston, Hedi's work for Dior Homme was just uncanny (upon showing these photos to a friend photographer he referred to Hedi as "that gay designer who was in the New Yorker a few years ago" hmmm yes This is Boston Not LA). I've seen Slimane's photos in traditional photobook format but to see them in flickr is something else. Here is the selection that shows the incredibly talented Pete Doherty from the Libertines, sometime before or in the middle of all of this happening:






There are other fashion sets in there with photos from Avedon, Inez and Vinoodh, David Sims. Really good work.

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posted by Ricardo De Lima @ Tuesday, July 24, 2007, , links to this post




Emma

Emma

My idea of shooting Amanda from Baba Yaga at a lonely bus stop (an homage to Salty Dave's acrylic painting "Waiting for a Bus That Ain't Coming") did not fly with The Phoenix. Whatever. We ended up using a model from ModelMayhem land, Emma, who was a trooper because it was freezing outside at the Cambridge Common. That's a curve in LAB mode in Photoshop but the image was produced very flatly via another curve in Capture One (I wish there was a LAB mode or a way to add multiple curves in Capture One, I also wish somebody who wasn't blind and hated photographers redesigned the UI). There are two pocketwizard'd 580EX flashes providing cross fill in that shot as well as a small reflector.

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posted by Ricardo De Lima @ Monday, March 26, 2007, , links to this post




who did this to my photo and why do they hate me?




Printed version:

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posted by Ricardo De Lima @ Friday, January 26, 2007, , links to this post




getting your hair done at the library

Janice's fashion piece on the Phoenix was published this week. It's cheeky and well written, read it. I liked the tone and the writing a lot more than the photo they picked for it. I have no one to blame, I sent it. But I liked this one better.

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posted by Ricardo De Lima @ Wednesday, December 13, 2006, , links to this post