Here’s some selected faves from the past couple of weeks of shooting…
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There’s a brand spanking new Shepard Fairey Henry Rollins poster about to hit the streets, and with the US election coming to a head over the next month, Hank is set to tour.
“Henry is awesome. He was and continues to be an inspiration and influence for me I was honored to do this poster for his spoken word tour. He also recently wrote an essay for my Museum show at the ICA in Boston. The guy is on point.”?-Shepard
The poster print will be on sale Friday, 10/03. Edition of 1650, only 200 available on OBEY, $45.?To purchase click here!
As the Bush era winds down, Henry Rollins is gearing up to hit the road with an eye to the future and a disapproving nod to the past. Henry’s latest talking tour, dubbed RECOUNTDOWN, kicks off September 19 in Berkeley, CA and continues past Election Day. Tickets for the tour go on sale July 17 and July 18, with pre-sales starting on Monday, July 14 at 10 a.m. Fans who purchase tickets early will automatically be entered to win an autographed HENRY ROLLINS prize package.
“Hoping that the bad times are almost over, I am taking advantage of the current situation to spend the last few nights of the catastrophic Bush administration onstage,” Henry says of the RECOUNTDOWN tour.
“Things will be so different after he’s gone. For me, the new century will have finally arrived. Since I was last in the cities that I will be visiting on this tour, I have been fairly far and wide and have a lot of new stories to tell. I look forward to spending autumn in my favorite country.”
While the tour’s title boasts multiple layers of meaning, the primary target of Henry’s wrath and wit is both singular and clear. Sometimes grave, sometimes comical, Henry’s talking shows – a free-flowing fusion of travelogue, pop-culture, and political commentary – “have become,” says syndicated columnist Alan Sculley, “a lengthy but exhilarating forum.”
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Gothamist is claiming that this new humorous mural on the corner of Grand and Wooster in downtown Manhattan is courtesy of infamous street artist Banksy and executed by the painters at Colossal Media, the same company responsible for all those hand painted billboards in Soho for H&M, among others.
The latest Agent Provocateur campaign has arrived and typically it’s as provocative as ever. Past stars of their campaigns have included Kate Moss and former Blackbook cover girl Maggie Gyllenhaal. But the label’s latest just might take the cake for both vampiest and most likely to seduce. The series, entitled ‘Tableaux Vivants’, looks a bit like Caravaggio meets campy B-horror flick at a high-fashion orgy. And not only that. The campaign stars up-and-coming it-girls/rock scions Peaches Geldof and Daisy Lowe. If the lace, latex thigh-highs, and whips don’t get you drooling, you may be already dry.
Named after George A. Romero’s film Season of the Witch. The film, made in 1971, tells of the misadventures of a housewife who breaks the monotony of her life by entering the world of witchcraft. (as you do!) Agent Provocateur have focused on the erotic side of the film.
The media attention it’s attracting, along with the amazing photos, guarantees new success for Agent Provocateur, who remain true to their principles submerging us in an erotic vampire world.
Friggn sensational! Check it all out after the jump…
Continue reading ‘Agent Provocateur’s Decadence, Debauchery & Witchcraft’
Everfresh.
…the best in Melbourne.
As has been covered on this blog before, there is an exciting new Australian publication called Black and yours truly will have a regular column in each issue. I’m not a liberty to discuss exactly what I will be contributing to the mag as editor Angela Chalis and I are still fine tuning some details, but for issue 2, I was fortunate enough to have some of my photography included in the column ‘Through A Lens Darkly’. (see above)
The shot was taken early last year at Centre Place, Melbourne - and is one of my faves as it features my girlfriend. I remember that weekend as if it were yesterday. She has a poster print of this on her lounge room wall and it looks really cool in a large scale format.
Issue 2 of Black should be hitting the newsagencies any day now and of course, you can find out more about it here.
Easily the most anticipated camera in the galaxy, Canon’s 5D Mark II is official, and officially excellent. The full-frame, 21-megapixel DSLR is the first to shoot full HD video, and with Digic 4, Canon is promising low-light performance on par with that of Nikon’s D3 and D700 thanks to improved light gathering and noise reduction, with ISO range 100-6400, extendable up to 12,800 and 25,600. Add to that its high speeds and first-in-class video capabilities, and you can tell this camera was worth the agonising wait.
About video: It’s 1920×1080 resolution at 30fps—so 1080p/30 by most definitions—for up to 12 minutes of continuous recording, and it’ll go 24 minutes shooting SD. Yep, you’ve got a mini HDMI out port to plug it directly into your HDTV. Output is MPEG-4 with CD-grade audio (16-bit PCM at 44KHz), and unlike the D90, Canon records sound in stereo. Since the SLR mirror flips up to record video (really, the live view feed), you aren’t able to lock the focus, but live view has three different focus modes: face detection, quick and colour contrast.
Hard and fast camera specs and features
• 14-bit conversion
• 3.9FPS unlimited burst rate with JPEG using UDMA CF card, or 14 RAW (standard CF card is 78 JPEG, 13 RAW
• Four-channel readout that’s 2.2x faster than the 5D
• Lens peripheral illumination correction, like 50D, but better supposedly
• 15-point auto-focus
• Creative auto mode, also like 50D
• Auto-lighting optimiser
• Three levels of noise reduction that kicks in above 800
• RAW, sRAW1 (10MP), sRAW2 (5MP)
• Three-inch, 920,00 dot-screen
• New and improved battery (incompatible with old one) that delivers 850 shots or 1.5 hours of video
• 150,000 cycle shutter
• Magnesium alloy body
• NO built-in flash BTW
Yeah, this is what you’ve been aching for, especially if it delivers the performance it promises. It’ll be $US2700 for the body or $US3500 with the 24-105mm kit lens, out in November.
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