Above, Jen and Doug in Sandy Hook, NJ.
I’ve been secretly shooting weddings for a few years. I guess it’s okay to let everyone know that I do it and that I think I’m pretty good at it, and I think that you’d like it if I did it for you or your friends. I’m 100% film capture. No digital cameras allowed. I am based in Los Angeles and available anywhere that planes, trains or automobiles go and am booking things fast. Get in touch.
Above, Adrienne and Kevin in Woolaroc, OK
I’ve been secretly shooting weddings for a few years. I guess it’s okay to let everyone know that I do it and that I think I’m pretty good at it, and I think that you’d like it if I did it for you or your friends. I’m 100% film capture. No digital cameras allowed. I am based in Los Angeles and available anywhere that planes, trains or automobiles go and am booking things fast. Get in touch.
On Motorcycles
Here’s a list:
- We will share your lane, whether you like it or not. It’s not personal, just give us some room. (At least in LA. It’s legal here, an old air-cooled bike in traffic just doesn’t work)
- Some of us are jerks. We wear ugly jackets and put acrylic mohawks on our helmets.
- Jerks also tend to ride with way too under-dressed hoochie passengers. In heels.
- DO NOT EVER TAILGATE US. Someone was tailgating me after I shared his lane and didn’t FLY OFF THE LINE at a left hand turn. I brake checked him, he got the SUPER PISSED and then after that I out maneuvered him and my fear turned into laughter and his rage turned into, well, more rage. Lesson? Don’t tailgate a motorcycle.
- We know we are mostly invisible. Do your part to make that less of a reality.
- Sometimes we think we are super cool, that’s usually when we miss a gear and over-rev up. We aren’t trying to be loud and cool. Whoops. Blushface.
- We over-rev at stop lights to check our idle speeds, sometimes adjusting. At least I do.
- Most hand gestures are a wave, you will be absolutely sure when it’s not.
- Friendly honks are little beeps.
- “Fuck you, you fucking blind motherfucker” is usually a series of long honks followed by a graceful shift (left hand and foot) into the new appropriate gear while using your right hand to accelerate and your left to flip the bird.
- Motorcycling is less like motorcycling in movies and more like pod racing. I.E. the cars are never spaced that far apart, you won’t be doing 86 or 103 in km/H or MPH on a wet street at night, the truck won’t honk at you cause he won’t ever see you.
- Grooved highways at 85MPH are interesting.
- GoPro. Cool.
- Motorcycles are really fun, there’s just too many damn cars.
“How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, ‘This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant’? Instead they say, ‘No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.’ A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the Universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths.”
—Carl Sagan — Pale Blue Dot
(Source: ikenbot, via lotusmodern)
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- Hazard 4 mil-wafer wallet.
- iPhone 4 + Magpul case.
- Strider PT in black.
- Car key.
- 4Sevens Qmini.
- Swiss Army knife USB drive 4GB + tiny scissor version.
- Mega Dangler.
- Short 550 Paracord.
- Titanium Money Clip.everyone on everydaycarry??? carries a knife??? is that normal?
this is america, son. we can carry whatever we want.
I carry a knife everyday. I can’t tell you how many times I have used it for little things I would need another tool for like a screwdriver, hammer, pen, needle or pick, scissors, etc.
From a quick scroll on that site, everyone DOES carry a knife, or wants us to think so. Shit, I guess I need a knife now for my suburban existence. Never know when I’ll have to Macgyver a fucking smoke bomb out of a Dr Pepper and some dry ice or some shit.
I mean, I carry my Leatherman Wave with me everywhere. But that’s more like a screwdriver and pliers that just happens to also be a knife.
Or open a letter, or a box, or cut a piece of tape instead of ripping it, or open a blister pack, open anything more elegantly than just ripping through it like an American, cut the tags out of your girlfriends shirt for her, stab someone, open a bottle, open a can, fix a small screw, cut a piece of rope, cut your food, fix a splinter, fix a haircut, etc, etc, etc.
I have been doing EDC unknowingly since college. I always have a knife, my phone, my wallet, chapstick, keys, USB drive and a handkerchief with me. I’m looking into a small and lightweight flashlight to add to my carry but it has to be right. It has to fit into my pockets without adding any visual bulk or physical feel. I don’t get all tactical with the stuff I carry, just practical.
Intern Search 2K12!
eliz:
Hi friends, I’m looking for a very part time intern to start soon here at Eliz Weinberg Photographic Projects in Brooklyn, NY. See below and if this is you, please email me [at] elizabethweinberg.com with a bit about yourself, your website, and a resume/cv. This is going to be a short-term, couple days per week thing that could go longer and turn into a more definite jobby job depending on how things go. Starting THIS MONTH! xo
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YOU:
- Are in photo school in NYC
- Can take an internship for credit
- (If the top two don’t apply, get at me anyway and I’ll consider)
- Are interested in learning about the editorial/commercial photo world
- Are knowledgeable about the Internet (Tumblr, Twitter, Flickr, that kind of fun stuff)
- Are super organized
- Like listening to good jams all day
- Enjoy lunch
- Are interested in learning about digital workflow / anything else computer-y like that (I’m a nerd)
- Don’t mind doing some of the boring stuff that comes with internships like helping with mailers, dropping off film, organizing negatives, etc.
- Have a good attitude and a willingness to learn
- Aren’t allergic to cats (sorry!)
Thanks!
This is a pretty amazing and pretty real opportunity to work with someone who does what they want but is also successful. All of my chats and lunches and general hang outs with Eliz were always positive and I came away a different and better person for it. She even taught me how to print in color (although I still don’t make time to do it!).
If you’re looking to break into editorial photography in a very real way, you could do no wrong learning a thing or two from Eliz.
Fallen wood at Key’s View in Joshua Tree, CA
(Source: hypostyle)
Probably the last of the Aurora photos from my time in Alaska last year. Two more on hypostyle
Anti-evolution bills to be revived in 2012
One bill mandates teaching evolution as a theory and another would require teachers to stress that scientific facts can be changed due to research.The people pushing for this legislation are so fucking transparent. They know that a well rounded education in science, specifically one including evolution, can cause people to question and shed their faith in the supernatural to be replaced with reason and observable fact. That’s terrifying to these people too lazy, stubborn, and faithful to bother to learn what the basic theory of what real evolution entails (as opposed to what the “creation scientists” claim.) These fundamentalist twats want to convince our youth that there is a huge debate going on within the scientific community between creationism and evolution, one half holding their Bibles and the other half clutching their copies of The Origin of Species. There is no such debate. Just because you’re a person of faith doesn’t mean you have to live in ignorance and deny the reality of what has been proven by science. Plenty of scientists are indeed religious but they still manage to accept what is real even if it’s contrary to their holy texts. I can see some of the younger Christians rolling their eyes at the creation myth when preachers and youth ministers recount the stories as real historical occurrences, but they’re still decades away from holding any power within their groups which gives their church elders plenty of time to brainwash them further. I doubt that any of these fairy tale centered bills will be passed but it could happen. Teaching this lunacy within your churches and private Christian schools is fine, but keep your myths out of the real science classrooms. Some of us want to learn about the real, actual world in which we’re living the only lives we have any evidence of, rather than live in a fantasy world of talking snakes, magic fruit, and rib-women.
