By Kathryn Turner Douglas Koke is a jack of all trades. He has worked as a musician, a writer, a freelance designer, a web contractor, a Senior Designer and a Creative Director. His latest time-lapse video, “Signal to Noise,” not only shows off his talents as a visual media...
PRO: “Stay in...
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By Christina Fong Stay in school. That’s the firm stance of born and raised Chicago-based food photographer Michael Maes, who believes there’s no education like higher education when it comes to learning the ins and outs of photography. “The kind of in-depth peer and professional review...
Nikon D800 and D800E...
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By Nathan Lee Bush Courtesy of Through the Looking Glass And now, the moment we’ve all been waiting for. After three and a half years, the D800 has landed. It seems the rumored specs were largely true, and the class-leading 36MP (more than twice its big brother, the D4) sensor was not a...
Vincent Laforet: The Move to Filmmaking
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By Amelia Riley Swan ABOUT LAFORET Photographer and director Vincent Laforet has already had a long and illustrious career in photography, becoming at the age of twenty-five the youngest New York Times photojournalist, and later on winning a Pulitzer Prize in photography. In recent years, Laforet has shifted focus to his film career, directing several short films, and he hopes to move into feature-length films soon. Laforet used his time at the Sundance Film Festival last week to push his career further in that direction as he met potential backers and sponsors, shared screenplay ideas, and figured out how to not only make a good movie, but...
Dakar Rally 2012 By ...
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Photos by Marc Van Der Aa By Kathryn Turner The 33rd annual Dakar Rally, an off-road race for cars, motorcycles, and trucks, crowned champions from France, the Netherlands, and Argentina this year. Amateur and professional drivers from across the world have been participating in the Dakar...
The Whimsical World ...
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By Kathryn Turner Ryan Roberts didn’t start out wanting to be a photographer; he graduated from Florida State with majors in both finance and real estate. So how did Mr. Roberts make the transition from real estate broker to photographer? Through some extensive soul-searching trips to...
SmugMug: The New Sup...
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By Ashley Shufelt MEET THE MACASKILLS They say you should separate your work from your personal life, but the MacAskills had a different idea: start a family business and hire all seven members. Ten years ago Chris and his son Don started SmugMug, a photo- and video-sharing site that has zero...
Left 4 dead movie
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Fans of the video game Left 4 Dead will be excited to hear that the fan-made movie has been released on YouTube. The short film comes from Los Angeles-based director Adrian Picardi and his company Northern Five Entertainment together with Film Matters, Airsoft GI, and producer Eric Ro. As one...
“The 311RS Project”
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From the start of his career over three years ago, Ryan Gates has been building his own pro-model street car. Since the day he bought his own Mitsubishi Evo X, every race he won and every sponsorship he gained was another small piece in its development. Finally, a car modeled after his Evo X, the world’s fastest Evo X, is up for grabs; the 311RS. Looking to unveil this new monster with more than just a tweet, Gates asked Colt Seman and Jonny Zeller of Film Matters to help him tell the story. For a car with a custom Etnies interior, an engine that AMS stole from the future, and vanity “311RS” Girodisc rotors, Film Matters couldn’t...
mi patagonia querida...
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Photos by Marc Van der Aa “Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance...
Pier 24- San Francis...
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By Amber Schadewald I Photos by Lisa Wiseman Nestled in the shadow of the Bay Bridge, Pier 24 juts out over the gorgeous icy blue waters in a renovated 1930’s warehouse, quietly alluding to what is quite possibly the largest space in the world dedicated to displaying the art of the...
RALLY BIKERS by mich...
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Photos and Words by Michel Leroy Rally Bikers define an instant community with a singular common interest. Attending motorcycle rallies throughout the American West allows me to create portraits of riders ranging from seven-year-old kids on 90cc hill climbers to middle-aged firemen on 1200cc...
VIDEO CREW BREAKDOWN
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By Cybel Martin, DP I Illustration by Angel Ortiz It’s half past midnight in a once productive, but now deserted industrial town, in the North. Sodium vapor street lamps line Main Street and cast splotches of cruddy amber light on the nearby warehouses, potholes and discarded metal debris....
INTERVIEW: Tim Hethe...
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Photo and Words by Stephen Kosloff Tim Hetherington is a British photojournalist and film-maker. In 2007 he was paired with the author Sebastian Junger for an assignment to write an article about a platoon of U.S. soldiers serving in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley. For ten months, sometimes...
The Brakha Bunch
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By Charlie Fish I Photo by Brakhax2 Moshe Brakha arrived in Hollywood from Israel in 1969 and spent the next three decades photographing rock ‘n’ roll legends and Hollywood A-listers. After launching Commercial Head Films in 1985, he shot and directed his way through countless...
Casting Call: Natura...
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By Charlie Fish I Photos by Daymion Mardel In an industry where retouching is mandatory and hyper-stylizing runs rampant, the stripped-down feel of Resource’s shoot must have been a welcome change for the 100+ models who piled into Splashlight Studios. No hair and makeup. No fancy clothes....
How to pack for a th...
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By Jeff Siti I Illustrations by Michael Salvador Finally, a quirky take on how to pack for a three-day trip. Now all we have to do is liberate North Korea and we can close the books on this sucker. Let the sun come on down and eat us ‘cause our mission, the point of our...
