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I’m still not sure what a bloodbuzz is exactly, but it must have something to do with trying...

Thu, 16 May 2013 23:29:44 -0700

I’m still not sure what a bloodbuzz is exactly, but it must have something to do with trying...

Old Haunts / New Horizons

Fri, 10 May 2013 18:44:12 -0700

Old Haunts / New Horizons

At the cloud-line. Timberline Lodge, Mt. Hood

Fri, 10 May 2013 18:10:13 -0700

At the cloud-line.

Timberline Lodge, Mt. Hood

On repeat. All. Week. Long.

Fri, 10 May 2013 11:03:04 -0700

On repeat. All. Week. Long.

Mega-Yurt!!

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 22:36:33 -0800

Mega-Yurt!!

"I threw stones at the stars, but the whole sky fell."

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 18:00:36 -0800

“I threw stones at the stars, but the whole sky fell.”

What would happen if Simon & Garfunkle stepped into a giant...

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 12:31:04 -0800

What would happen if Simon & Garfunkle stepped into a giant tumbleweed with Gillian Welch & David Rawlings to roll across America? I’m not sure, but I’m certain it would sound something like this. The Milk Carton Kids have been in heavy rotation on my ears this week.

(via Tom Sachs: NASAblad | iainclaridge.net)

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:07:51 -0800

(via Tom Sachs: NASAblad | iainclaridge.net)

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:06:49 -0800

(via Tom Sachs: NASAblad | iainclaridge.net)

"Oooh, you’re gettin’ all first-year-art-school on me."

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 16:58:57 -0800

“Oooh, you’re gettin’ all first-year-art-school on me.” - Joelle’s...

Mt. Jefferson from Timberline Lodge, Oregon.

Wed, 05 Dec 2012 22:21:00 -0800

Mt. Jefferson from Timberline Lodge, Oregon.

Now that the general election is over and America is “back...

Fri, 30 Nov 2012 14:00:45 -0800

Now that the general election is over and America is “back to work”, I would like to share this very special preview from my forthcoming Broadway musical: “Super Majority!”

"That’s not Ikea, that’s Nikon!"

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 20:17:38 -0800

“That’s not Ikea, that’s Nikon!” - Overheard at our house as our son...

Autumnal Portlandy Bridgelove.

Sat, 24 Nov 2012 18:45:19 -0800

Autumnal Portlandy Bridgelove.

"… and it’s a steep slope, with a short rope. This line is metaphysical."

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 13:22:21 -0800

“… and it’s a steep slope, with a short rope. This line is metaphysical.”

ryanpfluger: timelightbox: A Cover for the Ages Last week,...

Sat, 10 Nov 2012 12:20:23 -0800

ryanpfluger:

timelightbox:

A Cover for the Ages

Last week, during one of the worst storms in the city’s history, the staff at New York Magazine was relocated from their downtown offices, which had lost power, to a temporary office in midtown to produce its issue. At 3 p.m. on Tuesday, editor in chief Adam Moss called an emergency meeting to start brainstorming ideas to fill out a lineup for an issue that would go to press on Friday.

The challenge was to come up with an entire issue in 48 hours that would not only encompass different photographic approaches, but memorialize a moment in time. As director of photography Jody Quon started brainstorming photographers—work by Jeff Liao, Pari Dukovic, Joseph Rodriguez, Christopher Griffith and others would ultimately appear in the issue—she knew there was one picture that had to be made. “We needed to show New York from the air,” she says. “We had to make that picture: the delineation of the lights on and off.”

On Wednesday, Quon called the Dutch photographer Iwan Baan on the off chance that he’d be in New York. (He is based in Amsterdam.) Baan is a superb photographer of urban architecture from all perspectives, including the air. They had worked together for the first time a few weeks earlier; his work first appeared in New York’s October 7 issue on Urban Global Design.

Quon and Baan connected around 4 p.m. on Wednesday. In an email from Haiti this morning, he wrote “Getting to the heliport and getting a car and gas was the most difficult! It was an hour flight to Manhattan, one hour over the city and another hour back, freezing cold, without doors in the heli.”

It takes superb skill to make a picture over the city out of a helicopter in pitch blackness. How did he do it? “I’ve done this shot of Manhattan many times. So I knew how I wanted to show the two cities,” he wrote. “A pitch black Manhattan and a vivid and thriving city. At the bottom left you see the glowing Goldman Sachs building and WTC (a construction site with power where the rest of Manhattan doesn’t have it!) under construction. I think it shows what’s wrong with the country now also, a crumbling infrastructure and the place where the literally the power is and who’s prepared”.

The resulting photograph which came through to Quon and her team on Thursday night was magical. “We knew we had something to place in the cover template,” she says.

It’s rare to see a view of Manhattan that is so evocative and so new—a single image of the city that tells so many stories. This picture was taken in a moment of crisis for New York, but it will become one of the most iconic, most timeless photographs of the city.

— Kira Pollack Director of Photography, TIME November 5, 2012

You can read more about the cover on NYMag.com here.

Kira Pollack is one of the most elloquent, inspirational photo editors I have the pleasure of knowing. Her beautiful words and support of the staff of New York, Jody Quon and Iwan Baan is what I love seeing in this industry. Also, this cover really is magical and immediately iconic.

"It’s a conspiracy. I’m never going to be warm & comfortable at the same time."

Sat, 10 Nov 2012 12:06:22 -0800

“It’s a conspiracy. I’m never going to be warm & comfortable at the same...

Mt. Hood from Timberline Lodge, Oregon. www.ryanfloodphoto.com

Fri, 09 Nov 2012 15:15:30 -0800

Mt. Hood from Timberline Lodge, Oregon.

www.ryanfloodphoto.com

Happy Election Day.

Tue, 06 Nov 2012 11:08:47 -0800

Happy Election Day.

Fall inspiration.

Mon, 05 Nov 2012 13:11:38 -0800

Fall inspiration.