“I love worlds that are so complete that you just can relax,” Regina Spektor said, “because when the art is that complete, it makes something in me just calm. But a lot of new things . . . there’s this tension. I’ll take everything that is awesome from it and leave everything that I don’t like. It can be an uneven piece and still worth it. But you put on ‘Rubber Soul,’ or ‘Sgt. Pepper,’ or ‘Freewheeling Bob Dylan’ and it’s just . . . solid. From the first note you hear, it never goes wrong. Why can’t everything be like that?”
From a profile on Regina Spektor in the NY Times Magazine this coming Sunday. Her story is so inspiring. Sticking to her guns. Staying totally focused. Not giving in.
Video for her new single is alittle blown out – but love the song. Her new album drops the end of June. Can’t wait.
This shot of Cherice Barton and James Gregg was shot for Aszure and Artists. I also shot the flash intro to Aszure’s site and lots of the images inside.
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Elise just got a new job and came by for a head shot. It is funny seeing my good friend all corporate, but Elise is really an HR genius. Just as I started shooting, her husband Shlomi ducked in. I gave him reflector duty – then pulled back. I loved seeing both of them in the frame. Elise got her head shot. I got these.
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Our new video for Google on Jeni’s Ice Cream has just been posted. Check it out here.
Thanks to Ashley Chandler & Sinead O’Mara at Google. Danny Bresnik for editing. Stephie and David at our studio for everything before, during, and after the shoot.
And as always, our friends at Jeni’s who are so wonderful and generous and fun. Especially John Lowe, Jeni and Charly.
05.16.12 Posted in Videos
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Met Bon Iver in person a couple of weeks ago at Jazzfest. Not to say hello, but to stand holding Stephie only feet away from a performance that had the dozen or so musicians led by Justin Vernon switching instruments on every song. Percussion to bass. Sax to guitar. Keyboard to finger cymbals. “Bon Iver” comes from the French, “bon hiver” meaning “Have a good winter.” Yet it somehow sounds right on these rainy days of late spring. Have let their music take me to work and drift off at the end of the day. Made for rich dreams.
Dreams of skipping rocks and the taste of waterfalls.
Tangled spices. Latent pancake mix with no eggs or milk. Then rice and oats.
From the next room recording Asher waking up although the microphone slipped and is pointing at the ceiling. “Home….HOME!”
On the train, quick dreams looking out the window with my eyes closed listening to “Halocene.” Then reading the saddest article in the Times about a horse’s death in Tennessee, after winning the race of it’s life.
Not quite raining enough for a rainy day
“I was afraid. I was a boy. I was a tender age.”
Sitting under a bridge. Rocks held back by fences.
Train stopped here for a breath. Give it a sip of water and a nice pat.
All the Bon Iver albums are amazing. This link from a piano duet session in England is not so typical, but wonderful to hear and see.
Start here with the Halocene video.
Here are some links from Jazzfest:
Towers
Michicant
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When I was growing up in Pittsburgh, it never occurred to me to me that I would ever create something that would hang in the Carnegie Museum. I understood art, I just didn’t understand being an artist. Didn’t understand it at RISD. In many ways, still don’t understand it.
Today I got a note from Ellen Fleurov of the Silver Eye Gallery that the Carnegie Museum of Art has acquired a print of mine for their permanent collection. That must mean I have become an artist. It makes me very happy.
I do not try to be an artist.
I try – always – to do work that is me.
Now I have to become a better artist.
or…as Bob Dylan says,
“An artist has got to be careful never really to arrive at a place where he thinks he’s at somewhere. You always have to realize that you’re constantly in a state of becoming. As long as you can stay in that realm, you’ll sort of be alright.”
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