Hello to everyone coming from Pitchfork's web site! You can see my portfolio, more of my concert photography on Flickr, as well as all shows I have covered for Pitchfork. Selected prints are also available on my Imagekind store, with more available upon request. Thanks for viewing.
links for 2008-05-09
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I love NY.
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Matt Lauer of the "Today" show this morning got rare access into one of New York's City's best hidden spaces -- the abandoned rail platfrm under the Waldorf-Astoria hotel.
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Featuring my shots.
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Great set of noshing photographs at the Golden Shopping Mall, 41-28 Main St., Flushing, Queens.
05.09.08 
links for 2008-05-07
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Three stars!
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Discover how Greenmarket ingredients influence these chefs' menus, what they love most about the farmers markets, and, back at the restaurant, feast on a unique meal featuring Greenmarket's bounty.
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The question is: Can we eat delicious, groundbreaking, cook-centric food and feel well-taken-care-of at the same time? Is that even possible with cooks doing the serving?
05.07.08
links for 2008-05-06
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Very excited for our upcoming meal in July. I hope some of the dishes described make it onto the menu by then.
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Here is a portfolio of photographs of Achatz and his food.
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Looks like the violet, olive, and strawberry dessert discussed in the New Yorker article did make it to the menu. I hope it's still there when we get there.
05.06.08
links for 2008-05-05
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"Surprisingly decent" was the consensus among nine reviewers who visited chain restaurants in the suburbs around New York City.
05.05.08
links for 2008-05-04
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Hong Kong-based independent labels. 181 Lafayette St. New York, NY. May 2nd - 31st. Cash only.
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I've been moderating the Flickr Concert Photography group for a few weeks now. Here is some great recent work from our members.
05.04.08
links for 2008-05-03
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Matt Tyson and Mike Grimes, the team behind the music blog Ear Farm, take the indie music scene pretty seriously. The other thing they take seriously: barbecue. And on a road trip to Austin's South by Southwest (SXSW) music festival, these worlds collid
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A half sized version of his would be very popular in NYC if enough apartments had easily accessible water hookups.
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How? A razor thin profit margin by opening stores in underperforming malls; by building its own bare-bones displays; by maintaining only a small PR office in Manhattan; by not advertising; by using discount hotels; by hiring mostly recent college grads.
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A closer look at ice cubes that are currently en vogue -- because a drink is only as good as its rocks.
05.03.08
links for 2008-05-02
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Ah, New York. Er, Liberty City.
05.02.08
links for 2008-04-30
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It looks like New York. It sounds like New York. It feels like New York. Liberty City has been so meticulously created it almost even smells like New York.
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New York is known as the city that never sleeps. That might sound exciting, but if you live next to a night club that closes at 4 a.m., it can also be exhausting.
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"There wasn't a person there who wasn't moving, sweating through their headbands, American Apparel way-too-short Prefontaine shorts, and halter tops. Somewhere across the desert, MGMT wept.
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"The Zero Waste charger is a true power-down charger with a recognisable branded element - the push-button. When pressed, the push-button reassuringly starts glowing, the charger delivers a 1-hour charge cycle and then shuts off. Off as in 0mW."
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To prove Jaron wrong, simply submit a candidate in the comments: a musician with no ties to old media models, now making 100% of their living in the open media environment.
04.30.08
links for 2008-04-29
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Best Album Cover Designer: Brian Roettinger.
04.29.08
links for 2008-04-27
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I supplemented that Muxtape of Hemstad's s/t album with the Music From Big Pink-y Cosmic American Music of Moviola's Dead Knowledge and the Roxy Music-meets-The Fall-by-way-of-Chicago art rock of Manishevitz's East To East.
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Errol Morris, the Oscar-winning filmmaker whose latest documentary, "Standard Operating Procedure," examines the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal, is being pressed about a procedure of his own: paying interview subjects.
04.27.08
Josh Groban and Paul Simon Sing "Bridge Over Troubled Water"
April 23, 2008 -- Josh Groban and Paul Simon sing "Bridge Over Troubled Water" as part of Paul Simon: American Songs at the Howard Gilman Opera House, Brooklyn Academy of Music in Brooklyn, New York.
The full set on Flickr. One of the strangest events I have ever photographed.
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04.26.08
links for 2008-04-26
04.26.08
links for 2008-04-25
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Gorgeous.
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It's probably futile to do so, but here's my partial history of New York City in video games. The difficult part is actually figuring out, in fact, if a game takes place in New York.
04.25.08
