Bonnaroo

Here's the crew from the Flair shoot down at Bonnaroo in Tennessee... more pics to come. CHILLAX!!

AGYNESS! Spur August 08' Cover by Dan Martensen

Hot off the presses...
Shot this cover and a nice little portrait ed inside the latest SPUR magazine...
Model - Agyness Deyn
Hair - Holli Smith
Makeup - Yuka Washizu
Styling - Mana Igarashi and Agyness Deyn

Spring Has Sprung...

Yes, Spring is here...

Which means... the birds are back. One lovely little flying creature shit on my computer to greet the new season.

Jay took up rockclimbing again... in chinatown... at 3am...

Erin H. - is hot.
But not at hot as Ozzy...

Or Alastair...

Or Superfan...

Made it down to Bonnaroo and shot for Flair Mag with Tasha Cain, Behati, Julia Dundstall, MGMT, and the Fiery Furnaces... Saw Metalica play, My Morning Jacket among others... MMJ made it rain, no big deal. All around it was a great trip. Tennessee rules.


The true jocks surfaced among the tree hugging, pot smoking, sandal wearing, dreadlocked crowd, and a sea of yellow and green jerseys appeared around sunset... I mean, I had to be sure to prioritize...

So did Matt...

The legend Alice Delal came over from London and we spent the day shooting all around the neighborhood... she rules.

Kenneth Cappello's new resolution.

Headed to Beijing 2008...

London Day 1


Vogue India - With Deep Kailey, June 18, 2008



James Pecis, Son of a Son of a Sailor...


London Day 4... WTF!?!? I am going home now... Thanks guys





It's good to be back home... where things are normal...

Just got me a new ride... check it out

(It even matches the blog)

Just got me a new ride...

David Shrigley is fuckin' funny

Check out artist David Shrigley
He's great.
He's going to be speaking at Tokion's Creativity Now this weekend in New York...

one for the l.e.s.

I've lived in the east village on and off for almost 10 years. When I was in Highschool I spent a million nights down around avenue A trying to get in to night spots, half the time wound up passing the time smoking cigarettes, drinking and watching the crazies pour out of Tompkins Square park. Things are different now, some say for the better, some say for the worse... like all of New York, it's becoming more and more unfamiliar...
Here's to a time that I caught the last tastes of in the Lower East Side. It's hard to believe these are the same streets...

Jake and Opie

Jake got a girlfriend, but, like many women in his past she split for LA to pursue a career in acting... they had fun while it lasted.

Ain't no big deal, Jake got a new bitch in no time...

Dude, that's Ace...

Last week I had the chance to work with a really cool crew. I was shooting the band "Honey Honey", a new band you will soon be hearing much more about... The shoot  is part of a project and passion of Keifer Sutherland's... He's got his own label and takes it very seriously. One of the nicest guys and best collaborators I've worked with. He even offered to wash my car... going to take you up on that one some day Keifer!

Figaro Japan

Erin Wasson

Cover by Dan Martensen

Makeup: Suzy Gerstein

Hair: Dennis Gotsoulos

Please Help Tibet

As someone who has been to many corners of this world, I will say that there is nowhere I've ever been that could be more foreign and more magical then Tibet. Yet the connection I feel to this place, since visiting Tibet two years ago, is impossibly powerful and real. When I see images like this one it literally kills me. The people of Tibet were more welcoming, more caring, more genuine and real, more compassionate and beautiful than any other people I've ever encountered. Whoever you are, wherever you are, please educate yourself and others about the oppression in Tibet. The crimes committed against the people of Tibet by the Chinese and the Chinese Government are unforgivable. Something needs to be done to stop the violence and long term cultural so called "cleansing" once and for all.
-Dan

How to help:
http://www.tibet.com/Action/index.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA2U8cIjNws

DEREK WATERS' REALLY FUNNY SHORT FILM

Killer Rabbit

There are many fabled stories surrounding the green car pictured below.
I believe it was a 1985? vw rabbit gti that my friends and I had decided to make into our own rally car.
Mike and Rus picked it up for like 100 bucks, drove it home, dumping the entire contents of its interior on someone's front lawn (including the title) something that would come back to haunt them not too long after... They drove it to our friend Danny's house, which was always a safe haven for guns, cars, drugs, driving, and the combination of all of these things due to the fact that Danny's parents were never around.
Anyway we painted it Quaker State green, and the rest of the story is too long and crazy to write on the blog. Stay tuned for my memoirs in about 40 years I'll finish the story. Anyway thanks to Rus finding these old polaroids.
DM

paris

wow

Only in USA

A cake decorator at Wal-Mart fucked up pretty badly

Hugh Lippe

Check out Hugh's photos, he just updated his site. I've been following his work since day one and he's one of my most favorite photographers and best friends.
www.hughlippe.com
Don't forget to check out the broken deer!!

Low Luv Comes to Fruition

Erin Wasson, friend, muse, model and now, jewelry designer...
Keep your eyes peeled for Low Luv at a boutique near you.
(photo by me of course :)

Manudo

Once in a blue moon I'll pick up this one camera I own and pop a shot off. It's a zeiss camera from the thirties or forties, anyway it's old and I normally don't use it. I had a roll of film sitting in my pencil box for like a year and finally when I processed all the film from america I threw it in there...
This is Chris aka Manute aka Pipe aka Manudo aka TBD....

I know it's been a long time...

But not that many people really read this blog anyway so big deal.
I made myself a promise though, and that's to post more, more often...
I just got back from a road trip to see America. And that I did. I feel like a foreigner in my own country at times. Yet having been on nearly every corner of this earth in my short life, I wouldn't want to come home to any other country in the world.
here are some snaps from the trip, the real shots are being picked through and edited as I write this.
I went with my buddy Jay (www.jay-hanna.com) he's a photographer also. We managed to sit next to each other for nearly two weeks without killing one another. In fact, we had a great time and became closer than before (no homo)
anyway enjoy the pics

When you gotta go.....



Jay in Whitesands



Natty dred




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