11/29/11 WSJ: Excelsior District
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11/24/11 The Executive Barber Shop
An assignment a few weeks ago brought me across Jason who cuts hair at The Executive Barber Shop down in the Excelsior district of San Francisco. Jason is the real deal.
This entry was written by , posted on November 24, 2011 at 1:00 am, filed under Americans, Commissioned, Portrait, Street and tagged Excelsior, Jason, San Francisco, The Executive Barber Shop. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
4/24/11 WSJ: Jejune Institute
Article on the Urban Scavenger Hunt known as the Jejune Institute, created by Jeff Hull. I would love to describe the experience and the idea of the project. But it’s complicated, and better you find out for yourself.
Also, closure of the Jejune Institute.
“There’s the thing, and the name for the thing, and that’s one thing too many.” -Octavio Coleman Esq. ?
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4/14/11 Cocktails
From a Market street cocktail crawl last month.
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3/29/11 WSJ: Hacker Dojo
Earlier this month I photographed Jay Liew, a software engineer, who recently quit his job at a software security company so he could pursue his own start-up interests. Not surprisingly, he decided to move from San Diego to the Silicon Valley and one of the main reasons he made the move was because of the Hacker Dojo. The Dojo is a large and inviting tech community space that prides itself on being more than desks for rent. It’s more akin to a familial style start up incubator and computer-engineer haven. The Dojo had a feeling somewhere between fun-house and science lab, which in my opinion, is perfect for nurturing an imaginative and productive work environment. For example, one member rigged a cowbell labeled button into the wall that, when pushed, actually rings a cowbell attached to the ceiling. 3-D printers sit in one corner, and in another, gadgets and tools and a robotic spider that is in the process of being put together. If you’re living near the Bay Area Peninsula and ever find yourself needing to take tech classes or use community office space, you should definitely stop in and check the place out.
Read Story about the Hacker Dojo
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3/20/11 WSJ: Fremont vs. Union Pacific
A few weeks ago I was sent out to photograph a piece of land between a proposed BART station and the old NUMMI car factory now used by Tesla. The city of Fremont wants to use the land to build tech oriented offices in hopes of boosting the local economy. But the Union Pacific railroad recently purchased the land, to the City’s surprise, and isn’t interested in building offices.
It sounded like a piece of cake assignment. I mean how hard is it to photograph a field? Well, after walking through the mud, running across train tracks and driving in circles trying to find a vantage point offering more than ugly grass and midday sun, I realized maybe it wasn’t so cake. After a few hours of giving it my best I made a last ditch effort and pulled into the parking lot of Sunstate Rental, a nearby construction equipment rental company.
“Hey, I don’t suppose there’s any way you could take me up in one of those cranes outside do ya’?” I asked.
“Ummm, I’ll have to ask the Manager about that one.” The guy said.
Luckily, the staff at Sunstate Rental are awesome. They busted out one of their biggest cranes, put me in a harness and took me up, way up. When we got to the top I could see the whole area and (after thinking I was going to die because I’m scared of heights) was able to take a shot that illustrated the story much better than anything else I had captured on the ground. So thanks to the guys at the Fremont Sunstate Rental yard. If you ever need to wash a window on your 10th story flat, paint a mural, base jump, or do whatever people do with 80-foot cranes, go see those guys.
Read Story in The Wall Street Journal
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