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.
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4/29/11 Untitled 104 &105
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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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3/4/11 Untitled 101
My friend Brianna on our way to swim during a trip to Lake Tahoe with friends in August, 2007. I remember swimming in Lake Tahoe for the first time and being frightened because the water was so clear that you could see every rock and shadow. Ignorance is Bliss.
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2/17/11 SF Magazine: Malia Cohen
On New Years Eve I had the opportunity to meet and photograph San Francisco’s new District 10 supervisor, Malia Cohen, for the February issue of SF Magazine. I met with Malia, seemingly always vibrant and energetic, at City Hall where would soon be working on a daily basis. She recalled a trip as a young girl to City Hall that inspired her and helped instill in her the desire to become a politician. It was obvious that same awe and inspiration she experienced as a child seeing City Hall for the first time was still with her.
This entry was written by , posted on February 17, 2011 at 1:32 pm, filed under Commissioned, Politics, Portrait. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
2/7/11 WSJ: Planet Hunter
At the end of January I had the opportunity to photograph UC Berkeley Astronomy Professor, and planet hunter, Dr. Geoffrey Marcy. Professor Marcy spends much of his time using the W.M. Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea in Hawaii to conduct his search for exoplanets that are similar to Earth.
“…Dr. Marcy and his colleague Andrew Howard spent five years surveying the frequency of planets among 166 of the nearest and brightest sun-like stars. They calculated last October that there ought to be about 23 Earth-size planets for every 100 sun-like stars, meaning there could be billions of such worlds in the galaxy.”
For the photo shoot Dr. Marcy took me to the telescope dome atop the Astronomy building at UC Berkeley. It was a beautiful day and we could see San Francisco in the distance. Being an avid fan of Science Fiction, I was curious what films a scientist who spends his time searching for planets in space might like. ( I feel there must also be some obligatory relevance to a Sci-Fi film liked but someone who has discovered countless planets.) Turns out Dr. Marcy is fond of Star Trek IV, where Kirk and the crew travel back in time to San Francisco and communicate with whales. He also enjoys Contact, up until the part with the preacher man.
Read the story in The Wall Street Journal here
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