Italy and Greece Photos

I've finally finished going through all the photos I took from my recent trip to Italy and Greece, except for the time-lapse experiments I made. You can take a look here where I've posted some favorite regular shots, some panoramics, and a few HDR photos.
If you want to see more, a more comprehensive set of standard photos and Athens 'Street Art' can be found here.

New NYC photos - Arts Weekend in town

I've not had a chance to post anything lately, and I'm still working on the large group of shots and time lapses I shot while in Italy and Greece.

However, in the meantime, I just had a great day yesterday checking out the American Academy of Arts and Letters, way up on West 155th St in Manhattan. My wife recently won an award from them, and they have a great exhibit of all of the award winners and inductees this year. I photographed some statuary on their grounds as well as some really cool works by architect Bill Massie and artist James Turrell.

After that, we went to the Jonathan Levine Gallery in Chelsea to catch the Gaia, Miss Van, and Mario Martinez show and then finally on to the newly opened High Line extension between 20th and 30th Streets. I'd highly recommend (re-)visiting the High Line to see the extension, it's well worth it.

As we were finishing up our High Line visit, a rooftop dance performance by the Trisha Brown Dance Company began. It consisted of about 8 dancers on various rooftops and the High Line, acting out various moves that were picked up in succession (telephone-game style) and passed along from one dancer to the next.

Definitely a very New York-centric arts heavy day, but well worth it.

Check out this link for my interpretations of various things I saw yesterday.
First, some explanations: When you go to the link, try maximizing your browser to get the full effect (apple/windows-shift-f works on firefox)
The first images are of statuary at the American Academy, the next are details of a study model by Bill Massie's studio; then there are some images showing new holograms from James Turrell; Then there are various details from along the High Line and finally an image from the Trisha Brown dance performance. Hope you enjoy:

June 11, 2011 images

first night time time lapse

First time I tried out a timelapse at night. The two moves are at two different speeds as you can see.

Interestingly, you can see the flight path for planes heading to LaGuardia airport and away from JFK pretty clearly.

...and 'uninterestingly', you can see there's a problem with the track not being fixed down :-(

Hanksy!

Forget about Bansky, 'Hanksy' has just put this one up in Little Italy. (you may need to click to see the full size of this, as it's a bit far away.) This is like a joke on top of a joke on top of a joke!

MoCo Timelapse, here we go!

Thanks to Dynamic Perception, I've finally taken the next step in my long quest to get set up with a motion controlled time lapse rig. I'm pretty excited. I've put together the unit and mastered the fundamentals of the dolly controller. I still need some essential pieces to the puzzle, but I have enough ready now that I was able to do a few tests.

Above are some pictures of it coming together and here's the first test video:

MoCo04 from Damijan Saccio on Vimeo.

First outdoor tests. I still need a battery pack and tripods, so possibilities are still pretty limited. Good stuff to come in a few weeks though!

MoCo05 from Damijan Saccio on Vimeo.

New Photo Session from the Jazz Standard posted

I haven't had a lot of chances to post new photos lately, but just last week I was lucky enough to be invited to photograph Ben Allison's new band to help celebrate their new album release Action-Refraction.
Check out the pictures here

Street Art (recent photos)

I haven't had a chance to capture any relevatory shots for a while, but I was just on an errand up Kent Ave today in Williamsburg and aside from all the frightful signs of rapid gentrification, I was able to grab a number of shots of some excellent street art. I was especially impressed by an entire building mural by twin artists How & Nosm, along with RRobots. Also of note are some works by noted artist ROA. Click HERE and go to the end of the list to see the other shots from today and previous ones.