Super busy in the office today, listening to the new Dinowalrus album, Best Behavior. The inside cover features an image that we shot at the Brooklyn Botanical gardens in the Fall of 2010. Looks sharp and sounds great!
Listen!
The World’s Lousy With Ideas Vol. 9- Sleeve
January 18, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Coming Soon- The World’s Lousy With Ideas Vol. 9
7-inches of Cheater Slicks, Thee Spivs and Psandwich. The sleeve I designed features two outsider photographs that I enjoy looking at. The front cover being from a scanned contact sheet of Holga images of a friend’s now deceased dog, Stuzee, who was just a puppy. The back cover shows a row of houses at sunset in a gated neighborhood in New Jersey, taken with an iPhone. Keep your eyes peeled for this one at your local record shoppe, or get your own from Almost Ready Records.
Jonathan Toubin survives freak accident
December 10, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Sad news came on Thursday about my dear friend, the legendary Jonathan Toubin (New York Night Train.) An unbelievably bizarre freak accident has left him with severe injuries necessitating many surgeries and lots of healing time.
I don’t have enough time today to truly express how important this man is to me, as well as an international community of musicians, bands, DJs, vinyl enthusiasts, party promoters, scholars, journalists, politicians, party go-ers, soul-clap dance contestants, go-go dancers, bartenders, venue owners (the list goes on for a while…) He’s vibrant, charming, stylish and honestly the only other person I’ve met who is more of a workaholic than myself. His entrepreneurial spirit and dedication are awe-inspiring, and his joie de vivre is what makes me love photographing him. I’ve never met a DJ who could make records come more alive.
PAYPAL your support to the world’s most beloved DJ and nightlife impresario! The most direct way to get funds to J.T. is to DONATE through PayPal; ihearttoubin@gmail.com
Let’s help him get through this!!!
I just typed his name into my database and zillions of fabulous memories came up, below are just a few of my favorite personal photographs of the the man, the myth, J.T.
Harry Howes Interview | via VICE.com
December 3, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Harry Howes distinguishes the differences between his three record labels,
(Last Laugh/ Mighty Mouth/ Almost Ready) and dishes about upcoming releases in an entertaining interview on Vice.com.
Read the interview here–> http://www.vice.com/read/rettsounds-last-laugh
Here are a few photos from our record listening party/ photo shoot last week.
Buy some records HERE.
Norton Records 25th Anniversary Photographs
November 17, 2011 By 1 Comment
Yeah! It was all that and then some. If you haven’t seen the Flickr set click here! Over 300 stunning images from The Bell House, Union Pool and Desert Island Book Store in Brooklyn. Special thanks to Danny Goldshtein for being my second camera on this project and all the artists and wild rock and rollers who came from all corners of the globe to party down with the Norton crowd. What a good looking bunch. Enjoy!
Punk Kids at the Diner
November 15, 2011 By 1 Comment
While I’m waiting for the Norton 25th Anniversary photos to finish uploading, here’s a photo I took last Wednesday right before the festival kicked off. Kids these days…
Interview with Charlie Gross (via Foto Care Blog)
November 11, 2011 By Leave a Comment
My best friend’s backyard in New Jersey
November 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Found these contact sheets of images taken in my best friend’s backyard somewhere around 2003. They had a pool, and it was the kind of place where formative adolescent encounters happened. Long live summer!
Ken Regan releases “All Access” Rock Photography Book
November 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Rock Intelligence
November 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment
(via The Hell Gate)
Strongly urging all friends of the Hell Gate to take a view of this video & then also read the Ian Burrell article here on Rock’s Back Pages’
“There was a time where our music writing was less transient, less professional PR driven & based around intelligent writing. The same goes for the respect for & quality of the photography that accompanied this.
Just getting a sense of the academic traction that this work is securing through RBP just underlines again how all this matters. What these artists said & continue to say matters, what they did has impacted life and our culture today. Rock criticism informed & inspired & served as an education. What an artist says & how we respond to that matters.
Again, the same goes for the photography. What somebody also saw in a Melody Maker or an NME also stayed with them. It also carries weight & significance. A younger generation of photographers have told me so.
The photography matters too.”
