 20050324 NYC Photobloggers Recap
Last night was perfect! Thank you to all who came, and all that wanted to be there but couldn't; every seat was filled and dozens of people had to stand in the back. I estimate that 250 people attended.Youngna and I spoke last, so I had to work my way through 90 minutes of throbbing nerves before they quickly evaporated and made way for my anticipation to present. We each showed a handful of personal favorites, and then continued on to present our Candy Cane Portraits and a new project we shot in February that I like to call "Do You Live Here?" -- which is a series we shot in Times Square of tourists holding placards with questions written on them. It is not online yet, but will be in the coming week. The audience was engaged and very fun to stand in front of. I am very eager to do it again. Perhaps the most rewarding part of the night was the after-party at the Merc Bar. It was a brand-new experience to meet people who are familiar with my photographs. Until then I had just been publishing to anonymous readers and I had little idea of their scope and scale. But now, I have a few faces in mind when I upload new pictures. So, thanks to Jimmie, Aaron, Scott, Melanie, Heather, Grace, Sarah and Calvin for saying hello. If you were at the event and taking pictures, please share them with me. I would like to post them here. A bunch have started to accumulate on Flickr. 4
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Melissa said... Some of us knew it would go well. Congratulations. 2:33 PM grace said... nice work last night zach. if you were nervous, we couldn't tell at all. yours and youngna's times square presentation was my favorite. the project idea - random and quirky, but good btw, nice t-shirts. the coolest shirt i have is a black t-shirt that says "nerd" in white letters 5:37 PM richard said... zach: brilliant presentation last night. project concepts well thought out and executed. you added awesome energy to the session ! cheers . 8:17 PM Aaron said... assuming that's me Aaron you mentioned above (I was with scott), good memory. Loved the event, especially you and Youngna's presentation. Can't wait to see your "Do you Live Here" photos again once they're online. Great concept, great photos. 2:03 AM Post a Comment |
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 Hi, I'm Zach. I grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana and graduated from Wake Forest. After college, I moved to Manhattan to get serious about a company I ran with friends. We sold it to Barry Diller's InterActiveCorp in 2006. I just wrapped up with a project I co-founded called Vimeo and left CV to focus on being a twenty-five year old. I have another blog called Copy and Taste, where I post about learning to cook. I live in Brooklyn now.  Del.icio.us My Flickr Me on Flickr Last.fm Linked in MySpace Netflix History Vimeo  Amir Blumenfeld Chris Bodenner Mareen Fischinger Fort Wayne Observed Nick Gray Hype Machine Jake and Amir Jakob Lodwick Oh My Rockness Jonathan Marcus Youngna Park Megan Scheminske Eliot Shepard Shorpy Signal vs. Noise Alex Soth Stereogum Ricky Van Veen Khoi Vinh Eugene Wyatt   Postal Skype SMS (via AIM) |