 20051130 Hawthorne Gallary Opening
A few weeks ago I mentioned that The Hawthorne Gallery in Winston-Salem will be showing a few of my pictures. The opening is tomorrow, Dec 1st, and I just learned a few more details worth sharing. It starts at 5pm and lasts until 7:30pm. There will be new works on display by Ron Adams, Leo Morrissey, Alix Hitchcock, and coincidentally David Faber, one of my professors at Wake Forest and a printmaker I admire.I can't be there for the opening, but it would be neat if you could. PS. If you do go, please take a picture!
The You Can Be A Better Boyfriend! blog. via Ricky.
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Taylor, my mom and I threw a dance party in the living room tonight.
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My flight to Fort Wayne landed a few minutes after 6pm and everything was already black and cold. I picked up my rental car and took the back roads home. As I wound back and forth on the last stretch of Yohne Road, I realized I hadn't been in the dark in a long time. In New York, referring to the hours after sunset as night is a technicality. There are lights everywhere all of the time. The towering buildings and the cabs below are constantly shining!
My headlights revealed nothing in front of me. Much like pointing a flashlight towards the sky, the beams faded quickly and never reflected. I sped following the snaking yellow line, reacting only after it arced any direction. The utter blackness made the winter night feel heavy like a draped curtain -- and I dashed to find the edge -- or at least a seam. (listening to Beck's Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime) Labels: Fort Wayne
Bloggers + dating + tagging = this? via Dianne.
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I'm going to Fort Wayne today.
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Labels: Fort Wayne She's big!
 Noah spotted our t-shirt model, Maria Negron, on a billboard in Midtown.
I have a crush on Vashti Bunyan's Lookaftering. via Paul.
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New York Underground
Have you seen this diagram in National Geographic? It's insane. I realize there's stuff underground -- but not this deep, not this complex. This photo was taken 70 stories below! via Nick. Airplane Tsunami
A few months ago I posted a song made by my friend Jacob Morris. I've been receiving lots of emails asking where to buy Jake's CD ... and I usually reply that I am just as eager to know! He tells me that he is currently working to put his favorite songs together, something should be out soon. In the meantime, you can download Airplane Tsunami, another acoustic track he recorded from home.
Simon, one of our t-shirt illustrators, made a short flash animation called Morning. I think it is beautiful.
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I didn't realize how unseasonably warm today's 70 degrees was until I checked Fort Wayne's weather and saw that they're sitting at 16 degrees with chances of a snow shower tonight!
Videos I saw today
Between You and Me: A short film by Patryk Rebisz made entirely from individual photographs shot with a Canon EOS 20D.The Denial Twist: A music video by Michel Gondry for the White Stripes, featuring an appearance by Conan O'Brien. Eugene Wyatt's Newsletter
I've been meaning to post this link for months ...It's the archive of a newsletter called Baa! written by Eugene Wyatt, the farmer of the Catskills Merino wool farm. I first read a copy of his weekly newsletter a couple of summers ago when I went to the farmer's market in Union Square (Quicktime 4.2mb, FYI - It's not my video) where he sold hand-dyed yarn at a stand several days each week. I visited the market this summer to look for him, but no luck. After some Googling, I found the archive -- and what a find. If you ever enjoyed reading a Steinbeck book, especially East of Eden, then you'll look forward to Eugene's letters. Every week he updates his readers (I counted 7 subscribers on his Yahoo! group) with farming advice, local history, angry feelings for politicians, and anecdotes that make his life seem genuine and desirable. The stories are honest ... and so well-written and wise that I imagine that he might have been a college professor who went to Woodstock and just never left the area. Anyway, print out one of the letters and subscribe if you like it. I think he would get a real kick out of seeing his readership increase. PS. At the archive, there's a link to a page where you can sign up to receive future messages via email.
Trendcentral just posted some interesting notes from their 'college correspondent'.
PS. The page is formatted oddly -- if you have trouble reading it, try this basic version I am hosting. We now sell hats
 Defunker now sells more than t-shirts. We're testing the waters with winter knitted-hats designed by pro snowboarder Brad Scheuffele for COAL Headwear. The Cascade, above, is my favorite. It's a super soft hat with a built-in scarf. It's practical and a ski-bunny must-have! Thank you Noah Kalina for photographing the Winter stuff. It is great work! You can see this week's Defunker newsletter, for a few more photos he took for us. Just in case any one wondered (I get a lot of referrals from Google searchers looking for information on our models), the new hats and shirts were worn by the stunning Maria Negron. Banksy
London's Channel 4 reports from Bansky's new exhibit in Notting Hill (.WMV, 3 Minutes)./// Bansky is a cool graffiti artist. His stenciling makes me say Wow wow wow! I read an article about him in this month's Esquire (would link it, but they require paid subscription to read online) and it reminded me to check his personal site which has big images of some of his work and a great manifesto. Wired also recently published a piece (with photos too). He was quoted: Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums. Graffiti has more chance of meaning something or changing stuff than anything indoors. Graffiti has been used to start revolutions, stop wars, and generally is the voice of people who aren't listened to. Graffiti is one of those few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make somebody smile while they're having a piss. I think most graffiti is bad -- so I am pretty excited about a new generation of thoughtful artists inspired by guys like Banksy who will repaint the streets with something meaningful.
The Hawthorne Gallery in Winston-Salem, NC will be showing 7 of my pictures beginning Dec 1st. The gallery is open to the public the first two weeks of every month, and is otherwise available by appointment any time.
Here's a map. For appointments, contact Ramelle Pulitzer at (336) 724-1022. All proceeds will be used to seed my Fort Wayne Progress Fund. Labels: Fort Wayne
A collection of latte art pictures.
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Oddly, I've been to the coffee shop where these photos were taken while visiting Chris and his brother Ralph in Seattle 4 or 5 years ago.
In Chicago for the weekend.
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The CollegeHumor Guide to College
You can now pre-order our book on Amazon!
Predixis is a neat app that instantly creates playlists from your iTunes library based on your mood. Feed it an mp3 and it assembles a bunch of other songs from your collection that acoustically match. via Jeff.
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Gamers stage virtual funeral for dead player:
Several hundred fellow gamers directed their online characters to a cathedral in the game where the service was held. Bodysong
 I am flipping out about Bodysong, a film that I describe as The Koyaanasquatsi of the human body. I realize that's a shoddy summary if you haven't seen Koyaanasquatsi -- so even more simply, it's 83 minutes of seeing humans (yourself) in ways you have never seen before. It can be an intense, hypnotic, violent, or emotional experience, underlined with a musical score most incredibly composed by Radiohead's Johnny Greenwood. Bodysong was released in 2004, but only became available on DVD this past summer. My friend Meg gave it me as a gift, and much like a Gospel, I have been screening the film for friends almost a few times weekly. I will be hosting a showing this Wednesday at 10:30pm. Email me to save a spot. Otherwise, I suggest you make time to see it on your own. Netflix has it in stock.
Nikon announces the D200: You can pre-order now from Adorama and Ritz Camera, but the 10.2 megapixels of joy won't be shipping until mid-December.
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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  June 2004 July 2004 August 2004 September 2004 October 2004 November 2004 December 2004 January 2005 February 2005 March 2005 April 2005 May 2005 June 2005 July 2005 August 2005 September 2005 October 2005 November 2005 December 2005 January 2006 February 2006 March 2006 April 2006 May 2006 June 2006 July 2006 August 2006 September 2006 October 2006 November 2006 December 2006 January 2007 February 2007 March 2007 April 2007 May 2007 June 2007 July 2007 August 2007 September 2007 October 2007 November 2007  Postal Skype SMS (via AIM) |
