Image courtesy of newmindspace.com


Sure it will be cold tomorrow and you would rather stay under the covers than venture outside; however, if you head to Union Square with your pillow, you can get a nice workout and keep the body warm while swinging it at fellow NYers! The newmindspace website has photos from the first event that was held in Toronto.


The folks over at newmindspace have organized another pillow fight event, this time in NYC. This Saturday, February 18th at 2pm, newmindspace invites you to "converge on Union Square for a massive urban pillow fight! Swing and whack as you evade pillow-wielding assailants on E 14th St."


So bring a pillow to the square at 2 PM and wait for the signal. Pillow fight!"

There are a few rules that must be followed, one thankfully an order not to swing at the people holding cameras, so please visit their site before heading over.

Image courtesy of Irene Meltzer Richard, Film Society of Lincoln Center.


William Eggleston’s movie, “Stranded in Canton,” which premiered February 15 at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, breaks through boundaries as disdainfully as the legendary photographer‘s then-shocking color photos blurred art and documentary and led the way onto museum walls in the 1980s. Around 1974 Eggleston videotaped more than 30 hours of footage that would become “Stranded” with an early Sony Porta Pack , fitted with a “prime” Zeiss lens and, occasionally, with an infrared tube that allowed shooting in near darkness. Thirty two years later the film he made from that footage with co-director Robert Gordon carries a gut-punching intensity.


In the film Eggleston’s dry voiceover explains that he “…shot everything, wherever I happened to be…” but his subjects -- mostly friends at bars and private parties in Memphis, New Orleans and Mississippi—are no ordinary bunch. It was the early 70s (popularly known as the 60s) and excess was in fashion. Drugs still had a prophetic sheen and people wanted to believe, with Jim Morrison, they could “break on through to the other side.” Loaded on booze and pharmaceuticals, Eggleston’s friends in the movie vie with each other – roaring and chanting stories, songs, rants and tirades into the Southern night. Often they succeed in invoking a truly extreme quaalude voodoo delta strangeness.

Check out Seth Thompson's "Interiorismo Popular" at The Nelson Hancock Gallery in Dumbo. The show remains up through March 19th.

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If you're fantasizing about turning your street shooting into published work or stock photography sales, then model releases are an ugly fact of life. For the most part, any images with recognizable faces need a model release to be sold or published for profit. If you'd like to pitch a book down the line, then all those great portraits of strangers will most likely need signed releases before they can make the final cut. I personally HATE doing this, but I'm starting to come around and see the light. I came across this article by Ethan Salwen which breaks the process down and explains the approaches of a few different photographers. It's definitely inspired me to get my act together.

Oh, and if you need release forms, then just google the phrase "Model Release" or pick up a whole pre-printed pad of them at a local photo joint like Adorama or B&H.