Totally Tisch

I had a lovely Monday evening at the Tisch Gala, honoring: Joan Tisch, Billy Crudup '94, Richard Vague, David Liu '87 & Carley Roney. Joan Tisch did a lot of fundraising for the NYU Tisch school of the arts and her family even went on stage and sang the start of a broadway song, then the professionals joined in. David Liu and Carley Roney are the founders of www.theknot.com and Billy Crudup was in movies like Big Fish and Almost Famous. I also saw a few other famous folks, like Jesse L. Martin '91, part of the original Rent cast, he was also in the movie version, Ethan Hawke, and Alec Baldwin. We said hello to Jesse, and I took a picture with a couple of my co-workers standing with him. When my friend Erin went to say hello to Mr. Martin, I of course went to grab my camera and they were already posing and ready, so being flustered I must have turned the camera to the wrong setting and it wouldn't take the picture! Then I figured it out, but for a second there I was worried that I didn't have a memory card in the camera or something silly like that. I'd only taken my little point and shoot camera, which I haven't been using as much lately, and of course all my photography class knowledge went out of my head. Oh well, a snapshot was good enough. The reason I got to go was because Sony had donated money so we got a table with all kinds of good food and drinks, and tickets to the show. Even with the Broadway strike the cast of Spring Awakening performed a couple numbers for us.
Afterward since I was already in Times Square, I went to retake some pictures that I somehow lost from last Saturday. It was a very nice evening.

From Veteran's Day...

Tonight was a volleyball game and we had a lot of the team show up, so I made everyone pose for a team picture. We lost all three games, but i thought we did pretty well considering that we were playing the number 1 team in our league.

Uncove(red)

I had a nice quiet weekend hanging out with Scott. I had class on Saturday, and I somehow managed to lose a whole group of pictures. For some reason the pictures that I took in RAW format decided to dissapear. Of course all the other pictures showed up so I thought they were all on my computer and I formatted the memory card. I guess I'll just have to go re-shoot some things. Some of the pictures that I'll miss the most are of a group of firemen who were putting out a fire/ fixing something down in a manhole. They chatted with me and let me get real close and take all kinds of pictures. The guy down in the manhole even showed me his root canal and explained that he was down there in order to pay it off. At least I've got the story if not the images. The professor had us all draw a subject out of a hat and mine was "Red" which worked out well since I came upon an Elmo and of course many other red things, some of which are gone forever.

From 2007.11.10

I still hold out faint hope that I will find them hidden somewhere on my computer. We watched The Shining over at Sky and Anna's place on Saturday night. I think my recent theme made me really recognize the use of red in that film. Very freaky, and interesting. I'd never seen the whole thing. Today Scott was a good sport and went out on a walk with me to take some more pictures. I was trying to replace some of the ones that I'd lost. I'll have to make another trip to Times Square before I can really do that, which is a pain since daylight hours on the weeknights are tough to come by.
Trivia for the day: Central Park is 51 block or 843 acres, bigger than the country of Monaco.

From 2007.11.10

Wandering Photographer

Friday morning I woke up early to go on my "photo walk." For class we were given disposable cameras and told to take pictures facing toward, away and on either side of the sun. Sine the time I see daylight is so sparse I got up and walked over to the graveyard at the end of the street. I must say, I should have used the flash more once I saw the developed film. Oh well, I enjoy digital much more. Instant feedback is great! I was boring on Friday evening and just came home. I was ready to fall asleep on the train. Now that I've been taking pictures of sleeping people I get the strange feeling that someone would do the same to me.

From 11.3.07

From 11.3.07

Saturday I had class and I ran out of the house without my homework, (the pictures from the disposable camera.) Then it took me so long to find parking that I ended up being 10 minutes late for class. I should have taken the train. We went over to Bryant Park with the objective of re-shooting some trees and getting the right exposure. Then we wandered over to Times Square for some general shooting.

From 11.3.07

From 11.3.07

From 11.3.07