Did a nice little 10 page spread for San Francisco Magazine on the town’s Best Coffee. I told them I just wanted to use a point and shoot. Their design director, Ellen Zaslow, is a joy to work with. Blue Bottle, Coffee Bar, Ritual, and Trouble Coffee (see picture) are all winners.

THE HOTEL CHELSEA. This New York landmark was everything I thought it would be and more. For a look at all the art and some of its inhabitants, look here. I was in town for a release party for our Hamburger Eyes book at the amazing Powerhouse Arena.

Check it out: Hamburger Eyes, THE BOOK!!
Hilarious yet scary, hardcore yet charming, the Hamburger Eyes crew put out the illest lil’ photography magazine the world has ever seen. Since the first issue of 30 xeroxed pamphlets was printed in 2002, Hamburger Eyes has become an elegant yet underground periodical combining the documentary approach of National Geographic with the hit-‘em-hard sensibility of a late-night tagger. A pictorial history of both the intimate and iconic moments of everyday life, Hamburger Eyes is a travel journal, a personal diary, and a family album. Inspired by the traditions that began with LIFE magazine and Robert Frank, the magazine revitalizes the sensation of photography as a craft as well as a tool to record and document.

GOLD. Well here it is. My beloved Leica that is a vintage model M2 from the Sixties. You can see what I’ve done with this in my Portfolios section: The Jangs, Havana, Premiere, anything 35mm. I’m at a place where I need to decide if I want to move on with the latest that digital has to offer or to stick with what’s tried and true. I can envision decades to come being spent anticipating the next big thing in cameras and thinking how this is going to help one take better pictures. But once you’ve found a Stradivarius, why look any further?

NEW YORK. This picture was taken during my last visit to the Big Apple. Obviously it’s been way too long. Take a look at a recent week’s worth of adventure. Just hit SLIDESHOW in the upper right.

DUDE!! aka Jeff Bridges. He is also an accomplished photographer. Now I have finished the Bridges Trilogy having also shot both his dad and brother (Lloyd and Beau). See ABOUT/PEOPLE.

From Peter Case’s Journal:

1974 was the year I started getting proficient at “living on the street”. I had come west on the Greyhound from Buffalo, New York in early 73, a young acid casualty looking for someplace to land…Got off the bus one morning at the foot of Mission Street, in San Francisco, and dove in. I was 19, hair down to my shoulders, and playing a cheap Japanese guitar (the Yamaki deluxe:$99.95: it had a rockin’ buzz to it). I was carrying a fork in my coat pocket, in case I ran into dinner somewhere. I was drinking THE WINE, as it would come to be known in numerous songs of the day.
I first met Peter when I photographed his band the Plimsouls back in the late Seventies. The original troubadour is still at it. I caught him recently at Cafe Du Nord. Here’s the video.

ACDSheEver wonder what the person in the next cubicle might be doing after hours? Meet Amy. Mild mannered marketing wiz for a hot SOMA architectural firm, she had hired me to do some portraits. See what happens when you give a gal a microphone and a shot of whiskey.

APPLE NEWS.
BROTHER BART. Good things happen to good people. I’ve known Bart Davenport since his 80’s group The Loved Ones and made this crude video (only 30 sec.) recently at a local dive of his latest group Honeycut. Look where the song ended up. I’ve got to have one of these.