Gallery Night January 15th

Come join us on Gallery Night, January 15th at 5-10pm at the VP Gallery. David Burnett, a famous life photographer will be showing his rarely seen fine art prints of Bob Marley. My photographs along with Richard Edelman's sculptures will be present as well. We're having 2 reggae DJ's play music and it'll be a fantastic time! Please come in and enjoy!

Livebooks Site of The Week

This week, the experience I created for Richard has been deemed Livebooks, "Site Of The Week!"

Currently, there's more work to be done for him regarding several new series of sculptures. I'm just waiting for the right weather and I'll have new images to show.

www.edelmansculpture.com

The Big Dancer Video

Here is "The Big Dancer Video"

It's a very experimental multiple medium video utilizing, timelapse photography, timelpase video and realtime video.

Enjoy!

Richard Edelman Finished Biography

After many hours in the Making here is the final video version of the Richard Edelman Biography Video

Enjoy!

Richard Edelman Bio teaser

Here is the Richard Edelman Bio Teaser. I'll post the finished videos when they're done.

Video was created by Joseph Strand and myself. The music is "Serve Chilled" by Bonobo.

Enjoy

Richard Edelman Video Bio Teaser

The Big Dancer

Richard Edelman (www.edelmansculpture.com) and I have been working together for a while now, in our contract we had agreed to 2 videos. This was to be the second video shoot. My plan was to create a teaser video of his premiere piece, the Big Dancer. This sculpture was quite awkward to move being 15 ft tall and around 600 lbs.

At 3 am, the alarm clock buzzed. I grabbed my photo equipment and got into my truck. I picked up Huck, my assistant and friend and headed to Richard's house. We arrived at 3:45, loaded up the trailer and headed out to the frozen beaches of Sheboygan WI. After the arrival, it took 4 guys to lift this piece over a steep 30ft ice encrusted hill down a valley and onto chunks of ice just above the freezing water of lake michigan. All of this done in darkness. all of us were exhausted but as soon as we erected the Big Dancer, all of us dashed for our cameras. Each shot was setup just in the nick of time before the sun came out. From that point on we shot the sculpture until darkness that evening.

Below are some of those shots taken on that day. The movie will be posted shortly.

Dragon's Breath - 12/7/08

I remember being in college and driving past the lake front during some of the coldest days and seeing lake michigan ablaze. Steam rising off the water and meshing with the clouds. And each

day I wish I could stop to photograph it. I finally had that chance.

The top image reminds me of the song, "Black Hole Sun" by Soundgarden.  

In my eyes, indisposed
In disguise as no one knows
Hides the face, lies the snake
The sun in my disgrace
Boiling heat, summer stench
'Neath the black the sky looks dead
Call my name through the cream
And I'll hear you scream again

Black hole sun
Won't you come
And wash away the rain
Black hole sun
Won't you come
Won't you come

Stuttering, cold and damp
Steal the warm wind tired friend
Times are gone for honest men
And sometimes far too long for snakes
In my shoes, a walking sleep
And my youth I pray to keep
Heaven send Hell away
No one sings like you anymore

Hang my head, drown my fear
Till you all just disappear 

I will forever be drawn to these forces of life and admire their beauty and mystery.