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Just got back from southern Utah, a couple miles from Lake Powell, sale what is now one of  my favorite parts of the US.

This is the villa where we stayed. More info on what we were doing there in posts to follow!

 

Thanks to Kate Osba and the good people at Fortune who sent me out to Huntley, Illinois (just past Elgin*) to learn all about the manufacture of the traditional charcoal kettle grill at the world famous Weber factory. Pick up this week’s edition (Aug 13) to read more about exactly how many millions of these things they sell every day. It’ll make a great conversation topic for this weekend’s weenie roast!

Kettles being formed at the Weber factory in Huntley, Ill

Powder coating

Painted grills ready to go

*Home of the Hostess/Wonder Bakery Thriftshop

Young investor JP of Greylock Capital

Had a good day shooting the Park Avenue Money Masters at Greylock Capitol for our friends at AR Magazine recently. Not your boring Wall Street guys, ailment these young titans of lower midtown also like donkeys, recipe bicycles and the Ramones!

Stay tuned for more industrial updates from my shoots for Fortune Magazine (Weber Grills) and Skanska (NDA!)

It’s Dan Mackenzie and Raffaella Meloni and they’re the fab musical duo Good Day Sunshine. Just coming out with their first collection of songs, I got to shoot them last week on a lovely sunny day on NY’s Lower East Side. Catch them soon at a venue near you, and if they’re not playing near you go see them anyway.

Good Day Sunshine in NYC

Here’s part of the work I’ve been doing for Skanska, documenting some pretty high tech data systems centers support technology fabrication. It’s amazing what these guys are doing, building something completely new, completely by hand, to extremely exact tolerances, with plasma lasers and all manner of welders. Even though I risked being blinded by the brighter than the sun flashes that sparked without warning from their apparatus, and a couple times thought I’d fried my eyes/brain/lens/camera sensor/all of the above (note to OSHA: I followed proper safety guidelines at all times), I’d gladly go back and do it again. I’m told the finished product, which can be shipped on a truck, replaces the current standard technology that takes up a whole building. And it’s far more efficient. Even if I understood what was going on I couldn’t talk about it here (or anywhere else for that matter) as it’s all still under an NDA. These 3 were cleared for me to share though. Once I get permission to show the finished product and the installation I’ll share it all here.

Not long ago I received a very unusual and interesting request from Town&Country magazine – did I want to fly down to Charlottesville, VA in the TRUMP helicopter and shoot the the young Trump son Eric at the winery Trump had just artfully acquired from none other than former Richest Woman in America* Patricia Kluge. As soon as I heard “heli” I was in. But there were some catches (of course) – no room for an assistant, no room for lights or much equipment, no guarantee of access to some of the areas that I’d need to cover for the story (specifically the palatial Kluge mansion), and no guarantee of access to Patricia Kluge herself (she didn’t want to be photographed). No problem, get me in that helicopter and I’ll make it work.

Eric Trump ready for business

Kluge Mansion

Ready for harvest

 

It’s been a busy first couple of months of 2012 traveling to a variety of points north for our friends at Skanska. It’s no secret (at least to them) they’re a client I love working with.

The work has been challenging technically and physically, the locations often remote, and the results … Well, I can say both sides are really pleased.

Sadly that’s all I can say about these jobs for now due to rigid NDA’s in place. As super cool as these shoots have been they’re all about new technology that I can’t say I fully understand but is quite revolutionary. I’m hopeful the NDA’s will be lifted soon, at least on some of the shots, so I can share them and more info about them with everyone.

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Shot these young women a little while back in Sarah D Roosevelt Park for a Town & Country story on Bard College. Was very proud to be able to work with Eddie Lieda again – his redesign of that magazine is impeccable and can only hope my work can live up to his standards.