Depth of Field tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-522770 2014-02-05T17:29:33-05:00 musings. influences. perceptions. considerations. by a creative director. image maker. wine drinker. TypePad Filming in One Take: A look to the master–Tarkovsky tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834522bcb69e201a73d707f1a970d 2014-02-05T17:29:33-05:00 2014-02-05T19:45:23-05:00 The recent lovely work from @GreyLondon for The Sunday Times celebrates the "one take" style of film, and more often, frustration in the studio with numerous takes for "the one." In this case, Grey went with take #16 of 27... jb No, it's NOT called "digital"–Ideas beyond traditional tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834522bcb69e2019101de15e1970c 2013-05-07T12:04:42-04:00 2013-05-07T12:04:42-04:00 HubSpot's new publication reimagines 5 iconic ad campaigns from the past into today's culture and complicated marketplace. These classic ads are presented in today's world of various channels, social networks and devices. All stuff that I teach at NYU. And... jb First day at NYU SCPS... tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834522bcb69e2017c365853c3970b 2013-01-28T12:00:34-05:00 2013-05-07T19:19:39-04:00 “When the student is ready, the teacher will appear” –Buddhist Proverb Let's hope they're ready (for me) ;) jb Dark side of genius - Bukowski's Factotum tag:typepad.com,2003:post-14219025 2012-11-30T20:31:00-05:00 2013-01-29T12:42:50-05:00 Charles Bukowski once said "Genius is the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way" - and that he did, with frank, street-level language that put his readers into his moment, in sometimes less than two lines. This... jb Why all the SOPA fuss?? tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834522bcb69e20168e5c1064e970c 2012-01-18T12:48:44-05:00 2012-01-18T12:48:44-05:00 As someone who creates content for the web, earns a living from it, and has had her content pirated numerous times, I do feel that we need protection against online piracy. I do not, however, think that SOPA or PIPA... jb When the need to destroy precedes the need to create tag:typepad.com,2003:post-13189542 2011-10-04T16:44:00-04:00 2013-01-29T13:15:45-05:00 On his 80th birthday, photographic artist Brett Weston fed sixty years worth of his negatives into the large fireplace in his home in Hawaii. Some of the negatives didn't burn immediately. So Weston doused them with kerosene. Surrealist author Franz... jb Sunday in the studio with Felipe tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834522bcb69e20133f2be6f4a970b 2010-07-30T23:27:34-04:00 2013-01-29T12:54:42-05:00 Felipe from doych on Vimeo. Here is what I wrote to accompany the video–written December 21, 2005: On an early Sunday morning, December 4, 2005, I woke up to fluffy falling snow. The streets were fairly quiet since they had... jb Someone else's opinion of a beautiful view tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834522bcb69e2013483197f1a970c 2010-06-03T20:52:03-04:00 2013-01-29T13:24:09-05:00 Someone else's opinion of a beautiful view Originally uploaded by doychI bike almost every day on this sunny hilltop (captured here with my iPhone). I don't know why today's excursion reminded me of a post I wrote in October of... jb Things to do when you don’t own a TV tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834522bcb69e201310f9141a3970c 2010-03-12T00:28:39-05:00 2013-01-29T12:35:19-05:00 The ex moved out, and took his 3 TVs. You don’t care. But if one day you’re in my situation–home with no TV and 5 cats, just keep in mind the following things you could be doing… Buy epoxy. It’s... jb Mom doesn't know my name * weeping * tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834522bcb69e20120a8b3cb83970b 2010-02-18T18:37:24-05:00 2013-01-29T12:15:09-05:00 If you're one of my 3 friends reading this, you know I own iPawz.com, essentially a blog for all things pet. My good friend with an active blog on all things brand often complains about PR companies sending non-personalized releases.... jb New Video: Experience and Art tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834522bcb69e2012877970952970c 2010-02-12T17:55:20-05:00 2013-01-29T12:26:05-05:00 Experience and Art from doych on Vimeo. One of my mobile phone videos, shot on 36th street, accompanied by an except from Joseph Wood Krutch's Experience and Art (1932) jb Fireflies as approach to reality tag:typepad.com,2003:post-13226480 2010-01-01T14:16:00-05:00 2013-01-29T13:18:25-05:00 It's now my favorite dog-walking time of year when fireflies are screaming in their loudest illumination. What is usually a dark, rock-tripping stutter through an empty field late at night with my greyhound is temporarily lit by what looks to... jb "Let's just be friends" tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834522bcb69e20120a67657ca970c 2009-10-25T22:09:05-04:00 2010-08-16T21:12:28-04:00 It's not every day I'm compelled to take a picture at the Shop Rite. But now I know what to serve for breakfast if I ever wake up (with bed head) next to a strange Asian man. Never mind a... jb Bicycle as an art tool tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834522bcb69e20120a5260a91970b 2009-08-27T12:34:12-04:00 2013-01-29T12:23:06-05:00 I was telling a colleague the other day that I have to keep my mountain bike in fine tune, as it has been an imperative tool with my work lately. I've been shooting with "mobile media" for over 4 years–partly... jb Sonata for a good man tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834522bcb69e20120a4fa1958970b 2009-08-16T02:36:09-04:00 2013-01-29T12:07:21-05:00 During its years as a Soviet satellite, East Germany created and maintained an organization called the Stasi. Their mission: "to know everything." Henckel von Donnersmarck's The Lives of Others (winner of the 2007 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film)... jb Andrei Tarkovsky's The Sacrifice tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834522bcb69e20120a550eeba970c 2009-08-15T23:49:27-04:00 2013-01-29T12:14:15-05:00 It figures – A man saves the world by fucking a young woman. That's essentially how our professor summed up a sneered comment made to him after viewing Andrei Tarkovsky's The Sacrifice (1986). He proceeded that with the question "so... jb Humberto Solás: Post-Revolutionary Cuban Cinema tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834522bcb69e20120a4f8b9c0970b 2009-08-15T16:43:23-04:00 2013-01-29T12:11:10-05:00 Solás's Lucía (1968) has thematic concern with the decolonization process in Cuba in its approach to showing the processes that generate social problems while leaving the resolution open to the "active" viewer. Let me attempt to get this right. The... jb A nuclear accident makes for a nightmare comedy tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834522bcb69e20120a54fdbbc970c 2009-08-15T14:47:41-04:00 2013-01-29T12:18:10-05:00 Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove - Humor in the context of impending world destruction, hypocrisy, misunderstanding, lechery, paranoia, ambition, euphemism, patriotism, and heroism. This film reminded me a bit of Buñuel's The Exterminating Angel. As Buñuel had dinner guests trapped in... jb What separates man from beast? tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834522bcb69e20120a54fbcca970c 2009-08-15T13:13:17-04:00 2013-01-29T12:12:13-05:00 Luis Buñuel’s The Exterminating Angel (1962) is a grim comedy–a view of human nature that suggests we harbor savage instincts and unspeakable secrets. Take a group of prosperous dinner guests and pen them up long enough, he suggests, and they’ll... jb No movie is made by a complete adult tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834522bcb69e20120a54e6fd3970c 2009-08-14T23:49:50-04:00 2013-01-29T13:58:24-05:00 "No movie is made by a complete adult. First of all, I don't know any complete adults." - Orson Welles "The Trial" by Orson Welles is, as we commonly see credits on screen, "based" on the novel by Franz Kafka.... jb