Jake Troth- Material Things

Love the kids in this video...

Justin Borucki

I keep finding this guys work everywhere I look, I going to start to hate him. Yet he is a good photographer, but his work had a feel that I thought seemed familiar. It did, but first let me tell you a little about "this guy". Started shooting at 16, began documenting the whole Staten Island Punk Scene, which wasn't really that big, but hey what do I know about music ( please see http://soundsfromtheblackbox.wordpress.com/ for more music info), but anyways. Check it, our boy Justin ended up moving to Brooklyn to start his career and was hired as the photo editor of Guitar Magazine and Revolver. Wait!, thats where I've seen his work, but there is something to be said about his portraits. I mean he can even make that horrible creature that is Robert Smith ( don't fucken say who, The Cure, oh that Robert Smith!) look like a human being. Plus I really like the pic of that girl from the school newspaper show on MTV, or just could be that I am a sucker for girls with glasses. Look and Love it!

Movie Posters with great portraits...

Michael MULLER... PHOTOGRAPHY...BANG!!!

On Monday Mechael Muller came to speak at Hillside, and it was freaking awesome. The man is made of stone and redbulls and his heart is all photography and Impact!. Listening to this guy makes me love photography so hard it hurts. I got out of that place wanting to shoot and punch people in the face. At one point he said that before a shoot he would take a deep breath and say to himself " I am going to murder this shoot". He reminds me of the "Powerthrist" videos on YouTube. Photography BANG!!!

Some people are just this good...

On my search for good music I found this artist. Two year ago I decided to turn off my radio, because I was just tired of all the shit that was coming out of it. What was worst is that people buy into it, all top ten albums would make me hate music. So I decide that there had to be something more. So in some of my sleepless night ( every other day) I search for music. I don't care if it's the newest thing or if it's hipester approve. I just have to like it, fuck what others thinks is the coolest sound, you know who I am talking about. Less than two years ago I came across this ep that had really soft song on it. it wasn't really what I would listen to, but I put it on a CD, along with other music. I could stop listen to that sound, it even stayed with me. So I went out and look for more of her song. Lykke Li has been around for a while and she is not a new sound. Yet the girls is amazing, I can never get tired of listen to her. Thank God for YouTube, I am able to see all kinds of videos where she just sings. Like real artist use to, in small clubs, outdoors on the street and even in a fucken bathroom. Now who can still sound good in a small room like that, she even tap a spoon on key. She use to be a dancer for a show in her country, where she danced hip hop. You can even catch her "Crumping" in one her videos. I love her music and she's also very foxy, but as an artist, she got skills.

I've been working on this series for almost a 7 months, and everytime I have a session I keep pushing my self more. I try new things, it also help that ever subject is different. So every session becomes an experience, as it was on Monday. I shot to people for the first time. Lucky for me they were a couple, this gave me so many more options. Specially, because they had no clothes, that would be hard with strangers. I continue to shoot film with it, because I want to know what more I can do with this project. I know that there is so much more that I haven't though of.

Goodbye Horses...

This is fucken funny, and it never gets old...I love how one movie can influence another in a mess up way. "Oh we totally do" says Jay, is the best line in the movie. Watch out for "Pillow Pants" that troll will get you.