Movies

I would like to see. These came from Ham and Heroin and Pause to Begin respectively.

Scans

I have soo many scans that I have not done anything with. I am scared to even dip my foot in the editing ocean.

© 2008 Graham Joseph Walzer

© 2008 Graham Joseph Walzer

San Francisco pt. II

A few posts ago I mentioned Young Jerks and Oscar Mendoza. Another photographer that helped organize the show is Alexander Martinez. He has a interesting website and blog. Check him out. Oh, and he's on Fjord.

Self Portraits

I dropped my glasses and threw a surprise party.

The balloons were as follows,
1 dozen plain colors
1 Harry Potter
1 Hanna Montana
1 Happy Birthday you are 10
1 First princess party

My glasses are not broken, I just have to fix them. Until then, everything has a soft focus filter.

This is for my dad...

Vehicles

Its almost here...

Night Lights

Hi Gio

Young Jerks

My buddy Oscar Mendoza whom I know from community college in Santa Monica, CA, helped organize a show called Young Jerks at Hamburger Eyes in San Francisco. They received a good write up from KQED radio station, here, in Northern California. There is also a good interview, here. Congrats Oscar, I wish I could go.

Obama!

This is crazy, Art For Obama. Auction begins October 1st 2008.
Just to name a few names, Uta Barth, Alec Soth, Larry Sultan, Peter Sutherland, Emmet Gowin, David Maisel and Todd Hido.

Tanks Ali

From the Washington DC Avedon exhibit.

Thanks pa

Thanks ma

killer cats

You probably need to watch out.

Thanks Alizul

I need to catch up on these. Here are a few from my collection. Thanks friends.

Self Portraits

Loving the cell phone camera

Damnit

Natasha's blog, Ham and Heroin has so much good content on it.

First it was this quote from Stephen King,

"The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them - words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than the living size then they’re brought out. But it’s more than that, isn’t it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you’ve said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That’s the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear."

Then it was, 1001 rules for my unborn sun with these quotes in no particular order.

“ Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race." H. G. Wells

117. Be a good listener. Don't just wait your turn to talk.

6. You are what you do, not what you say.

“ Everything I’ve ever done was out of fear of being mediocre." Chet Atkins

You are doing great, keep it up Natasha!

Crossing paths with strangers.

by the way

October 10th RIT is going to have a little visitor. And for seventeen bones I probably even see Miley Sirus. Come hang out.

Oh so silly

My old friend Natasha found me via the interwebz and I checked out her blog. I found this lovely piece of cinema.

Dad

My dad is in Africa and it sounds like he is on quite the adventure. Forget the part about writing emails from his blackberry.

Dear Family + Friends
There is no cell phone or email here. It is only reachable by bush plane. Babboon troops climb over the spacious tents. They bark and scream at certain times of the day and night. Elephants roam the ground. Hippos are 100 yrds away in the lagoon. It is so dangerous at night the guides escort the guest to their tents.

We were within feet of a lion chase and kill at wart hog, and start eating away. It pulled the intestines out like a long sausage and slurped it up. After it had its full, it brought it 2 cubs from hiding to the kill - and the have bee there for a couple of days.

Giraffes cross the endless savannah of high grass. We were in the middle of a herd of Cape Buffalo that stretched as far as the eye could see - 1000 or 5000 - too many to count.

The bird life here is abundant. I have see 75 of the 400 species that live here. Fish eagles, snake hawks, horbills, egrets ,heron, ducks, kites, Egyptian geese, bulbuls, bou bous - on and on

They have camp fires in the early morning before the game drive. They cook porridge - cream of wheat in iron pots over the fire and fresh baked muffins with coffee, tea or hot chocolate. After a 4 + hour jeep trip into the game park, we come back to brunch with yogurt, fruit salad, eggs, bacon, etc. Then high tea at 3:30 - pizza, fruit, cheese. A boat trip or evening game drive at 4pm, drinks and more hor d'oerves at some remote pool with hippos And crocs for entertainment. We return at 8:30 pm to supper - a buffet with meat veges etc and dessert, as if you need more food.
People are pretty exhausted, so after chatting, we head to bed. The staff eats dinner at long table with the guests.
I am getting used to this pace. Off to the Palace at Lost City and golf. I return on Monday eve, fly to SF on Tues, return Tues night, in the offices Tues. A.m - at least that is the plan! See you soon.
Peter
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Oh Yes!

Oh no!

Beach

I have been keeping myself quite busy with scanning and editing images I have shot over the summer. These are a few from my series on Lake Ontario.

© Graham Walzer 2008

© Graham Walzer 2008

© Graham Walzer 2008

© Graham Walzer 2008

People

In the past week I have met some extremely fascinating people. These new friends are like me in many ways, but different in countless ways more. We have talked about things I did not even know existed and expanded my mind in volumes. Meeting people that are remarkably passionate and can vocalize this is an amazing thing. It excites me to think about how these friendships will develop and the great mental discoveries that will come out of them.

Cheers to big brains and sharing the gooey stuff inside.

New Photographs

I have been scanning for a couple days at school. I have amassed some great portraits. These are the ones I just finished spotting.

Evan
©2008 Graham Walzer

Yong Chan Kim
©2008 Graham Walzer

Lovey
©2008 Graham Walzer

Luca Gabino

I found Luca Gabino from the I Thought I was Alone blog. His Southwest series is my favorite. There are a couple different series of Asia and cityscapes which are very interesting although strangely familiar.

Meeting new people

I was wandering the streets of NYC when I ran into these two stickers. They are well done photographs of interesting subjects. On each one there is a logo and website. Guilty as charged I peeled off one (sorry Alessandro) and did some research. The photographer is Alessandro Zuek Simmonetti of Italy. I really liked his work and saw he lives in New York City. I wanted to meet him and went for it. I email him on Monday and two days later we sipping coffee and fresh squeezed OJ at a Lower East Side cafe. Of all the random people I meet he was the kindest, most interesting and generous. He showed me his work on his computer and after about forty five minutes of chatting he took me up to see his apartment. He showed me his complete 16x20 black and white portfolio, gave me stickers, and peppered me with promo materials. We exchanged great information. Alessandro Zuek Simmonetti is offically awesome. Next time I'm in NYC I will buy him coffee. Thanks Ale! Check out his website for more photos, ZuekPhotography.com

© 2008 Graham Walzer

© 2008 Alessandro Zuek Simmonetti

© 2008 Alessandro Zuek Simmonetti

© 2008 Alessandro Zuek Simmonetti

© 2008 Alessandro Zuek Simmonetti

The Bowery

I stayed at The Bowery Hotel with my dad and mannn was it fantastic. We were on the 10th floor and had a view of the Manhattan skyline. If you ever get the chance to stay there, make it happen. I don't know that my cell phone pictures do it justice.

Space Invader Attacks!

Space Invader was all over NYC.

Back

I am back to school. My first day was Monday and it was great to be back at it. I felt quite nervous as anyone does on the first day back. But today is my third and I am gettting into the groove. For the next couple of postings I will be showing what I couldn't upload while in NYC.

Beautiful Losers the movie!

I have seen the book many times but now its the movie. Thanks Sis for tipping me off. Pretty please come to Rochester!



Beautiful Losers film trailer from beautifullosersfilm on Vimeo.