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The University’s Engineering Research Center, designed by PostModernist Michael Graves. I always love shooting buildings at night – the lights in the windows just cause them to glow with a vitality that oddly seems asleep during a bustling business day.
I took this shot from the twelfth floor of Daniels Hall
Newport, Kentucky sits just opposite Cincinnati on the Ohio River. It has a certain quaintness that Cincinnati seems to have abandoned somewhere along the way.
Originally, I was driving to the Riverfront to shoot the Cincy skyline, but this house asked to be photographed, with such picturesque lighting. I’m glad that I stopped, for I found some other shots that I would not have had I sped by in a car.
Another event with more of a practical purpose is the Dawn Patrol. A series of balloons are sent up an hour before dawn to test wind conditions at various altitudes. Hot air balloons are incredibly sensitive to changes in the weather, and sending a thousand into the air – surrounded by 10,000 spectators – requires a few precautions.
While I was working at a lighting design firm in Manhattan, one of our clients had a gallery on the Upper East Side, and every time he had a new show, we would go to light the exhibit.
Once we were called in to light the work of an English abstractionist John Walker. He came in to see how his paintings looked, and stayed to chat a bit.
A few weeks later, I took a bus to DC to visit my Cincinnati roommate, who was co-oping there. We headed over to the Philips Collection to see the Modigliani exhibit there, and John Walker had a number of pieces in the permanent collection. Here’s an example of one
My second quarter spent co-oping in New York City, I lived with four fellow UC students. As would be expected from students of one of the top Architecture and Interior Design schools in the country, all were quite creative in decorating the place. Much of the furniture was found on the street, yet still maintained a consistent (albeit evolving) theme for the place. My roommate Alan was buying dishes from IKEA when he came up with this concept for inexpensive art work. One of the sixteen cardboard cutouts refused to stay on the wall, so we resolved to replace it with a clock. Of course, we didn’t have a clock, so a wristwach made for a good substitute.
