Jus'Cos

I know I've neglected this blog for quite some time, but I spent a lot of time during 2014 working on a series of cosplay-themed interstitials to air on TV, titled Jus'Cos. I shot tons of interviews at various conventions, as well as at events where cosplayers would show up, and ended up creating eight one-minute interstitials. Hopefully more will be produced later on, and they can continue to hit the airwaves in the New York City area as conventions and etc. near.

The eight interstitials can be seen for the time being, until after New York Comic Con 2014 is over, on channel 25 (22, for Cablevision), within the five boroughs of New York City, and some air signal leakage into neighboring areas like parts of Jersey City and Yonkers.

To see all the interstitials, check out the videos here!

SpringFest 2014

Checked out SpringFest for the first time today, at the NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering in Downtown Brooklyn. I've heard stories, and wow, were they ever true! It was quite the disorganized mess in the very beginning. The lines didn't even start being let in until ALMOST two hours later!

Today was the first day I started shooting video interviews with cosplayers for my new interstitial series, slated to air for the Summer. Pretty chaotic, and it was just so noisy we took the interviews outdoors, but even outdoors it was windy despite the dead mouse on the microphone. So it's quite the experience, since right now I'm recording audio blindly thanks to being unable to listen to the audio until afterwards, due to the way the 5D Mark II is designed. I think next time I'll definitely have to get a lav mic for the Sony EX1 that we were using today as the B-roll camera. Anyways, got some great interviews with Koneko YourAverageNerd, Spectra Marvelous, Negative Stacey, Pixie Belle Cosplay, and Avalon Cosplay. It was also my camera man's first convention, and he was definitely blown away by the types of people he saw at the mini-convention.

Thar She Blows!

This trip out into the Atlantic Ocean was a pretty awesome one. The weather was perfect, and cool, since the City was in the middle of a heat wave, while in the Atlantic, the temperature was about 30-degrees cooler! We saw four humpback whales in the course of just a few hours, at one point one on each end of the boat.

The Phantom of the Opera

Been so busy lately, it hurts... LITERALLY!

I feel old! LOL!

Anywho, I got to shoot Lindsey Stirling's concert this past Friday in NYC at Webster Hall, and it was amazing! This entire weekend has been fun! Tiring, but fun!

That's all I have to say for now, just wanted to do a quick post. I leave you with this!

Whale Spotting

I went out onto the Atlantic Ocean this afternoon, in the hunt for humpback whales. The first one we saw was actually two, a cow and her calf, but unfortunately they eluded us. We just saw their spouts from a distance twice.

The third one we saw was about two miles off the shore of Staten Island (NY) and Sandy Hook (NJ). We spent most of the time around this one. At one point, the whale changed directions and surfaced near the bow of the ship, where we almost hit it, but it dove under. All the pics from today's adventure are of this one, except for two pics (which I haven't put up).

The last one was seen when we were returning. We spotted this one in the waters between Staten Island and Breezy Point (NY), but this one was a speed demon. Saw this one about 2-3 times, before it vanished from site.

Ulorin Vex Teaser

Been some time, but thought I'd post a quick teaser from my shoot with Ulorin Vex. I've been so swamped and busy, that I've neglected this bllog, amongst other sites *sigh*

I'm happy how the photos are coming out right now though, was so excited to be able to shoot with her (Ulorin Vex), being a fan of Emilie Autumn and all :)

When There's No More Room In Hell For The Souls Of The Dead...

Sunday I followed the NYC Zombie Crawl through the streets of Williamsburg. My photos were used on Monday by Gothamist :)

Here's a sampling, with more photos on my Flickr:

Recap of the Steampunk World's Fair

A little late, but I've been busy after my brief visit to the 3rd Annual Steampunk World's Fair! I visited the event on Saturday, and what a long Saturday it was! I was there from 11:30am to about 3:45am. It was insanely fun, and while there wasn't as many bands I was into, like the first year, I definitely had a fun time checking out the different performances, and catching up with friends, as well as making new ones!

To check out the photos, visit my Flickr set. Here's a brief sample:

Fire It Up

This weekend I was finally able to somewhat catch-up on photos. Finally cleared out many photos that were behind, so now I can focus on photos from May.

Saturday I attended a barbeque birthday party for two friends, that was titled The Paul & Kurt Show BBQ of Love, and made my awesomely-delicious watermelon-chipotle BBQ wings, which I set on fire once I arrived to finish them off. I just added half a cup of Everclear to the wings and lit them on fire before I was ready to serve, to help caramelize the sauce onto the wings and help to form a nice saucey crust.

Now I can focus on knocking out photos for Geek Girl Productions' May 2012 show, "Victorian Vixens," before the upcoming weekend for the Steampunk World's Fair.

An Update

Still catching up on photos, I have such a backlog it's not even funny :/

Switching my web site's domain and hosting to a new company, and it's been a slight nightmare, but I think it's pretty resolved for now... I think...

Got an email this morning that my flash has been repaired and en route, so hopefully I should have it next week.

Next week is the 3rd Annual Steampunk World's Fair, so yay!

Catching Up

It's been a while, but here's a brief update.

Last week I took off from my day job for my birthday vacation, which was basically a week. Setup a lot of shoots which ended up flaking out sadly, but oh well. That's the nature of the game!

Friday night was cool, my friends threw a dinner get-together, so that was nice! Afterwards we went out clubbing.

Saturday I was shooting burlesque photos for "At Last: The Blues & Burlesque of Etta James." Great show! Lovely ladies, and a nice crowd! Sadly the night went from bad to worse afterwards. When I left Arlene's Grocery, where the show was held, it was pouring rain, and to make matters worse, I received a parking ticket. Apparently the spot I chose turned into a No Standing area after 11pm, not that one could tell with the seven parking signs indicating everything but that :/

I took off to do some nightclub photography at Stimulate at the venue, Drom, which I despise BTW. I just find the layout of the venue horrendous, aside from it's high ceilings, which I appreciate at least. Anywho that became a negatory, as I damaged my flash unit once I got inside... So yeah, there went my night.

Sunday I travelled into New Jersey to do some photo shoots at Studio 212, but unfortunately three of the models flaked out, but luckily one of my friends was available last-minute, so at least I got an extra person to shoot.

Anywho, enough complaining, ranting, and what-not! Here's some preview photos from the weekend!

Wicked Faire & Emilie Autumn

I've been sick for the past two weeks, due to running myself ragged. I was uber-busy on February 18th covering day 2 of Wicked Faire in Somerset, NJ, and the Emilie Autumn concert in New York, NY (Manhattan).

Click for more photos from the Emilie Autumn concert



Click for more photos from Wicked Faire 2012

Also a lot of the photos from the Wicked Faire fashion show were picked up by TechRepublic.

Congratulations to the New York Giants!

A tad bit behind, but congratulations to the New York Giants winning Super Bowl XLVI! Here's some photos of the celebration parade:

Highlights of 2011: Part 2

This year I was allowed to shoot one of my dream bands, Within Temptation, in addition to a couple of other concerts throughout the year. Here are some of my favorite concert photos from this past year!

Highlights of 2011: Part 1

This has been a crazy year, but here's some of my favorites from 2011. Nowhere near all my favorites of this year, as these are just from private shoots. I still have some pics to finish up, or start.