sidehack_smith, originally uploaded by smoovebert.

I thought they were joking when Impakt Sidehacks impresarios Greyboy and Truly Odd said they wanted to try to do a smith grind on a picnic table on the sidehack. Minutes later, we were around the block at a local school. Unfortunately, all I had was my point-and-shoot.

These guys are nuts.

Corey Martinez behind the lens and pro skater Chris Cole on some smith grind action. If I was a skater, i would probably be irritated by bmx’ers calling this a smith grind. Actually, I was a skater back when this bmx grind came into being and I was ecstatic.

Kids are stupid.

I finally got my encinema 35 dof adapter in the mail yesterday. I say “finally” like it took a long time, but I basically ordered it Monday and received it on Wednesday, so it wasn’t that long. It seemed like an eternity however, as I was so excited to get it and start toying around with it.

What is an “encinema 35 dof adapter”, you may ask? Well, in general, a “dof adapter” allows you to mount photographic lenses onto a video camera (in my case, a consumer-model Canon Vixia HF11), allowing the camera to capture images that look less like they came out of a video camera and more like they came out of a film camera.

Essentially, the adapter threads onto the front of the camera, then I attached a Canon 35mm prime lens (f/2.0) onto the front. The Canon lens projects an image onto a piece of ground glass, then the camcorder basically focuses onto the piece of glass, and records that image, which ends up being a little softer, and with a more pronounced depth-of-field that the photographic lens provides. Essentially, the camcorder is recording a projected image, sort of telecine-like.

This is the second test, kind of noisy racking, but it looks cool. Also, there’s no post-processing here, (vignetting, etc.)all straight out of the camera. More to come!

NSM|09 #01 Filet o’ Riplets, originally uploaded by ★keaggy.com.

Olde-tyme bmx’er, erstwhile zine-maker, and author Bill Keaggy is once again celebrating National Sandwich Month by eating sandwiches every day and obsessively documenting them on his flickr feed. From the world’s largest BLT to delicious tomato and feta concoctions, if you’re anything like me, you’ll be drooling yourself silly checking out this flickr stream. BOOM.

National Sandwich Month Flickr Set by keaggy.com

july4003, originally uploaded by smoovebert.

i’m sorry. i was away in the catskills eating and drinking and shooting polaroids.

jim and sharon bauer and the wedding party. how awesome is this picture?

I like Big Macs and I cannot lie. Ran across this website in an email chain–they plan on doing “extreme makeovers on actual fast food items purchased at popular fast food restaurants”, then photographing them and posting them. Interesting concept, we’ll see how they execute as they seem to only have one entry posted at the mo’.

If you ask me, a Big Mac is real pretty in its natural state.

Fancy Fast Food.

Philip Bloom, who I must assume is some sort of (Wedding?) videographer, posted some sample footage from the Panasonic GH1 camera that is being released in June sometime. The GH1 has been getting some press lately as a viable alternative to Nikon’s D5000 and Canon’s EOS Rebel T1I, two sub-$1000 shooters that shoot HD video (Nikon at 720/30p and Canon at 1080/20p) through whatever arsenal of fast 35mm glass you have lying around, which for people invested in said glass, is a big deal. What the Panasonic is able to do vs. these cameras is utilize it’s full range of manual controls, (i.e. iris and shutter) while shooting as well as Autofocus while you are shooting. Yep, once you hit “record” on the Nikon and Canon, you’re sort of stuck with whatever exposure you started the shot with (so, say moving from dark to light will cause some overexposure), and then you’re probably not in focus anyway because then you’re moving and trying to focus properly at the same time.

Am I becoming some sort of Panasonic Lumix fanboy? I know I have been shilling for them for years (come to think of it, I even have a Panasonic Viera plasma), maybe I should have my agent give them a call.

My friend and erstwhile colleague Denise (who I lovingly refer to as Deeznütz) pointed me to this page of Peter Funch’s work at v1 Gallery, who have shown/repped Futura 2000, among others. Nice observation and quiet commentary on life and people around NYC, almost as if you were to look out at a street scene and pressed a magic “sort by” button that filtered out everything that didn’t fit with a certain attribute. Neat! Images and links after the jump.

Peter Funch

v1 Gallery

fubiz has some photos by photographer (looks czech) Dan Vojtech as well as a link to his site. Lots of good action shots with a heavy studio photographer bent.

via fubiz