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(Listen while lookin’: Colour - “Over the Moon” from their posthumous release Anthology)
A few weeks ago I went out with some friends walking around Downtown L.A. on a Thursday night. I brought the Canonet with a flash on an off-camera cord. I flashed random people on the street I thought looked interesting. I [...]

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Couple years ago I took some pics at Harvelle’s of a man named Leroy Powell.  He’s a great performer, and I was lucky to see him in a small place where I could take photos.
Leroy chatted with me afterwards, and I sent him my photos which he liked. He still likes them — one of [...]

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1. lone surfer on return, 2. level the playing field, 3. we’re not the only ones with problems, 4. fender, the gods, 5. Sinkhole!, 6. reflexive negation (happy birthday, henri), 7. Bicycle-Mounted Ringlight? [31/52], 8. Rocket Car,
9. Eye R Flickr [27/52], 10. MyNmIs, 11. Rubber Meets Road II (Anarchy), 12. can i bum a [...]

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Iooss in BlinqI picked the early nineties to really dive into baseball cards. You know, the biggest explosion of overproduction in the hobby’s long history? Nothing from those days is worth anything monetarily, but I have a lot of great memories of collecting, from mammoth card shows to card shops on every other block to [...]

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From tineye.com :
TinEye is a reverse image search engine. You can submit an image to TinEye to find out where it came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or to find higher resolution versions. TinEye is the first image search engine on the web to use image [...]

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This intersection of chance, luck, fortune and funk arose from me riding my bike in the neighborhood. I came across this cool car. I parked and whipped out the Lubitel — a plastic low-fi twin-lens-reflex camera. The camera is made for one-twenty medium-format sized film. But, I’d loaded it with thirty-five millimeter drugstore film. [...]

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A photographic negative is a powerful artifact. It carries a magic more than it’s small size and thin aspect would suggest.
It seems crazy that I’ve only been shooting film for about a year. It feels like a lifetime already. It’s been even less that I’ve been doing my own developing, and this far [...]

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Music permeates North Hollywood Arts District on the first Thursday of every month with Hear NoHo, a nascent showcase of local musicians performing in community venues spanning the community. I’d written about the series debut a few months ago. I even took photos then. My work makes up the bottom banner at HearNoHo.com. But, [...]

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Your humble photographer got some love from LAist.com writer Jeremy Oberstein when in his review of Wilco he referred to me as “the inimitable Michael Orlosky.” Clearly this was just an example if the publication’s ebullient tone run amok, but it’s nice to see.
Jeremy’s review of the show at the Wiltern even tied in [...]

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I remember tales of Serious Photographers who wouldn’t be caught dead shooting a wedding. I guess it can be considered base or mercenary. I’ve heard stories of photogs doing weddings on the weekends for money but keeping it Very Secret from their contemporaries.
Then there are some photographers I admire who do weddings for fun or [...]

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