Caslon Projects

This is a time-lapse photography project from the 2010 Mermaid Parade at Coney Island, New York. This video was edited from over 8,000 still images, photographed on a Canon 5D and a TS-24mm f/3.5 L lens. The music came from Friendlymusic.com. Thanks to Paddy Johnson and Lena Ganssmann for their help on the production side [...]

On Sunday July 27th, tens of thousands of New Yorkers took part in this year’s annual Pride March. From 5th Avenue in midtown to Christopher street in the West Village, throngs of people packed sidewalks and streets to get a view of the spectacle. As per usual with my interest in most public events, my [...]

School’s out and yesterday, the thermometer rose to a humid 98 degrees. Two blocks from where I live in Bushwick, Brooklyn, I saw these kids taking part in the urban summer ritual of playing in water from a fire hydrant.

Kurt Vile at Union Pool in Williamsburg on Friday, June 18, 2010.

The Dan Deacon Ensemble played yesterday in Red Hook Park as part of the city wide Summer Stage Series. The band cajoled the audience into a weird hula-hoop and interpretive dance ‘competition’, and unsuccessfully tried to get a couple of NYPD patrol cops to join in. If the cops weren’t having it, nearly everyone else [...]

Don Tucker is a street musician in St. John’s, Newfoundland. I took this photo on Water Street, in front of Velma’s Restaurant, where he preforms all year long, and nearly daily. The video includes a brief chat and his rendition the traditional Newfoundland folk song Mussels in the Corner.

On Monday, May 31, Israeli Defense Forces raided a flotilla of cargo ships and passenger boats carrying 10,000 tons of aid for Gaza. The operation ended with at least 10 people dead, as reported by the New York Times. Protests soon erupted around the world, and below are photos I took Monday afternoon in New [...]

The escalators at Broadway Junction in Brooklyn today:

Yesterday I chanced upon this basketball tournament at the West 4th Street Courts in Manhattan. Below are a few of the photos:

Saturday, May 22, 2010: A single afternoon of walking around New York City. From a Flea Market in Fort Greene, to Washington Square Park, the Basketball courts near West 4th station, a street party in Williamsburg, and finally to the woman sleeping on a sidewalk in Bushwick.

…shot on a Canon 5D Mk2 with an L series 35mm prime lens, set to f/1.8 at 1/800 sec., ISO 100, and neutral camera color-settings.

Lighthouse at Crow Head, Newfoundland, Canada.