Last week I attended an event at Milk Studios for The Macallan & Albert Watson Present: Masters of Photography: A Journey.

The series is a limited edition set of special Masters of Photography bottles of Macallan paired with platinum prints.

photo courtesy of Angela Pham

I actually got a chance to chat with him  about the photos during his journey between Spain and Scotland, while enjoying the 18 year old scotch (responsibly of course)

” The Macallan came to me with the incredible story of the Spanish sherry oak casks used to make their single malt and asked me to interpret this as a photographic art project. The freedom and encouragement given to me allowed the creation of a visual journey demanding complete artistic integrity.” - Albert Watson

By the way, Albert Watson was born in Scotland and doesnt drink…lol

His work speaks for itself. He is probably best known for this photo of Alfred Hitchcock

Among others

Monkey and Gun

Naomi Campbell

This is me drinking responsibly.

check out the prints from the series by clicking here

Check out this behind the scenes interview

The Masters of Photography – Behind the scenes of the Albert Watson Edition from The Macallan on Vimeo.

BlackBook
October 2010

the cult of
christina ricci

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Blackbook Magazine: a sophisticated, intelligent, and visually striking journal of progressive culture. Through coverage of the arts, film, music, fashion, politics, and lifestyle, BlackBook amplifies the more daring impulses in pop culture, tapping into the underground and bringing it just shy of the mainstream.

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English | PDF | 100 pages | 19.70 MB

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Last week I stopped by the Comixology HQ and met  creators Steve Ellis and David Gallaher, Jake and Taylor from comiXology’s  to celebrate the release of the Red 5 Comics’ graphic novel!
Refreshments were  served, including Dan Holiday’s favorite drink!

(Vodka, Cran and Ginger Ale)

Overall a pretty good time, I even met comic book legend Jim Lee!

I downloaded the digital version of the comic on my Iphone and enjoyed the story and artwork-it is loosely based on 1947 radio show of the same name.

Click here to download the first chapter on Iphone

There were some surprises as you can see from the pic-Stay tuned!

If you don’t have an Iphone-you can check out the entire first chapter online here-

http://www.comixology.com/digital/561/Box-13-1

The complete 124 page Graphic Novel is in stores now!

Now we will count to twelve
and we will all keep still.

This one time upon the earth,
let’s not speak any language,
let’s stop for one second,
and not move our arms so much.

It would be a delicious moment,
without hurry, without locomotives,
all of us would be together
in a sudden uneasiness.

The fishermen in the cold sea
would do no harm to the whales
and the peasant gathering salt
would look at his torn hands.

Those who prepare green wars,
wars of gas, wars of fire,
victories without survivors,
would put on clean clothing
and would walk alongside their brothers
in the shade, without doing a thing.

What I want shouldn’t be confused
with final inactivity:
life alone is what matters,
I want nothing to do with death.

If we weren’t unanimous
about keeping our lives so much in motion,

if we could do nothing for once,
perhaps a great silence would
interrupt this sadness,
this never understanding ourselves
and threatening ourselves with death,
perhaps the earth is teaching us
when everything seems to be dead
and then everything is alive.

Now I will count to twelve
and you keep quiet and I’ll go.

-from Full Woman, Fleshly Apple, Hot Moon
Translated by Stephen Mitchell

Thank you NYAZE!via Facebook

We are the last.
The last generation to be unaugmented.
The last generation to be intellectually alone.
The last generation to be limited by our bodies.

We are the first.
The first generation to be augmented.
The first generation to be intellectually together.
The first generation to be limited only by our imaginations.

-Ray Kurzweil

In case your forgot and want to skip ahead to St. Patricks, Easter and getting
mothers day flowers
Most people think of celebrating Black History Month starts with slavery or the civil rights era…

To trace the importance of the African heritage one must go back millions of years. Evidence has accumulated to the effect that Africa is the cradle of mankind. Professor Louis Leakey argues that Africa was important in the development of mankind in three ways.

First, some thirty or forty million years ago, the basic stock which eventually gave rise to both man and the ape came into existence in the vicinity of the Nile Valley.

Second, some twelve or fourteen million years ago, the main branch which was to lead to the development of man broke away from the branch leading to the ape.

Third, about two million years ago, in the vicinity of East Africa, true man broke away from his now extinct manlike cousins. The present species of man-Homo Sapiens–developed through a complex process of natural selection from a large number of different manlike creatures-hominids.

(from The Black Experience in America by Norman Coombs Originally published by Twayne Press in 1972)
You can download or view the entire book here. or if you into ebooks like me,
here is a version you can download for you pda (Treo). (use ereader for best results)

I recently began consulting on some high-end technology projects in the Wall Street area.

Slaves built the walls of Wall Street, which makes me think differently when it comes to
precious metals quotes or stock option investing

I recently came across some Jim Crow laws that were enforced from the 1880s into the 1960s:
Nurses No person or corporation shall require any white female nurse to nurse in wards or rooms in hospitals, either public or private, in which negro men are placed. Alabama

Buses All passenger stations in this state operated by any motor transportation company shall have separate waiting rooms or space and separate ticket windows for the white and colored races. Alabama

Railroads The conductor of each passenger train is authorized and required to assign each passenger to the car or the division of the car, when it is divided by a partition, designated for the race to which such passenger belongs. Alabama

Restaurants It shall be unlawful to conduct a restaurant or other place for the serving of food in the city, at which white and colored people are served in the same room, unless such white and colored persons are effectually separated by a solid partition extending from the floor upward to a distance of seven feet or higher, and unless a separate entrance from the street is provided for each compartment. Alabama

Pool and Billiard Rooms It shall be unlawful for a negro and white person to play together or in company with each other at any game of pool or billiards. Alabama

Toilet Facilities, Male Every employer of white or negro males shall provide for such white or negro males reasonably accessible and separate toilet facilities. Alabama

Intermarriage The marriage of a person of Caucasian blood with a Negro, Mongolian, Malay, or Hindu shall be null and void. Arizona