Law Journal and other things from the past week.

Update

^^^^This week I shot a portrait for a Law Journal. I'll post a tear when it comes out.
I was happy with the lighting in these two. It feels natural and I was able to shoot at a fairly open aperture and render the crazy colors in his house. I am constantly trying to get less light out of my strobes these days. I often turn them to the weakest setting and bagging the front of them with white bags to dim and soften the light.

^^Did more portraits for iWalk this week too. This was my favorite.



^^It's been a crazy winter in New England this year. Here are a couple early morning pictures from around my house.

American Craft

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I have pictures hanging in AMERICAN CRAFT in Brookline.
The beer menu looks amazing and I have shamefully not been there yet.
If you want to go have a beer, email me. Thanks Remi

Winter Lodola 235 motor project.

Moto Guzzi Update



I have 2 motors apart in my basement right now. A beat and tired motor that came in my recent purchase (bad big and small end bearings, scorched piston and main bearings have tons of play) and a relatively nice parts motor that came along side it. It is cold and quiet around here so I have had time to pull them both apart and find the best parts from each and try to get a good motor together by spring. The photos of the cleaner motor has a pile of black mud that I scraped out of the parts motor. I couldn't believe how much came out of it. I used some old clay tools I had laying around to scrape the cases. With the exception of some strange JB weld or alum-a-weld blob by the oil screen I think this thing is in good shape. Trip to the machine shop in the next couple weeks and things will start to go back on soon. Not sure anyone is interested but I will post updates as the snow flies. Hi Brian and Todd.

My ladies

Technology Review Tear Sheet

Recent tear sheet from the Feb issue of Technology Review. Read the Article here. Also, cool article in the magazine about the future of TV, and dealing with robotic co-workers.

Shortest day of the year 12/21/10

Congratulations on making it to the shortest day of the year everyone. It only gets better from here. It will be spring before we know it.
I had a few ideas for a Holiday card for my clients this year and I thought I'd share them.
My good friend Joe helped me again this year. (thanks Joe) First we wrapped him in xmas lights and went to a abandoned corner near Davis Sq. to make a picture about a person lost/overwhelmed in the strange spirit of the Holiday. I wasn't happy with the image all said and done so we went into the studio a week later for the boxing glove photo. I thought this represented the way the holidays snuck up on me this year (this was the one I ended up printing). The last portrait I just thought was a funny outtake.
Happy Holidays to anyone reading this.

A walk in the woods.

Thanks to a tiny tick for my recent week of 103 degree fevers.
The photos of the walk in the woods a few posts back gifted me with a deer tick that gave me Lyme disease.
Here is my t-shirt idea. Anyone?

Boston Magazine December Issue

Here are a couple photographs from a shoot last month of Rich Minor of Google.

D, Tech Review, iWalk, Birthday and Fall light.

Art Show.

Nice fall light



Birthday. My little lady is 4 now. Time flies. We rented a jumping castle and invited neighbors and classmates. She was glowing.

The thing just fit in our little Somerville acres.

Thanksgiving walk.

D's friend Charlotte

Cyrus. Best ball chaser, paws down. I could throw them until my arm fell off. He would come back for more.

Couple outtakes from a recent shoot for Technology Review magazine.
Matthew Meyerson. His lab is using genetic sequencing to identify cancer. Very interesting and nice person.


I also shot some photos of the heads of a local company called iWalk started by Hugh Herr.
They are developing a new kind of robotic foot called the PowerFoot BiOM. Very passionate people and an amazing product.

Pictures of the new "project"

1959-61 Moto Guzzi Lodola 235 GT
Impulsive eBay purchase that turned into more of a project than the "good runner" it was described as by the California seller.
Motor comes out and mysterious bottom end noise gets investigated. Long list of things to attend to before the spring Giro.

Boston Magazine Shoot

Had a shoot last week for Boston Magazine. My friend Joe helped me out on it. Here is a test shot. I will post images from the article when it comes out.

850-T Sold

The 850-T went to a good home not too far from my own. A guy from Somerville bought it and I hope to still see it (and hear it) around town. Paul is a great guy and the perfect owner. Still waiting on 235 to show up from California. Should be here Tuesday. (sorry about the iPhone photos)

Fall

Here are a couple recent photos of D from a walk around Walden Pond with Jen and Leah.

D picked the last of the carrots from our tiny garden.

Halloween practice at Somerville ave parade. (Strawberry Shortcake)

Took a short ride with Bill to Vanilla Bean for Guzzi gathering.
This is by the Blackstone River in Uxbridge.

Out with the old........

....in with the older (and smaller). I am selling my beloved '75 850-T to fund the recent purchase of a '62 Moto Guzzi 235. If you are interested in it send me an email. It's on Craigslist now and if nobody takes it I'm putting it on eBay next week.

Steam and Internal Cumbustion live in harmony one fall day.

Took a ride this past weekend with Joe in his beautiful 1969 FuryIII to Rhode Island to attend the Yankee Steam Up followed by an American Car show in the next town over.





The Steam up is an event I had heard about from my friend Scott a couple years back and have wanted to go since. People bring homemade steam engines to set up and run on display. Some run on actual steam provided by the organizers and some run off compressed air. The museum itself has a collection of steam engines big and small from the late 1800's on display and running. Other interesting things on site that day, homemade steam powered motorcycle, 2 steam powered boats, a radial airplane motor in the back of a pickup truck that was trying to start, mountain bike with honda 35cc motor with tons of handmade inventions by Steve ridden from Dedham Ma.

Methanol



steam table