Andrew Bush: Photos at 66/65 MPH

Wdnsdy Jun.25.2008 12:35pm | by lvhrd

There are three universal laws of driving: 1. The driver picks the music. 2. It always takes less time to come home than it does to get where you’re going. And 3. When you are behind the wheel of your car you are totally invisible.

Nascent Sexuality Polaroid Map

Wdnsdy May.14.2008 11:51am | by lvhrd

Igor from Driven By Boredom has created a Google Map of his hometown of Alexandria VA, full of Polaroids and personal prose marking the milestone tingly events of his younger years. Landmarks include The Bush with a Playboy Buried Under It, Sarah’s House, Topless Forest. It’s a touching project (pun intended) and a sterling example (the only example?) of storytelling with maps.

See a few of his Polaroids & statement inside the post.

Behind the scenes of Ansel Adams’ Yosemite

Mndy May.12.2008 12:19pm | by lvhrd

The New York Times has a behind-the-scenes look at some of Ansel’s most striking Yosemite photographs. Narrated by his assistant Andrea Stillman, this AV slide show offers a rare look into the methods of one of the greats.

Lilly McElroy: I Throw Myself At Men

Wdnsdy Apr.23.2008 11:50am | by lvhrd

At once ‘loving and cruel’ according to the artist, Lilly McElroy has generated a broad portfolio of performance pieces exploring the overlap of private behavior in public spaces.

One of her pieces “I Throw Myself At Men” involves the artists 1. Asking men if she can throw herself at them, and then 2. Literally jumping through the air towards them. 3. An accomplice snapping a photo of the exact moment she throttles towards their unsure, mannish embrace.

This harkens back to one of my earliest performance pieces “Restraining Order Blues,” which…

PHTHRD II Champion: Jonathan Harris

Frdy Apr.11.2008 11:46am | by lvhrd

Congratulations to Jonathan Harris on becoming the PHTHRD II Champion.

The laurels, fortune & glory, that come with winning a LVHRD Master-Disaster Duel are mostly incomprehensible and difficult for most to bear upon their shoulders. We hope Jonathan is ready.

Thank you to Elizabeth Weinberg and Joseph O. Holmes for lending your talent to our Photographer’s Duel. The completed Polaroid Mosaics look great; you can view all three in the LVHRD Photo Gallery.

Webby Nominee: The Whale Hunt

Tsdy Apr.8.2008 6:41pm | by lvhrd

Jonathan Harris‘ latest interactive opus, The Whale Hunt, has been nominated for a 2008 Best Visual Design Webby.

In May 2007 Harris spent nine days living with a family of Inupiat Eskimos in Barrow, Alaska, traveling with them as they hunted, killed, and chopped up two Bowhead whales. Harris documented the entire experience with 3,214 photographs, beginning with his cab ride to the Newark airport and ending after the second whale was so much meat on the ice.

If the experience sounds incredible, Harris’ website may the only thing that…

VOTE IN PHTHRD NOW

Mndy Apr.7.2008 4:00pm | by lvhrd

Vote for your favorite Polaroid mosaic at PHTHRD.LVHRD.COM.

The blog remains vibrant down below. Things are updating! This post will stay at the top of our little house for a few days; to help dudes find our mosaics. Tick tock ya don’t stop … blogging.

Polaroids from PHTHRD II

Mndy Apr.7.2008 12:31pm | by lvhrd

Check out Matt Spangler’s cookie sheet of Polaroids from PHTHRD II warm out the oven.

PHTHRD II: Polaroids

VDO: 058: PHTHRD II: Event

Wdnsdy Apr.2.2008 5:33pm | by lvhrd

The latest LVHRD VDO takes you on a whirlwind tour through PHTHRD II at Powerhouse Arena: the grandmas, the afghans, the thousand and one Polaroids and the blazing flashbulbs.

Save Polaroid

Wdnsdy Apr.2.2008 3:30pm | by lvhrd

Like it says, Save Polaroid before it’s too late:
On February 8, 2008, Polaroid Corporation announced that it will discontinue production of all instant film. This site will document the aftermath of this announcement and will serve as a home-base for the effort to convince another company to begin producing the cherished technology that Polaroid has so carelessly abandoned.

This site is not about saving Polaroid, the company, rather the remarkable invention of Edwin Land, the instant film that made Polaroid a household name.
Join the Flickr group and upload a Polaroid self-portrait.…

LVHRD’S PHTHRD II

Thrsdy Mar.27.2008 5:35pm | by lvhrd

March 25 2008 found us hanging afghans and applying rouge for our second Photographer’s Duel, PHTHRD II. Hundreds of Grandmas and Grandpas flowed and flashed over two floors at the Powerhouse Arena in DUMBO as we celebrated the sacred art of storytelling

THROW DOWN

Jonathan Harris, Joseph O. Holmes & Elizabeth Weinberg spent two hours shooting and creating 3′ X 3 Polaroid mosaics. One of the best parts of PHTHRD II was the way the photographers incorporated the crowd into their mosaics. The face or hand or influence of nearly everyone at the event…