If you haven't seen my multimedia presentation Pier 45 -(nearly twenty years of work at the Christopher Street Pier in New York City) check it out here.
6.30.2012
Pier 45 additions
If you haven't seen my multimedia presentation Pier 45 -(nearly twenty years of work at the Christopher Street Pier in New York City) check it out here.
6.29.2012
Play Smart
I was recently commissioned by Visual AIDS to contribute to an HIV prevention and AIDS awareness campaign. PLAY SMART is a project to help promote harm reduction, testing, and post-exposure prophylaxis among gay men. This is the third edition of the PLAY SMART series, featuring works from Amos Mac, Iván Monforte, Christopher Schulz, and myself. The trading cards come in both English and Spanish, and feature materials and information to help you play smart.
Visual AIDS is the only contemporary arts organization fully committed to HIV prevention and AIDS awareness through producing and presenting visual art projects, while assisting artists living with HIV/AIDS. They are committed to preserving and honoring the work of artists with HIV/AIDS and the artistic contributions of the AIDS movement.
Visual AIDS is the only contemporary arts organization fully committed to HIV prevention and AIDS awareness through producing and presenting visual art projects, while assisting artists living with HIV/AIDS. They are committed to preserving and honoring the work of artists with HIV/AIDS and the artistic contributions of the AIDS movement.
6.28.2012
Chip Kidd: Designing books is no laughing matter.
This Ted Talk with Chip Kidd is certainly worth checking out. He is definitely quirky and has a sense of humor (not everyone may find him funny and to some perhaps he is even a little off putting - I didn't mind) but regardless his thoughts on design are smart and thoughtful. Essential viewing for anyone interested in publishing and book design.
6.27.2012
Limited Edition Print
New Limited Edition Print to benefit the Photo Center Northwest - Get one soon as I hear they are going fast!
6.20.2012
Game of Thrones
I don't think I have ever been as into a television series as I'm into Game of Thrones. If you don't know, Game of Thrones is a series of novels by fantasy writer George R. R. Martin and has been brought to the screen by HBO - one of the few television channels producing consistently quality content. I have been talking it up with all of my friends and family. The characters are extremely rich and complex, the casting, acting, set and costume design, score, and special effects are all award-worthy. Though I have not yet read the books I would argue that the storyline and characters are far more nuanced and morally gray than Tolkien's simplified world of good versus evil. I have read a couple of critical reviews of the show in The New Yorker and New York Times, both written by female critics. In the two reviews the writers were uncomfortable with the sexuality and nudity on display in Game of Thrones and were approaching the show from feminist points of view. I don't see it that way at all. I think many, if not most of the strongest characters on the show are written for and played by females. Additionally, there is an equal amount of male nudity and male/gay male sexuality on display, even featuring full frontal male nudity. These of course are but small pleasures that are the benefit of being a fan of the show. The greatest pleasure in Game of Thrones is derived from our love and concern for the characters. The second season just came to an end and now we must wait until next spring for a new season. Watch it!
6.12.2012
Renaldi.com - Newly Corrected, Augmented, and Amended
Make sure to check out my new site. Slideshows look really sweet in fullscreen mode. The site translates nicely and navigates smoothly on an iPad or other mobile devices.
6.04.2012
Strangers in Seattle
Student work from my recent workshop on photographing strangers at The Photo Center Northwest.
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| Sean Newman |
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| Scott Squire |
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| Virginia Wilcox |
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| Janet Simmelink |
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| Dan Driscoll |
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| Jin Miller |
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| Jessica Olson |
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| Scott Squire - Class Portrait |
5.14.2012
5.09.2012
5.04.2012
behind the beautiful forevers
I just finished reading Behind the Beautiful Forevers, a marvelous book by Katherine Boo. Katherine Boo spent 3 1/2 years living in a slum in Mumbai and has written a most beautifully written and moving account of the struggles and lives of the inhabitants of an Indian undercity. The book often reads like fiction, though it is not. Boo, her interpreters, and researchers were able to get very close to some of the slum dwellers depicted in the book. In doing so she gives an original perspective and voice to poverty that is primarily through her subjects eyes. I highly recommend this book.
"What was unfolding in Mumbai was unfolding elsewhere, too. In the age of global market capitalism, hopes and grievances were narrowly conceived, which blunted a sense of common predicament. Poor people didn't unite; they competed ferociously amongst themselves for gains as slender as they were provisional. And this undercity strife created only the faintest ripple in the fabric of society at large. The gates of the rich, occasionally rattled, remained unbreached. The politicians held forth on the middle class. The poor took down one another, and the world's great, unequal cities soldiered on in relative peace." - Katherine Boo
"What was unfolding in Mumbai was unfolding elsewhere, too. In the age of global market capitalism, hopes and grievances were narrowly conceived, which blunted a sense of common predicament. Poor people didn't unite; they competed ferociously amongst themselves for gains as slender as they were provisional. And this undercity strife created only the faintest ripple in the fabric of society at large. The gates of the rich, occasionally rattled, remained unbreached. The politicians held forth on the middle class. The poor took down one another, and the world's great, unequal cities soldiered on in relative peace." - Katherine Boo
4.21.2012
4.02.2012
3.12.2012
Art 21
PBS has a fantastic series called Art 21 that has been on the air for about a decade. Since I don't own a television, I hadn't seen too much of the show. All the individual artists segments are now online. I have been working my way through a treasure trove of really well produced interviews with some of the great artists of our time. The artists (photographers included) talk about their work and process in a really straightforward manner and are presented to us thoughtfully edited with no bells or whistles. What the majority of these artists share is that the act and sometimes struggle of creating their work, whether alone in their studio or out in the streets is what truly motivates them. Good Stuff!
3.08.2012
The Radical Camera: New York's Photo League, 1936-1951
There are only three weeks left to see this fantastic show at The Jewish Museum. There are well over a hundred images documenting early twentieth century America and many are unheard-of names from photo history. It is a real treat of a show and if you haven't already seen it and are in New York City - GO!
3.06.2012
2.26.2012
Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory
This is a really interesting episode of This American Life with an excerpt from The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs. If you haven't already heard it, definitely give it a listen. We should all know the back story of our ubiquitousness Apple products.
Postscript:
Mike Daisey lied about much of the information in his monologue. This American Life has retracted the entire show. Ira Glass did the honorable thing and admitted they were wrong and should have never aired the above episode. The Retracted show is really intense and interesting. It's all really unfortunate because Mike Daisey could have still made his point by saying his show was a work of fiction. He got greedy and wanted journalistic credit too.
Postscript:
Mike Daisey lied about much of the information in his monologue. This American Life has retracted the entire show. Ira Glass did the honorable thing and admitted they were wrong and should have never aired the above episode. The Retracted show is really intense and interesting. It's all really unfortunate because Mike Daisey could have still made his point by saying his show was a work of fiction. He got greedy and wanted journalistic credit too.
2.22.2012
2.21.2012
2.14.2012
Hula
As a result of my work on 49 & 50 and my immersion into Hawaii and Hawaiian culture I recently learned about the Hula. It is really impressive - check it out...
Honolulu, Sandwich Islands, April 1866
At night they feasted and the girls danced the lascivious hula-hula - a dance that is said to exhibit the very perfection of educated motion of limb and arm, hand, head, and body, and the exactest uniformity of movement and accuracy of "time." It was performed by a circle of girls with no raiment on them to speak of, who went through with an infinite variety of motions and figures without prompting, and yet so true was their "time," and in such perfect concert did they move that when they were placed in a straight line, hands, arms, bodies, limbs, and heads waved, swayed, gesticulated, bowed, stopped, whirled, squirmed, twisted, and undulated, as if they were part and parcel of a single individual; and it was difficult to believe they were not moved in body by some exquisite piece of mechanism.
-Mark Twain
The dancing for this first video starts at about the 2'10" mark.
Honolulu, Sandwich Islands, April 1866
At night they feasted and the girls danced the lascivious hula-hula - a dance that is said to exhibit the very perfection of educated motion of limb and arm, hand, head, and body, and the exactest uniformity of movement and accuracy of "time." It was performed by a circle of girls with no raiment on them to speak of, who went through with an infinite variety of motions and figures without prompting, and yet so true was their "time," and in such perfect concert did they move that when they were placed in a straight line, hands, arms, bodies, limbs, and heads waved, swayed, gesticulated, bowed, stopped, whirled, squirmed, twisted, and undulated, as if they were part and parcel of a single individual; and it was difficult to believe they were not moved in body by some exquisite piece of mechanism.
-Mark Twain
The dancing for this first video starts at about the 2'10" mark.
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