December 2009
6 posts
Camera Pron
I dig the look of this footage. The camera is cheap and toy like. It’ll remind you of a Holga or an 8mm. Check out the review on “Four Corners Dark”
Review : the digital harinezumi 2
Fur in my cap. Fir-Firrr in mah cap.
I'm going.
Only you.
Hmmm. Drags its heels. But it’s got a nice intro. Kinda reminds me of Chris Cunningham’s work. Mathew Barney too.
Everyday is 1 less day.
Holidays. Late night. Watching movies. It makes me want to shoot. Photos. Videos. Kinda feels like being horny, but for shooting. lol
Happy Holidays 2009
Sunday morning. Cereal. Playstation3. Beating Modern Warfare 2 & Assassin’s Creed 2, back to back. Yeah, it doesn’t get any better. So glad to have some free time on my hands. This weekend, I organized… everything. My work desk. My photography gear. My presentations. My finances. I cleaned my house. I cleaned my room. I cleaned up my iTunes. I added a bunch of apps...
November 2009
4 posts
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Howard
My brother was kind enough to host the family for Thanksgiving this year. While everyone was in the kitchen cooking, I snuck out to the living room to shoot a quick video of his cat, Howard, as a surprise thank you gift. Thanks bro!
Percieved Value
Rory Sutherland: Life lessons from an ad man “There’s your environmental solution guys… [if you want to reduce air pollution] make it mandatory for child-molesters to drive Porsches.”
Chris Anderson on FREE: The Future of Radical Price “The underlying economics of digital… it costs almost nothing… it only gets cheaper [over time]… ...
24/7
My photography website now has live streaming, real-time video… fed directly from my Motorola DROID camera. http://Live.DerrickGomez.com
Black Eyed Peas' TABOOxJUMP
Photography by: www.DerrickGomez.com View Series: TabooxJUMP.DerrickGomez.com
October 2009
7 posts
Time Lapse of the Mac World Cover Shoot
This video is awesome. Check out the cool stop motion “camera moves”. hah. It also makes me want to shoot photos real bad. Look at all the toys. lol
I’ve been shooting a lot of still life photography lately. I like it because it simplifies photography down to its core elements: Subject. Camera. Light. That’s it! There’s something nice about that. Ok....
P.S.22 x Jay-Z / RiRi / Yeezy
Woah… My old grade school, P.S.22, has a popular youtube video!??!? That’s so cool. And lol @ the S.I. accents. Hahahah.
I remember sitting in those auditorium chairs. They made us sing the traditional school song which went: (ahem) “PS 22… give a helping hand… brotherhood and future good, peace throughout the land.” lol
"Ways of Seeing"
Have you ever revisited your childhood bedroom or an old grade school classroom? These places tend to look a lot smaller than you remember them, but they haven’t physically changed in size. So why do they look different?
The video above claims that you don’t see with your eyes, you see with your mind. Sight is created through associations between what your eye senses and your...
R.I.P. Irving Penn
“Irving Penn, one of the 20th century’s most prolific and influential photographers of fashion and the famous, whose signature blend of classical elegance and cool minimalism was recognizable to magazine readers and museumgoers worldwide, died Wednesday morning at his home in Manhattan. He was 92.” VIA NY TIMES http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/08/arts/design/08penn.html?_r=1
Lady GaGa X Araki
Araki is a photographer’s photographer. He has published more photography books than any other photographer in history, because he shoots non-stop, every waking moment, every chance he gets, as if his life depends on it.
So 3000 and 8
This week, I’m shooting a fashion project / collaboration between Taboo from the Black Eyed Peas and JUMP shoewear. They are launching a new luxury product that will be selling in Saks this month. More details / photos to follow… In the meantime, check out this crazy video of BEP on Oprah. It starts out slow, but it gets good.
No camera? No problem.
You know… I rarely photoshop any of my work. Not because I have anything against photoshop or photographers that love photoshop. I just don’t like being front of a computer monitor. And I love good old fashioned camera work and lighting. “Do what you love.”, the key to happiness, right? That said though, photography’s always been a technology dependent art. And...
September 2009
6 posts
Art is a lie that reveals the truth.
The ‘Secret Photography’ of Taryn Simon There’s always 3 sides to a story. Your side. My side. And the truth. But you only know your side. And I only know my side. And no one can ever really know the absolute truth.
Digging around multiple sources of information will get you the closest approximation to the truth. And there in lies the value of documenting things...
FOR SALE : CANON 5D
The Canon 5D is a Full Frame Digital SLR, popular among professionals in all photography fields: Fashion, Advertising, Photojournalism, Weddings and Portraiture. It’s my back up camera, it’s in excellent condition, and it takes beautiful photographs. There are some newer cameras on the market, specifically the 7D, 40D and of course the 5D mark ii. The mark ii is awesome, but...
Harvard Yard on the front page of NY Times :...
Photography by Derrick Gomez
READ THE HARVARD YARD ARTICLE HERE : http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/fashion/06harvard.html HARVARD YARD
Passion Blinds All Logic
"Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish."
Canon 5D mark ii VS Canon 7D
Spoof video with lots of photography humor. Funny as hell if you’re a shooter. lol
The waiting list for the Canon 5D mark ii is ridiculously long (about 6 months or more at any given camera store). And I know plenty of people on the waiting lists just frothing at the mouth for it. I can’t imagine waiting that long, paying almost $3,000, settling for 30p HD video… and when you...
August 2009
3 posts
"Create like a god. Command like a king. Work like...
- Cited from the book “Rules for Revolutionaries” Having multiple jobs kind of feels like being back in college, you know, like when you had to study a lot of different subjects simultaneously and learn how to budget your time, energy and brain power. Right now, I’m taking 4 art classes, a marketing class, a business class, a creative writing class and a boxing phys ed....
DISTRICT 9
MY REVIEW : (WARNING MASSIVE SPOILERS AHEAD) District 9 is great. I loved the countless subtle visual details, innovative storytelling and nerdy humor. It’s not perfect by any means, but its a strong first feature film effort from visual effects artist turned promising film director Neill Blomkamp. The cinematography is mixed media using a variety of image formats and cameras: 35mm...
Tone Matrix
via http://lab.andre-michelle.com/tonematrix
July 2009
9 posts
GOLDSPUN WEB LAUNCH
I shot all the photography & video content for the brand new Goldspun website. Take a look!
http://www.Goldspun07.com
RECURSIVE DREAM
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CAROUSEL
Directed by Adam Berg Winner of the Cannes-Lions 2009 Film GRAND PRIX
FIND THE FILM. DON'T MAKE THE FILM.
I once met Christopher Doyle. He was hanging out in a bar in the East Village surrounded by NYU film students, spouting a diatribe on the role of color in photography. Brilliant guy. Really.
MTV Premiere - Blitz the Ambassador "Breathe"
BOATS
Some home video & snaps from the last vacation
July 4th, 2009 - New York City
MMMMMM.... GENIUS.
Michael Bay’s Transformers 2 broke box office records by generating $390.4 million worldwide in 5 days. Most of Bay’s films are unprecedented financial successes (Pearl Harbor, Armageddon, The Rock, Bad Boys 1 &2, Transformers, etc) despite being universally panned by film critics. “The Island” is the one stand out film from Michael Bay that was well written, with...
SUMMER BLOCKBUSTER MOVIE REVIEWS
There’s a lot of bad movies out right now. Most of them were written during the writer’s strike and are the products of underdeveloped scripts. But I’ve been watching ‘em all anyways, ‘cause I’m a sucker for a summer blockbuster. Here are my quick reviews: Star Trek: 9 out of 10 Damn Good. Like… Indiana Jones original trilogy good. Or seeing the first...
May 2009
2 posts
Goldspun Photo Shoot Preview
Been shooting all day. Just got home. Shooting again tomorrow morning in 8 hours. But before I sleep, here’s a quick preview of the pics. NOTE: These photos are straight out of my camera. I don’t have time to color correct or photoshop the shots (have to wake up soon…). So the whites and blacks all need to get callobrated, etc. But you get the idea. (Click on the images for...
Open Source Enterprise & Creativity
Sat down for brunch yesterday with my good friend Ryan. He runs his own medical bio-tech company out in MA. He’s in town visiting for the weekend, and it was a great opportunity to hang out in the LES, break bread, and exchange ideas about how to further streamline the internal admin processes of our respective businesses using open source communication. Here is a basic example. Say...
April 2009
18 posts
Prep for Prep 9
I received a phone call tonight from Katy Bordonaro, the director of Alumni Affairs @ Prep for Prep 9. She was just checking in to see how I’m doing, and wanted to catch up and find out what I’ve been working on.
Prep for Prep 9 is a non-profit educational organization that is privately financed by donors who are interested in giving gifted inner city youth opportunities to...
NOOKA
Photography by NOOKA My good buddy, Matthew Waldman, invited me over this afternoon to check out what he’s been cooking up in his design laboratory. Matthew is the CEO / creative director behind (the at times Kanye-blogged) design company named NOOKA.
His studio was sort of like a toy factory. I saw a lot of products and what-nots being tinkered with. NOOKA is mostly known for its...
LookAtThisFuckingHipster.Tumblr.com
HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH The last time I was in Los Angeles, I had an epic night of costume party fun with my friend Mandy Ma, author of the pretty nerdy pretty nerd fashionista site ZipperCut.com.
As you can see, Mandy and I went as a pair of turtles. And somehow we ended up on the front page of LookAtThisFuckingHipster.Tumblr.com. That website is designed to make fun of pretentous hipster fashion...
E.Factor
Stopped by 60 Thompson today to grab lunch with the crew and some friends, the principle partners over @ E.Factor : Adrie Reinders, Marion Freijsen & Rodney Sampson, minus their fourth principle, Roeland Reinders. They were in town visiting from Amsterdam, except for Rodney, who was in from Atlanta. Adrie Reinders is quite an interesting fellow, a quirky jokester, judo practitioner and a...
April Showers
Man. It’s raining in NYC. I feel like pulling out a gloomy photo from my archives. JAPAN WALKABOUTS: Kyoto Fog
"Happiness is not a goal. Its a by-product." -...
“University of Michigan psychology researchers: Marc Berman, John Jonides & Stephen Kaplan found memory performance and attention spans improved by 20 percent after people spent an hour interacting with nature. …Interacting with nature can have similar effects as meditating,” Berman said. …people are far more likely to be satisfied with their lives when their...
"What is the worst mistake a photographer can...
My agent, Jacqueline Bovaird, asked me this question the other day. Here is my answer:
“The worst mistake you can commit as a photographer is to rely on your technique, rather than your taste. Great lighting and camera work are fundamentals, but in relying on them you risk producing repetitive work. You risk being a trend. Good photography requires vision. Read books. Attend concerts....
Armani Set
My friend was shooting a commercial for Armani this weekend. He invited me on set to check it out. Gotta say, the shots looked beautiful. Very inspirational. And educational. Heh. Thanks buddy! That’s him on the right. Me on the left.
Walkabouts.DerrickGomez.com (Beta)
I’ve spent the past week playing around with redesigns for my “Walkabouts” website: Walkabouts.DerrickGomez.com. This is what I’ve settled on. I feel really good about the general infrastructure. So now it’s time to plug in more photography content, and let it live. Check it out. And visit often.
GOLDSPUN
I’m in preproduction on a multimedia campaign for GOLDSPUN. With my good friends over at TheEggRepublic.com doing the new media. Psyched. GOLDSPUN is a high end denim line that is popular with the likes of Usher, Lil’ Wayne and Chris Breezy. Go Go Go.
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WatchFur in my cap. Fur fur in my cap.
