Bay Area Photologgers

Selling Pants With "Art of the Everyday"

San Francisco's been inundated by lots of ad campaigns recently (remember the iTunes Shuffle and Dove takeovers of Powell St. BART station?) but my eye's been piqued by the photoblog references found in Banana Republic's "Find the Art in the Everyday" campaign.  It's a Goodby campaign, which means it (like the clothing company itself) originated here in San Francisco.

Here's an example (from NYC) of a billboard from the campaign.  Guy holding a digital camera, dwarfed by city buildings.

The "everyday" shots from the campaign tend to be at odd angles, and are suggestively cropped, with bodies akimbo, and generally look a lot to me as if they were more influenced by the type of shots I've seen on photoblogs rather than traditional fashion photography.

Michel Gondry did a little video for the campaign.

Photoblogs are very much about "finding art in the everyday". The last thing I want to do is shill for overpriced pants (I own a few pair myself) but I wanted to post this and see if/what the community thinks about these. sfgate's had a glance, but from a grammar perspective.

Apple Store SF : Rick Smolan & Digital Railroad

San Francisco, CA: Friday, Sept. 30, 6 to 8 p.m.

Learn how photographers leverage digitalrailroad.net online services to more efficiently manage, market, and sell their photography. Featuring "Day in the Life" creator Rick Smolan, photojournalist Kim Kulish and Digital Railroad CEO Evan Nisselson.

Weegee Road Trip

There's a Weegee exhibit in Los Angeles at the Getty opening this weekend.  Can't find a firm url at the Getty's site, so here's some copied text:
Scene of the Crime: Photo by Weegee
September 20, 2005–January 22, 2006
Comprising approximately seventy photographs from the Getty Museum's permanent collection, this exhibition surveys the news photography of Arthur Fellig (American, born Austria, 1899–1968), who became known in the 1930s as Weegee the Famous. Weegee (after the Ouija board game) seemed to materialize wherever news was happening, covering all aspects of Manhattan nightlife and vividly documenting the police beat. Spanning two decades of Weegee's freelance career, the exhibition is introduced with pictures by pioneering Los Angeles news photographer George Watson and his nephew Coy Watson, Jr.