Thursday, March 2, 2017
Lovely trailer court between Flower and Grant Rd. We turned pink and orange for a whole five minutes as the sun dropped.
Tags: Street of This Town , Tucson Salvage , Image
Wednesday, March 1, 2017
Found this motorcycle graveyard in a neighborhood behind Grant Road and Alvernon.
Tags: Streets of This Town , Tucson Salvage , Image
Tuesday, February 28, 2017
I met this guy Dan at Navajo near Stone Ave. He was selling is lovely blue-nose pit Romeo for $200. I didn't have $200.
Tags: Streets of this Town , Tucson Salvage , Image
Thursday, February 16, 2017
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
1. Tucson Fashion Week
Tucson Fashion Week may be over, but that doesn't mean that the fabulous photos have to stop. All throughout the year they post glamorous and high quality shots that would make any fashion lover proud.
2. Tasting Tucson
For all my Tucson foodies, this is the account for you. From sweet to savory, from fast food to high end, Tasting Tucson has the posts to make your stomach grumble.
Friday, July 22, 2016
Photos by Scott Smith, who had the most massive stash of comics I'd ever seen in my life when I met him in the sixth grade at Lineweaver Elementary.
By the way, if you want a chance to celebrate geek culture at a cooler time of the year, the Phoenix Comicon folks now have a fall event, the Phoenix Fan Fest, coming up Oct. 22-23. Learn all about it here.
Tags: comic con , cosplay , Phoenix Fan Fest , Slideshow
Friday, April 15, 2016
With the UA's spring commencement ceremonies rapidly approaching, it's rare to pass by the iconic Old Main building without seeing a photo session in progress. Today, 90 AVID students from Spring Valley High School in Las Vegas, Nev. pose for a group photo on the stair case. The students, chaperoned by 10 parent and teacher volunteers, visited four campuses across Arizona this week to give students a feel for the differences between public and private, small and large universities.
Tags: UA , University of Arizona , campus , Old Main , group photo , AVID , high school students , college visit , Spring Valley High School
Tags: lizard , reptile , Arizona wildlife , UA campus , rocks
Thursday, December 17, 2015
Robots! Books! Sea Monkeys! Local art! This is where we're shopping today. Brighten someone's holiday season and shop local with a visit to perennial Best of Tucson winner Yike's Toys, 2930 E. Broadway.
Monday, November 2, 2015
Burlesque is a big deal locally. Now, Tucson Burlesque is (hopefully!) coming to you in book form.
Steve McMackin (you might know him as the art director behind Edible Baja) is a photographer intimately familiar with the Old Pueblo's burlesque scene:
In October 2010, Black Cherry Burlesque asked me to photograph their 2010 Halloween show. It was a ton of fun, and a real technical challenge to photograph the performers. So I came back for their next show... and the next... and the next… after 5 years, 150,000 photos, 1,100+ acts, 150+ performers and 50+ shows it's time to bring these photos off of Facebook and into the real world. This is the best of the best: about one photo per one thousand taken is being selected for inclusion in the book.Honestly, just watch his video about the project. The photos are beautiful.
The book's existence depends on how its Kickstarter goes, and the fundraising effort has a bit of ground to cover: McMackin has set the goal for $22k and the deadline for Dec. 1.
Ambitious? Absolutely—but there is good reason:
My photos have until now only been seen on Facebook, whose compression algorithms do awful things to photos. Even in print, most people do digital printing for short-run books, which doesn't have the sharpness or deep blacks that will really make these photos shine.
So we are going for the gold and are getting the book printed at an offset press, with CMYK plates, with careful color checking, in a nice thick hard-bound book. If we get funded, we'll start with a 9" x 12" book at 160 pages, but if we meet a few stretch goals, we can get a larger, 12" x 12" book with 200 pages for the same price.
This is going to be a really nice book that you can leave on the living room table. I've picked out a few thousand of my favorite photos, and as soon as the kickstarter funds I'll start designing it. I'm also planning on writing a little about some of the photos and telling some interesting stories, but the focus is burlesque performances.
Tags: Tucson Burlesque , kickstarter , photography , Black Cherry Burlesque , local business , tucson business , tucson photography , celebrate the body , keep tucson sexy , rhinestone pasties , Video
