eric2019

When you get to the city, stop at a newstand and look through the magazines there. Find out which one matches your style. Then call them up and introduce yourself. If you're a foreigner, they'll able to usually meet the same day or the next day - they're always interested in visiting photographers. Japan may be a bit harder...at least the French and Germans speak English somewhat...

I managed to get a meeting with Vogue when I was in Paris just by saying "Hello my name is etc,etc and I'm a photographer from etc,etc visiting just for a few days, I like to come by and show you my book, etc, etc...."

I called around noon and got a meeting for 4 o'clock.....of course I got shot down in a nice way but well, if you're in Paris, why not call Vogue and meet their assistant editors ?

Good luck !

E

What's buggin' my ears now :

Telefon Tel Aviv - Map of What is Worthless

Klute - Fear of People

Sidestepper - 3 am : In Beats We Trust

KLF - White Room

Edited by eric2019 on May 1, 2005 at 11:26 PM

Uhm. That's about it. If shipping stuff like DVDs, CDs or books you can use Media Rate which will cut down the cost by about a half but can take up to 21 days to get to the destination.

Try usps.com, fedex.com and ups.com and punch in some figures to get some idea.

What's buggin' my ears now :

Telefon Tel Aviv - Map of What is Worthless

Klute - Fear of People

Sidestepper - 3 am : In Beats We Trust

KLF - White Room

Rent's a bit cheaper in the Valley but you'll have to cross over the 101 or Laurel Canyon to get into LA proper. Like mention before it really depends on what you'll be doing and where you'll be working. I currently live in K-town (Korea Town) where rent used to be cheap but they'll getting on up nowdays. A lot of folks have discovered this part of town and I'm getting architects, photographers and other more design-oriented folks in my building.

For me it's a good middle ground for me. My office in downtown is either 15 minute drive to the east, Miracle Mile 10 minutes to the west, Hollywood 15 minutes up north. Silverlake's 15 minutes NE......

Expect to pay about $1,000 average for a one bedroom unless you're more in the shady parts of town.

If you need more details, feel free hit me back.

Cheers,

E

What's buggin' my ears now :

Telefon Tel Aviv - Map of What is Worthless

Klute - Fear of People

Sidestepper - 3 am : In Beats We Trust

KLF - White Room

I'm itching to get back on the travel tip and heard about the air courier thing. I've read up on some books and did some research but looking for real folks whom done this...or if you know someone who has done this.

Thx

E

What's buggin' my ears now :

Telefon Tel Aviv - Map of What is Worthless

Klute - Fear of People

Sidestepper - 3 am : In Beats We Trust

KLF - White Room

Dee,

If you're into drum & bass, you should check out Fabric - in fact for drum & bass fanatics, this is the place to go - their line-ups always amazing. Bear in mind I'm from the States and the lineup at Fabric would be a line-up at a all-day festival here so I'm biased.

Their site is www.fabriclondon.com. Nearest station is Farrington. And when you stumble out into the streets at 6 am, there's a spot right across the tube entrance to get some bakery goodies for jumping on.

I'm also a big fan of Wagamama . It's a nicely design "casual" Asian spot with locations all over the UK, Australia, one in Amsterdam but none in States yet - curses ! The chicken's good there and dinner's pretty cheap - you can get out for about 10. Their site is www.wagamama.co.uk for locations.

Anyone else ?

E

What's buggin' my ears now :

Telefon Tel Aviv - Map of What is Worthless

Klute - Fear of People

Sidestepper - 3 am : In Beats We Trust

KLF - White Room

I have the same problem in my field - there are X amount of photographers and X amount of companies/magazines/designers using photographers. Every year there are hundreds of new photographers on the scene - LA has two photography school pumping out newbies every semester.

The problem is anybody can be a photographer from the actor who does photography on the side to the designer who does photography on the side. I can't tell you how many times I get "Oh, you're a photographer ? So what is your day job ? " .....uh..there is no ... day .... job - this is all I do... last time I had a client ask me question, I just look blankly at her and said "Huh ? What do you mean day job ? "

It doesn't help that in a strange way photography is killing itself with dayrates and "copyright free" photography and just really bad contracts that newbies signed just to get their foot in the door and in the process shooting him/herself in the foot.

Of course this clears the field but at the same time fees haven't changed much in 20 years if you can believe it....

sorry for my rant but a life of a photographer ain't what it's all crack up to be....

e

Oh, if you want to hear more tired phrases/cliches spoken in the photography industry, click to this forum :

http://www.pdngallery.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=002015

What's buggin' my ears now :

Telefon Tel Aviv - Map of What is Worthless

Klute - Fear of People

Sidestepper - 3 am : In Beats We Trust

KLF - White Room

Nope, a beautiful disaster though....

I had a feeling about that from reading forum boards but sometimes I can't resist watching these. They never mention a good portion of this film is CGI characters that don't look very real at all - but I believe the intention was to give it more of a graphic novel/comic book feel which unfortunatley did not work in this context of film. Many situations weren't fully explain and I wish there was more backstory to let us the audience - especially those who didn't follow the books - what the deal was.

e

What's buggin' my ears now :

Telefon Tel Aviv - Map of What is Worthless

Klute - Fear of People

Sidestepper - 3 am : In Beats We Trust

KLF - White Room

Yeah, I''ve heard the news on that flick but the eye candy factor is high for me......it'll probably be like Underworld. Looks great in the commerical, sucks big time on film. Gone through IMDB and read some of the reviews but hey, I figured I'm in Paris, but as well go catch it and see what the movie experience is like here.

I actually found this trailer through a Tokyo blog. Also coming out is that Appleseed flick which should be out now in Japan I believe....

e

What's buggin' my ears now :

Telefon Tel Aviv - Map of What is Worthless

Klute - Fear of People

Sidestepper - 3 am : In Beats We Trust

KLF - White Room

Thanks yáll for the suggestions.

I went to Brentano and check out their selections - actually found a copy of URB magazine, first time I've seen it out here in Paris.

My research is simple. I'm hitting the magazines based here to introduced myself as a photographer based in LA. Of course all the big celebrities will get their big photographers but

if there's a new up and coming guy/gal, I can do it. I'm also interested in fashion and so I'm digging for magazines I can't find in the US so I can get the address and go a-calling.

Basically you look better if you got tearsheets from outside the US. Like Hal Hartley, you get no respect at home but overseas. I've gone to a couple today - MAX, Le Magazine Double. drop my book off at Gloss, gonna recall Jalouse tomorrow, blah. blah, blah....whomever will hire me !

And of course if I can find photography books I can't get at home or Amazon.com, even more the better !

If you're curious about my work, see www.optiknerve.com - there's a temp page up with most of the stuff that is in my book.

Oh, if you think you have a suggestion of a magazine I should go see here (based upon what you see in my gallery), please, let me know ! I'll be town for a few more days pounding the pavement.....

I knew I could get the info I needed here at Superfuture !

Merci,

E

What's buggin' my ears now :

Telefon Tel Aviv - Map of What is Worthless

Klute - Fear of People

Sidestepper - 3 am : In Beats We Trust

KLF - White Room

G,

I'll go check it out today = thanks again for the input.

Any idea where there's a cool part of town in terms of stores....not the bigger name ones but stuff like Surface to Air....

And what is the deal with the cardboard boxes by the ashtrays in the subways ? Are you supposed to throw trash in the box or the ticket stub ?

E

What's buggin' my ears now :

Telefon Tel Aviv - Map of What is Worthless

Klute - Fear of People

Sidestepper - 3 am : In Beats We Trust

KLF - White Room

Gaumont Grand Ecran Italie it is then !

Thanks G.

e

What's buggin' my ears now :

Telefon Tel Aviv - Map of What is Worthless

Klute - Fear of People

Sidestepper - 3 am : In Beats We Trust

KLF - White Room

Hey, I found the bookstore - terrific ! I found most of what I was looking for so thanks again for letting me know about it. Wasn\t that diffcult to find.

have a good one !

e

What's buggin' my ears now :

Telefon Tel Aviv - Map of What is Worthless

Klute - Fear of People

Sidestepper - 3 am : In Beats We Trust

KLF - White Room

Hey, I found the bookstore - terrific ! I found most of what I was looking for so thanks again for letting me know about it. Wasn\t that diffcult to find.

have a good one !

e

What's buggin' my ears now :

Telefon Tel Aviv - Map of What is Worthless

Klute - Fear of People

Sidestepper - 3 am : In Beats We Trust

KLF - White Room

Thanks for the info... I'll go check it out - anybody else have other suggestions ?

Also recommendation for photography/design/arts bookstores be appreciated too !

I found a great tiny store specializing in such in Berlin called Pro-qm (www.pro-qm.com) so for those interested in such , it's a great place. There's also a nicely deisgn bar called Riva Bar slightly down the street under the rail station. I'll be writing this up on here when I get back to the States....

thank you !

e

What's buggin' my ears now :

Telefon Tel Aviv - Map of What is Worthless

Klute - Fear of People

Sidestepper - 3 am : In Beats We Trust

KLF - White Room

Edited by eric2019 on Apr 26, 2004 at 04:54 AM

I like to go catch "Immortel" but in a good theater and not with sub-standard sound and image quality. Can anyone recommand one or more of the following theaters listed below ?

UGC Odeon

UGC George V

Gaumont Parnasse

Gaumont Grand Ecran Italie

Gaumont MK2 Gambetta

UGC Cine=Citi Bercy

UGC Lyon Bastille

Cheers,

What's buggin' my ears now :

Telefon Tel Aviv - Map of What is Worthless

Klute - Fear of People

Sidestepper - 3 am : In Beats We Trust

KLF - White Room

Hi folks,

I'm having trouble finding a bookstore with a large magazine selection here in town. I just got in a day ago and all I'm finding are kiosks. I'm actually looking for decent selection of French fashion magazines to do some research. What are great are bookstores with large magazine selections. In London, I actually found a Borders bookstores and went through their magazines.

Also looking for cool stores - besides what is listed on Superfuture, can anyone recommand a part of town to go snoop through ?

Thanks guys - I'll be here for a week before leaving for London.

What's buggin' my ears now :

Telefon Tel Aviv - Map of What is Worthless

Klute - Fear of People

Sidestepper - 3 am : In Beats We Trust

KLF - White Room

thanks Andres,

Rotterdam has surfaced upon my radar in the last few weeks...alas some of the spots I won't be able to hit... Norway for instance...I'm thinking I'll have to do a separate trip just to visit Sweden, Denmark, Norway and the rest...it's a pain to try to figure where to go while juggling the input from two other people and a time restrictions...I'm gonna dig for Antwerp too.

thx for the info !

What's buggin' my ears now :

Telefon Tel Aviv - Map of What is Worthless

Klute - Fear of People

Sidestepper - 3 am : In Beats We Trust

KLF - White Room

I get the JC Report - this online digest on fashion trends and surpise surprise - they mention "superfuture" ! Though it's only a brief mention, perhaps y'all seen a spike in traffic.

Style Online

Global

At JC Report we cover the trends, but in the case of the online fashion explosion, we're in the center of an entertainment movement. With shows like Sex in the City prescribing personal and individual style as a necessity for everyone, and red carpet coverage and accompanying style reports now a natural part of the fashion landscape, consumers and creative professionals are not relying solely on monthly glossies for suggestions; they're getting their news, and introductions to talent and movements they've never heard about, from online sources. In October 2002 we addressed the key role style.com plays in informing the fashion industry — from what looks to pull for photo shoots to what just happened on the runways of the fashion capitals. Sites like showstudio.com, run by Nick Knight, and hintmag.com are established outlets for talent to show dynamic flash editorials (a true distinction of this medium) and quick access to information that's not overly packaged. The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, and a handful of other newspapers are seeing quickly posted reviews and articles greedily consumed long before the snail pace of printing presses and mailman deliveries could dispense the news. New entry Fluxuries.com sends out daily morsels of information linking to subjects as varied as foot obsession disorder to a turn-the-tables interview where Miuccia Prada questions Andre Leon Talley. Theblowup.com has earned a cult following for arty profiles and editorials and all sorts of daily fashion snippets and superfuture.com is the site where you can shop all over the world. So when those physical magazines hit the mailbox, get excited to flip through for pretty pictures, but know that you'll already have read the content online.

-James Whitely

Of course with Res magaazine - you get those maps too.....

E

What's buggin' my ears now :

Telefon Tel Aviv - Map of What is Worthless

Klute - Fear of People

Sidestepper - 3 am : In Beats We Trust

KLF - White Room

H,

Copenhagen's was on my mind for the past few days among other places up north - I've always wanted to go to Sweden and Helsinki ..... but the way my trip is turning out to be, it's more like I'll be generally in the mid-area of Europe - though Barcelona is a stop I'm planning on.

I went through Europe a few years back - and I found this great little town of Lucene in Switzerland that I very much enjoyed. Going back this time I'll be going back to the biggie cities though I'll skip most of the tourist thing since I saw them pretty much last time around...

I'm thinking later on I'll have to make another jaunt just for Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands, etc.

But thanks for those recommendation !

Say....what's the temperature like in April ?

E

What's buggin' my ears now :

Telefon Tel Aviv - Map of What is Worthless

Klute - Fear of People

Sidestepper - 3 am : In Beats We Trust

KLF - White Room

This thread has been merged from the multitudes of threads seeking advice on X place to visit. Please use this thread if you are looking for suggestions as to where your next vacation should be or if choosing between multiple locations. DO NOT under any circumstances start your own thread lest very bad things happen to you. Cheers.

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So while I'm over in Europe, I figured I should take a look at other spots besides the biggies (London, Paris, Berlin, blah, blah)- everybody always mention Paris in relation to France but they forget Lyon among others which I thought had a nice vibe to it.

Anybody out there have some ideas of other black sheep cities forced to be outshadowed by their bigger brother metroplexs ?

Easy,

E

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It's not LA, it's Hell-A !

On the other side of the digital realm, the following magazines have kept my gears spinning :

Trace

Frank 151

Anthem

Dazed + Confused

On the msuical front :

AIR

explosions in the sky

UNKLE

and funny enough :

Credit to the Nation

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It's not LA, it's Hell-A !

that's a good idea. I got the phone already so I don't really want that to go to waste. anyone got ideas for local spots in LA to do this shit ?

E

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It's not LA, it's Hell-A !

funny you mention fabric - that's one of the clubs on my list to hit..

I've given up on the carrying the Canon SLR idea - who wants to lug equipment around when you wanna party ? Too much of a pain...I'll have to buy a small digital one and hopefully they won't care.

two more months and i'll be drunk in london...and paris.....and berlin....

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It's not LA, it's Hell-A !

Like too - though there's not much photos on the site. Likewise don't think I could affford that while traveling - once I get to the position of 'Super Fashion / Hollywood photographer", I'll just buy the hotel.

E

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It's not LA, it's Hell-A !

damn...wish i was there ....

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It's not LA, it's Hell-A !