inspiration

inspiration for shooting half-naked models? yes. inspiration for that.

i think there is only so much intimacy you can capture with color. i think the finer emotions and hidden undertones in a photograph can only be revealed in black and white. i think the proximity to your subject becomes closer and the photograph becomes more transparent and eye to eye in black and white.


vogue italy july 1995
model: amber valleta
photographer: steven meisel











certainly one of my favorite black and white editorials. these will be an inspiration for many years to come.

Taken from foto_decadent

Got Wood?

Jonas Damon Torch


Available at AREAWARE

Kevin Krumnikl Audio Cabinet


You can glance at more his work at Yatzer

Taken from Selectism

Lost & Found

I just revisited my Flickr account for the first time in years. I deleted everything and decided to share the many photographs I do not share here (except for that one).

http://www.flickr.com/photos/eugenekim/

Haircut

I met Ashlee on the first day of senior year during high school. She was cute and she looked new and I was passing out campus maps as a proud member of ASB. "Do you need a map?" And then we were friends. I was her first friend at Huntington Beach High School. She was one of those sets of ears I could speak into when my mind would wander to dark places in the middle of the night. We know each other too well.

Gone. Missing. Roaming.

Thoughts wandering, minds traveling, people wondering. It seems I have walked away from you. The urge from which you existed is inside an imaginary pile of things to do sitting on an overflowing desk in my head. Your sole purpose was to be a vessel, a communication instrument of the act of sharing, and share I did. It started with fashion and the random bits of knowledge I found intriguing and interesting or peculiar enough to be shared. Another reason was because of the lonesomeness of that period in my life. The people I would usually engage in sharing random information with were gone and over 400 miles away and I was alone living a crack alley. Then, you transformed. You became less interested in others interests and became more interested in yours, or more vented. You shared thoughts and you shared your eyes. Now, it has become the unshare option that seldom comes up on your computer screen. You have become disk space. You store and keep. Your owner has become disinterested and hasn't found you interesting enough to play with lately. Truth is, he was discouraged. The human behavior to compare unsurprisingly led to unhappiness which then led to an individual too discouraged to share. But, I have things to share. Months do not go unattended without the interesting occurring. I have nothing else to say.

I

Need to update you.

SWIMMING WITH SHARKS

SATURDAY JULY 4TH
THE STANDARD DOWNTOWN LA
550 SOUTH FLOWER
LOS ANGELES, CA 90071
1PM-SUNDOWN


If only I were in town. I love the downtown Standard and I love rooftop pool parties. My beautiful girls Kim (KIM ANH) and Anna (ANON) of Boobytrap will be there spinning those feel-good, get down, feel like you're in Saturday Night Fever tunes.


Fun fact about the downtown Standard:
Pool workers poured large amounts of chlorine and acid down a rooftop drain, prosecutors say, causing a gas cloud in a nearby Metro station. Officials initially suspected terrorism.

Rachel, San Luis Obispo

I was red-faced and matching my red short-sleeved vintage Dior shirt with the sleeves rolled up when I took this. Just imagine the Gushers commercials. The guy with his face about to pop asking the pretty girl for a photograph while apologizing that it might not come out because he's drunk.





By the way, don't google Gushers with SafeSearch turned off.

Sa Sa Sa Sa Sales

The Orthodox sample sale is tomorrow.

Riders In The Sky

Eugene Kim Some man was taking up the bike lane on Sunset Blvd today on his horse. He was on his cell phone and wearing spurs.
June 8 at 11:27pm



I chose the title "Riders In The Sky" because my sister was on that Saturday morning children's television show in the early 90s with these guys, the Riders In The Sky:

Light Leaks

Occasionally, my camera emits a glowing bar due to light leaking in. For this one time, I have taken a liking towards it.




Taken at the Beverly Center

Jimmy Choo for H&M

Peek at the shoes.
Peek at Choos.
Pikachus.



From cisionwire.com:

JIMMY CHOO BRINGS GLAMOUR TO H&M THIS AUTUMN
This autumn, British accessory brand Jimmy Choo will bring its international glamour and covetable shoes and bags to selected H&M stores. The collection will be available from November 14 in around 200 stores across the world. It is the first time that H&M is collaborating with an accessories brand, and to celebrate Jimmy Choo will extend its design vision for this collection to women’s clothing to complement the accessories. Further exciting news is that this collaboration includes a men’s collection of shoes, bags and accessories.
“We are privileged to be among the fashion greats who have been affiliated with H&M so far, and to be designing a collection appealing to fashion savvy, street smart women, and to be including some great pieces for men, too. Jimmy Choo will bring to H&M a sophisticated, fashion forward, accessible and glamorous collection – the perfect party pieces to buy now and then wear out that night!” Tamara Mellon, Founder and President, Jimmy Choo.

“We adore Jimmy Choo’s shoes and bags. They are glamorous and sexy, and they add instant style to the simplest of outfits. I like the way we have worked with clothes to accessorize the shoes and bags rather than the other way around. This collaboration is particularly exciting because it’s our first shoe designer collection. It’s a joy to be able to offer top end designer shoes and bags of excellent quality to our customers.” Margareta van den Bosch, creative advisor, H&M.

Since its launch in 1996, Jimmy Choo has been such a phenomenal success that the brand name has become part of popular culture – say the words “Jimmy Choo”, and you know you mean shoes. In Hollywood, Jimmy Choo shoes have become a red-carpet essential, and have been worn at the Oscars by winners such as Cate Blanchett, Halle Berry and Hilary Swank among many other actresses. The famous Jimmy Choo shoes will be at the heart of the exclusive collection for H&M, but there’s more. Jimmy Choo has also become well known for its bags, and for H&M there will be a whole range of accessories to complete the look.

THIS CITY

self-portaits

self-portraits
vogue italy march 2000
photographer: paolo roversi