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Brad Carlile Interview at Portland Architecture Blog

Brad — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 05:27:00 +0000

I was interviewed by Brian Libby who writes the Portland Architecture Blog. You can read the full interview & comments here:

To invite a narrative: Brad Carlile discusses photographing hotel rooms around the world

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Brooklyn Bridge – 125th Anniversary Party & Celebration

Brad — Fri, 23 May 2008 20:43:06 +0000

Yesterday I posted an announcement & a Brooklyn bridge image (click here to see that and links to this weekend’s festivaties). This posting has some images from last night’s 125-year birthday party for the Brooklyn Bridge.

The Brooklyn Philharmonic, Impact (a musical group up for an academy award), and Marvin Hamlisch all performed.

Early arrivals got tote-bags and red anniversary blankets. This little ladybug liked the totebag.

The crowd started slowly and then packed the whole park. Below is an image of the Manhattan Bridge from the park. Free cake by the infamous Cake Man Raven of Brooklyn was also given away to celebrate the Brooklyn Bridge’s 125th birthday.

Even the sunset was great!

Brooklyn Bridge celebration starts tonight Thursday May 22

Brad — Thu, 22 May 2008 14:26:22 +0000

The 125th year birthday celebration for Brooklyn Bridge starts today, Thursday, May 22.

DUMBO is the place to be for fireworks, new lighting, a Navy flyover, and a free concert. Various events will continue through the weekend.

Bring your picnic and enjoy.

Tonight’s timeline:
6:00pm: Doors open
7:45pm: Concert starts
9:00pm: Fireworks

Brooklyn Philharmonic will play with guest performance by Marvin Hamlisch. The fireworks are being produced by Grucci Fireworks.Â The fireworks will be done in conjunction with a new lighting of the Brooklyn Bridge. The new lighting will continue 9p-11p through Memorial Day. Events at Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park, enter at Main Street, Brooklyn.

For information on the Brooklyn Bridge birthday bash, go to www.nycvisit.com/bb125

The image above is one of my photographs “Brooklyn Bridge” from my series “Passage Perceptions” which is work that explores the experiences we have during journeys. All work is done in-film on-camera with no digital manipulation.

Brad Cloepfil speaks in Portland: blog notes

Brad — Wed, 14 May 2008 19:28:00 +0000

Architect Brad Cloepfil of Allied Works spoke Monday night in Portland. I was busy packing for my 2-week trip to New York, so I missed the talk. But several bloggers covered it.

Art Scatter reviews the talk at:
http://www.artscatter.com/general/a-little-brad-cloepfil-wisdom-coming-your-way/#more-217

Portland Architecture ‘s Brian Libby reviews the talk at:
http://chatterbox.typepad.com/portlandarchitecture/2008/05/cloepfil-plays.html

PORT Bridge Design Awards, check out my entry

Brad — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 01:20:07 +0000

I tossed a couple of ideas into PORT’s Portland bridge design contest, see PORT’s bridge award here. PORT shows a few of my jpgs and some other interesting designs.

The 2nd and 3rd jpegs are the same design, except at night and in low winds a screen/sail is unfurled to allow art to be projected against it. I’ve actually thought about ways to make this safe and really work so if anyone wants my patentable ideas, let me know we’ll work something out. The image used in the night-time design image is actually an hommage to Joseph Stella’s Brooklyn Bridge. But I did like Jahn’s reference to Jennifer Steinkamp style video projections.

New Nouvel building next to MoMA and travel to NYC

Brad — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:35:17 +0000

There is a new tower proposed for Midtown Manhattan right next to MoMA. Jean Nouvel is the architect for this proposal. What is proposed would also give MoMA about 40,000 square feet of additional gallery space in the new tower. A NYT article has more details and some images.

I’m heading to New York tomorrow for a bit less than 2 weeks. If anyone has particular suggestions on particular gallery shows or music in city during that time, leave a comment.

Thankfully I’ll be able to shoot with abandon due to the info in a previous posting “New York City and reasonable rules for street photography”

I’ll end with a quote from Nouvel:

“I’m a contextual architect by desire and by conviction, and I have been since the moment I began this profession. I’ve always thought that you build a building, wherever it is, in a particular place, with the notion of respecting everything around it.” — Jean Nouvel

Sounds another architect’s quote:

â€œAlways design a thing by considering it in its next larger context – a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.â€ — Eliel Saarinen (Finnish-born Architect 1873-1950)