Fabrizio Costantini Photography

i’ve been looking around for some karaoke files. there is this great software for macs called kjams. you can get a free version of it and then run this amazing software that works very much like itunes thus turning your computer into a very capable karaoke machine. the only problem i’m having is trying to locate a bunch of .cdg files to build my library. if anyone has any leads as to where i can get my hands on some .cdg’s to build up my jams, i’d appreciate it. hoping to back to some sweet sweet computer lovin’.

thanks to those who braved the weather and came out to the mustache party. it’s too bad that i blew that fuse or else we could have gotten loads more pics.

while recently in Lansing, MI i stopped off at a thrift store on my way back. outside i noticed this placard on which the lettering adhered to it’s surface were curled up from the sun and temperature change. i though it to be a really interesting and bet some typographers could use it as a template to make an interesting font. wish i came across this in typography class. i have more pics if anyone wants to take a crack at it. i call it the “St. Vincent.”

i’m going to be participating in michigan’s slideluck potshow this thursday at the Michigan Theater in downtown ann arbor.

“Slideluck Potshow is a slideshow potluck to which members of the arts, photography,
and media communities bring food, drinks and a maximum of 5 minutes worth of slides.
The evening begins with a couple hours of dining on the home-cooked delights of participants,
while drinking full-bodied red wines and mingling. There is no entrance fee or guest list;
one’s admission is a nice bottle of wine, some lemongrass shrimp salad, squash soup with
bacon and pineapple, or a braised lamb shank with rosemary risotto.
Slideluck Potshow is a forum for exposing editors, curators and artists to new work, while infusing
the arts community with a non-commercial vitality and refreshing exchange. Photojournalists,
painters, video and installation artists, and fashion photographers will all show their work alongside one
another in a spirited and relaxed atmosphere. Presenters will range from the very accomplished and
distinguished to the up and coming, but regardless of status, none is allotted more than 5 minutes for their
slideshow. Participants are encouraged to take creative risks and to not just show their portfolios.”

here’s a great collection of tears from various old jc penny’s catalogs. also here

while recently overseas, i often found the topic of conversation shifting towards 9/11 and it’s impact. maybe because i’m american or because the talk of travel and the new inconveniences within are an easily identifiable issue across boarders but on no occasion, was i the instigator of the topic. all and all, i was flummoxed by the candidness and casualness towards it and the inclusion of conspiracy theories which crudely followed. it was kind of infuriating and i found myself biting my tongue often just absorbing what they had to say. the frankness that these ‘outsiders’ displayed while blurting out radical claims of either a jewish conspiracy or even how the bush administration was the orchestrator of the tragedy as a justification to a war in iraq, would leave a salty taste in you mouth. i found myself fumbling for the right words but now, (in my timely rebuttal) my thoughts shift towards a recent article by Douglas Rushkoff in arthur magazine (acclaimed author of the CONSPIRACIES OF DUNCES) here’s an excerpt…

“Yes, I believe that 9-11 theorizing debilitates the counterculture. It robs us of some potentially creative thinkers. It replaces truly important questions with trivial ones. It marginalizes more constructive investigation of American participation in the development of Al Qaeda as well as its subsequent aggravation. And perhaps worst of all, it is precisely the sort of activity that government disinformation specialists would want us to be involved with.

9-11 theorists are unwittingly performing as the unpaid minions of the administration’s propaganda wing. (At least most of them are unpaid; no doubt, some of the loudest are working as contractors for the same agencies whose activities they pretend to deconstruct.) That’s why, instead of nodding along with their long-winded, preposterous yarns under the false belief that any critique is better than no critique, we—the informed, intelligent, and reasonable members of the war resistance—must instead disassociate ourselves from this drivel. In other words, we must draw the line between the kind of analysis done by Greg Palast and that done by Pilots for Truth. If we don’t apply discipline to our thinking, we risk falling into the trap that even some of our best intellectuals have—like Harper’s editor Lewis Lapham, who on reading a bit too much 9-11 conspiracy, has concluded that it all has some merit.

I’m all for supposing. It’s how the best science fiction gets written, the best science gets speculated, the best innovations get developed, and the wildest thoughts get hatched. But forensics is a different beast. As any detective will tell you, the most straightforward solution is usually the right one…”

my friend annie in brooklyn sent me this picture of her friend sleeping on the new york times at the beach. whether tofurky contains tryptophan or not is arguable.

today i shot jack kevorkian for the nytimes. it was very interesting to hear his thoughts on our rights and the 9th amendment. did you know he plays the flute? he also paints i hear…

FIRST! welcome to the new site! it might still be int the beta version for now but this is where i plan on posting travel updates, thoughts, links and fun stuff. this will also be where i’m going to post the “photo of the week” column. thanks to dan nixon over at redcard design for setting this up for me.