inspiration: magnum, sport

i'm not a huge fan of soccer/football, but i fall for the idea of it every time i watch this--it can't be embedded, so click here for the video.

the marriage of visuals to the soundtrack (those the terrific rhythms, the play by play) elevates it beyond a mere "promo" piece, and it showcases how stills, properly edited, can have as much impact as live-action (i can't seem to convince a few producers i work with of this).

anyway, i come back to this again and again.
hope you like it, too.

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here are few stills from the magnum photographers whose work is featured in the spot:

AFGHANISTAN. June 2006. Playing football in an empty swimming pool on a hill surrounding Kabul.

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Paolo Pellegrin/Magnum Photos

GB. ENGLAND. Liverpool. A street off Scotland Road. September 1986.

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Peter Marlow/Magnum Photos

CONGO. Brazzaville. March 5th. From left to right the French sound engineer Charles CARATINI, the Italian drummer Aldo ROMANO, and the French bassist Henri TEXIER and saxophonist Louis SCLAVIS.

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Guy Le Querrec/Magnum Photos

thanksgiving 2011: "ham"

lens experiments: cloud pattern

lens experiments: sky space

lens experiments: friday, union square

"everything shifts as you move, and different things come into focus at different points of your life, and you try to articulate that."

-- chris steele-perkins via magnumphotos.com

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random, but i like the people entering the frame...

nov 18, 2011

all photos © anita aguilar

lens experiments: OWS at union square

OWS made good on a promised appearance at union square this afternoon.

i was stuck inside trying to finish a project, like a bobbed rapunzel trapped in her tower... by the time i made it down there, they had all moved on.

here was the view from the 5th floor:

union square, nov 17 2011

© anita aguilar

lens experiments: mad square view II

love shack?

nov 14, 2011

© anita aguilar

read a good poem: the white

These are the moments

before snow, whole weeks before.

The rehearsals of milky November,

cloud constructions

when a warm day

lowers a drift of light

through the leafless angles

of the trees lining the streets.

Green is gone,

gold is gone.

The blue sky is

the clairvoyance of snow.

There is night

and a moon

but these facts

force the hand of the season:

from that black sky

the real and cold white

will begin to emerge.

--Patricia Hampl via the writer's almanac

photos © anita aguilar

lens experiments: mad square view I

i have a feeling you're going to be seeing a lot of leaves and trees...

with the lensbaby (5.6)

nov 10, 2011

lens experiments: suburbia

jersey.

nov 9, 2011

nyc marathon 2011: the view from mile 22

marcus garvey park, ny

all photos © anita aguilar

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full set, if you're so inclined...here...

pretty city 2011: good looking

my favorite twosome, taking in the view at mile 22 of the nyc marathon...

@ marcus garvey park, east harlem.

nov 6, 2011

© anita aguilar

pretty city 2011: the dash to the finish line

snapshots from a very spirited pre-marathon 5k, "the dash to the finish" in central park

my friend, steph!

ryan hall - love the 5 boro gloves and the official ing marathon cap

all photos taken on nov 5, 2011

© anita aguilar