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Guess what I did today! (well last week, too) :

Self Portrait #6, May 2009.

More soon.  

the benefit of an internship.

This just in: 

The photos that I took for Complexmag.com are now up on their site.  It's a lifestyle feature on this chef from San Francisco, Nate Applebaum.  Here, he cooks up some food real nice.  

Check it out: 

http://www.complex.com/blogs/2009/05/20/chef-nate-applemans-ultimate-memorial-day-bbq-recipes/

yay, prestige!!

news

I've been in the process of recuperation.  Slightly.  If by recuperation I mean drinking lots of beer, spending lots of time with my friends, not going to the gym, and getting hired and then rejected from a second cafe job.  It's my second week post college and I'm trying to collect myself.  

The only photos I've taken have been on a 35 mm and in various photobooths in Brooklyn.

Here is some work that I've been looking at though:

Vanessa Davis, author/artist behind Spaniel Rage  

Tod Seelie (www.suckapants.com)

Glen Erler (www.glenerler.com)

I'm going on a trip to Ohio in a few months and am in the process of organizing that.  Also may be going to the UK in the late fall, if I'm lucky.  School re opens soon enough and then I can show some new work.  I was kind of bummed that I didn't get the Tierney fellowship, but at least it went to somebody great; Ayala Gazit.  Check out her work!  www.ayalagazit.com

                                              

Also, I got this neat new journal today at Desert Island, this comic book shop in Williamsburg.  

Oh shit is that backwards? It looks backwards.  Oh whatever.  

final stretch!

Sometimes I feel like I'm about to lose my mind.

The semester is over, school is over, I don't want to trade prints, I just want a break for a while. I want to breathe deeply and plan for my road trip, and make money so I can take said road trip. Starting in Ohio, heading down to Mississippi, hopefully. Then back up to NYC.
Time to make resume so I can earn enough money to do all that. It's my saving grace to all this crap. I just want a job that doesn't aggravate me so much that I feel the need to drink at the end of my workday, that numbing my senses with drugs/alcohol will be the only means to surviving the tasks I have to do all day.


Anyway. I shot some pictures last week and will hopefully be able to post them in the near future.

I don't mean to seem paranoid, but it's important to be aware:


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8021958.stm


Though there are only 149 suspected cases of swine flu suspected in the U.S., 22 have been confirmed, but it's not fatal here in America. Unlike Mexico and various other countries that are discovering new cases each day.
Maybe this whole thing is a hoax. Either way, everyone who takes trains, uses public bathrooms, rides elevators, etc., should make sure to wash their hands. Maybe wear those protective facial masks that people wore back when we were all worried about SARS. oh, those were the days....

In other news, my website is now up and running. check it out.


www.stephanieleibowitz.com

a word to the wise:

this time, next week, there will be www.stephanieleibowitz.com...get pumped! i know i am.

now i have to go work on it.

LOOKEY!

In bed by 2 am, up by 7:30 for class to work on website.  Good Times.   

I'm into this direction of work.  Maybe it's indulgent but we'll see how it goes.