Phantom Sands vs. Haze Days -

W H A T S I N A N A M E ?

Over at my totally official website www.matthewjasperson.com I've got a new series of photos posted. They're located in folder #1 with the current name of Haze Days. A little wavy and hazy with an edge of eerie, I've also toyed with the name of Phantom Sands. Admittedly, this sounds a little bit like a golf course, but still, I like it. If you, kind viewer, would leave your valued opinion I'd be ever so grateful.

Side notes: You might notice while over at my website that there's an entirely new web design featuring simplified navigation and fantastically fun image slideshows. I hope you like - comments always welcome. In the near future you'll also see some content changes as I add new series of photos while taking others off. I think you're going to enjoy what you find. To top off the cake I'm in the midst and at the beginning of several new projects which hold potential for really great results. What I'm saying is that you should keep an eye out.

-- Holler.

Some Abstraction Of Comfort -

Fall Fridays

I hope it's a good looking Friday wherever you are.

Look The Part: Occupy Portland

P R O T E S T . H A S . A . F A S H I O N

Real Estate @ Doug Fir Lounge, Rose City, 11/6

B E A C H W A V E P O P P I N G B U B B L E G U M

This Sunday I ventured out with friends (what up Eric & Brian!!!) to catch Real Estate at the Doug Fir Lounge here in Portland, Oregon. As in the past, they put on a great set that showcased music old and new. Cop their albums and I bet you'll find yourself in a bit of happiness.

The Black Soft

M U S I C P E O P L E : T H E B L A C K S O F T

Some outtakes from hanging around with the band The Black Soft.

NY DARK BY B&W

T H R E E S H O T S T A K E N @ N I G H T

Signs, Signs, Everywhere are Signs: Occupy Portland Protest

C A R D B O A R D C R E A T I V E S

A day with the mobs proved to yield too many pictures to post at one time, so here's a slide show. In it you get a sense of the many messages, opinions, and points of view that people are attempting to share and discuss through the Occupy Portland / Occupy Wall Street protest platform. The last image, the black and white one, is from their camp at Chapman Park on the morning of 10/7. Cold and wet, several hundred individuals maintained smiles in a continued effort to get their voices heard. Just after this last photo was taken, controversy began to spark over the protesters' continued presence in the park as the Portland Marathon currently holds the use permits for this weekend.

Free Storage Space -

C L E A R I N G O F F T H E P H O N E

Oh, I was just clearing some storage space in my phone and ran through these various photos taken over the last year.

1. Drinks in NYC. That's what they can end up looking like. Back Patio at Trophy Bar in Brooklyn.

2. Daniel Johnston Space Ducks Installation at Wieden Kennedy, Portland, OR.

3. Some Zucchini Bread I baked and was proud of.

4. My 135BC Holga resting on my jeans which are resting on the beach.

5. Record by The Black Soft at Nicola Formichetti's pop up store, which we brought home and have had on repeat since.

Bill Cunningham Runs The Streets -

O N T H E S C E N E

We saw Bill Cunningham in NYC the other week. I actually had no idea who he was but luckily my special lady keeps herself knowledgeable about the world and pointed him out to me. I then snapped and edited this photo. An interesting and amazing New York fixture, he's been working the fashion world for years, the majority of them at the Times. I actually just heard that the Willamette Week has started biting his layout style in their rag. Turns out that he casts a pretty big shadow and I'm not sure they have a body big enough over there... Anyways, I know about his shadow, and influence, through the recently released, and very good, documentary Bill Cunningham New York. My suggestion is that you watch this film. Bill, as the subject, is entirely delightful and moving, and the passion he shows for his work is ultimately inspiring. I'm going to say it again, watch this film. I've been thinking about this movie, Bill Cunningham, and photography as a medium all day because of it.

ERIK HART Polaroid Outtakes: Spring '12, NYFW

P O L A R O I D E D

I took two cameras to the Factory by Erik Hart Spring '12 show for New York Fashion Week. Here's the outtakes from that second camera, my Polaroid Spectra. These were shot on softtone spectra film, purchased from the Impossible Project, and feature the use of a red ring filter. While at the show, which took place in the lovely highline room in the Standard, NY, I was actually photographed for having my Spectra Polaroid camera with me, which was interesting. The photog who asked to snap me had it in her mind, from somewhere undetermined, that I worked for the Impossible Project. While I wouldn't mind a position of some sort in that bunch, it was a strange thing to be asked.

TIBI: Spring '12, New York Fashion Week

W O R K I N G G A L S

Another post from New York Fashion Week, this one a brief look covering the TIBI show. I have to be honest, the entire week was such an event that I was pretty burnt by this show, and some of the details slipped right on past me. It was another packed house full of a,b, & c listers and the largest host of photographers so far (second image, left). The stage set up for this event featured a U shaped runway rather than the traditional out and back. I felt that to be a little distracting, as I ended up attempting to watch up to 3 girls walking at any one time. TIBI's '12 spring line proved to be the most everyday wearable of any of the shows we'd seen thus far, and the casting of models complemented this look well. What was missing from this TIBI show that's most noticeable, looking back at previous debuts from the brand, is the lack of prints. Something to keep in mind when the remainder of the line is debuted next spring... Word.