Gonna make it a quick post as life is running by pretty quickly these days btwn. assignments and personal work, but a few noteworthy updates (sorry I'm a bit late):

Welcome Bob Croslin to the blogosphere. The lighting guru plans to post some explanations of his lighting setups from past shoots w/ some educational and informative examples, worth a look-see. Go here.

If you're in Ohio, the Cleveland Institute of Art is having their annual BFA Thesis Exhibit, finishing tonite from 6:30-10:00pm including reception and then 10:00am-6:00pm on Saturday. Go check out student art from various mediums in photography, video, painting, sculpture and more.
Also at CIA this weekend, jog over to the Cinematheque and catch the last of their 11-day series of Romanian films, including award-winning works by Cristi Puiu ("The Death of Mr. Lazarescu", a morose detailing of a man's deteriorating life in the hands of an impersonal bureaucratic health care system), Corneliu Porumboiu ("12:08 East of Bucharest", a hilariously absurd and at the same time insightful look into the Romanian mind and the subjectivity of memory and how we define, interpret and internalize historical events such as the Romanian Revolution and subsequent execution of the dictator Nicolae Ceausescu), and Cristian Mungui ("4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days", the gripping tale of black-market abortion in the Ceausescu era).

Lastly, the photographer Paul Shambroom opens at the Columbus Museum of Art this weekend with his exhibit "Picturing Power", which brings together selections from five of his major series--"Factories", "Offices", "Nuclear Weapons", "Meetings" and "Homeland Security"--and addresses how everyday citizens intersect w/ the institutions of power in American society. In many ways, one of the great triumphs of his work is his ability to gain access to photograph these places. The show runs from May 10th - September 14th.

As for me, I'm still playing catch-up after just getting back from six days in L.A. and San Diego, a mix of vacation and work--more to come about this stuff soon.