Saturday Briefs

+ BoxEIGHT owner/photographer Pete Gurnz has a new book out "We are all Kids…Naked + Beautiful" which will be available at the closing party for Fashion Week El Paseo closing party/Pete Gurnz exhibition at Melissa Morgan Fine Art in Palm Desert,CA. There's about 50 copies and will go for $250 each. Closing party is tomorrow Sunday the 28th 6-9 pm

+ Speaking of Palm Desert, right next door, Palm Springs will be the hot spot for the Palm Springs Photo Festival at the Hyatt Regency Suites starting tomorrow Sunday the 28th.

+ Marcos Zimmermann's "Desnudos Sudamericanos" is currently at the Couturier Gallery in Los Angeles until April 17

+ From APE interview with Spencer Heyfron

It’s a business. I think that’s a key component in this industry. When you are in college and you’re thinking about what sort of photographer you want to be, what you want to shoot, how you’re going to shoot it and how you’re going to put your personality into the work, that’s all fine but in the end it’s totally a business. Jake taught me that. And, he always came back with the goods. Do you know what I mean? He always came back with what he would have decided to do and he would shoot extra and have lots of options for himself and for the client.

+ Metblog "Silver Lake’s Reservoir Of Black Balls Makes National Geographic"

+ Ali Prosch "Traveler's Suite" @ The Company (946 Yale St 90012) until April 10, 2010

For her first solo exhibition at The Company, Prosch will be re-imagining Travelers' Suite, an ambitious nine-channel video installation depicting the metaphysical essence of a hotel room and the activities of its transient inhabitants. Presented in a gaudy pastiche of periods, Travelers' Suite is a veritable visual mash-up: caveman meets rococo meets your spinster great-aunt, where oversized velvet couches, gilded chairs, rock wall fireplace, and a mirroring set of Victorian beds more than decorate the room -- they become characters.

+ AP : Marty Lederhandler, AP lensman for 66 years, dies

+ Annenberg Space for Photography opens "Water : Our Thirsty World" today

+ Next weekend : Echo Park Art Walk !

+ This morning I was over at Castex Rentals on Cole St. (right next to Gold's Gym) picking up some director's chair for my own shoot tomorrow and I notice they now rent Profoto gear ! Interesting ! Castex services the motion picture industry but looks like they're expanding a bit into the photo industry. The info isn't up on their website yet but you can call them 323.462.1468

+ There's other stuff going on tonight, just check our calendar !