Fire Island
I woke up confused. I wasn’t in my bed. Where was I? Looked like a tent. Yeah, it was definitively a tent. Some unusual sound had just interrupted my dreams of Italian chocolate gelato. Sounded like a loud high-pitch scream or something. My back hurt; what I slept on was definitively not a mattress. Two [...]
Free Shakespeare in Prospect Park
Not only is Eric Alba my next door neighbor in Bushwick and a dear friend of mine, but also a hell of an actor as well as the creative director of an exceptional theatre company, EBE Ensemble.
I always appreciated theatre but I rarely attended shows and I have to thank Eric for sparking my enthusiasm [...]
Canon’s Explorers of Light
Since the mid-1990s, Canon USA has collaborated with many talented photographers in creating a program called Explorers of Light. The program asked the photographers to share insights on their creative profession and their passion for Canon equipment.
As Canon DSLR cameras added a stunning HD video recording mode to their capabilities, many top notch cinematographers started [...]
Alaia y bisabuela
Alaia Castillo, con 14 meses, junto con su bisabuela Raida Castillo en su nonagésimo cumpleaños.
Alaia Castillo, 14 month old, with her great grand mother Raida Castillo on her ninetieth birthday.
by Castillo
Before the game
A little humor from John Oliver, before the US vs England game tomorrow
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c
Waiting for the World Cup
The 2010 Soccer World Cup is coming up really soon – the first game kicks off in 22 days, on June 11, with the South Africa national team facing the Mexico selection.
While waiting for the World Cup to begin (and Italy to win it), we have had some fun viewing the new Nike commercial directed [...]
Babies
Few weeks separate us from Mother’s Day and from the theatrical premiere of Babies, a documentary film that follows the progress of four infants in Namibia, Mongolia, Tokyo and San Francisco from birth to their first halting steps.
The film is being distributed by Focus Features and last month Blue Barn had a chance to [...]
Lovers
His smile tries to be genuine, however, you well know nothing about him is. If you didn’t know, you would guess it is part of his charm. You should have known better before believing him. You want to believe that there must have been something, that you must have meant something to him. And then, [...]
THE WINDOW
The Window a series of interviews, where you can see a real story.
The Window new series of interviews, where you can see real stories. Featuring Artist TRON
Director/Editor: Anibal Hernandez
Camera: Castillo
rain falling on my shoes
postcard from a blue barn pictures business trip to boston and san francisco
shot with a Canon 7D
Directed by Fumagalli
What do you do?
What do you do when Valentine’s day falls on match day? Well you send this video to your love one and head to the pub to watch the futbol game. This one goes out to the Blue Barn wives we love you.
Franny and Zooey and Matty
Two days ago, Castillo, Fumagalli, and I made a pilgrimage to Jack Kerouac’s grave. Feeling inspired by his simple grave adorned with cigarettes, joints, and whiskey bottles, I went home intent on rereading On The Road. I searched the apartment. I couldn’t find it.
This is when I came across Salinger’s Franny and Zooey. Within [...]
iPhone Photography
I have recently discovered the joy of iphone photography. The inconspicuousness of the camera, it’s lack of f stop & shutter control, allows for pure abandonment to preserve a millisecond. Using the iphone camera reminds me of gallivanting around Maine in my early 20s with a Holga. The memories of warm summer light and the [...]
Petrol
I hate to admit it, I am not the type who thrives in long-distance relationships. They just don’t do it for me. It definitely works for some others but, sadly, not for me. After the allure and the longing of the first few weeks, the longing becomes in all type of neurotic wondering: Do they [...]
Sunday afternoons
Floyd’s Bar, Brooklyn, 2009
I cherish Sunday afternoons, nothing is more zen to me then a copy of the New York Sunday Times, Van Morrison on the radio and an ice cold pint. I am a creature of habit, especially when it comes to Sundays. Over the years, I have moved my Sunday ritual around [...]
Christmas Eve
I was going back home. Couldn’t have missed my grandma’s Christmas dinner for the second year in a row. I landed in London on December 24 right after a snow-storm canceled most of the flights of the day and Heathrow had become a yelling jam of disoriented people trying to find out what was going [...]
Let’s Start the Week Off Right
So we just finished our Monday morning meeting, and with the stress of multiple upcoming jobs coupled with the anxiety of the holiday season, I feel we could all use a nice pick-me-up.
Here it is.
You are welcome.
-Weckel-
Fuma’s Milano
I just came back from a two-week vacation in Milano, my Italian hometown.
It was very niiice (pronounced a’-la Italian, with some hand-gesturing)
I spent most of my lazy leisure time in a pleasant effort to stuff my belly with delicious food and lovely wine.
I wandered around the city by foot a lot, but I also drove [...]
Visual Effects: 100 Years of Inspiration
Watching this compilation of films, my mind wonders back to the first time I saw Sun Rise (1927), which I was very fortunate to see a print at the Film Forum. The day of the screen was on a Sunday afternoon to a sold-out house on the eve of the 77th Academy Awards and the [...]
Butts ‘n Boobs in a Wall
Vegas is known for the human anatomy on display in many many forms, wherever you go. Check out this one in stone, at the Mandalay Bay Casino.
Fun. Faulty. Frustrating. Fiat.
A couple recent articles on ‘classic’ foreign sports cars dredged up rusty memories of old family cars. My father bought a Fiat in the late 70s, might’ve even been this model. Not exactly sporty, but by then he’d sold his dark blue ‘67 Mustang and opted for family models. The practical, safe lifestyle mode set [...]
June 4th 1989
It has been 20 years since I first saw the flickering image off a TV screen, of a man stopping a tank column. The fearlessness of that man has always stayed with me. The man who, in the face of extraordinary circumstances and against all rational odds, stood up and defied what was not [...]
