So Kelly and I just got back from Puerto Rico last night and I’ll be sorting through the epic amount of photos I shot there over the holiday. One day back in Chicago to wrap up christmas shopping and then I’m on the Greyhound tomorrow for Indianapolis to see the folks for Christmas.
The weekend before I helped out at (as well as racing in and placing DFL) Augie Montes and Nico Deportago-Cabrera’s Seasons Beatings alleycat and weekend of mayhem. The race was part of the continuing effort to raise money for the Tokyo Bicycle Messenger Association, which took on a substantial debt (about $34000 natch) putting on the 2009 Cycle Messenger World Championship.
Augie Montes and Nico Deportago-Cabrera
Nico Deportago-Cabrera, Augie Montes and Chris Dilts with the DFL Trophy
To help raise money to support the TKBMA the International Bicycle Messenger Federation has organized a bit of an intercity competition, the Tokyo Fundraiser Cup, to see who can raise the most. Right now there has been over $8000 raised and the city leading is, you guessed it, Chicago.
The event more or less took place over three days, starting with a late night sprint race and afterparty, the actual alleycat and then afterparty and then an all day brunch/dance party/destroy Josh Tripps house. Not just Chicago was in effect – Matt and Jeff from Philly actually flew here to sleep on my couch and do the poker race.
Matt from Philly
Chrome, who threw down prizes for the race, just put up some of the photos Allison Peck and I shot during the weekend over on their blog:
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Photographer Jerome Abramovitch, whom I had the pleasure of hanging out with in Tokyo during the CMWC a couple months ago, just got his full Tokyo report up over on his blog, featuring a nice photo of me handling it in Tokyo traffic. His stuff is pretty great and totally worth a look.
Check it here: www.chapter9photography.com/blog
As for me I’m about four hours away from flying out to Puerto Rico for a week, fleeing cold cold Chicago. Christmas tan here we come. . .
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Luminaire just got up a nice gallery of images I shot at their 20th Anniversary event.
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I shot this job a while back, but just ran into it on Lawyer Jim’s new website, lawyerjimfreeman.com. Jim’s law office specializes in cyclist, pedestrian and transit rider injury claims and has been an important part of Chicago’s cycling community for a while now.
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View from my living room at around 8 this morning.
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From the inside when you drop a 1 yen coin in a camera and it eats your shutter.
And yeah. That costs about $400 to fix, in case you were wondering.
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I just put up prints from the TyK Bike Super Heroes Calendar for sale. I’m doing a limited run of 11×17 archival digital prints, signed and numbered (edition of 25). They’re cool.
I’m also selling one off prints from the Bicycle Film Festival Joyride show that I was a part of earlier this year. 13×19 archival digital prints. I’m making one of each at that size and that’s it.
I’ll have them up and available for about a month. I’m planning on putting up a new set of prints each month in different editions, so check back.
http://chrisdilts.bigcartel.com/
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Time Out Chicago did a write-up on my show last friday, complete with a small photo gallery, so you can see what you missed.
Check it here.
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Luminaire, the furniture design gallery here in Chicago, just had their 20th anniversary gala the other evening. They’re one of my favorite clients and they were nice enough to tap me to shoot the event, as well as their newly remodeled showroom. There will be a gallery up on the Luminaire site at some point I’m sure, but here are a few out-takes of some very nice furniture.
Josh Ingmier – Chicago Showroom Manager
Nasir and Nargis Kassamali – Luminaire Owners/Founders
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So the TyK calendar launch and gallery show was last night. Thanks to everyone who came – shockingly there were more people there I didn’t know than I knew – Mars Gallery was wall to wall packed all night long and yes, I got more than a little drunk.
I just found out that the show will running through next Saturday, so if you didn’t get a chance to stop by last night and see the prints you can swing by this week and check it (Fulton Market at May). All the prints are available for purchase as well, and they’re nice, you or your friends with taste should buy one. You can also order the calendars here.
Mars Gallery
Kelly Novak
Kyle Goodmaster
Mars Gallery
Christina Peck and Nicole Brewer
Nathan Stonebrook
Kelly Novak and Chris Dilts
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