The Blight - Photography by Neil Girling   

Here are the photo booth photos –

View the whole gallery here.

whiskey is my spirit animal
Due to overwhelming demand for, these stickers are now available here. Get one.

Update: flasks are available.

The Man burned Saturday night

The first two batches from Burning Man 2012 Fertility 2.0 are online — go see them on Flickr and Facebook.

I was brought in to cover the three days of RoboGames in San Mateo—see the photos on Flickr or Facebook.

Electric Boogaloo (left) loses a plate of armor to Last Rites’s 72lb spinning blade.

Dxter gets pushed around and set ablaze by Raging Scotsman’s flamethrower.

New to my arsenal are two tools for creating panoramas: a GigaPan Epic Pro for gigantic, multi-gigapixel images, and Photosynth, an app for the iPhone that allows well-nigh instantaneous image making and sharing on-location. Below, I’ve embedded one of each and given a link back to the respective galleries. Of course, viewing them here won’t do them justice, so go to the actual photo pages and take a (much) closer look.

Photosynth

View Larger — Go to Photosynth Gallery

GigaPan

View Larger — Go to GigaPan Gallery

Anonymous protestor—”I could lose my job for having a voice”

NYPD clears Washington Square Park and then pushes pedestrians down sidewalk Saturday night

An Occupy Wall Street General Assembly Sunday evening

Today marks the seventh day I’ve been at Occupy Wall Street in Zuccotti Park / Liberty Square in downtown Manhattan. I’ve got much to say—and another day to photograph—but you can see my current work up here.

Midway through the third week now and stronger than ever, Occupy Wall Street is beginning to finally get noticed by the mainstream media. The coverage, largely nonexistent at first, is picking up steam; Slate, the Washington Post, the LA Times, Bloomberg, Al Jazeera, and even the President  has something to say about the protests.

I feel they’re missing something.

In the coverage I’ve seen, there has been little to no honest coverage of who these protestors are; there have been a few passing mentions of “anarchists,” and the usual dismissive “smelly hippies” and “kids,” but I don’t believe that’s accurate or intellectually honest. I want to show that this protest contains many employed and employable folk like you and me. The blog We are the 99 Percent has done an excellent job putting a very human face to the movement (and disenfranchised) itself, but they’re not photographs of the protestors themselves, on the streets of New York. I want to change that.

So, thanks to a very generous sponsor, I’m going to New York. He’s set up a page so that others might go, too: go donate here.

Contact me with inquires here.

The Man burns as seen from a scissor lift

Go see the photo gallery here.

And don’t miss Whitney’s excellent photo set–see them here.

Photos from both Friday’s World Fair and the Ball Proper on Saturday are finished and online! If you’d prefer to see them on Facebook, go here [Friday | Saturday]

Guests at Saturday’s ball proper

Dwoira in Dark Garden’s fashion show at Friday’s World Fair