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Photo Phil

It was ME!! I was the turkey all along!!

About Me

Let's see ... I'm a professional photographer in the New York area (currently ... we'll see what happens and where life takes me ;-) ). I work for World Picture Network as a photojournalist. My work has appeared in numerous publications, including Newsweek, Newsday, ABC Online, and the main page of MSNBC.com. So basically I do ALOT of photographing and related activities. Other than the camera work there is a lot to me. I like deep discussions, I like cartoons, I like current events (I'm a cnn.com whore), I like sunset light (to look at as much as photograph), I like brisk air (Fall rocks :-) ), I like crazy hats, I like music of all types ... depends on my mood but punk/emo/hardcore/ska is heavily weighted in my taste spectrum, I like to laugh ... and boy do I laugh ... it's rediculous and contagious and a whole body affair ... good times. There's a whole lot more to me so why not drop me a message and ask. If you want to check out some of my photos go to www.philipjhall.com or http://community.webshots.com/user/photophilicp ... let me know what you think.
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My Interests

I love poetry, photography, Music for sure, looking at the stars, pondering deep concepts with no answer, reading, watching movies, driving around with no particular destination , going to concerts, hanging out, writing, anime (I'm a certified dork ... but in a cool way I think ;-) ), and learning about the world around me

I'd like to meet:

People who need photos taken for money ... I can do that :-)

Music:

I love music, that's one of my big things. I'll listen to almost anything (not a big fan of country and I'll listen to Rap and Hip Hop, but it would not be my first choice). Some of my favorites are: Eric Clapton, Linkin Park, Nakatomi Plaza, Rancid, Tsunami Bomb, Rise Against, The Living End, Authority Zero, AFI, Comeback Kid, Bloc Party, Bouncing Souls, BoySetsFire, NOFX, The Unseen, 4ft. Fingers, Adema, Alien Ant Farm, Alkaline Trio, Motion City Soundtrack, Staind, Anti-Flag, MxPx, Apartment 26, Apex Theory, The Ataris, New Found Glory, Good Charlotte, Sugarcult, Korn, Slipknot, Strung Out, Drowning Pool, The Used, Less Than Jake, Taproot, Blindside, The Hives, Reliant K, Jimmy Eat World, Story of the Year, Yellowcard, The Casualties, Mest, Autopilot Off, Bad Religion, Billy Talent, The Bronx, Blink-182, Chronic Future, Cave In, The Descendents, Die Trying, Dope, Rx Bandits, Eagle Eye Cherry, Flaw, Evanesence, Finch, Glasseater, Foo Fighters, Go Betty Go, Goldfinger, Hot Water Music, Anna Nalick, Green Day, Godsmack, Hoobastank, Letter Kills, Streetlight Manifesto, Sublime, 311, 30 Seconds to Mars, SUM 41, Led Zepplin, Cream, Pink Floyd, Skindred, Sevendust, Pressure 4-5, Reel Big Fish, Powerman 5000, Citizen Cope, 3rd Strike, 40 Below Summer, Op Ivy, One Man Army, The Academy Is..., Matchbook Romance, The Movielife, My Chemical Romance, Nonpoint, A Static Lullaby, Mad Caddies, Spineshank, Thrice, Thursday, Incubus, Fenix TX, Orgy, Nothingface, Three Days Grace, Lucky Boys Confusion, Catch 22, Buck-O-Nine, Edna's Goldfish, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Coheed and Cambria, H2O, Offspring, Breaking Benjamin, Senses Fail, Underoath, Pennywise, as well as dirty vices like Michelle Branch, Avril Lavigne, and Fefe Dobson ... I know, I know ...

Movies:

Family Guy Presents: Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story ... simply Amazing ... MONTY PYTHON!! They're amazing!! And now for something completely different . . . The usual Suspects, A Clockwork Orange, Fight Club, The Matrix Trilogy (Screw the critics, I loved them all), The Lord of the Rings Trilogy , Super Troopers, Old School, the Austin Powers movies, Donnie Darko, Snatch, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Garden State, I (Heart) Huckabees, and the list goes on . . .

Television:

Cartoons are not just for kids ... so suck it ... Family Guy, Invader Zim, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, and the such are excellent. There's nothing like laughing out loud, by yourself, to drawn rediculousness. Adult Swim in all it's glory is almost a nightly ritual for me :-)

Books:

I LOVE Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Lullaby, Survivor, Choke, Invisible Monsters, Diary, Stranger than Fiction, as well as Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange, the Wanting Seed, as well as many other post-modern writers like Ray Bradbury, Kurt Vonnegut, and J.G. Ballard ... How about a little Sci-Fi thinking novels like Philip K. Dick (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and Man in the High Castle) ... I also like my fair share of brain-fart books, like the Vampire: The Masqerade, Vampire: The Dark Ages, and Vampire: The Requiem (notice a trend here people??) novel series

Heroes:

James Nachtwey, Henri Cartier Bresson, Ansel Adams, the person that invented the Slip 'N Slide ... I want to shake his or her hand

My Blog

Leave your Name :-)

Leave your name...1. I'll respond with something random about you.2. I'll tell you what song/movie reminds me of you.3. I'll pick a flavor of jello to wrestle ...
Posted by Photo Phil on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 12:37:00 PST

What a week ...

So that was one long ... exhausting ... and incredibly cool week :-)  So it started on Monday with a 6:47am train, an early visit to my agency's office followed by a 45 minute wait at the UN to g...
Posted by Photo Phil on Sat, 29 Sep 2007 02:54:00 PST

Little bit of Poetry

It's been a while since I wrote any poetry, but the muse kind of hit me today so here's what resulted :-) Where Life Is Where is life,But in the irony of our experiences.Thrusting us in dire...
Posted by Photo Phil on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 10:30:00 PST

US Open Version 2.0

Well, today was the first day of the 2007 US Open and the second year with me shooting it for usopen.org.  It's funny how much more confident I feel after only one year under my belt and how much...
Posted by Photo Phil on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 08:03:00 PST

Fulltime Photographer

Well ... it's official ... I'm done with my internship and am now a fulltime photographer.  It's exciting as hell and scary as shit ... but things look good.  I'm working on getting permissi...
Posted by Photo Phil on Sat, 27 Jan 2007 04:20:00 PST

I had to ... it was written :-P

Leave your name...1. I'll respond with something random about you.2. I'll tell you what song/movie reminds me of you.3. I'll pick a flavor of jello to wrestle you in.4. I'll say something that only ma...
Posted by Photo Phil on Wed, 15 Nov 2006 07:22:00 PST

Holy Crap :-D

I have been having an INCREDIBLE two weeks so far (knock on wood :-) ) ... Ok so last week I started my internship at World Picture News and everyone there is awesome.  Real chill, real fun, it's...
Posted by Photo Phil on Wed, 23 Aug 2006 08:27:00 PST

Life in a nutshell

So lets see ... my life has consisted of an inordinate amount of time watching soccer (World Cup baby!!  Go England!!  WOOOO!!) and doing photo stuff ... LOTS of photo stuff.  My final ...
Posted by Photo Phil on Mon, 12 Jun 2006 12:12:00 PST

ICP Final Project

So some of you may be aware of this already ... and by some of you I mean a whole lot of you ... but I've been working on my final project for ICP, Long Island at Night.  Right now it is comprise...
Posted by Photo Phil on Thu, 30 Mar 2006 11:37:00 PST

ARRRRGGH!!!

What the FUCK is going on with my life??  I can't seem to figure out a single aspect of it all ... I feel like my photography falls short of my peers (let alone what would be required to make it ...
Posted by Photo Phil on Wed, 01 Feb 2006 03:50:00 PST