The Chill of Summer
There’s been something in the air the last few days. A chill. August is barely out the door and I feel a cool that can only mean change is on the way. As I kid, I always hated August because it meant the finale of summer and all things fun. The words Back to School [...]
Monday Musings
I was running late this morning and even though I really love to walk downtown every day, I jumped in a cab. The cabbie was an older Indian man and we had a delightful conversation. He didn’t have a divider between the front and back seats, which I prefer. We talked about drivers and road [...]
Happily Exhausted
This has really been a great week. I just finished the fifth shoot I’ve had in the last seven days. I’m having another tomorrow which means I’ll have had six in the last eight days. I think that’s a new record for me. That’s good though. I’m happiest when I’m shooting. So I’ve been a [...]
Creating and Stretching
Two days into our three day shoot, Jillian Ann and I have been trying to create images different from any we have done before. It’s easy to fall back on what worked before, but we keep pushing each other. I like collaborations like that. I love the light in my space. Yesterday was a particularly [...]
So now I’m back… from outerspace…
Haven’t written in a while. Needed to get out of the sun for a while and wash my face. It’s nice to be missed though. Who knew what a ruckus I would create by taking a time out? Certainly not me. Thanks to everyone who encouraged me to come back as well as those who [...]
Last New York Thoughts
I’ll have to admit that once nice thing about coming to New York was that so much of my life had to be put on hold while I was here. I’m sure I’ll pay the price for a lot of it in the coming weeks, but sometimes I just have to throw up my hands [...]
Politics, Coffee and Lingerie
I’m always amazed by how some cities feel like home and others just don’t. New York feels like home to me. I’ve never stayed in the same place when I’m here, sometimes hotels, sometimes at friends’ homes. But after a few hours to re-gain my bearings, everything feels familiar again. I do love the subway [...]
I’m Completely Humbled… or How Billy Got His Groove Back… Part Deux
Okay where was I?… Ah yes… So I decided to come to New York. Coming to Manhattan I guess can be an intimidating experience for some. I know the first time I arrived to work on a project almost 15 years ago, I thought I was flying on the same plane with an art director [...]
I’m Completely Humbled… or How Billy Got His Groove Back
I think for anyone reading this blog on a regular basis, it’s easy to see that 2006 has been the best of times and the worst of times for me. Well it probably hasn’t truly been the worst of times, but there have been very trying and frustrating ones, and maybe only because there have [...]
New York
I really don’t have the proper time to write an entry here, but I’ve gotten a few messages from concerned people wondering where I’ve been and why I haven’t been writing here lately. It’s nice to be missed. I’m in New York and everything is going well. Lots of adventures while I work on a [...]
Back to New York
A quick one today. Haven’t had much time for anything, let alone blog writing. But it looks like I’ll be returning to one of my favorite cities in the whole world in a little over a week to collaborate with my great friend, photographer and director Lois Greenfield. We’re going to be working on a [...]
Afterglow
Okay, does anyone have to go to the bathroom? This is going to be a long blog and now’s the time to go before we get started. Anyone need a drink of water, or a coffee or their cocktail freshened up? Okay, then let’s begin. Saturday night was one of those nights you know is [...]
Tonight is the Night!
In less than two hours, I’ll be at Echo Gallery for my first photography exhibition in a long time. I’m in a very happy place today. I woke up a few moments too early from a very vivid, pleasant and unusual dream. So besides a slight irritation that I wanted a few more minutes to [...]
Reconnecting
My good friend Monkaey over in the UK asked me to post a few extra blogs this week leading up to my photography exhibition this weekend, and so I am. At nearly the same time, Morgan made an interesting observation that, and I’m paraphrasing, when she writes in her blog, she reminds herself that she [...]
5 Minute Blog
This blog will be whatever I can write in five minutes because my show at Echo Gallery opens in three days and I need my sleep. It’s been very exciting the past few weeks. People are talking about the opening and telling me they’re making plans to come. Even if they don’t because other things [...]
A Beautiful Vagueness
This will have to be quick as my muse will be here in less than three hours and the studio is not quite ready to shoot, but I have to pause for a moment and say that the positive energy I’m feeling this morning is absolutely off the charts. Something big is on the horizon. [...]
Billy Sheahan Worldwide
Yes, I’m afraid we’ve created a little empire. This was going to be the night I actually got to bed at a decent hour and caught up on my sleep, but I was reminded that I’m selling books as well as photographs at the Echo Gallery show which opens a week from Saturday on February [...]
A Creative Milestone
Funny, I’ve spent a few minutes here trying to write the first sentence to this entry and I just decided to head at it from a different direction. Somewhere back around 1993, I was trying to find my way in several styles of photography. I felt like I had potential, but the reality of my [...]
www.billysheahan.com… better late than never.
I feel like I’m just reached the summit of Mt. Everest. It seems like I’ve been climbing for a month. But I told myself no matter where I was at midnight tonight, that’s what I was going to upload and make live. So the new version of billysheahan.com is finally up and running! I’ve literally [...]
Employee of the Month
Well, I’m glad that week is over. It’s not often that I get myself in a no win situation, but I was pretty close to one this week. It was really a time where there were an incredible amount of deadlines and no way to meet all of them. And just when I thought it [...]
Just when you thought…
I love my friends… so here I am… furious with my lack of accomplishment and I decide to read a few friends blogs to calm down before I crawl off to bed… and I stumble upon this… All of a sudden I have a big smile on my face and a bad day just washes [...]
Soooooooo Close!
I should really not be taking the time to write here, but I am so excited I just may explode! I promised myself that I would not make the new Billy Sheahan Photography site live until it was all done! But I’m not sure I have the self control to do it. The basic framework [...]
Happy New Year Indeed
They say that how you spend your New Years Eve is indicative of how the rest of your year will be. I really don’t believe in that stuff. I just got done with the most amazing year of my life in 2005, and for the life of me I can’t remember what I did last [...]
The Week Between
Jillian’s in town for a few days to create wonderful things with me. Four days ago, I played Santa to about 10 kids I didn’t know. Yes, with the red suit and the beard and the wig and hat and the ho ho ho. More on that another time. Morgan’s home again. Yea! Still preparing [...]
