Tag: Sol Neelman

  • A New Photo Book Celebrates Furry Skiing & Other Weird Sports

    A New Photo Book Celebrates Furry Skiing & Other Weird Sports

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    A New Photo Book Celebrates Furry Skiing & Other Weird Sports For years, Sol Neelman has traveled the world photographing weird sports, such as furry skiing, disco bowling, live monster wrestling, &more. via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2023/04/a-new-photo-book-celebrates-furry-skiing-other-weird-sports/ Sol Neelman was at Copper Mountain in Colorado to attend Furry Ski Weekend. Running since 2007, the annual event…

  • Back In My Wheelhouse » THE WILD WEIRD WORLD OF SPORTS

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    Link: Thank all that is good for San Francisco, home of the 10th annual BYOBW (Bring Your Own Big Wheel) race.

  • Pencil: BREAKING NEWS

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    Link: For the record, this was billed as: World Extreme Pencil Fighting Championships WXPFL VIII: Hard Wood. ”The Schoolyard Sport of Pencil Fighting goes Pro! Pencil vs. Pencil Until Somebody Breaks!”

  • Great Balls Of Fire!

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    Link: Yep, this was my first trip to The Bluegrass State, an eye-opening, eyebrow-singeing voyage to photograph the semi-annual Machine Gun Shootout in the sticks outside of Louisville.

  • Oh, Kaiju. I Do Love You.

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    Link: I think I’ve said this before (like everything), but when I’m asked what’s my favorite weird sport, Kaiju almost always comes right to mind.

  • Good Clean Fun

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    Link: 5K Foam Fest in Ogden, an obstacle course full of soapy Slip’n Slides and water hazards. As if Utah doesn’t already have a reputation across the land for keeping their program clean cut.

  • Sol Neelman’s new Weird Sports column at Wired Playbook blog

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    Link: Sol Neelman has just started a new Weird Sports column at Wired.com’s Playbook sports blog.

  • Sol Neelman: Weird Sports — zPhotoJournal

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    Link: I used to use a 400mm f2.8 lens for covering college football, in large part because we were stuck on the sidelines. My #1 lens for shooting Weird Sports is my Canon 35mm f1.4, in part because I’m not battling a sports information director for access. There are times like with Drag Queen Prom…

  • The Daily Promo – Sol Neelman | A Photo Editor

    The Daily Promo – Sol Neelman | A Photo Editor

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    The Daily Promo – Sol Neelman – A Photo Editor Sol Neelman Who printed it? Never thought I’d be able to boast that Topps printed my promos, but they did. You can upload your photos on their site and pair them with designs from some of their vintage trading cards. For common cards to fill…

  • This Week In Photography Books: Sol Neelman | A Photo Editor

    This Week In Photography Books: Sol Neelman | A Photo Editor

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    This Week In Photography Books: Sol Neelman – A Photo Editor by Jonathan Blaustein It’s a Thursday. You know what that means. Yup, this is a column I’m going to pull straight out of my _________. Sorry. It can’t be helped. It’s not that I’m lazy. Just the opposite. The last few weeks have been…

  • Photo Brigade Podcast #49 with Sol Neelman | The Photo Brigade

    Photo Brigade Podcast #49 with Sol Neelman | The Photo Brigade

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    Photo Brigade Podcast #49 with Sol Neelman – The Photo Brigade On this episode Robert chats with Portland, Oregon-based photographer Sol Neelman, who recently published his second photo book, “Weird Sports 2.” via The Photo Brigade: http://thephotobrigade.com/2014/10/photo-brigade-podcast-49-with-sol-neelman/ Sol Neelman is a failed athlete turned sports photographer living in his home city of Portland, Oregon, USA.…

  • Weird Sports 2: The Photo Book by Sol Neelman — Kickstarter

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    Weird Sports 2: The Photo Book This is a fundraiser to produce “Weird Sports 2,” a photo book by German fine art publisher Kehrer Verlag. via Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/308589421/weird-sports-2-the-photo-book This book isn’t about creating a definition of what sports is or is not. It’s about starting a discussion about what role sports play in people’s lives. …

  • Weird Sports 2: The Photo Book by Sol Neelman

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    Weird Sports 2: The Photo Book This is a fundraiser to produce “Weird Sports 2,” a photo book by German fine art publisher Kehrer Verlag. via Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/308589421/weird-sports-2-the-photo-book For too long, I feel the narrow definition of sports has been limited to professional leagues and Olympic competitions, folks with monster builds and monster salaries. Sports…

  • Five Questions for Sol Neelman

    Five Questions for Sol Neelman

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    5 Questions for Sol Neelman SOL NEELMAN is a failed athlete turned sports photographer living in his home city of Portland, Oregon. A journalism graduate from the University of Oregon, he began his professional career in 1996… via APAD blog: http://blog.aphotoaday.org/post/73413517456/5-questions-for-sol-neelman His pursuit of turning his personal passion into his life’s work, endless love of…

  • Lucky ’13

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    Link: Lucky ’13 » THE WILD WEIRD WORLD OF SPORTS Are these my best images from 2013? Perhaps. Or not. You tell me. Are these some of my favorite images from the year? Yes, yes they are.

  • Weird Sports (10 Photos)

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    12 Ways of Looking at North Korea David Guttenfelder, Tomas van Houtryve, Ari Hatsuzawa, Seung Woo Back and Joao Rocha are among the photographers in “North Korean Perspectives” at Museum of Contemporary Photography. via PDN Photo of the Day: http://pdnphotooftheday.com/2012/12/17960 Sol Neelman is a failed athlete turned sports photographer

  • Sol Neelman’s Quest for Oddball Sports

    Sol Neelman’s Quest for Oddball Sports

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    The Weird World of Sports What possesses grown men to dress like movie monsters and destroy miniature cities? Sol Neelman, the quintessential weird sports photographer, aims to find out. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/28/the-weird-world-of-sports/?pagewanted=all While other sports photographers head to Florida for spring training, Sol Neelman drives through the mountains of Idaho looking for K-9 keg…

  • Das Book: The Making Of Weird Sports

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    I’ve got a copy of Weird Sports sitting in the front room of my house and EVERYONE who picks it up, whether they are a photographer or not, loves it. They slowly flip through the pages, laughing hysterically. Definitely recommended. Here’s Sol’s story of putting it together… THE WILD WEIRD WORLD OF SPORTS This past…

  • Santa’s Drivers

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    THE WILD WEIRD WORLD OF SPORTS I got a rule: if a Weird Sport is happening less than a mile from mi casa and there’s money light and red Santa outfits AND the promise of beers, I’m soooooooooo there. And that’s how I ended up revisiting a classic Portlandia Weird Sport: Urban Golf.

  • The State of Utah’s Magical Underwear

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    THE WILD WEIRD WORLD OF SPORTS: Peace, love and underwear. All were on full display at an Undie Run, in Salt Lake City of all places