movin' on up

I have finally launched my architectural photography website and with that created a new blog in the tumblr universe. So for anyone that was checking this out you can now find me over at andrewcbly.com

ci veddiamo

Official.

Thursday marked my first day as a full-time employee at DiGo brands so it looks like I will be staying for awhile! I am the new Visual Production Artist and can't relay how refreshing it is to be in a creative environment again. Having great friends and a lot of luck is pretty amazing. Here's a couple photos from our chalk wall project we worked on a couple weeks ago.

my hood beats your hood

I lucked out to be living amongst the best neighborhoods in the city. Hanksy makes it even better, he embodies the LOL: 

Pigfest 2013

Sometimes you have to stop and realize how lucky you are to be surrounded by amazing friends with great talent. Tonight is one of those times. The Aiello's are beyond amazing and had one of the best parties ever, despite a little rain. Great music, great beer and even better people. From 7am until 2am it was nonstop fun. I can't wait to edit some of the videos Bondo and I grabbed throughout the day, so stay tuned. Countdown to Pigfest 3 starts now! Hope everyone else had an equally awesome 4th weekend.

benvenuti

arrivederci

NYC

After many years of contemplation the time is finally right, making the move to the city with great work ahead. Insanely excited for the next few months! 

recent photo work

A few highlights from my work in Pittsburgh last week, follow the title link for a few more recent photographs. I am currently reworking my personal site so stay tuned for the launch of andrewcbly.com in the next couple weeks!

Kickstart my heart

YES! The time is now to bring this character to life. I am lucky enough to be traveling back to Italy this summer for 5 weeks and will be living outside of Siena. This is perfect timing to bring the culmination of over a year of research into short documentary form. Most of the work regarding research and animations have been done, I just need that last extra push to make it an exciting documentary for a wide range of audiences and film festivals.  Check it out, and take a journey to Siena with me! Grazie mille!

Taccola - First Vitruvian Man

I was lucky enough to present at the 2013 Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference held at the Newberry Library in Chicago a few weeks ago. It was a fantastic experience and the presentation was well-received. I presented a paper highlighting the crescendo of my thesis subject which I am finishing this semester at Kent State to complete my MA in Art History.  This also represents the culmination of all the work I've been doing the last year and a half, traveling to Italy and Germany for further research.  I created a video combining the powerpoint presentation with my paper so I hope you enjoy! And if everything starts falling into place I will have more exciting news soon. Grazie mille.

Taccola - First Vitruvian Man from Andrew Bly on Vimeo.

ARCH photos

I have recently been working with the talented and professional Mike Leonardi of Candidly Yours Photography to expand into the architecture and interior design world. Here are a few examples.

instagram + blurb = book

the great people at blurb make book creation extremely easy, thought I could create a decent coffee table book out of the instagram photos from this summer so here it is!

ACB* abroad by Andrew C. Bly | Make Your Own Book

damals und heute / Oma und Ich

As I'm leaving Italy today after a great summer the memory of my Omi is still very fresh, and it's hard to think about returning to Pittsburgh on Thursday and not seeing her. While I had a lot of success in Italy with research my best time in the last 3 months was the time spent with family in Deutschland. Not being able to be with family during our loss was painful, but it helped to see my Great Aunt and the rest of the family. While in the small town of Wiehe where my Omi was born and raised I took some photos including this one in which I mixed an old photo with the present. It's hard to put into words the feeling of being there after hearing stories and seeing photos growing up from Omi over the years but essentially it was pure happiness, and peace knowing that she would have been so proud of my journey. Rest in peace Omi.

rollercoaster

I'm halfway through my 3-month stay in Italy and there have been extreme highs (Onda Palio win) and extreme lows (losing my Omi and being thousands of miles away from family). The first month was getting used to being here nearly alone and trying to get in to routines and fine tune the thesis research. I'm now off to Germany to see family and visit where my grandmother was born, lived and got married. I feel extremely lucky that I get to see these relatives and then finish my last two days in Munich to see the most important image of my research. Hopefully the image that will bring future fortune! With the wealth of photos I took last summer I have eased off carrying a camera around every day and more interested in experiences but if you have instagram I have been posting regularly from various locations under the name 82acb. I have a few photo projects planned for Germany so I will post the results shortly!

Bill. Murray.

"Bill Groundhog-Day, Ghostbustin'-ass Murray" 

Buzzfeed has a great breakdown of Bill Murray's red carpet appearance at Cannes for Moonrise Kingdom.  Can't wait for this movie to come out.  Seriously, can Bill Murray rule any more?

Estate di Andrew

T-minus 34 days until I'm under the shadow of Brunelleschi's dome yet again. This time it's on my own with a lot to accomplish but there isn't any other place in the world I'd rather spend 3 months.

ci vediamo presto l'Italia...

The Black Keys | Cleveland

I had the chance to see The Black Keys last week at the Q in Cleveland and lucky enough to have friends that bought great seats early enough. I love the camera on my new 4s iPhone and the stage setup was great so I snapped a few photos and put them together. The show was really great, these 2 guys from Akron have never disappointed and always raise the bar with each performance. If you'd like the full image you can grab it here.

Bellisimo!

Absolutely awe-inspiring work by Alberto Seveso utilizing underwater photos of ink. Fantastic.

heartbeat. my heartbeat.

"Nostalgia is denial - denial of the painful present... the name for this denial is golden age thinking - the erroneous notion that a different time period is better than the one ones living in - its a flaw in the romantic imagination of those people who find it difficult to cope with the present."

Just watched Midnight in Paris and would highly recommend it to anyone who is a fan of Woody Allen, art history, great movies or beautiful women. (such as Marion Cotillard above)

Weekend in the Wilds

Good times, great friends and family; a much needed weekend away from all work visiting Southern Tier Brewery and exploring the wilds of McKean and Elk Counties.