website update: Microsoft, I'm a PC

I just updated my commercial section of my website with the Microsoft work I did this August. The project lasted almost two weeks and sent me and the crew to Paris, London, Cape Town and Johannesburg South Africa and a shoot day back in New York. The shoot was a integrated set where a full tv crew would shoot the motion shots and then I would follow up with the still images. All the final ads are on You Tube as well as tons of additional videos here. The ads were produced to counter the nerdy stereotype of PC users by documenting the diversity of their user base. The subjects include a photographer, Nick Fleming a green architect, Edouard François, a French YouTube celebrity, Jey Jey (not yet posted) and many others.

I'll be posting more images soon, including the ads posted last month in Union Square, Times Square and Spring street train stations.

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Microsoft, I'm a PC and I share the truth. - Nick Fleming, © harlan erskine

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Microsoft, I'm a PC and I design green buildings. - Edouard François, © harlan erskine

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Microsoft, I'm a PC and my city never sleeps. - Matthew Murray, © harlan erskine

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Microsoft, I'm a PC andI'm gonna get published. -Shamikah Martinez, © harlan erskine

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Microsoft, I'm a PC and I'm one in a Billion. -Lucille Dechansiaud, © harlan erskine

10 Most Amazing Ghost Towns

© Liao Yusheng

I am not really sure how I can across this link but I can't stop looking at these images of the 10 Most Amazing Ghost Towns. I am especially drawn to San Zhi with images by Liao Yusheng (Flickr set and slideshow) and Chernobyl workers' home of Prypiat. You can see some great Chernobyl images over at the classic internet viral sensation - KIDDofSPEED project shot by a mysterious photographer who only goes by the name of "Elena."

Maybe I found the ghost town link through the NOTCOT blog.

In Beijing, China for the next week...

Harlan Erskine, “Out apartment window, Beijing, China” © 2008

So, I have been on a traveling bender for almost all of August and now I find myself in Beijing, China until the 29th to see the Olympic Games (hopefully if I can find a ticket) and to take some pictures. Anyone have any recommendations on what to see and where to go?