small fall 2014 update some things I’ve written recently: These Veggie Burgers Taste Like Blood Drugs, Lies, and Nipples at the World Hand-Milking Championships The Texas Ag Commissioner Has a Bone to Pick with Meatless Monday Growing Vegetables In Your Body Cavities Is All the Rage We Spoke to a 90-Year-Old Farmer Who Grows […]
Author: hilary pollack
POINT AND SHOOT
People often ask me what kind of cameras I shoot with. Over the years, I have been through bazillions of different cameras in search of just the right je ne sais quoi. The right camera should feel like a partner in crime, a constant companion, and a trusty tool. Basically, it should successfully translate—or at least mimic—the way […]
I NEED A NEW DREAM
I need a new dream because I fulfilled a long-standing one, right at the top of ye olde bucket list. To go to Iceland, stand on its moss, rub the noses of its ponies, gaze at its glaciers, be wine-drunk somewhere where 4am looks like late-afternoon. I guess it all started somewhere in my teens, with […]
LATE SPRING / EARLY SUMMER 2014
This last photo is of Dolly, a 90-year-old woman that Emily and I met on the sidewalk in Breezy Point. She invited us into her home for two hours, gave us fruit cups, and told us all about growing up in New York in the 40s, 50s, 60s. She told Emily to trim her split ends […]
LET’S GET OUT OF HERE
It’s slightly ironic that the past two weekends—arguably the nicest, weather-wise, the entire time I’ve lived here—I’ve been out of town, considering my past personal dredges of Seasonal Affective Disorder that begged for 78 degree days. But it was worth it, because I got to stuff the above creation into my face (a salted caramel […]
SONGS FOR GOING IT ALONE
I interviewed some incredibly charming bartenders about their love of Campari to unearth the reasons why it’s so beloved, even through it’s crazy bitter and used to be made with crushed-up beetles. Read the story on VICE here. I also got sent to Bonnaroo to eat as much as I could physically muster, and I […]
ON STARING LONGINGLY INTO A BROWSER WINDOW
In-N-Out Burger Might Be Too Good to Be True … (but spoiler alert: it’s not). Even though I haven’t actually had one of their “real” burgers in 11 years, they’ve still got a special spot in my California heart. Check out the rundown at the link above on Munchies. I also infiltrated the online world […]
IT AIN’T ALL BAD
Do I really hate cats? Probably not. But I can tell you one thing; I don’t fit in with serious cat people. I went to New York’s first cat café for VICE and interviewed happy kitty lovers who stood in the rain for 5 hours so that they could pet cats … but never visit animal […]
I MISS MY UGLY CITY
I moved to New York on September 1st, 2013. I often get asked, by people both here and in California, whether or not I like it. And I feel like I should be completely sure how to answer them, but I’m not. My coworkers, my parents, or my friends back in California (many of whom I […]
POP PUNK, OLD LADIES, and BODY ODOR
Pardon my inexcusable lapses in updating. Now that I’m not entrenched in a snow fortress, desperately attempting to thaw by consuming only hot toddies and ramen, I’ve been (thankfully) spending less idle laptop time. I have three new stories up on VICE from the past week or two: We Talked to the Legendary Pop Punk […]
