Pix from several shoots at the Yellow Shop, Blue's new photo studio in Friendship Heights. Full backdrop system and Alien Bees synch lights, including the AB Ringflash.

Favorite model Melissa Duvall comes in with legs toned into pistons so we alter the shoot to show off the industrial jewelry made by Andy Cassatt, Khristian Gaines and Danea Byrd. One of the pieces involves the chain being doused in kerosene and set on fire; Melissa is lucky she has all her hair!

From a July 20 shoot by Blue. Friends are launching a tango shoe company, with the products manufactured in Italy for dancers worldwide. Two shots are needed of the shoes: one showing shoes with textures in the background or underneath them, and then a second shot showing the shoes suspended against a neutral background. The latter was a tricky job!

Craftsman Khristian Gaines puts together cafe racers from old bikes that were once spiffy and super speedy but are now rusted or busted. Gaines is down the street from the Box, so it became a natural exercise to combine his restoration skills with Blue's studio set-up. These pictures are the result of the first shoot, with the 1975 Yamaha 650 in pieces. When the bike is done, the model comes back and poses in a sleek suit. On this first run, the model brought her cousin, so there were two Duvalls and a fabulous vibe in the studio. Blue's pal Mikey swore after hearing about it that he would start producing a reality show based on Blue's odd jobs and poetic projects. Mikey missed out this time.

We recruit him to play a child molester for no reason other than he's the only person with drama training within 100 yards of the Box, and we need somebody quick for our movie, being shot a few minutes after it was conceived. He's game, and puts on his coat to come outside and play. And that's when Sean notices the coat-holder: a fantastic piece of sculpture, about which Bessant is dismissive, saying, "Oh, that's just a piece of art that didn't quite work out." So Blue puts out a call for models and three days later here are some of the results.

These pictures are all part of Blue's "Notes on Babes & Bankers" about his fight against Deutsch Bank to hold onto his houses. Nawaka plays a bank killer in the movie.

As part of the first Creation24 event at the Box, Alwind came down from Manhattan and posed with Michael Perez for Blue's camera. She participated in three different shoots, each of which was projected on the walls behind her or across her body. The pictures became more complex, with multiple images of her self accompanying a stark presence in dim lighting. The triple-exposed sequence will be shown at the second Box.SFO event in San Francisco in April, 2011, and those images will also be shown here.

Rob Myers is an original piece of art. He's molded himself into an essential part of a half dozen bands by being a wizard on the guitar and a devout student of stringed instruments from Asia. In these pictures he is posing with his tambura, an instrument Mr. Blue spent a thrilling day securing from Riki Ram in New Delhi. Myers knew exactly what he wanted, and the instrument flew out of Delhi with DHL a decade ago. To hear it played now, in Myers' toy-cluttered home, half a world away from its birthplace, is to appreciate how broadly music reaches to deliver its spirit and rhythms.

Flamenco act, shot using Nikkor 85mm and 185mm lenses, all manual focus, on a Nikon D700.

Shot at the Box by Blue, the band is All Year Money, cutting through the DC and DMV rap scene. They're a blend of ambitions and backgrounds, loosely pointed out of PG County, as you can imagine from four performers with handles like Cool 'Em, K.D.I., Nutta Bang and St. Peezy. They've got a fifth man, Ron, who is part strategy and part vibe, and the band has some serious ambitions. We joke that I should take them to the Arctic and set them up with Norwegian rednecks for an audience, because I know both sides would be laughing all night with new friends in a scenario like that, which is too rare. All Year Money's sound is a surprise because the rap comes out of a go-go background: melodies are constant and easy to identify. so the messages come loaded with style. You could catch them at Studio 63, or dc tunnel, or watch your local speakeasy for an appearance.

We took over a small theatre in Hollywood to shoot three music videos for Irina's appearance for SXSW. There was skepticism about whether Blue could really make three music videos in one day, but Irina gambled that the effort would be better than no videos at all, and indeed three of her songs were set to image and loaded out into the wide wide web. A lot has happened to Irina since then: always a movie star in her native Finland, Irina was mostly recently George Clooney's opening scene love in "The American," and can be seen in a variety of movies worldwide. Her new album, co-written with Blue's musical partner Peter Fox, looks set to be distributed in Europe this summer. Her musical act, part of which involves her uncanny skills on the musical saw, has been honed into a powerful show that is almost impossible to define. These pictures are just some of the many thousands that have lain dormant in Blue's electronic world for a decade!

What can you create in a turn of the earth? This series brings together spoken word, sculptors, painters, photographers, musicians, writers, etc., in a single space for 24 hours to create an interactive gallery where the only limit is time. Held at the Wonderbox in October 29, the event will have a sequel in April 2011 and then again in June 2011. There are no applications or lobbying involved; the participants are invited by the Box people, and drop in to do their thing over a 72-hour period that is advertised at the latest possible time.

Andy Cassatt is the co-producer with Blue of the Wonderbox. He is its lynchpin and rhythm. A master of materials, Andy is one of those rare craftsmen who is comfortable with all textures and sciences. If he thinks this piece of metal can be attached to that plate of glass, it can. If he thinks it will take 7 minutes for milk and chair to boil in a jar on top of the woodstove, it does. These pictures were shot on one of his famous birthdays, and pay respect to his standing as a member of the Navajo nation. Co-starring Sandra Bishop and Maya Nelson Wolfsdottir.

Everyone who knows him worried about the speed Tad Mondale traveled through the Universe. There would be a wall somewhere, so it would be wise to leave the laws of attraction as Nature intended them rather than apply his various accelerators. Turns out it's been everyone else living too slowly all this time, so when you catch up with Tad now, in his welter of boats and smiles and developments, it's you who is eager to move like lightning into tomorrow, and it's Tad who lingers in every moment, patiently fishing for humor. And everyone has humor, it's part of their design, if only they would let themselves be hooked and lose control for an afternoon or two; when Tad hauls you in, he does so only to let you go, as all patient people do. He's become one of those people you miss even as you're telling him goodbye. And in this way, a little bit of him travels with you when you insist on pressing ahead, toward tomorrow's grand plans, instead of loitering with him in this endless moment, now.

Lisa Engelken, the former dashing Lisa E., spirals into new coils of drama and delight as we bathe in her energies like blooms in a meadow, tilting happily in her direction, even our veins throbbing perfectly to the beat. You make up every song as you sing it or listen to it, since there is no room in your brain to remember that much, so it's always a surprise when we or she gets it right and we remember that note or that feeling or that moment when she made us smile years ago, or was it seconds go, or now? She makes you feel good, and it makes Lisa Engelken feel good to do it.

She comes in with Mike Perez without notice or prep, not knowing at all what she is getting into. Art, with flamenco as its paint, its light and rhtythm? We talk for five minutes, and Cecilia clues in to what is needed. It's beyond body sculpture, closer to capturing the moments of rhythms. She is fluid, as expected, but also capable of instant changes from delicacy to power, and this is way beyond what the project had hoped for. In 400 pictures in two hours, Cecilia gives dozens of profiles, hundreds of suggestions of the dancer as predator diving or prey escaping, nimble or rooted, splayed or hidden. It's a fabulous performance, and the camera adores it.

Her full name is Kikitomtom Dakota. Her family calls her Kimi for short. In the Algonquin language, "Kimi" means secret and Dakota means friend or ally. She's a lawyer in a big midwestern city who has always been obssessed with warrior images in all native cultures, hence the samurai sword shoot. She's also getting turned on to taking images, so she jumped at the chance to pose with the new Nikon D7000 as well as doing the swordplay. These images are up here temporarily, like until Tuesday! Then Kimi fades into anonymity once more. Hopefully we will have a short movie to share soon.

Dancer and choreographer Vanessa Terzaghi shoots a series of wine tests at the Box with Blue. She is lithe, super graceful, and the shoot consists of several sets but is marked by her movement through the frames; she dances with the wineglass balanced in her hand, and these images are the result.