Sep 09

Behind The Curtain: The Guts Of A Commercial Shoot

http://www.facebook.com/v/151394396404Whew. If you've tuned in at all in the past few days, you're aware of what I've got cooking. To my knowledge this is one of the first (perhaps THE first?) global, multi-week-long, play-by-play commercial shoot to have its behind-the-scenes life chronicled and broadcast almost in real time via blog, Facebook, and Twitter. This will be the deepest look into the black box of photography that I've been able to share to date. By a... read more ›
Sep 06

Packing Quick ‘n’ Dirty

http://www.facebook.com/v/149745901404Scott uploaded this vid to my Facebook page from the Karl Strauss brewery at LAX and it quickly got over 100 comments/likes in about 15 hours. Since questions poured in from there and twitter, I thought I'd chuck the vid up here and scramble to answer some of those questions over a wimpy cappuccino here in the Air New Zealand lounge before running to our next legs to Christchurch and onto Queenstown.Some of your questions... read more ›
Sep 05

Play-By-Play Commercial Shoot for the Next Two Weeks

For those of you that like the behind the scenes content, prepare for a deluge.I'm off to New Zealand to shoot a campaign literally this minute, and for the next two weeks I'll be giving you the absolute best play-by-play that I can here via the blog, on facebook, and on twitter. It's a huge challenge while I'm working the super long shoot days to pull this off, but I'm going to give it my... read more ›
Aug 31

Jeremy Cowart: Help-Portrait

Public Service Announcement. I meant to get this up last week, but was buried. Great idea pulled together by fellow photog, Jeremy Cowart, that he ran with first over at Scott Kelby's blog and then followed at Help-Portrait.com. We don't need to know the details here, but if you are planning to help, say so here. It will inspire others to do the same. I plan to help. Will you?-- Get my every move: Follow... read more ›
Aug 28

Dodging the Red-Hot Poker

One fine day a creative director in a big corner office downtown kindly agreed for me to come show him my work. Hooray! So I came to his office and showed him my work. Frankly, the work was bloody awful. All of it. Imagine the worst, cheesiest...crap. Only far worse than that. The creative director was a nice guy. You could tell he didn't think much of my work, though he was far too polite... read more ›
Aug 25

Coffee and Donuts With Scobleizer and Friends

http://www.facebook.com/v/142860226404[UPDATE: I dunno why Facebook has relegated me to this still image here above, when it's really a video. In many cases, when we've posted a video that's been flooded with traffic, they've stopped serving the video to ease up on their servers. In any case, I'm not sure what's going on, but if you click 'continue reading' below, you will get to see the vid...]Posted this to Facebook yesterday, but thought it should go... read more ›
Aug 24

Painting with Light, Hip Hop Edition

Alright. This is just plain cooler than cool. All y'all have seen photography's "painting with light", the technique where you leave the shutter on your camera open for a long time, use a light and drag it around in the frame, and get some cool stuff, writing, shapes, etc. But what do you get when you fuse this technique with one of hip hop culture's oldest pastimes? You get HALO, the brain-child of Parisian artist,... read more ›
Aug 21

Video In Print Magazine. Innovative or Desperate?

It was just reported today at TheNextWeb.com that CBS will insert the world's first paper-thin interactive video screen into copies of the September 18th issue of Time Inc.’s Entertainment Weekly:"The screens will be around the size of a mobile phone display and have rechargeable batteries. When readers open the magazine to the ad pages, it will activate a chip used to store the video (similar to a singing greeting card), they will then see a... read more ›
Aug 20

Brand New Songs For Eating And Drinking!

In our most amazing Songs For Eating and Drinking evening to date (they keep getting better, but maybe that's just my bias...), my partner Hebb and I today bow down to the greatness of these musicians. And what a lineup we had... The splendor of this night a couple Wednesday's ago - the hottest day in Seattle's history - will be forever burned into my beanie little brain. Sample of the bands represented on... read more ›
Aug 18

9 Things To Do When You’re Feeling Stale

Being a professional creative might seem like the ultimate dream job for some--and for many of us it is. But it ain't always easy. In fact, staying inspired is really hard work. I recently received the above tweet (to @chasejarvis) and it got me thinking. Here's 9 things I've done over the course of my 10+ year career that have helped me overcome those times when uninspired or stale work invades:1. Make a major life... read more ›