on a roll with pricing + more

Sunday, September 27th, 2009

stealing this straight outta the APA playbook but a solid one page take on the latest + greatest from everyone’s photo hero over at aphotoeditor. rob haggart busts out a slew of material along with a great interview with suzanne sease covering the spectrum of pricing in today’s market. nice to see photographers laying out [...]

advertising is @#$$#^!?!?

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

art + copy is a new film delving into the history of what many of us either can’t get enough of or find ourselves getting far too much exposure to. already starting the machine talking it’s sure to ring a few bells + make some waves on it’s current tour.
director Doug Pray (Surfwise, Scratch, Hype!) [...]

“the enemy of art is indifference…

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

… never underestimate your potential to make a difference.”
“art can affect change.”
“what at first was a budgetary limitation turned into an asthetic asset eventually.”
recent celeb and everywhere artist shepard fairey talks about his views on creativity, tagging, andre the giant + more in this segment. interesting to hear his take, “that grafitti is an eyesore [...]

ideas from $$$ or vice versa?

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

it’s true, inspiration strikes at the strangest time. we all know that. what’s refreshing, particularly in this day in age is to see it win out. which is just the case this past weekend with our collective psuedo national holiday + advertising battle royale known as the super bowl.
two unemployed bros from indiana landed a [...]

large green thanks

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

largest thanks ever to the california crew and merrell. crazy good week shooting all over norcal and have the entire gang that pitched in to thank. merrell was fabulous to work with and their agency was pure sweetness. all 20+ of us were on the same level (hard work, early mornings and dirty one liners) [...]

advertising, pixels & meth

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

A handful of interesting ends on the advertising side of photography & visual media recently.
One, even with the economy in the dumps it seems that the digital revolution continues upward. As of the finish of 2007 internet ad revenue set a record high of $21 billion.
Great piece more photo related, or at least photoshop oriented, [...]

recognition w/ w+k

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

this piece in from pdx is good. humorous, egocentric and no doubt ubiquitous in certain circles.
thanks david.
lately i’m a fan of the ‘my better is better than your better‘ nike campaign as well – another w+k pdx project.

visual liars & translators be

Monday, March 31st, 2008

This idea is out there all the time and particularly been on my mind lately. Apparently I’m not the only one as these recent ruminations elaborate.
The first from Jim Casper on lenscultureweblog on the cover image of French mag Enjeux. The prejudice and political nuances of the image seem misleading at best.
The second is slightly [...]