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Polaroids From Pitchfork

18 Jul

Just Finished up in Chicago enjoying the Pitchfork Music Festival!!! I’ve been playing around with a Polaroid 300 making mini art, and hipster hunting. Super fun just making simple images. I must have heard “Everybody Loves Polaroid” a thousand times. Getting ready for CHINA!!! Heading out on Sunday for a shoot in Shanghai and Beijing. The Yeti returns!!!

Pitchfork Polaroids

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I Love New York

09 Jul

We just finished three days in NYC working with Computer Associates and Michael Strahan. Fun shoot, and even though it was blazing hot in NYC (103 degrees), I still had an amazing visual adventure. I was able to cruise around the city shooting for a couple of evenings. It was great for the mind and I am newly inspired by the change of background. We are now off to DC then to Dallas and SF for a very, very interesting series of shoots that will surprise you. Stay tuned for those! Our train stop is minutes away so be on the look out for something new and surprising, in about a week! Here is an image from NYC and some recent new work you might like to see. Arriving in Baltimore, got to run.

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Posted in Lighting

World Cup McDonald’s Images and New Work

11 Jun

How awesome is it to wake up for work and have a world class sporting event to eat breakfast with? Explaining to my 4 year old why Scooby Doo got shelved for men kicking a ball around did not go over well, but she will be 8 the next time soccer is on so I figure I can Jedi mind trick into thinking it’s okay.

That being said we did some work for McDonald’s for a World Cup Poster so I thought I’d post that image and some other new work we finished this week, enjoy.

new running images

McDoland's Soccer Poster

McDonald's Soccer Posters

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Rock Fans Shoot

04 Jun

Hope you enjoy this one, we recently shot a little faux rock concert up in LA, I’ll let the images and the time lapse speak for me. The time lapse is quick and dirty, there was not a ton of down time as you can see from the video but its pretty funny, look for some hidden gems in there. Its pretty funny to see the chaos of 12 hours in 3 minutes. Enjoy the images!

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New Work

19 May

Here is something we worked on recently for Do Or Die – a new MMA clothing company. The studio seemed smaller than usual with these eight gigantic MMA fighters hanging out, eating extra-large pizzas. The evening’s shoot yielded some really outstanding results, and the athletes, like Rich Power in the shot below, worked really hard to help capture them. I’m just glad there was a camera between us.

I’ve also been working planning a lot of my own shoots—interesting concepts that challenge and inspire. Here are two we did recently – the first focused on a range of emotions, and the second was a chance to polish my underwater skills.

Otherwise, we just wrapped up a fun shoot with Marlboro at an incredible swimming pool location in Malibu. This month also brought trips to photograph a surfing pug on Waikiki Beach—yes, really—and Navy chaplains here in San Diego. Coming up (as in tomorrow at 5:30 am), we’ve got a large scale “rock concert fan” shoot planned at a warehouse in LA, and a few more cool projects in the works.