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Oh My!
Shut Up And Make Better Pictures
I had a great conversation with an art director while I was working on a Coke project last week in Chicago. We talked about new media and social networking. He made a great point that I think it should resonate with visual communicators. In so many words, and most likely because he was tired of getting tweets and facebook updates, about the great adventures of certain photographers, he suggested we as visual communicators, put aside the twittering, facebooking, and all the other distractions and concentrate on making kick ass images. How freaking true. I have always said photographers need to make photographs. Pretty simple concept but lately it seems a lot of photographers are doing more social networking than making better pictures. So I'm going to, heed his wisdom and shut up, make better pictures, and let my images speak to my strength as a visual communicator. With that said, I'd love to learn more about photographers that have visual blogs of their struggle to make more powerful images. More image making, less talk.
The Unibrow, The Eighties, And Some Serious Ups...
Well after two weeks of shooting and post processing, the next few days in the studio come at the perfect time. I'll be taking advantage of the first part of this week to catch my breath before a stretch of shooting that could include a trip to LA, a week in North Carolina, and then a quick trip to the big apple.
Here are a few out takes from the past weeks shoots from Huggies and Sanuk. Jeff from Sanuk handed over a box of Donavon Frankenreiter mustaches (why there is such a product is beyond me, but..) and since I already have pretty full complement of facial hair myself, I just had to try out a pretty sweet unibrow. How could one resist getting a shot like this to enhance a facebook profile?
In that vein, as we got fully into the period with Billy Idol blasting through the studio (thanks to William Watt's 80's ipod) there was a chance to re-live one moment of a true 80's classic, the Karate Kid, so I broke out "the Crane Kick."
As if that was not enough I got a chance to do a little hopping during our shoot for Huggies. That one will make a bit more sense when that ad comes out, but who said I can't jump?
