NEST

I teamed up with art director Ashley North to provide new images for the Nest Natural Home website. It was fun composing in such a wide format for their headers. Check out their new site here.

1 more 2011 wrap up

The cover I shot for Wye Oak’s “civilian” ended up on Redfine’s 2011 cover’s of the year page. The set up is a little unconventional: Our third annual year-end cover art recap, this year’s is the most unconventional yet. Album covers are no longer ranked in a linear fashion, but are shown on a spectrum, just like our Albums of the Year and Top Songs. Check out the list here:

sketch of a cover

A Wye Oak fan sent this sketch of the civilian cover over to Andy.

Wammy’s

Bosley being interviewed at the wammy's. Neon magazine was nominated for best music video.

Year end wrap up, a little late. For good reason.

Well Twenty Twelve started up just the way twenty eleven ended off. Busy. That’s not a bad thing, Just a thing. A thing that delays blog post’s. 2011 was a much different year than 2010 for sure but somehow still felt a little “unbalanced.” 2011 was filled with personal work. It’s probably the best and most fulfilling part of this job. I learned this trade to make a living and always hope that I’m able to be passionate about what I’m shooting. Passion is not something you can force. You can’t learn it. It doesn’t come with experience, It’s either there or it’s not. Generally it’s with the personal work that you come across the passion. Then every now and then you come across a project that you are passionate about and you still manage to make a few bucks doing it. Balance. I ended off 2011 with 12 days of shooting in December on documentary that was the personal work of my friend and Director Barrett Rudich. Barrett like myself works in this industry making images and telling stories to help people and companies get a message across. He also has a need for an outlet to his personal creative side.

Poets and Po Boy’s.
Barrett, stumbled across Abi Mott in Portland Oregon earlier last year. Abi’s a Poet who makes her living selling her craft on the spot to those who’s attention she can grab. Like the rest of us I think she’s dances on the line between doing what she loves and doing what makes her money. She sets up her table, chair and typewriter on the sidewalks of busy cities like New York and New Orleans in an attempt to meet her self induced economic quota.

This project for me, was fulfilling in so many ways. We traveled from Baltimore, through Pennsylvania, out to Brooklyn, Manhattan and down to New Orleans before heading back home. We ate well, drank well, traveled well, had great conversations about the project at hand and about all of life’s projects. To top it all off we got to shoot great images of a great story everyday for 2 weeks. This documentary was visually fun to shoot. There was imagery of poets on sidewalks with typewriters in 2 of the countries most interesting [looking] cities. But that was all gravy. The story was interesting and it was unfolding before us. I’ve never been so deeply involved in a documentary. I’ve shot tons of interviews for documentaries in the past and hours and hours of b roll, but never before did I live with the story like this.

Abi rolls from town to town with all of her belongings in a small cart with a sign that reads “Name a price, pick a topic, get a poem” It was a breath of fresh air everyday to watch an artist being an artist. Not really influenced by any client, by a budget or by what society wanted them to make. It was great to watch Abi doing this but also refreshing to watch this in Barrett doing this. He took on this project, financed by no one but his own amex card, and decided there was a story here that he wanted to tell. He was doing the work that he wanted to do. It’s very easy to get caught up in life’s jobs and forget to take on a project that means something to you. So many times I see people, directors, technicians get caught up in the jobs that they are hired to do and lose sight of the reason why they started doing what it is they do in this business.
2011 was a little unbalanced, but in a good way. It was filled with fun personal work and all the bills still got paid.
2012 is up and running in full force. Lots of work on the horizon, lots of new camera’s to look at and hopefully a personal project or two.

MD Zoo Art Auction

Here’s the poster’s that the Maryland Zoo put together for their Art Auction Coming up this week. They used 2 of my images from back here when they invited over for a behind the scenes look at some of the animals. The benefit is to raise money for the AAZK (zookeeper’s organization.)


Honey Pig and Sharpshooter


A Nice Article in the urbanite this Month about Bosley’s Honey Pig album and a great behind the Scenes video of the Sharpshooter music video we shot a couple weeks ago. Dig it.

Muskateer

Honey Pig


It was a pleasure to hand over the “Honey Pig” images to Lotta Olén. She did a great job keeping the feel of the photography in the layout design. lovely.

Honey Pig Outtakes

Here are few of my favorites from the “Honey Pig” session I did with Bosley way back in May. It was a blast shooting in his warehouse studio over at the copycat building. All of the instruments and recording equipment were there, we just shuffled things around a bit. Lit with about 5 strobes to get that morning feel and about 2 packs of cigarettes for ambiance.





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