I’ve been really flower obsessed lately if that’s not obvious. I’ve been wanting to play with stop motion for a while now so I put this little short clip together to try out some ideas. Shot with a D700 and assembled with Adobe Premiere.
Music clip by Ephemetry, Old Dreams.
Little Tokyo has great bathrooms. I don’t mean in a clean way, I mean in a–this bathroom has character unlike other bathrooms I have seen–way. I don’t want to go on and on about “seeing the unseen” and “paying attention to the things other people don’t pay attention to” because that’s boring as shit and you’ve heard that from 1000 artists already. There’s some truth there, I suppose, in the way that we get conditioned to accepting public restrooms being in a certain way. But the smaller things stuck out to me…plastic plants, framed photos, stains on walls, extensions cords to nowhere. With the plants there is an obvious attempt to add life to a windowless room that is probably lit with fluorescent lights that would otherwise look too bare without them. But the blemishes, the damage, the stains, all of these things started to speak to me as well. I don’t know what they are saying yet, but you can see more here.
Back in the day I hit up Las Vegas to photograph some of Paul Williams buildings, one of which was the old location for the Neon Museum. I really like these photos, although I don’t think the people I shot them for ever used them. I so rarely shoot in hard-ass direct sunlight, so stuff like this ends up being a real challenge for me. Enjoy.
Swins is with Ideal Talent and is an amazing dancer who has signed on for commercial work as well. We just finished his new set of headshots.
More from the Ugly Flowers series. The flower god’s have been really kind over the last few weeks.
Photographing sushi is kind of like cheating if it’s prepared right. These are photos from an impromptu shoot today in downtown Los Angeles.
In an effort to consolidate some hard drives, I have revisited a couple old rolls of film and found some new and exciting images that spoke to me. It’s funny how things can strike you different ways at different times.
Brittany just signed with Ideal so we met to update her comps. Her agent was requesting something commercial, and to also highlight her fit physique so there could be some crossover in the fitness area of modeling. Here’s a few of the shots we came up with.
Downtown Los Angeles is pretty tough sometimes. The Skid Row area is slammed up against condos and high-end sneaker-head stores in such a way that you’ll literally step over used syringes on your way to grab a cup of fair trade pourover coffee. You are aware every moment that you’re living in the city. Some days I really love the grit, some days it’s entirely overwhelming. Recently I’ve been trying to look down, find little aspects of beauty where I can. Here’s a few from this week.
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