Black leather couches, orange counter tops and frosted globe chandeliers don my Mammoth Mountain retreat. The Art For Condos™ condo art generator tool matched my condos style perfectly and provided a full series of condo appropriate designs. Also available for Chalets and A-Frames. Full series in the case studies.
Southland heads east for a penthouse party and a frosty hike. Many more posts to come. Team ST has been very busy these past few months and has lots to show for it. Speaking of ST, I gave Suicidal Tendencies a listen again, great stuff. I will never forget the first day of 7th grade in Enfield CT. This dude had the ST logo (great logo) in sharpie on the back of his jean vest and a nose to earring chain. At this point in my life I thought I was Don Johnson and had on loafers, a polo shirts and pleated kakies with suspenders. This other dude went right up to him and yanked the chain right off of his face. Blood all over and a messy fight. About 8 years later one of them killed the other with a knife. Childhood grudge gone real bad.
29 Palms. Went there a man came out a Marine. More photos and the introduction to the novel in the case studies.
Ian Barry and Amarylis Knight of Falcon Motorcycles invited me to the Legends of the Motorcycle show in Half Moon Bay a few months ago. I have so many amazing shots from the event it has taken me a while to whittle it down. I was there specifically to shoot the Bullet Falcon that Ian built for actor Jason Lee. More on that bike soon. This event is not a Harley Hells Angeles motorcycle rally. It was an elite display of the nicest motorcycles in the world. This one was one of my favorites. I could make a coffee table book from that days shoot alone. I shot with a pentax from the 60’s which is becoming my primary camera. I love it, and it seemed to fit in with these historic machines.
On my drive to the office this morning, watching the fuel gage head towards E, I noticed every other lawn in beautiful Hancock Park was turning a desert shade of brown. The others were lush, green, manicured and sucking water from lakes like these every night. Everyone in LA should be forced to look at where our water comes from. I hear radio spots telling us to take shorter showers and water only three times a week, but where is the message that this mythical water actually comes from somewhere. Somewhere very far away and intangible. Lets make the black lung campaign for water. Show these lakes bleeding out. Show defunct marinas a quarter mile away from water. Show the steep banks as an obvious meter for our use. Now, I am fully aware that most of these lakes are in fact reservoirs and not entirely natural at all. They are designed to fail. However this does not take away from the gut reaction that the shit is drying up so you lawn doesn’t have to.
I started thinking about graphic design when I was thumbing through my fathers record collection as a kid. I would try to copy the insanity found on the Moody Blues and Country Joe and the Fish covers. Then I started sketching all the logos from the WWF (that’s World Wrestling Federation). I have full notebooks of Ultimate Warrior logos. Somehow this is the result, a cool logo that landed on an album cover. The beautiful photo that accompanies the band brand is by Autumn de Wilde. The record is out today! Go buy it at an actual store and hold it in your hands, it’s a great nostalgic feeling!
These are some quick comps I came up with to help a friend who was on the New Balance account. As a long time runner, and reader of running magazines, I became really sick of the standardized ads. I wanted to highlight the little things in running and all the variety of the sport. I also wanted to play off the “N” in New Balance and kinda make up headlines that would “run” into each other in every edition. We also went out and shot this for tv, which I have yet to edit! Getting on that…
NYC based DJ and Producer Doug Waylo needed some images to go along with his amazing electronic music. I went back to my archives and pulled photographs of landscapes I took on road trips. Chances are I was listening to his tracks or something very similar. Ever since my first cross country expedition with Boards of Canada in Capital Reef, I have had to listen to electronic music in beautiful places. It’s now just the law. This project and partnership will continue into an interactive journey of sight and sound, with music inspired by these travels and the travels fueled by beats.
From Downtown Los Angeles to Culver City. The Expo Line will utilize the existing tracks from the forgotten era of the Red Cars. Crews have been excavating the metal and wood bones like messy archaeologists with heavy machinery. Along Jefferson they have been pouring and setting the concrete forms that I can only guess will become support for bridges or commuter passageways. For now they rest stacked, in order, ready to be combined like the forces of Voltron in this ambitious and already over budget monster. More photos in the case studies and on flickr.
