The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is given to the less talented as a consolation prize.
— Robert Hughes

Sony RX100 review

The summary judgement for me is that the new Sony RX100 is hands-down the most appealing pocket-sized digital camera yet. Capable of producing DSLR grade images, it's hard to find much to fault with this small pocket wonder. While it is too pricey for many, given that it will almost certainly be a second or even third camera, for demanding quality-conscious photographers looking to own an always-along camera able to produce pro-quality results, the RX100 is not just hard, but for the moment almost impossible to beat.

Wow, glowing review on this pocket cam. May have to upgrade my fuji x100 to this...hmm....

Danklife at Nike World Basketball Festival.

Check out the work we did for the Nike World Basketball Festival. The big white athlete imagery was all done by us. Swapped out the backgrounds, the uniforms, the numbers on the uniforms, the socks and the shoes. As always, fun stuff.  Big thanks to everyone at Nike for the great direction and work on a very complicated project. Over 30 images were completely built from scratch.[gallery link="file" order="DESC" columns="1"]  

Thanks goes out to Dina, Corey, David, Jeremy and George!

7 Reasons Why I Can’t Do “Free”

I worked my butt off to make it through business school. I had to work full-time in conjunction with school pretty much from my teens. I’ve been in business for over 20 years. I’ve paid my own dues. I am a professional. My knowledge and expertise, even if it simply a matter of answering one question – has value. It may have taken me over 2,000 working hours just to have the knowledge to answer a brief question skillfully.

Amen... AAAAAAAAAAAAMEN....

New Nike work live

[gallery link="file" order="DESC" columns="1"]  

Some new Nike work is live on their website.  The smoke stuff was a lot of fun.  The shoes had to be colored up for over 20 NFL teams. I attached a full image without the tongure graphic so you can see how big it was built.  Shoes were shot on a white sweep, fully illustrated the background.  It looks like they cropped tight, darkened them and removed a shoes after we were done.  We will try to get before and afters live in about 6 months after embargo.

You can see them live at this link here.

New work for Nike

[gallery link="file" order="DESC" columns="1"]  

Some recent work we did for Nike recently went live.  Check out the shots at Nike.

Vogue Bans Too-Skinny Models From Its Pages

"Vogue magazine, perhaps the world's top arbiter of style, is making a statement about its own models: Too young and too thin is no longer in. The 19 editors of Vogue magazines around the world made a pact to project the image of healthy models, according to a Conde Nast International announcement Thursday.

They agreed to "not knowingly work with models under the age of 16 or who appear to have an eating disorder," and said they will ask casting directors to check IDs at photo shoots and fashion shows and for ad campaigns."

No sympathy for the creative class

Of course, those who continue to work in the creative class are the lucky ones. Employment numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show just how badly the press and media have missed the story. For some fields, the damage tracks, in an extreme way, along with the Great Recession. Jobs in graphic design, photographic services, architectural services – the bureau’s phrasing indicates that it is looking at all of the jobs within a field, including the people who, say, answer the phone at a design studio – all peaked before the market crash and and fell, 19.8 percent over four years for graphic design, 25.6 percent over seven years for photography and a brutal 29.8 percent, for architecture, over just three years. “Theater, dance and other performing arts companies” – this includes everything from Celine Dion’s Vegas shows to groups that put on Pinter plays – down 21.9 percent over five years. Other fields show how the recession aggravated existing trends, but reveal that an implosion arrived before the market crash and has continued through our supposed recovery. “Musical groups and artists” plummeted by 45.3 percent between August 2002 and August of 2011. “Newspaper, book and directory publishers” are down 35.9 percent between January 2002 and a decade later; jobs among “periodical publishers” fell by 31.6 percent during the same period.

So why aren’t we talking about it?

Live music on Sat, 4-28.

Playing with Sun Drugs on Saturday if you are around the Portland areas. Cello, guitar / singer and lap steel.  Mellow and low volume but fun stuff...