Exhibit 5a | Creative Disobedience

2007 has been the first full year that I’ve been shooting professionally as a staff photographer. One of the things I am learning about the photography business is that the number of days you spend shooting is a pretty good yardstick about how well you are progressing. One of the bloggers that I read daily [...]

Remember how a while back I was talking about pairing images together and how much I liked it? I was browsing over at Photo Rank and came across Mark Holthusen’s site. I am drawn to the dark and gritty styles (perhaps because for the most part my work is bright and, well, corporate). I love [...]

It’s so nice to see that the environmental movement has rolled off Bob Dylan’s back without a hiccup with this ad for Cadillac. He’s driving a freakin’ Escalade. A twelve mile-per-gallon Escalade. To make matters worse, the ad is filled with references to petroleum usage – he passes a tanker truck, there are tanker cars [...]

Here’s the backstory: I was the lead designer on the marketing team for my firm’s recruiting collateral until about a year or two ago. Our firm has used iconography in our advertising for years, and the our team came up with the clever idea of making giant foam core mounted versions of the icons and [...]

A couple weeks ago I trekked out to New Jersey for an editorial shoot for a corporate magazine. It was a really exciting shoot for me, as it was a good bit beyond the normal corporate work that I normally do. It involved four child models (ages 9 to 16), their parents, the partners who [...]

Unless you want to get really creeped out by a classic Christmas story:

Last night I completed the game Portal, and this morning I’m bemoaning the fact that there isn’t more to play. This surprisingly interesting puzzle game is short – a mere three and a half hours to four hours for me – but the play and storyline is excellent. Because the game is so short it’s [...]

Last year we hired several models for a photo shoot for a recruiting campaign at my firm. It was the usual “united colors of megacorp” model search, with all races accounted for (or at least implied). You got your white male, white female, Hispanic male, Hispanic female, African American male, African American female…and so on. [...]