Exhibit 5a | Creative Disobedience

When I got downtown last night there was a large gathering of people protesting the brutal police shooting death of Sean Bell in November. The protesters were holding a life-size paper cutout of police commissioner, Raymond W. Kelly, on which appeared to be illustrated bullet wound for each police murder on Kelly’s watch. I captured [...]

C’mon New York Times. Al Gore is FAT. We know this. Stop rubbing his face in it!

Way back in January I ordered the much anticipated AppleTV, a computer to TV component that I’ve been waiting for ever since I realized that I didn’t need a DVD player or a VCR to watch TV. I used to run video through my iBook to my TV, but since that died and I upgraded [...]

I bought myself an ABR800 as the next addition to my personal studio lighting set up and I’m very excited. I haven’t gotten to do much playing around with it, but grabbed a few shots of a coworker and am very pleased with the results.

This sucker is powerful. As you can see, my subject got [...]

These days I am constantly looking for ways to increase my photography assignments. Whenever I see photos being used around the office I try to see if it’s something that I could do, and if possible I try to convince the designer to hire me to shoot what they’ve comped up before they purchase it [...]

I was watching TV last night and saw a Volvo ad, which touted Volvo’s ongoing campaign of “life being the ultimate luxury”. Well, duh. But they’ve added many “life luxury” features to their newest car, including a fancy braking system, a blind-spot eliminator and a heart beat monitor.
Yes. A heart beat monitor.
This little feature doesn’t [...]