Internship and Assisting

Starting to get ready for my internship with an amazing architecture photographer named Lawrence Anderson!!!

I'll also be assisting again Hristo Shindov tomorrow for a PETA public service announcement down in Malibu. Not going to be anything big, I guess we're just shooting a girl with a dog or something. Shooting at 4:30, Hristo said we'd be done by sundown for sure, so we'll see how it goes. I've assisted Hristo one other time and it was my first time ever assisting anyone one a professional advertising shoot.

I'm looking forward to it for sure tomorrow!

LA's internship is going to intense it sounds like as I spoke to LA today on the phone. A lot of shoots coming up and I'll be working with him for 4 months.

Check out Lawrence's work! Its amazing and solid in every way: LA

Check out Hristo's work as well! Completely opposite of LA's but just as good: HS

http://www.own3d.tv/video/23620/Fatal1ty_vs_Toxic_Quake4_WSVG_2006_map1

Everyone should check this out! I know I know, I'm a photographer, but really this is also who I am as a person.

A video gamer! I love to play video games...well not all but fast paced first person shooters.

I love watching the PC players on games like doom 3, quake 3/4 and can't wait till doom 4 and quake 5 come out in 2012 or at least thats when they're estimated to be released.

I play on the xbox360 but if I could I'd definitely play these games instead on a PC with mouse and keyboard.

Watch it! Its a good adrenaline rush!

Design

I'm in the process of redoing my logo/identity. You'll see what I've come up with on my own time, but I really need a graphic designer's touch.

Right now I'm a photographer trying to be a graphic designer. Something that I think is fun to play around at but I could never do it consistently every day.

GDs make 10-20 different layouts and designs before they pick the right one. I can't do that lol.

Keep an eye out for me uploading my new design!

Get Out Of Life

This is something that was said to my class today from a marketing creative consultant, Janie Hewson, marketingcreatives.net.

At a glance, it might seem like a rude statement. It isn't.

It relates to people that think they can survive in life on just $2000 a month, and more importantly, relating to photographers who keep their work inside their house where no one can see it.

Get your shit out there, stop sitting on our asses, call clients, email clients.

I'll be keeping in touch with Janie Hewson for sure! even after I graduate!

Promote. Promote. Promote.

Thats what I haven't been doing enough of, even to the photographers I want to assist for.

Anyone wanna photograph me for my promo piece? lol!

Lets do it!

hmmm

Don't you just hate it when you like something then it doesn't like you back? I'm in that situation now.

Photographically I'm flourishing. Got a shoot coming up on the 25/26th of March, and shooting for a hotel this Friday, meeting with them tomorrow.

Classes have just barely begun and I'm already stormed with general education crap that is pretty straight forward.

One architect I'm shooting for gave me 3 things to photograph over the next couple of months. One is a condo out in Carpinteria, another the Jury Assembly downtown, and another is a private residence whom I still need to drive up to and introduce myself to the home owner.

Haven't got the time at a decent hour of the day. Maybe a Saturday or Sunday will do. Should be pretty sweet.

Don't have any photographs I want to upload but will soon after I'm done editing some.

I've gotta keep up to date on this. I'm terrible!

Break Week

Break week is here for school and I'm pretty stoked about it.

I get to get a lot of stuff done that I put off during the session.

Reading.

Exercising.

Gaming.

Sending prints to family/friends.

Listening to ungodly amounts of music.

Just to name a few things.

On top of those I'm going to be going around town to architects that I can possibly shoot for during my Advanced Advertising 2 class.

I need to produce some type of body of work by the end of the class.

It can be a new body of work, it can be a revision of old work.

It can be re-editing images for stock photography.

It can be re-designing your portfolio to give it a different look.

I haven't a clue what I'll be doing. But that is what break week is for.

Contemplating.

Contemplating.

Contemplating.

This break week will be going by super fast but be one of the most productive

break weeks in a while!

I also might try and shoot some new stuff so I can use that in my new portfolio I'll be making.

I've also got to get a slideshow ready for the Palm Springs Photo Festival that is due on the 28th of February! Hopefully they'll showcase my work and get me a good recognition.

I'll be trying to go down there on Sunday March 28th for a 75$ open portfolio showing. See a ton of people's work and hopefully meet a lot of photographers from LA and Southern California. Get those connections and network a little bit for at least 1 day.

We'll see how that goes. Its going to be difficult. Might try and bring a friend too to split the costs of a hotel or gas for the day over there [5-6 hour drive D:].

I'll also be reading this interesting book called 'Le Corbusier' which is an architecture and art movement from Europe that influenced a lot of what Southern California's modern architecture is based on. People like Mies Van Der Rohe, Walter Gropius, Richard Neutra are all part of this. Some of my most favorite modernists out of the United States.

We'll see how that goes. I'm feeling good about life though and thats all that matters.

Currently listening to: None More Black- Yo, It's Noy Rerun (This Is Satire)

Business as Usual

I decided since I updated my website with my new logo and new typography, to go along and make business cards out of my contact page on my website.

I liked the logo itself and I liked the font. I designed the layout of the typography and how large each piece of information should be for the best readability.

I printed on Hahnemuhle Matte Fine Art and Brilliant Museum Silver Gloss White. I chose these two papers because they are the heaviest papers that I had (Hahn: 310gsm; Brill.: 300gsm).

Business cards to me are suppose to be pretty heavy in weight, not very flexible, sturdy. A business card that bends easily is asking to be destroyed quicker than one that doesn't bend as easily. Also a business card has to have a quality to it. A texture, to be exact. Hahnemuhle has exceptional quality paper, and so does Brilliant (esp. for their museum papers).

These are just a test though, and I think this coming up session I'll probably try and order about a couple hundred of these from an inexpensive but good quality place online.

I also might try and put a good picture on the reverse side, so its not just white, but I don't know.

And now that I just got reminded of this, since I used the same design as the contact page on my website, I forgot to put the url OF my website on my business cards. I was too focused on printing them that I completely missed that main element.

Hmm...tomorrow I'll print some more and see how they turn out.