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artifact part 3 | etv season 5

admin — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 22:57:05 +0000

I meant to post this up when it came out a couple weeks ago, but the third episode of Dan Napoli’s Artifact web series just was posted, featuring photography of mine from when I was out in Phoenix back in April.

Naoto Fukasawa at Luminaire

admin — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 23:34:27 +0000

I had the opportunity last week to photograph Naoto Fukasawa while he was in Chicago for Neocon at Luminaire. Fukasawa is a world-renowned designer and one of the most important industrial designers of our time. He’s one of the lead designers of MUJI, is a partner of PLUS MINUS ZERO and has worked for B&B Italia, Driade, Magis, Boffi and Virta. His wall mounted CD player, which he designed fro MUJI, is now a part of the MoMA’s permeant design collection.

I photographed him for a private editors luncheon and talk at Luminaire, then his lecture at the MCA followed by a reception back at Luminaire. The exhibit of his work currently on display at Luminaire is really impressive, and features both classic pieces of his as well as some of the latest PLUS MINUS ZERO electronics. He’s a really nice, funny and humble guy, and listening to him talk about design was really inspiring and a much needed pick-me-up in an otherwise slow, hot summer.

Luminaire has a nice gallery up of more photos I shot that day here

Artifact Part 2 | ETV Season 5

admin — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:58:54 +0000

The second installment of Dan Napoli’s Artifact documentary series just came out. This one focus’s is on San Diego Dynasty, a professional team that I’ve been photographing since 2001. Since then there have been roughly 140 professional paintball tournaments worldwide. Dynasty has won 45 of these, meaning they have won around 1/3rd of all pro tournaments in the last nine years.

It’s a pretty impressive feat.

I just got back into Chicago from the burbs where I was photographing the second leg of the NPPL pro series. I’ll have some photos up from that in a sec. Below are some stills I shot for this episode of Artifact and the video itself.

Artifact | ETV Season 5

admin — Thu, 13 May 2010 18:24:22 +0000

So I do some work now and then for the British paintball company Planet Eclipse through their video wing, Disconnected Media. The first episode of this seasons coverage of the pro paintball circuit, Artifact, just came out, filmed by my friends Dan Napoli, Brad Maughan and Tyson Maughan and narrated by Matt Marshall. I shot some stills for the production while I was in Phoenix a couple months ago and a couple of my photos of Chicago Aftershock are in the new episode.

You can catch the whole video here: http://www.youtube.com/user/PlanetEclipseEcast

Chicago Cuttin’ Crew 2010

admin — Mon, 10 May 2010 22:30:41 +0000

Last Friday Ben Fietz and I photographed the Chicago Cuttin’ Crew cycling race team at our new studio space. This is the third year I’ve shot the team for their promo photos, and the first time we actually got to do it in a studio.

The studio is coming together pretty well, and I’ll be posting photos of it when it’s closer to finished. It’s exciting to have a space that’s more than just a cubical in River North (although I’ll be missing sandwiches from Bari). I’m already up and running for day to day work – plugged in the new coffee maker this morning and am using a Pelican case as a chair at the moment until I get some new fancy chair that I can fret over getting scuffed up.

Here’s a sampling of the 2010 Chicago Cuttin’ Crew. Still need to do some color correction and retouching, but excited to get these out, even raw as they are:

Christina Peck

Nico Deportago-Cabrera

Jannette Rho

Avi Neurohr

Al Pearson

Jamie Gavin-Smyth

Bradley Gates

Jeff Perkins

Max Riordan

Ben Fietz

Andrew Nordike

New Teese Packaging

admin — Sun, 09 May 2010 18:46:52 +0000

The new Chicago Soy Dairy Teese packaging just came out, featuring photos I shot of the product in action.

Toko at Flourish featured in the Chicago Reader

admin — Mon, 03 May 2010 02:54:19 +0000

So the show that I’m a part of that’s up a Flourish Studios that opened Friday got some mention in the Chicago Reader, featuring one of my photographs from the show. Which is pretty cool. It’s on page 60 of this weeks reader. Or you can peep it online if you, like me, can’t find a paper copy.

500N/800W Chicago

admin — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:00:27 +0000

Sometimes I take the train places and I remember, I like it here.

500N/800W Chicago

77 West Washington Chicago

Tearsheet | Understood Clothing

admin — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 15:30:58 +0000

I did some work a little over a month ago for Understood Clothing, a small paintball focused apparel company out of NYC. They just updated their site and it features a lot of my work from the Phoenix PSP as well as casual stuff I shot for them.

Check it.

Chicago Soy Dairy

admin — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 15:00:15 +0000

I’ve been doing a lot of work lately for Chicago Soy Dairy, makers of Vegan products like Teese Vegan Cheese, Dandies Vegan Marshmallows and Temptation Vegan Ice Cream. They’re great people, based out of the Chicago burbs. Their marketing director Dan Reed is an old friend of mine from back in the day, and owner Ryan Howard ended up having a ton of mutual friends from back in Indiana.

Anyway, I’ve been Vegan since I was 16, so it’s really exciting for me to get to work on something like this, working with products that I really support and with people’s who beliefs co-incide with mine.

Some highlights:

Teese Nachos

Dandies Vegan Marshmallows

Mac and Teese

Dandies Vegan Marshmallows and Coco