November 6th, 2011
Banking analyst and author Mike Mayo has a new book out this week called "Exile on Wall Street," which is a fascinating inside look into the financial collapse, but probably not a great rock 'n' roll album title. I shot him super quick at the end of the week for
The Wall Street Journal for their weekend Review.
Mayo wrote tens of thousands of pages of research leading up to the 2008 meltdown that warned of what was coming (there are several analysts who were screaming their head's off, not that it mattered to the big banks). The art director borrowed this megaphone from his boss for the shoot and my first reaction was to have Mike scream about the falling sky but visually show that he's the only one listening. Mike did shout, a lot, and though the AD and photo editor thought the studio space was pretty sound proof, turns out the entire newsroom was interrupted for 20+ minutes. Please forgive any resulting typos in Friday/Saturday's editions.
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November 2nd, 2011
Rambo. Vikings stud Jared Allen
as Rambo?
Awesome! And I was off and running with pal and ace
Maxim PE Stacey Pittman on a super fun shoot with the all-star defensive end at Vikings training camp Minneapolis. Jared is a beast, he's a great guy, and he's up for basically anything. I joked that I should have brought some goat's blood to smear on him and he is all "oh hell yeah, we have goat's blood? Let's do it!" That's commitment... take note future subjects!
Our shoot was split up into 2 segments... first a pretty standard shoot in uniform that involved a lot of shouting, sacking me (playing QB Peyton Manning), and actually a bit of dancing. And then we switched gears into full on
First Blood mode. The gun, as per NFL and team policy, is of course not real, but the awesome modern version of a survival knife was. Hopefully for the next shoot
we'll have a spear.
Huge ups to the talented stylist team Hollie Mae & A.J., as well as to hair/makeup artist Kate Erickson for helping bring Jared's alter-ego to life; and of course to my assistant Gene and the Maxim team. The images are out now in both the military tribute issue and the Dec. 2011 issue on newsstands this week.
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November 2nd, 2011
Collect.Give mastermind Kevin Miyazaki and several talented friends are at it again (in addition to raising over $28,000 for charity), this time with a brand new
website and book, celebrating the first 50 of us photographers with essays by such cool cats as Darius Himes, Miki Johnson, and Alison Zavos, among others.
$22 gets you in on the fun -
you can take a look and buy here. Not yet convinced, well why don't you peek over at the
new writeup that the Time.com Lightbox blog gave to C-dot-G which happens to feature my print of a really, really large (and now decommissioned) space rocket.
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November 1st, 2011
Last month I shared
part 1 of a
ESPN the Magazine feature on athlete's goals (Marcus Forston) for the CF preview issue. That story also brought me back to Raleigh, NC to photograph top high school running back recruit Keith Marshall, who has no less than thirty D1 colleges pleading with him to play for them next fall.
The Marshall package was supposed to run the week after the rest of the goals feature but magazines being what they are, things got shuffled and it's now found a tiny home in the Oct. 31 issue, sans fruit and vegetables (part of Keith's goal for the season, to eat healthier). That's about $200 dollars worth jammed into the locker (food stylist?
nah! Just me and my buddy Travis making it happen with skewers & wires) which I cleaned and distributed to my friends in the RDU area so it didn't go to waste after the shoot.
Meeting a kid who is so young, so gifted, and so full of potential (I'm talking about life, not football... Keith will graduate early with an A GPA) is always exciting. Keith is on top of the world this semester, and might have an immediate impact on the next level, so maybe he thought (as stated) he could get away without cracking a smile for my camera. He's not all-pro in that arena yet.
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October 31st, 2011
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Banking analyst and author Mike Mayo has a new book out this week called "Exile on Wall Street," which is a fascinating inside look into the financial collapse, but probably not a great rock 'n' roll album title. I shot him super quick at the end of the week for The Wall Street Journal for their weekend Review.
Mayo wrote tens of thousands of pages of research leading up to the 2008 meltdown that warned of what was coming (there are several analysts who were screaming their head's off, not that it mattered to the big banks). The art director borrowed this megaphone from his boss for the shoot and my first reaction was to have Mike scream about the falling sky but visually show that he's the only one listening. Mike did shout, a lot, and though the AD and photo editor thought the studio space was pretty sound proof, turns out the entire newsroom was interrupted for 20+ minutes. Please forgive any resulting typos in Friday/Saturday's editions.
