12.19.07

Well, I'm out here in Ventura shooting the next product catalog for Neff Headwear and I must say this sucks. Not the hat, not the clothing, not the people, just the situation. I love Neff, he's a cool guy, and I think in his cool, pseudo homie/snow bro way, he loves me to, even when I am being difficult. It's just all part of our process. All of his latest stuff looks really really good. I admit I was surprised and excited. He definitely stepped up his game and he named a cap after me, which automatically makes him cool and my book and strokes my already inflated ego. But, I will admit that this shoot is extremely hard and demanding. I've never had working conditions like this, and I think I have eaten more junk food than I ever have in my life. I'm really lucky that I brought out my friend Lucie on this one, because she is a really hard worker and she really helped me out on this one, I think with out her, there is no way I could have gotten this one done.

One thing that has reinvigorated my will to live after this shoot, is that my buddy KRK Ryden got some paintings to me while I was here, so that made me really happy. KRK is an awesome guy, and always hooks me up with some great stuff. Xmas for sure came early for me this year, this is one of the two that he sent over to me.

09.30.07

So I'm back from my break from my short break from the Eastpack shoot and I must say that I am really thankful that I took that break. The party in Nashville with Bloc Party was really great. I had an awesome time. We also got alot of work done for the next Heist party which is going to take place in NYC during CMJ.
The day I flew back from Nashville, I had to do a shoot for Neff Headwear in Santa Ana. I'm really lucky to have a brother that is really understanding and helps me out when I am in some pretty stressful situations.


Anyway, like I was saying I'm pretty glad about takeing that break from the Eastpack stuff. I
was really stressed out about alot of stuff, but now I think the shooting has become alot more enjoyable. We just recently got in a pretty amazing model on the shoot that is really bring out some great images from me I'm really use to it being the other way around. Special thanks to Larissa you seriously hooked it up.

I'm full of sushi, and for once, pretty content, kind of weird for me. I honestly feel pretty awesome, and it totally is freaking me out.

09.02.07

So I just got back from Magic and now I am in Ventura taking care a a photoshoot for Neff Headware. I recently shot this for them in Salt Lake City for an ad featuring Justin Benee and Stevie Bell. That should be running in some snowboarding mags now. Now Magic is over, everyone is off taking care of things last minute for the ASR and Agenda shows in San Diego. I'm actually a little up set that I won't be able to make it down to that show, because Pony and BPM are going to be throwing a pretty insane party whats even cooler is that the flyer for the party has a photo that I shot on it of my sneakers!

Anyway the Neff shoot is going really really well, despite the fact that it is totally last minute. and I have to get this all ready a prepped to be printed tomorrow. I am really cutting it close on this one. But regardless of all this, I am really excited about this one. the stuff looks really good.



I also got to shoot with Terry Kennedy which was really cool. I had tons of ideas that he was really receptive with, which is really cool, because alot of times, I'll work with people that don't really care about what I am doing, they just want to get in and get out. Terry actually wanted to be involved with the process, and was actually early to the shoot which is a real rarity, especially with pro skaters.

08.24.07

Pony recently launch thier new website featuring a bunch of photos that I shot for them. Here is a screen grab that I got from their website showing off some photos of their collaboration they did with Neff Headwear. I was recently down at the offices in San Diego where I got to take a gander at some of the new stuff that they have going on. It's pretty exciting to be apart of the resurrection of a brand like this, being able to mix my ideas and my style with a brand that has alot of heritage and history is really interesting. I have really been interested in under takeing something like this, and everyone over there seems to really enjoy what I have been able to bring to the table. Most projects I have been apart of have been with companies that are relatively young Pony goes all they way back to 1972 so they got alot of years under themselves. I'm obviously not really into all the stuff that they have been apart of during the 90's, but under the new direction and with a new CEO Kevin Wulff, I couldn't resist. Kevin has been apart of some really great things in the athletic footwear industry, and he really seems to believe that I can offer the kind of images that it would take to help build this brand in the direction it needs to go.

07.11.07

I've been talking to the guys over at 530 media lab for quite some time now. We are currently working on a pretty large scale project right now for my pals over at triumvir which should be coming out pretty soon now. Triumvir has these shirts coming out with some images that pin up artist Gil Elgren did which is pretty cool. I thought it was really cool of those guys to actually go get a license to reproduce his work than stealing the images that other people produce like alot of companies do. I've always loved Elgren's work, a really awesome girl I dated a long time ago turned me onto his work. She was really into it, she even worked at Ruby's Diner and drove a really cool old car.

Any way, 530 and I have been talking about alot of cool possibilites for the future and hopefully we'll be working alot more together.

I did some photos last week of Dingo, Home Wreck, Eero Neimela, and Bozung of the Neff Headware, Snow team that are going to be part of their next ad campaign. I believe that these are getting run in the next issue of Transworld . The shoot went really well dispite it being super hot. Dingo was really good sport about being all wrapped up in a hoody and mask for the shoot in all of the heat. I even got a few shots of Neff and Bozung together during the shoot that were pretty funny. This next campaign with them is going to be pretty crazy and they are pulling in some pretty rad people in for the next shoot.

In the latest issue of Vapors I've got that image of Jeremy Kove that I shot a while back which is pretty cool. I really dig what they do over at that mag, and Maurice the editor is a pretty cool guy. We've met a number of times, but have never really been able to do anything together, but I happened to meet Jeremy at an art show through Kelsey Brookes , who asked if I would shoot him for the mag. It's kind of weird how things work out like that