O, Oops!

I shot for O, The Oprah Magazine recently for their Sept 2010 issue. My awesome subject was Paty Lopez- Pullman, a 36 year old mother of 3 who had an "energy makeover". The order of the day was to shoot Paty outside doing activities like bike riding with her kids but a huge summer thunderstorm rolled in as we arrived. Anticipating this I kept my eye out for alternate locations.



Honestly I thought I was screwed, until 3 blocks from Paty's home I noticed an old school roller skating rink! I quickly put on my location scout's hat and negotiated to use the rink for the day. Everyone was thrilled to have our production there and we were grateful to be out of the heat and rain.

Chicago Magazine-Puppet Person

The July opener in Chicago Magazine is a portrait I made of Blair Thomas, puppeteer extraordinaire. We shot many set ups, but I liked this one best of Blair and his friend up on the Metra tracks near his west side studio.


As trains whizzed past we shot Blair, in and out of character. It was really fun because I got a private performance from this originator of Chicago's Redmoon Theater Company. Blair is now on his own with Blair Thomas & Co performing original works around the country.

Sketchbook X

For ten years, Chicago's Collaboraction theater company has been producing their annual Sketchbook festival of short plays. It's a unique and dizzying night of live theater and musical performance that runs June 10-27 at the beloved Chopin Theater. This year see 20 plays (optionally) over 2 nights.


Five Lesbians Eating a Quiche- Devised by Andrew Hobgood

I've been an artistic associate member for many years as I contribute to marketing images for the company. I've gratefully made a lot of theater connections through our relationship and always look forward to working with them.


Tight curls today-by Jennifer Barclay

This years festival, more than ever, incorporates video and live music with performances by Nick Tremulis , Unicycle Loves You and DJ Miles Polaski.


What I'm looking for- by Brett C. Leonard

Coke for Kids

I almost forgot to share this project I shot with Atlanta's, always wonderful, Fitzgerald and Company for Coke. We shot an outdoor campaign for their World of Coke Museum in downtown Atlanta. I cast 3 awesome kids to stay up LATE, drinking Coke and watch movies for me.



The best part of World of Coke is the tasting room where you can sample Coke products from around the world. My favorite was brand called Beverly Cola from Italy that tasted like Campari.
Wild!

Disc-Oprah.

Over the weekend we shot an upcoming feature for O The Oprah Magazine. We got rained out, so on the spot I came up with a location solution. Buy the September issue and see where we shot.

Doin' it for the Grrrls.

This weekend I shot what will be a very fun campaign for Columbia College. The images will advertise their upcoming 3G Summit, which introduces and encourages young women to study gaming design. A field typically over-run with dudes.



The creative direction of this is inspired by South Asian female goddesses and will be masterfully retouched by Brian York.


This was another shoot captured courtesy of Hasselblad USA and their loan to me of the crazy-good H4D-40!

Me liking Phocus 2.5.

A Sapphire Salon

On yet another tech scouting mission for a project I'm doing with Ogilvy Mather, I explored the grand hotels of Chicago looking for a location. One such mission lead me to Hotel Intercontinental I was shown this beautiful Sapphire gem I thought I would share.