This same old song and dance where I give you an excuse why I haven’t blogged in a month is really no excuse to keep you all from the playground. This is recess from the world at large. Red rover, red rover, send my loyal readership back over!
To many of you, its understood that the time away has been spent refining the website. It is new, different, updated and all that: a bag of tricks, cracker jack, bag of money, grab bag, duffle bag. Go get a bag, put puns in bag, shake bag, reach in and pull out new pun flake. There! That’s free, you can have that.
I’ve decided to show the images that excite me the most. I’m going to continue to give you the goods here first, and preview some of the things that get the proverbial juices flowing.
Like this:
I shot this recently for an art gallery here in Seattle. It was one of the most beautiful pieces of metal work I’ve seen. Being silver, it was also a beast to shoot due to its super-reflectivity, but nonetheless, I was happy to be given the challenge to tackle lighting the object in such a way so as to bring to light some of the more subtle characteristics of the piece, namely the ‘stippling’ in/around the moon.
Basically, stippling is drawing/sculpting by way of dots. In this case, it was explained to me that the area around the moon (clouds) was created by taking finely ground gem stones and blowing them into the silver surface. Quite beautiful indeed.
In other news, I’m hard at work realizing some personal projects that I’ve been conceptualizing over the course of a couple years, and more recently, some I’ve had in the last few months. I’m going to get those up and in front of you pretty quick. Much like this image, which is on the website, from the project entitled “Alphabet.”
Soon,
Mike
The Oiled-up Hot Model Supporting Role of a Lifetime
A little over a month ago, I was in the process of locating a 2nd assist on an editorial project with Ty Allison, a shooter out of CA. I spoke with a few folks here in Seatown and found a great guy eager to help out with the project. I explained that this wasn’t the project where we’d be oiling up fantastically hot models or standing around shop-talking for an hour how a particular linen was going to fall ever-so non-intentionally across a bedspread.
This was going to be ‘work’ work, in fact humping gear to the top of a peak some 1,200 feet up the 2 mile trail. The goal was to have about 50 lbs. on each strapping lad’s back and mule it up there. Sherpa for a day.
That was the view, so it was well worth the time it took to get up there. The first one’s a gentleman I met named Gary, pilot for Alaska Airlines out enjoying the day with his lady. The second are my mates from across the Atlantic, forgotyourname one and forgotyourname deux. The physical reward was that I got a cardio workout equivalent to one-month’s time working out at the gym.
Would’ve been nice to have one of these:
. . . Or would it? . . . That was last week on a project out at the UW. Its amazing how much a magliner can do, especially when the wheels are well-inflated. This was a few weeks ago:
The unforeseen danger of artificial chocolate cakes in microwaves.
This was more than a few weeks ago: