Tag: photography
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HUGE Announcement: Cold Brewed available in iTunes!
Pretty proud this morning. This wonderful picture book for adults, this silent film of words and photographs made exclusively for your #iPad and #iphone, has been released to the iTunes store for pre-order. https://itun.es/us/CqIuV.l Worked on this project during most of my “down time” this year, so you can imagine my pleasure. Grab a copy–especially…
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Creativity Prompt: Incarcerate
In which I attempt to prompt creativity from a readership of creatives…
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KC Color Run!
Turns out the Joplin Color Run was JV compared to the KC Color Run’s varsity team. Backstory: my wife has Type 1 Diabetes and has been kicking its tail with this running stuff. We got there, and this was the line for the porta-potty. I put down water faster than most waiters can bring it…
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My Heroic Bride Part Deux: Color Es Plosions
In which young college girls get jacked in the face with bananas and fistfuls of color.
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9art digital ads in their native habitat
9art Photography’s most recent post talked up my copywriting and Matt Spiel’s design, all while showcasing photos of those ads in their native Joplin habitats.
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a = 6r (where a = acceptance; r = rejection)
What if you could mathematically figure out the amount of time it will take you to get accepted? To succeed? For those following on Twitter, you know that I just found some interesting math from the folks at Gud Magazine, math that may provide answers: Responses Acceptances: 1.7% (154.7 day(s) avg. per acceptance) Rejections: 98.3% (25.4…
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Ad Campaign for 9art Photography
Wrote some copy for 9art Photography’s new ad campaign (design by Matt Spiel). You Jopliners may see some of these around town soon: Join this guild of renegade imaginations. :: sign up for email encouragement ::
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New Film Shoot and Explanation of }{ Symbol
Two quick things: I have begun production on a new film shoot with the fabulous Mark Neuenschwander of 9artphoto. We will turn it into a novella of words and pictures, first on a new blog and then (hopefully) on some sort of mixed-media iPad app. I took the left picture on set and the right…
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My Four-Foot Afro
Seldom do I let my hair down on here and let you guys see my… goofier (lighter-hearted? crazier?) side. For Halloween, one of my solid groups of friends decided to throw a Halloween block party at one of their houses. My buddy Mark brought over his photo booth (and took the following pictures). And I…
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Self-Abuse Series featuring Brian DeMint
There comes a time in every young writer’s life when he must stop talking about half-bit philosophy, inspirational posters and greeting cards. In the words of Frank Norris (via Stephen King), “What should I care if they single me out for sneers and laughter? I never truckled, I never lied. I told the truth.” I’m about to…
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Sitting at the feet of : a Fashion Photographer (2 of 2)
photo courtesy 9art Photography Continued from last week’s Ask the Experts… “Two weeks later this kid came in and it looked like she’d tried to gouge her arm out with a broken pop bottle and I said, ‘My God, did you do that to yourself?’ And she said, ‘yes, I did.’ And I said, ‘Are…
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Sitting at the feet of : a Fashion Photographer (1 of 2)
photo courtesy 9art Photography Thirty years ago, Brian DeMint went to Missouri Southern for art—the worst art degree he could have earned at the time. Only one of his teachers, in his opinion, was a true artist–Darrel Dishman. In spite of Darrel’s watercoloring, Brian quit and went to work for Empire for thirty-three years. “What…