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This is a concept I developed for an Emotional Wellness Project I'm working on. The idea is to speak to college kids about how to properly deal with a wide range of emotions they may go through. This direction plays off of the little faces (emoticons) we make after we send a text message, email or even a wall post or tweet. They help to express and emphasize our statement or mood and some people get really creative with these things. It's funny to think that this concept sort of says something about the artificial personalities and relationships we see so prevalent in this "social network" age we live in. But none of this is going away, so I guess I might as well use the language. These generic emoticon faces work well within the context of a tech–savvy youth and are universal enough to communicate their idea to anyone. So look for something along these lines to be coming at you in a few months. ;–)

Started a new project last week. I will be working with Kira Bautista of Kira Lauren Photography on developing her new identity. I really admire her work and I am very excited to be working on this project. She has some really creative ideas and it will be nice working with someone as like minded as me. Our last client meeting had some fun application ideas like, rubber stamping and letterpress. Let's get crackin.

 

I found this camera at my mother-in-laws house while helping to clean out her shed last year. Needless to say I was super excited about it and I promised her I would give it a good home. It wasn't until recently that I actually looked up how to modify it to work with 120 film (since the 616 film it was originally designed for is no longer manufactured). Today I finally got my first roll of film developed. This form of photography (or Lomography as it is called) is highly experimental, you can't really think about what your shooting, and there's no instant gratification viewing of your shot as in a digital camera. And because you have to manually advance your film there are a lot of opportunities to double expose images on a single frame. The results are something that is both beautiful and unique. I can't wait to buy some more film and take some more shots.