Swerving Away From The Middle

One of the perks of having a long term relationship with a client is that, after a doing a few shoots over the years, a certain amount of trust is built up and you can break away from the usual approach and experiment. Scott Amendola is a composer and drummer based in the San Francisco…

So To Speak – Brett Amory, Episode 5

[vimeo http://vimeo.com/24997130/ w=550&h=310] I asked Kevin Thomson, a guitarist in the band Enablers, to improvise a piece of music based on one of Brett Amory’s paintings. Brett Amory is a painter working out of West Oakland. After growing up in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia, he moved to San Francisco to study art. In 2009…

So To Speak – Brett Amory, Episode 4

[vimeo http://vimeo.com/25577433/ w=550&h=310] Brett Amory is a painter working out of West Oakland. After growing up in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia, he moved to San Francisco to study art. In 2009 he hit his stride when his “Waiting” series caught attention with its depiction of ambiguous urban spaces, occupied by a lone character. In…

So To Speak – Brett Amory, Episode 3

[vimeo http://vimeo.com/25701343/ w=550&h=310] Brett Amory is a painter working out of West Oakland. After growing up in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia, he moved to San Francisco to study art. In 2009 he hit his stride when his “Waiting” series caught attention with its depiction of ambiguous urban spaces, occupied by a lone character. In…

So To Speak – Brett Amory, Episode 2

[vimeo http://vimeo.com/25658084/ w=550&h=310] Brett Amory is a painter working out of West Oakland. After growing up in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia, he moved to San Francisco to study art. In 2009 he hit his stride when his “Waiting” series caught attention with its depiction of ambiguous urban spaces, occupied by a lone character. In…

So To Speak – Brett Amory, Episode 1

[vimeo http://vimeo.com/25568356/ w=550&h=310] Brett Amory is a painter working out of West Oakland. After growing up in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia, he moved to San Francisco to study art. In 2009 he hit his stride when his “Waiting” series caught attention with its depiction of ambiguous urban spaces, occupied by a lone character. In…

A 20 Year Old Code

Click to see this image bigger I just saw a news item about Jim Sanborn. 20 years ago the CIA asked artists to submit proposals for artwork to be installed in the New Headquarters Building. His sculpture has a secret code text cut in four copper panels. To this day the whole thing has not…

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