Advertising Think Tank / Half Moon Bay

Cabrillo Highway, 1/2011

We start very early and gather at the R.V., but it never seems early enough...

I Love My Life

On the farm wednesday...in the studio yesterday...oh, looks like we have alot to do....huh?

SZ, Eric Haines, Matt Stevens, Shannon Amos, Veronica Sjoen, Mark Rutherford, and Micah Bishop...Adam Moore and producer Mark Hofmann, off set. This shoot was not a piece of cake, lots of stuff to navigate thru and decisions to make. But what a creative and generous team I have...I really think you can see it in the photograph. And as we know, photographs never lie.

Lots of requests for the ECHO invites, really from all over the world! It feels like the Mail Art movement I was into when I got out of college again. So don't be shy, send me your addy...

On The Set

On Set With T.A. by Mark Rutherford

So what is going on?

Busy, busy, busy putting together a wonderful ad for an agency everyone in the biz has heard about for a client everyone has in their wallet...well almost everyone. Last day of shooting today...see the photo above by Mark Rutherford, zen master digital tech, the guy who keeps things so peaceful.

Then...please keep sending me notes with your addy if you'd like a ECHOLILIA invitation card. They are striking and beautiful and I have a stack of 'em. I've been so touched by everyone who came out of the woodwork asking for one...so don't hold back. I'll get them out next week. A nice way to stay in touch and spread the love.

XO,

TA

Echolilia Invitations / Union College

Just got a stack of the invitations to Photography Invitational 2011 at The Atrium Gallery of Union College in Schenectady N.Y. Haunting and beautiful....drop me a line if you'd like one.

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The show feature the work of Clarissa Amaral , Raymond Felix as well as the Echolilia installation.

Read about the exhibition HERE.

Valentine's Kitten 1/2011

The Best Photo Blog Post Ever

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This modern day equivalent of The Ten Commandments resides in the photo department of West Virginia University, courtesy of Nate Larson of MICA...he was just visiting.
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Just in case it's blurry, I got'em all for ya:

Graveyards
Squirrels
Holiday Pictures ( Halloween In Particular )
Your Pets
Your Roommates
Your Girlfriend/Boyfriend
Parties
Campus
Homeless People
Other Classmates
Flowers=Macro
Ashtrays
Your Car or its Rearview Mirror
Puddles
Your Dorm Room
Self Portrait In A Mirror
Looking Up A Tree
Kegs
Your Frat Brothers
Live Bands
High Street
Graffiti
Bridges

And then for all of you commericial photographers out there, I have to add a few:

The Bonneville Salt Flats
Delta Blues Musicians
Cuba
Burning Man
Ruins Of Detroit
Surfers At Sunset
Anything On A Flatbed Scanner

What I Did On My Winter Vacation

Student #1 Callie Mitchell, 12/2010

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Some snapshots from the first live-in-photo-boot-camp type of event I always wanted to put together but finally got the chance to. Callie Mitchell flew in from DC, spent four days, three nights living and breathing photography, visiting my artist friends, braving SFMOMA, shooting in the rain and occasionally playing the Wii with my kids during downtime. Picasso took cigarette breaks, ya know?

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What did we learn?

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Hmmm....well it is about the journey, not the end result. But just when I thought we may have pushed hard enough...or maybe too hard...we took a break and took a hike in the woods. Oxygen, redwoods, the wet and the scent of tree bark...all of that seemed to open our minds. There we found a moment of inspiration in the discovery of a discarded stuffed panda, soaking wet and buried beneath the leaves and rain. This was our muse and fueled the photography for that day, that night, and look...here we are, taking the panda home in a plastic bag to recreate our own reality in the studio that night...and waking up to shoot it under the natural light of the early morning before her plane takes off.

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What is the lesson?

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You never know where you will find inspiration.

Amen.

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Studio of Suzy Poling & Wesley Weaver, 12/2010

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SFMOMA, 12/2010

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Found Object Photography / Mill Valley, CA 12/2010
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Final Project 12/2010