Hey kids…. Still super busy with the design / UI gig, but I did manage to edit some shots I took of my good friend / longtime muse Dawon.

Click above or here to see seven shots from my roof, with Dawon, a crazy bit of fabric from Savers, and blown-around India ink (a favorite technique of mine). If you want to see them really big, go check out my Flickr! Specifically:

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Also, on my drive back to San Francisco, I did another shoot with Vanessa, this time in Dallas (last time was in Osaka). I posted one of the Dallas shots here. To see several, large-size, go to my Flickr

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Ooof! A month has elapsed with nary a post. Sorry ’bout that…

I’ve been working like crazy on a freelance graphic design project for a new startup, and that’s been soaking up all of my creativity lately. Probably about another couple weeks and I’ll be done with it, and back to making stuff to post here. I’m looking forward to cutting loose again.
Also, I think I’ll be redesigning my site soon… After being spoiled with cable internet since 2000, I’m currently stuck with DSL (for now) as my new apartment, so I’m starting to see the site from outside the high-speed internet bubble. (well, DSL is technically high speed compared to dial-up, but feels horridly slow sometimes, and my site loads slow on it.) Stay tuned…

Hey kids, sorry for the delay in posting. I moved back to San Francisco after my 4.5 month stint in Michigan, and have been settling in, doing lots of freelance design work. However, I did just post some new fashion photography.

Back in October ‘08, I did several shoots with Katie, one of which you saw in the “Takarazuka” illustrated-photo piece. Well, I finally got a chance to edit the other shots I took (after my hard drive disaster, I lost them, but luckily Katie had backup copies for me to edit.) Anyway, I have some headshots of her with wild makeup, and a multiple exposure space voyage.

Also, right before I left Michigan, my good pal Kat and I did a shoot in a junkyard. You can see here rocking some crazy animal print tights with a busted-up police cruiser, decked-out in yellow with a blue Ford Pinto, and wearing a neat white shirt.

My nose is to the grindstone on this site design gig, but hopefully I’ll get some new photography or illustration (or both) done soon.

Sort of a random update today… a mix of new and old.

To the Illustration page, I have posted:

• a car I designed in a little fit of inspiration tonight
• something I made for the Electric Ant blog’s “covered meme” (Gene Autry)
• and two images I drew for Electric Ant zine #1, but didn’t get a chance to post until now, Zombie Apocalypse, and Dukes of Cobra.

Also, for the People Photography page, I finally posted the promotional photography that I did for Infectious.com last fall.

Secured a sublet in San Francisco, so I’m moving back! I’ll be on the road in about a week…

Despite having a really bad cold this week, I was productive…  I posted a new illustrated photo as well as two new works for the automotive photography page.

To see a bigger version of “Recumbent”, as well as a couple of behind-the-scenes photos, click here.

To see a bigger version of the Chevy Malibu pic, click here, and to see a bigger version of th 911 Targa (I want one so bad) pic, click here.

More later. I ate too much cheese, and now my lactose-intolerance is giving me a stomache ache 

Posted a couple shots from last fall that I hadn’t gotten a chance to put up until now… Ellen, posing with a beautiful little black Fiat 500.

Click one of the following thumbnails to see the full-size shots…

Coming back to California in early March. I’m excited!

So this one’s a pretty different style for me.  This piece was inspired by Japanese Takarazuka theatre, in which every role is played by women. I find such androgyny interesting, so with my model Katie’s help (she plays both the guy and the girl), and the very talented makeup artist Aiko, I wanted to try my hand at the aesthetic.

I’ve included some examples of Takarazuka Revue posters, so you can see how the real thing looks:

As mentioned, Tadanori Yokoo, a Japanese artist who I’m a longtime big fan of, did the last two posters in the examples above. I’d recommend anyone who hasn’t seen his work before to Google him.

I just finished a new illustrated-photo work, called “Tree”.  It’s pretty NSFW (lots of nakedness), so if you want to see the actual piece, click here, or on the preview pic above.

I’ve been wanting to do this idea for a couple of years now, but never quite had the right logistics.  I’ve always liked the look you get when you blow ink around with a straw, and one day, my mind started wandering, and I thought “what if a human grew like that?”  I’ve also had mutants on my mind a lot lately, since I’ve been playing so much Fallout 3. haha…

Probably won’t have mich new art here for a little bit.  I’m scurrying like crazy on stuff in preparation for my move back to California, but I will see you soon!

PS: Ryan started a blog for Electric Ant recently, and I post some fun art there occasionally.

Just finished a new illustrated-photo piece, and this one marks the return of the Robot Army series…

This piece features my friend Dawon, as a chromed-up android.  The previous series (which you can find on the bottom of the People Photography page), featured a military theme, with very rough & tumble, gritty looking machines, loaded down with gadgets.  For this piece, I wanted to channel a little of my fondness for Hajime Sorayama, and go with a smoother, more shiny aesthetic.

Since Dawon is my longtime muse, and a very good model, I was lucky to have many good shots from that afternoon, but unfortunately, those all went when my hard drive died this past fall.  Luckily I had a few left over - enough to make one piece.  This year should bring many more robots!

So I got a chance to post some of the shots I got during my whirlwind Salt Lake City photoshoots…

If you want to check them out, click these thumbnails:

Megan Jolley:

Caitlyn & Chelsea:

Vicious Kurai

I also posted shots of Roselynn Savage, that I shot in Las Vegas:

I hope everyone had a great Xmas / Hanukkah / Kwanza / etc, and that your 2009 starts off well