Exciting day. Tony got the ChefsofPhilly.com site up and running with a link for ticket purchase. If you are in Philadelphia and you want to go to a great event for a great cause, then get your ticket now. It's 25 bones and 100% of that goes to Philabundance. What you get besides a good feeling? David Ansill, one of the best chefs in Philadelphia, is going to be creating some small dishes for you. The opening is going to go from 5 - 9, but the ticket entry segment with David is going to be from 5 - 6:30 all on March 6th. That's the first Friday of the month. At 6:30 the show will open to the public for free. Come out and buy some art to help feed the hungry. I will be donating 20% of opening night print sales to Philabundance as well. Any other questions or for a preview check ChefsofPhilly.com .

I added a campaign to the advertising section that I did a while back for a pitch. It's a series of 7 billboards promoting a walk-in clinic that had virtually no budget. We had a lot of fun with it and had people laughing out loud at some of them.

Today I have a fear of a cardboard box. With layoffs abound, seeing folks on the street carrying random cardboard boxes full of work lives is creepy. Our industry is no safer than any other. Less in most cases. Now when I see someone at work carrying a box, even if it's just to put their paper recycling in, I get a knot in my gut.

Another really cool thing going on is that I'm getting written up by a great food blog called FooBooz that gives news about the Philly foodie scene. Kirstin saw my work hanging in Cafe Loftus and loved it enough to contact me about it. I'll let you know when it's going to post.

I was rudely woken up yesterday to the sound of crashing brick and bulldozers. Turns out they're tearing a house down a couple doors away from us. I was upset at first, until I realized that they hadn't tossed out the old floorboards yet. I had the guy hold a bunch for me last night and he's going to hold more (longer pieces) for me today. So that means frames time. I'm going to be on a frame making bonanza, so if anyone wants me to make them a great distressed wood frame just email me.

New year, new motivation, new progress on old projects. Things have started out great this year. We're working on some great new projects at work. We're building a whole interactive laboratory for a client that will debut pretty soon. We're working on a branding campaign for another that includes TV and outdoor and interactive. I always get stoked when we get build out a campaign in 360degrees. It really makes ideas sing and allows you to have some really beautiful parts while letting others do the heavy lifting. I'm all about the beautiful TV spot that points you to a website that delivers information in a clear and unhurried way. On other fronts, the chefs project is coming out amazing. Not to toot my own horn. I'm super happy with the images thus far, and the reaction they've been getting. Tony has been helping build the site for the show, which has a hold page right now. It's www.chefsofphilly.com so if you get a minute check up on it every now and then. But of course I'll post when it's up and running fully. The opening for the show is still set for the 6th of March which is the first friday, so the whole art crowd will be out in force. We'll hope for really good weather. Also, we are making the first hour and a half of the opening a ticket entry time, with the proceeds going to Philadbudance so that images of people making food, can actually help feed them as well.

The show I was in a few weeks back got written up in the Philadelphia City Paper . It's a well written piece. With the upcoming show in March, I thought I'd put this up for you to read about the kind of camera I'm using and what other people are doing with similar techniques. =

For anyone in Philly: We are putting together a print trade group that will meet the 3rd Thursday of every month. Starting December 18th, at 1500 Sansom St in a photographers studio we'll be meeting to talk about art and visions and concepts. It will be an open exchange forum for the free flow of ideas. Hopefully it will serve as inspiration to creative people that might be having a hard time getting honest feedback or exposure for thier work in the community. We'll have a site set up soon.

I also worked on this for the Phils. We had some really amazing people help out with this and got it knocked out super quick. Enjoy.

Been crazy busy with work and my chef's photo project. The show at Nexus went off without a hitch. Sold a couple and had a great time, so we can chalk it up to a roaring success considering how freakin cheap people in Philly can be when it comes to art. So now I'm ramping up for the show in March. It opens March 6th (first Friday) and I've been getting sponsors on board and shooting new images. I photographed David Ansill butchering a pig. The photos are amazing, and pretty raw. Vegetarians beware. I'm going to put some of the new ones up here soon once I'm done color correcting. Even though I'm going low-fi on them pretty much all the way by using a toy Russian camera and Rite Aid film, I have to scan and retouch for printing. I would have loved to have printed them myself, but time and money pretty much trashed that idea.