For those of you familiar with Google Chrome - you may know about all of the great free apps and extensions you can get. Well I recently found a pretty great one called Earth View. It's pretty simple, everytime you open a new tab or window, you get a picture taken by a Google Earth satellite. I'm pretty sure these have to be custom picked by some person, because every single picture is beautiful and amazing. Here's a couple I grabbed this morning just while opening new windows. Enjoy! -- Definitely get this free extension if you use Google Chrome!
This short doc I found is a great watch -- It's well edited, full of smart insight, and has a really nice use of stills. Take a gander!
A couple of behind the scenes stills from the Neil's Puppet Dreams main titles shoot I did with Digital Twigs. This was a really fun shoot. All practically photographed stop motion, motion control, muppets, and Neil Patrick Harris!? Pretty fun couple of days.
Check out the behind the scenes here:
For you movie nerds on a Wednesday.
A little throwback to a little timelapse adventure I had a few months back. Page, AZ
I came across this great documentary today about a kid with autism and how he and his family live together day to day. It's a very understated but beautiful movie. Having known people with autism and spent time working on a documentary photo project in a household with an autistic child myself, I will say this film shows their everyday life in an astoundingly accurate way. The exhaustion, the angry moments, the fun moments, those moments spent thinking about the child's future after you're gone are all shown in this film in very short vignettes that make you feel like you've been living with these people for years. These filmmakers did an amazing job at gaining very intimate access into these peoples' lives and documented it in a very observational way.
Here's a slideshow with some samples of the photo project I shot over a 1 year period in an assisted living facility:
My aim was to gain that same intimate access as the filmmakers, to try and show these guys in a transitional period in their lives. As 18 year olds, they had both just that year entered the assisted living system and left their childhood homes. So this is a document of them entering adulthood in the best way they are able.
Forget video games -- anyone want to start a kite league? Thanks New York Times video and Guilherme Tensol for this beautiful short doc.
Going through images this week from my LA > Chicago Roadtrip over the weekend. Here's one from Monument Valley on the night of the honey moon, a phenomena we aren't supposed to see for another 200 years. While this very bright full moon ruined any chance for good star watching, it did make for some pretty cool and strange looking photos.
Currently on cross country trek with the new Dynamic Perception Stage One Motion Control system. More images to come!
A couple highlights from a short piece I shot recently on a furniture craftsman.
The Long Game
Saw this excellent two part essay from Delve about some of history's most well known creative artists and minds, and the difficulties they faced in achieving that success and recognition. It's hard to believe that Davinci didn't start creating his widely considered masterpieces until he was 46, and that the time leading up to that was filled with stories of failure and humiliation. Success in the creative field isn't something handed to you the first time you work hard and create something. It comes when you work hard, create something, fail, learn from it, rinse and repeat.
For Part Two in this series CLICK HERE
This is pretty great -- achieved with 50 cell phone cameras mounted on an arc all synced and shooting stills.
Dear Iced Coffee -
I can't wait to drink you this summer.
- Chris
A couple of BTS shots from the Production for the People Allstate shoot. Thanks to Andrew Tomayko for the photos! See the edits here.
Environmental portraits shot around Iowa in the early 2000's