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We are gearing up for Noise Pop as so many great bands are coming through. The possibilities for awesome Auditory Visuals is endless.
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Rob Carter is an interesting photographer and videographer… love this stop motion on urban sprawl. via OK Great
Ski Lunch
I have been in Taos, New Mexico for the last week skiing, being with family and shooting a feature for SKI magazine. …
NewYorkCityWintor
Here are some shots I took while staying in New York for two weeks during a snow storm.
Lotta Blue
Yea, blue. My favorite color. I can’t get away from it. Somehow it works for me. . . you can blame me…
Hitting The Road
Just finished the new South By South West flier for local S.F band, Lovelikefire. Had a lot of fun with this one.…
APPL Confidential
On a recent assignment for Wired.com, I photographed Arnold Kim, notorious tech gossip writer and editor of MacRumors. His site commands 7…
MEAT OFF THE BONE
A multimedia experience from the Kansas City Barbeque Society’s national championship at the 2009 Que & Brew, 12/5 Chandler, AZ.
Getting Out There
Every now and then I like to go for long walks or bike rides where I spend a couple hours taking pictures…
Into the depths and beyondR…
This weekend I had a good friend visiting from the Dirty Dirty so I decided I would show him how we do,…
The Sport of Kings
Our good friend Valerie was leaving us for Las Vegas. So to send her off in style, we wanted to take her…
So We Beat On
I’ve been spending most of my time the past few weeks in some sort of haze; Staying up till 3am streaming episodes…
A Bit of The Surreal
This image represents the start of series I have begun working on that deals with the surreal and the juxtaposition of either…
Loss of Control
I recently started a new series of watercolor and ink illustrations. I’ve been trying to come up with a good way of…
Barry Jenkins
I recently had the extreme pleasure of meeting and photographing San Francisco based, independent filmmaker Barry Jenkins at his current home in…
Spaceport Five: Infernal Machi…
A futuristic look at JFK from 4am to 7am.
Uncle Willie
Photographer Willie Alleyne invited me along for his niece’s sweet 16 to-do.
the garrison
Barbados is the only island in the Caribbean to offer horse racing. The Garrison Savannah is where you can catch the action.…
Two old works
Some old mixed media works in preparation of my illustrated book.
Portfolio Images
Just some new work to accompany the new video post. . . enjoy!!
on on
I joined the local hash harriers crew for a run the other day. Had no idea what was in store. They refer…
Tokyo Technicolor
Pushing through the crowds of the world’s most populous metropolitan area for the first time was an exercise in observation. Having a…
Leaving Las Vegas
Las Vegas has to be one of the most interesting cities in the United States. It is entirely artiface, from the buildings…
Recent Lotus Posters
Over the past few months I’ve done 3 posters for good friends and Philly based band Lotus. I’ve been trying on some…
Popping my photog cherry
I have always wanted to try my hand at photography but have never really been able to get my hands on a…
How we don’t see
I recently was on a bit of a roadtrip and ended up driving through Zion national park in Utah. On the way…
Portraits of Andy
These are two images from a portrait session I had with a local artist/musician Andy Kuncl. The inspiration for this shoot was…
Pill-Popper
It’s been a while since I’ve finished this letterpress project but thought I’d post it here anyway. Pill-Popper was a letterpress project…
Tramps Was Here
Tramps Was Here is a cell phone-photo-game started by Nancy Miller, Jon Snyder and Michael Jeter. It seems that tramps be have’n…
Orvin v. Kristin
I had a good time shooting Orvin + Kristin from Gadal last weekend. The day was all about having fun. Hit the…
SF Music Scene Posters
I like all kinds of music. I design the posters for the San Francisco band, Lovelikefire. These are some posters I did…
Russian for Lubitel
This is my “new” Любитель camera that I sent away for this past summer.
It’s straight outta Russia; not the downtown Urban…
Tokyo Game Show
In September I had the opportunity to travel to Japan on assignment for Wired.com. I was sent to cover the Tokyo Game…
A return to New Hampshire
….there is a certain magic in a snowing evening. . . i was lucky to have such an evening. . .
americana
I spent the last decade living in America. I had to make moves to the land of rum and palm trees. But that’s…
Poster Illustrations
It’s always an interesting challenge illustrating a poster for a band with an animal in the name, especially if that animal is…
Front Page
Mass media has become an inescapable presence in our lives. If we are not careful we can be consumed by its flood…
Inspiration Is Fleeting
I look at brands a lot with graphic design. Sometimes it really gets to me I guess. I feel bothered by what…
The Soft Spot
Ashley Ciecka and I started the SoftSpot as a collaborative effort, and set out to discover design’s potential for making the world…
Pickler Badges
Not too long ago I was having a conversation with a good friend about how awesome pickling is. She had mentioned that…
The Aura Series
Everything needs to be worked out before I start an illustration, must be the designer in me. Step one means getting my…
Create Democracy Poster
I just found out that a poster I did for Create Democracy (an event at Design Event 09 in Newcastle, England) was…
Early ISH Illustrations
Last week I started working on illustrations / icons for the new I Shot Him website. Mike and I were trying to…
Early Album Concepts
A while back I did an album design for the band Telepath. Yesterday I came across one of the three concepts I…
NOVEMBER SHOOTING DIARY
An autobiographical introduction to my current photographic memoir project Chicken Bones & Potatoes.
Leslie & the Badgers
Los Angeles band Leslie & the Badgers stopped by the studio as they rolled through town on their way to Portland. They…
Auditory Viewing || TaughtMe
Our good friends TaughtMe have stopped by for an Auditory Viewing. Blake sings us Tip Me Over. Aubrey Trinnaman and her squeeze box joins Blake for a performance of Apology. Thanks guys for stopping by!
Auditory Viewing || Marty Matt…
We are proud to present Marty Mattern of Love Like Fire for an Auditory Viewing. He wrote this song for us the…
Auditory Viewing || Alex Robin…
Alex Robins of Or, The Whale is the first musician to stop by the office to help us kick off our new…
Love Letter
Love Letter from Elisa Da Prato on Vimeo.
About a year and a half ago, I was on a date with a…
ODE TO POPS
My dad as baby montaged with the visual representations of potential along life’s journey
Pure Horsehair Music Video
Music video for the Brooklyn based band PURE HORSEHAIR.
Arist: Pure Horsehair
Song: On Looseleaf With Sharpie
Album: Aubade
Director/Editor: Elisa Da…
Ben La Marca
BEN LA MARCA is part of an ongoing interview project which investigates the origins of scars, and a truly chilling document of…
Or, The Whale Music Video
I got bored with what I was doing creatively. It was time for a challenge, and I wanted to try something that…
Dream Market Street
Here at I Shot Him we have started an initiative called Better Market Street. We are focusing mainly on videos to capture…
The Alphabutt
Alex Merto’s “Effing” typeface is hilarious. I had to make a word out of it and went with pubes. Who knew you could…
IC4DESIGN Inc.
I have recently been introduced to the work of Japanese designer/illustrator Hirofumi Kamigaki aka IC4DESIGN. I love the newspaper style illustrations blown…
Aktion Mensch/Action Man
Every once and awhile a commercial campaign comes along that could easily exist on its own without the context from which it…
What is Power?
I came across this simple yet compelling animation asking the question, what is power? via, davidmurodesign.com/blog today. Great storytelling and an inspired…
OK Go – This Too Shall P…
The new video for OK Go is nothing short of genius. It is mouse trap meets double dare. The timing is genius,…
Harbor Tunes: Sweet Innocence
For this weeks Harbor Tunes I wanted you to relax and see the world through nostalgic eyes. It’s about love it’s about…
Parquerama – TheHead
I have so much respect for an artist that can make something beautiful. When 3 artists from different fields can work together to…
Murder Baby
My friend Peter Podgursky of Grumpy Panda Films sent me over one of his latest shorts. You just can’t go wrong with putting…
Kim Høltermand
Kim Holtermand emailed me with some interesting photos today. Some good stuff. Check out the site too.
Thanks Kim!
What Has The World Come To
Really cool little animated short created by French design studio H5, that provides a sharp commentary on the proliferation of brands in…
Colby Thueson
Colby email me recently to compliment us on our party flavor with the Showgirls movie night, and he sent over his behance…
How To Hunt
I came across this Dutchman when I was home in New Hampshire this last December. Can’t exactly remember how, just sort of…
Andy Bruntel
This is the new Liars music video directed by Andy Bruntel from Los Angeles. I’m always extremely impressed with music videos that…
Alex Varanese
Alex Varanese is a bay area designer/illustrator that is making some of the freshest and most well composed images i have seen…
Chiddy Bang
Here is a really fun and catchy video for Chiddy Bang, a new hiphop group that I actually like. It was directed by Ben…
Monolithic
This video caught me eye for a number of reasons. First off, explorations of abandoned spaces are always pretty interesting to me.…
Jan von Holleben
Jan von Holleben is a really interesting photographer who really likes to play with perception to create new worlds without having to make huge…
THE MAGICAL MECHANICAL CODEORG…
Check out this sweet flash application called CODEORGAN that turns any website url into beats all you have to do is paste…
SCINTILLATION || Xavier Chassa…
Watch this video it is simply amazing! What is even more amazing is how it was made. It appears to be film…
Harbor Tunes
We all need music while we create shit right? So here is some tunes Alex put together, and i’ve been grooving to…
Photos of Jesus
Production house Short and Sweet teamed up with Getty Images to create a short film about the archives. The images here are…
60’s & 70’s B…
Carl Bender and I biked down to our favorite magazine store in SF not too long ago. We started talking to the…
The New “Old Timey”…
When I look at Dan Hillier’s beautiful drawings I often feel overwhelmed, not because of the subject matter, but because of the…
When the shine wears off……
Lately I have been trying to answer the question “what is good architectural design” and I remembered these photographs. They were shot…
M3・KG || Tokyo
What is good design? Is it pleasing to the eyes or is it something which solves a problem? Do designs which disregard…
Edward Leida
Edward Leida is the Design Director for W Magazine, and in this video from wmagazine.com he gives us some insight into his…
Ryan Schude
Ryan Schude caught my eye in two very distinct ways. I’m always drawn to elaborately composed photos that tell a weird story,…
Ryan McGinley
Ryan McGinley’s new olympics video. Its pretty amazing. Some definite Warhol parts, and some amazing use of color.
Justin Anderson’s Chore
Justin Anderson teamed up with Lingerie designer Damaris to bring us this…well… beautiful piece of…film.
Ruben Brulat, Wonderkid?
Ruben Brulat is 21 years old. His work shows quite a lot of sophistication for such a young age and he has…
Huange Cheng
I recently came across the portfolio of Chinese designer / Illustrator / 3D artist Huang Cheng who has some serious Photoshop skills.…
Amazing Japanese Stereoviews
I came across this sweet gif and it reminded me, not sure why, of these crazy cool stereoviews I stumbled across a…
Casa en Carapicuiba
The other day I stumbled across this post showcasing a dwelling which actually captivated me. It has been a long time running…
Geek Out!! Twitter Dev Visuali…
I saw this last night as I was scanning through my 1000’s of google reader posts and I couldn’t help but share. This video shows the back-end development of twitter via a very cool particle animation. The colored particles swarming about the developers avatar represent a project based on Html/CSS, Ruby or Java. I did a little more searching and found out how it was made.
Die Antwoord, Zef $ide of the …
A friend exposed me to a, still trying to find the words for it, rap video today which left me with many…
Simen Johan
Mr. Johan has been one of my favorite photographers for years. It is a combination of his subject matter, aesthetic, and vision…
Uzi & Ari
Uzi & Ari are good friends with our good friends TaughtMe. This is a great new video for them. I’m a sucker…
Asger Carlsen
I recently came across Asger Carlsen’s work for the second time. I was captivated on the first go around but on this discovery …
Pictory
Lately, I have really been in to people making personal sites that are all about creating a community of artists collaborating and…
Patrick Daughters
Music videos are the poetry of the film world. A full length film has the ability to explore an entire narrative, much…
Emily Pilloton on Colbert
Our good friend Emily Pilloton was just on The Colbert Report. I remember when I first met this hard working lady and…
Stargate Studios
As I’m waiting for video to render, I started poking around the internet as one will do when it gets late. I…
Crystal Chou
Our good friend Crystal Chou sent us over some images of the pencil project she has been working on. I think I…
Everyone Forever Now
In digging around on Index Magazine, I found these videos called Everyone Forever Now. William Hoffman & Daniel Mercadante are creating this…
Parliament
I visited Portland in December and called up my old friend from college Dane Leach. I’ve always been a fan of his…
Sesame Street Animations
So last night I was looking through some of the great animations I remember from the earlier days of Sesame Street with…
Dildocorn Pony
Dildocorn Pony (My Little Pony Parody) – Uncensored – watch more funny videos
Peter Podgursky, an old friend from way back in…
Wonder Showzen
I was recently made aware of Wonder Showzen by my deputy of comedy advisement Adam. It is fucking HILARIOUS. I borrowed season…
Public Poster Project
Saw and really enjoyed this Public Poster Project from Dopludo Collective. They’ve got a ton of other really great illustrative work as…
Mike Giant
I stopped by Mike Giant’s little shop on Divisadero between Haight St. and Page in SF. I saw some amazing new work…
I Want a Piece of Pie
I had the pleasure of sitting down with John Bielenberg a few years back when I was interviewing social designers with the SoftSpot.…
Monocle
I’ve long been a fan of this magazine. Not the content so much but the layout and design of this publication is…
Aubrey Trinnaman
Aubrey is a photo-er, a singer and a general magic maker. She is responsible for the beautiful photos covering Uzi & Ari’s…
When I Grow Up
This should have been posted a while ago but as we have just launched I thought I’d revisit this music video by…
Dock Ellis & The LSD No-N…
This has been going around for a little while but if you haven’t seen it yet it’s definitely worth a look. No…
The Beast
I recently came across the work of Christopher Lee via long time heroes Eneone, formerly of Philadelphia. He’s currently living in Burbank…
Boards of Canada Videos
I’ve long been a fan of Scottish duo Boards of Canada and recently came across a fan generated video on You Tube…
The Best Story
I think this is one of the most inspiring things I’ve seen all week. This girl’s story is amazing and I love…