NEWS-ISH
I have a few updates and news(ish) items to talk about. First off my recent article, “Riding A Wave” was published this earlier this week in the SportsShooter.com newsletter. The article which talks about my recent experience producing the documentary, The Messenger: 360 Days of Bolivar, was featured on the front page for a day [...]
A SHOW AND A WIN
My second proper Houston live music show of 2009 crept up on me quick. I had no idea there was a show I had planned on attending tonight, but thankfully the Rockets were playing in LA, which meant the game didn’t start until 9:30pm CST. That gave Chris and I enough time to go to [...]
SXSW 2009
Well, this year I actually applied for media credentials in time for SXSW which meant it was justified to spend more than a day or two in Austin during the annual South by Southwest festival. SXSW has a film and interactive aspect that I really wanted to make it out to especially since I am [...]
STOP:LOVE
Ahhh Valentine’s Day. I usually don’t look forward to this day even though I should since I am in a wonderful relationship and not sad and alone, however it just means I have to find something to get my lovely lady, usually at the last minute. In the end, they usually turn out OK, but [...]
BLOODY MIDGETS
What a weekend! I’ve been pretty busy shooting the past week. After shooting several assignments this week for the Houston Chronicle, I decided to take Friday night and shoot something for myself. I had seen that the Half Pint Brawlers were coming into town for a midget wrestling show and I knew that I had [...]
THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS
I have been doing a lot of video work, self-teaching and archiving lately, but today I actually did some still shooting so I felt it facilitated a blog posting. I was planning on heading out to check out some extreme ice sculpture when I found out that a few friends of mine were headed out [...]
HOME, SWEET HOME
One thousand apologies for the lack of updates. It’s very rare that I go a whole month without blogging. I hate these entries because so much has happened that it’s hard to remember everything to add into just one blog, but since updating my blog is on my to-do list, I’ll try. I moved back [...]
LIVE MUSIC FUN
I’m totally on a blogging spree today. Tonight my boy Stef aka P.O.S. came to town with Saosin and Underoath and another hokey new metal band that all the kids like. Stef is a hip-hop artist and it’s always lovely to see him open for punk/metal acts. All of the 15-18 year old kids smashed [...]
FRESH DESIGNS
I always enjoyed my old (current until today) business card. It was nice and clean and matched my older web portfolio nicely. It was glossy on both sides and displayed a nice mix of color images in a neat little design on the front with one image and my info on the back. Earlier this [...]
THE GOOD LOSER
A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of spending some time with 82-year-old Mickey Stubblefield at his home in his hometown of Mayfield, Kentucky. Mickey is a former Navy veteran, Shriner Mason, Kentucky Colonel, and was also the first African-American baseball player ever to play in the Kitty Leagues. He receives an average of [...]
PUMPKINS
Since the lady leaves tomorrow for Houston, we decided to pick up a few pumpkins at the Fells Point Safeway. I feel guilty buying them from Safeway given the fact that I’ve covered countless events at local farms that feature fresh pumpkin patches, but I like to think I just bought them from the retailer [...]
ALL ON BLACK
I spent the last couple of days exploring Atlantic City and the Jersey shore. When the lady visits we usually make it a point to spend my days off exploring a new city or area of the East Coast. There are so many interesting areas within a few hours of Baltimore. It takes a significant [...]
AFTERMATH
I am slowly but surely getting my images and projects from the past few weeks edited and posted. Tonight I edited a few images from an essay I shot in my hometown of Galveston, Texas of the aftermath of Hurricane Ike. I only had a few hours on the island since they were still under [...]
POLAROIDS & PINS
It’s about lunch time here in Maryland and I have a bit of time before shooting my first girls field hockey game. I’ve shot a ton of different sports, but never this one so we’ll see how that goes. I purchased this vintage Polaroid Colorpack III that was brand new and still in the box [...]
B&O AND THE YARDS
My off days this week were not especially entertaining. I was originally planning on catching a game at Camden Yards here in Baltimore (since I’m only living a few blocks away) on Tuesday, but the weather was bad so I ended up going yesterday. I headed out early enough to coincidentally catch co-worker Justin Condor [...]
NATIONALS PARK
Today was a day off for me, so I took care of some grocery shopping and also visited the inner harbor Best Buy to pick up the amazing Fun Run Kit, which is the Best Buy exclusive season 4 DVD set of The Office (aka best show ever) I also did some computer organizing and [...]
MR. SPOTH GOES TO WASHINGTON
How can I pass up a blog title like that?! Anyways. I ventured down to DC for my first (in a series, I’m sure) of exploratory trips to our nation’s capital, which is only about 40 minutes away from here. Since I have off Tuesdays and Wednesdays I slept in a bit on Tuesday and [...]
9 STATES IN 2 DAYS
So Ive been AWOL for a week or so now, but I am completely settled in here in Baltimore and am ready to work my butt off for the next few months for the wonderful Patuxent Publishing Company. Today was my first day and it went great. I found the days prior to today to be [...]
FEATURED
Daniel Fox, founder of Skreened.com contacted me last week and asked me if Libby and I were interested in being Skreened’s featured designers, and after he mentioned I was his favorite, I said, “yes!” The process involved waiting for Libby to return from a business trip and my other shirt to arrive and then setting up this shot. [...]
THISFIGHT TATTOO DESIGN SERIES
This week we designed and launched a new series of clothing called the Tattoo-Stitch series. It’s still in the works, but it will feature a series of 5-7 unique designs centering on traditional sailor tattoo icons presented in a different way. The dashed line pattern is used to resemble a cross-stitch. We loved the idea [...]
SKREENED
I started a design shop over at the wonderful Skreened.com. It’s kind of like CafePress, but way amazing. It was started by an awesome dude named Daniel Fox, who emails users (ala me) back within about an hour of sending in a question! That’s service! The site is also very quality oriented, and only prints [...]
AUDIO STORYTELLING
So I read Richard Koci Hernandez’ little book on multimedia and was inspired to try my own little crazy exercises. I’ve been allowed to experiment a whole lot more since I got the new MacPro and one of my favorites has been an exercise I call audio storytelling. Its definitely silly, but it helps for sure. What I do is [...]
RIO
I have finally begun working on putting something together using my stills and video that I gathered on my trip to Rio de Janeiro back in January. Not exactly sure what direction it will end up taking, but for now here is a teaser of my introduction thus far.
