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American Photography 28 – WE’RE IN!!!!

Robin — Thu, 10 May 2012 17:00:19 +0000

Question: What’s the most exciting email the studio received this week? Answer: The one from Ernie Monteiro of Time Inc. custom publishing letting us know an image we created for Proto Magazine was chosen to be in American Photography 28 along side some really amazing work. All we can say is Woo-Hoooo!!!! Read the original blog post about the image and see construction pictures of the wire brain here.

Laura Sawicki’s Mixer

Robin — Tue, 08 May 2012 20:49:01 +0000

Austin’s own Laura Sawicki of La Condesa, was recently named to Food & Wine’s list of Best New Pastry Chefs 2012. To highlight this honor Tribeza magazine asked us to photograph Laura’s stand mixer for their May Cuisine Issue. We’re still finding flour on the floor…. And the ceiling. Yes, my 25 foot ceiling.

AARP Tennis Elbow

Robin — Mon, 07 May 2012 22:05:37 +0000

You know we love to set stuff on fire here at the studio, so when AARP asked for an image to illustrate the burning of tennis elbow, we were happy to oblige. Robin built the structure out of tennis paraphernalia (rackets, balls, grip tape and racket strings), then Adam got to burn it down.

Grandma’s Furnace – A Home Brew

voorhes — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:35:22 +0000

Jake Camozzi, copywriter and passionate eater & drinker, brewed this damn fine winter ale. He asked me to photograph it for his blog, Leave Me The Oink. He offered me the last few precious bottles. So I took them. And made this photo. And happily drank the last of his beer.

Design Bureau – Metrobilly

voorhes — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:22:29 +0000

According to Design Bureau, the Metrobilly is someone who loves both hunting & fine dining, crap beer & crafted cocktails, they would check their swamp truck with a valet.

DB claims this person is a ‘design-world chimera.’ I really don’t see what the big deal is. They’ve pretty much described every creative I know in Austin.

This image was art directed by my buddy Cody Haltom. Robin made the camo-tini-cozy.

Texas Monthly – Exercise of Flower

voorhes — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 20:46:38 +0000

It is a tradition for Texans to force their children to sit in fields of Bluebonnets and to snap their picture. It’s a way to later embarrass them that has been passed down for generations.

Texas Monthly wanted to pay homage to that tradition. They asked various contributing photographers to create a unique spin on the Bluebonnet. But because these flowers are here and gone in about two weeks, we were given the assignment a year in advance.

Then a year later something happened (was it the last space shuttle launch? I can’t remember). Anyhow, it got bumped another year. So here they are, my Bluebonnet studies I have been waiting two years to show.

SXSW – Gary Clark Jr

voorhes — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 22:32:47 +0000

Last week 1,200 bands officially on the bill for SXSW came to my beautiful home of Austin Texas. With them they brought tens of thousands of other bands, media folks, film peoples, tech types, and scores of tourists in their skinniest of jeans.

Gary Clark Jr was one of the most sought after acts this year. And THIS is his guitar. He brought it by my studio a while back when I was shooting a series on famous musicians’ guitars here in Austin.

Details – Chia Outtakes

voorhes — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 19:31:30 +0000

A while back I was shooting a bunch of still life for Details. One of the articles I was illustrating was on chia seeds. Ya know, the stuff from the 80′s you used to grow your very own grassy pet. Now, in 2012 it’s a health food.

We photographed them in a variety of ways. One set of images that DIDN’T get published was these. The seeds mixed into milk, pouring and splashing around.

I like these photos. Pretty.

Scientific American – Chocolate

voorhes — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:53:23 +0000

Interview on Chris Crisman’s Blog

voorhes — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 20:27:06 +0000

My buddy Chris Crisman started interviewing prominent people throughout the industry and posting their wisdom on his blog. But for some reason he also decided to interview me. Not only that, but he used a portrait by Matt Rainwaters that every single magazine I’ve sent it to has refused to run as a contributor’s pic. But not Chris. He knows how good a chick-o-stick is with grape flavored mad dog. Also known as a PB&J.

You can read the interview here.