An ad we shot for Motorola with Anomaly is on the back of this week’s LA Weekly! We knew they were running because we already saw them in some other mags, but for some reason it just looks so rad on the back of LA’s free newspaper. It was a great (but super last minute) shoot that came together in less than a week. Anomaly asked if we could pull off a show at a club where basically the crowd is super excited but it needs to look as crowded and of course, as real as possible. So we put out the word to friends on the Facebook, the Day19Twitter, sent out about 200 text messages and it all came together brilliantly. It wouldn’t have been possible without the help of our friends coming out, our fantastic agents for going above and beyond what any other agent would do, Jim for letting us use The Smelland without the good folks at Anomaly and Motorola believing we could pull off what we promised we could (with 2 days notice). Everyone was super stoked with the outcome, a bunch of people came out and got to stage dive for maybe their first and/or last time, and our good buddy Mickey is now in ads running all over the world! Yes, THIS Mickey.
Monster Children has hit our shores and in their first U.S. issue they have a beautiful feature on our Polaroid Project. We also shot artist Lisa Solberg for a little feature and photos from our opening are in the back. We’re all over it! You can pick up a copy at your local newsstand or buy one online HERE.
While in Australia we met and got to know the fine people who bring you Monster Children, the magazine. Chris, who everyone seems to call Hollywood, picked us up, showed us around and brought us to the offices like a gracious tour guide. Hollywood, Campbell and Lucy are some really swell folks. Seriously, how great is it that the people who make one of the best magazines in the world are also such great people? We all share too many similarities it’s crazy. Anyway, I don’t want to blow too much smoke up their arses, it just rules to meet people who get it like they do. Good job Monster Childreners, can’t wait to see you in the states. More phodos after the jump. Click here to read more »
Semi Permanent is a creative festival that happens in the land down under and they asked little old us to come and speak at their Melbourne event October 10th. I get ridiculously nervous about speaking in front of 20 people let alone 2000 but how could I turn down an amazing opportunity like this and a free trip to Australia! I’ll get over it quickly. If you live in Australia please come and say hello or invite us for a drink, we’re there for a week. So excited.
Any long time followers of the day19 website will remember when we attempted putting up a photo of the day in a section cleverly titled “photo of the day”. We are going to attempt that again. We’ll see. The above photo is Peter Sutherland in the air.
I was reading THIS interview today with the photo director at Men’s Health that I found thru a link on Whats the Jackanory. At the end she was asked whose work she loves/follows and she mentions us! I’m not gonna lie, but I was getting jealous of the list who includes some big time picture takers whose names I actually recognize like Martin Schoeller and Dan Winters and then I see us! I got all excited and had to call Claire. Always feels nice.
Just arrived home in Los Angeles for a shoot after being all over the East Coast for a month to find this little beauty waiting for me. I talked with the dudes at MacNeil about a bike but honestly forgot they were sending me one. Its a 26″ cruiser in a very similar color scheme to a CycleCraft 24″ cruiser I raced in the late 80s (my mom has the photos somewhere I’m sure). Thanks MacNeil! Lots of photos from our east coast summer very soon.
It’s been a great week. Eli’s been hanging out in the parks of NYC, we’ve been seeing photos of billboards we shot for Smirnoff popping up all over the world, we may be traveling to the other side of the world next week, our assistant is running topless in Levi’s ads all over NY, there was a surprise birthday party for me in BKLYN, another rooftop jam in the BK, we’ve reunited with so many great east coast friends, AND we’re going to the Sussex County Fair Friday! Let’s keep this going.
We just got the issue of The Wire we shotMadlib for and it looks incredible! We are super excited, one because we love The Wire, two because they chose so many photos to run full page, three because we never get cover shoots so that’s exciting in itself, and four because it was such an awesome day. Check out bad scans of the layout and larger photos after the jump… plus a bonus outtake I dug.
In other news we just photographed Mariachi El Bronx in downtown Los Angeles for some Australian magazines and general press. We also shot ex members of Panic at the Disco Ryan Ross & Jon Walker in the studio for their new project. It also looks like we’ll be spending the rest of the summer in NYC, more on that soon.
We received one of the most amazing, unexpected gifts in the mail today. A full set of Where the Wild Things Are decks from Girl. Thanks Andy!! Thanks Spike! Can’t wait to see this friggin’ film.
Although it’s 60 degrees and rainy today in Los Angeles I can’t help be excited knowing summer is here. You could say it’s summer all year round here but something changes in people attitudes when the actual season hits. Lot’s of great backyard happenings, like this one the other weekend.
