The Peace Artist came to visit

We had a house guest this past Saturday, his name is The Peace Artist.

So here's the story... One of Gina's besty's, turned us onto this guy who is running 10,000 miles around the US in the name of World Peace. "Peace," as we shall call him, decided some time back to abandon all of his worldly possessions with the exception of a couple changes of clothing and a push cart/jog stroller to carry his art supplies. Rather than trying to explain with eloquence his path, I've just cut and pasted this directly from his website...

"What can I do for Peace? The Peace Artist can run, and he can do art. His pilgrimage is one of faith. Faith in the goodness of others and faith in love, art, and peace. His 10,000 mile journey around the continental United States is a trek for peace between nations, amongst people, and the often most difficult...inner peace. He runs until given shelter, and fasts until given food; he never asks. He takes no money, only art supplies. He gives away his artwork as a peace offering to those who will accept them. People are good. His only hope is that others will be encouraged and inspired by his example, and they will do what they can for peace."

So on Saturday we hosted Peace. We made dinner together and talked about everything until we couldn't keep our eyes open any longer. The next morning Peace allowed me to capture him during his process creating a beautiful watercolor of a canary sitting on a steel rod.

It is one of my joys, photographing people doing what they love. I truly feel our most truthful moments come when we are engrossed in our craft.

If you're curious about Peace then I encourage you to visit his site and read about his experiences.

His is a noble cause and I was very glad to meet him and draw inspiration from his story.
http://thepeaceartist.com

Old timey picture

I was hired by my friends at the Geffen a couple weeks ago to shoot an image that would later be made to look like a daguerreotype of Marie Curie and her husband for Alan Alda's play, "Radiance." (At the Geffen now if you want to go see it)
John Boersche is the brilliant projection designer who took my raw image and transformed it into a daguerreotype.
The photo is of Anna Gunn and John de Lancie. Anna plays Skylar White on Breaking Bad and played Martha Bullock on one of my favorite shows, Deadwood. So needless to say I was a bit starstruck.

This is that image



I've been on a serious black and white bender lately so it was alot of fun working with the production team at the Geffen on this project.

Magazine cover shoot with my pal Kirsten

It is serendipitous that one of my oldest and best friends, Kirsten Vangsness, who appears on the television show “Criminal Minds,” recently asked me to shoot a portrait of her for the cover of Curve magazine. To this I said, only if I am handsomely rewarded with praise, adoration and a healthy paycheck! Just kidding, I would do anything for Kirsten after all, she is the person who introduced me to my beautiful wife and whom I hold partially responsible for our amazing one year old son, Walker.

Additional photos from the series of portraits also appear in The Advocate magazine and on the Human Rights Campaign website. Check out the cover and if you want your own copy, (the article is really great) it will be on newsstands October 23^rd!

p.s.

I will be posting a new blog entry of some of my new art work very, very soon, like next week!

Whalewatching

So Gina and I went whale watching last month out of Dana Point
It was a gorgeous day, super clear and great for spotting wildlife.
Well after about an hour of cruising around all we'd seen was a whole lot of seagulls and one sea lion.

That's when the captain announced a sighting a mile up the coast. They spun the boat around and headed towards the sighting.

Granted it wasn't whales and we didn't see any at all that day but it was a huge pod of dolphins charging full speed through the water.








I've been whale watching twice now and haven't seen whales either time. I'm beginning to think that like the Lock Ness, whales are mythical creatures.

Etsy does it

I just signed up for an etsy account. If you don't already know, Etsy is a website where crafters and artists can show and sell their work. So, if you're creative and want to try and profit off of your controlled insanity do what I did and set up an account. I have these pieces that I can't really include into any of my portfolios so this seemed like the perfect outlet. If you want to get a feel for it, heres the URL for my store:http://www.etsy.com/people/kSharpArt.


This is my angst driven piece about Chicago that I shot while on christmas vacation a couple of years ago.



UUGH! I'm done describing this stuff because no matter what I say, it always feels disingenuous. I am a visual person and I think it looks cool!



Birds... or rather, cool birds that look awesome hanging on my wall



This is totally photographic... no photoshop!



This is a Crape Myrtle tree. The bark of these trees is as smooth as skin. Does that sound weird? Why does it always sound strange when one describes something as being flesh like?




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