Today I ran across this beautiful Rolleiflex Mini Digital Camera sold exclusively through Urban Outfitters. This looks like an amazing little camera that gives a nod to the old Twin Lens Reflex Rollei cameras, first developed in Germany in the 1920s. This mini digital features a 5mp auto focus lens, uses a mini SD card, has crank lever film advance, a 4.9mm F2.8 Lens; and has 1/15-1/2500s Shutter Speed capabilities. If you can find an extra $399 to pick one up, grab one for me too.
Here’s a little behind the scenes pulled-out look at the set of a recent apparel photo shoot. The shots were taken by our friend, the very talented Jonpaul Douglass. Stay tuned to the site and blog for more peeks at what our 6 hours of shooting and 4 locations produced.
Recently I had the honor of serving as one of the guest reviewers for Flagler College’s Senior Design Portfolio Show, POLYPHONIC on April 24. I really enjoyed talking with the 21 bright-eyed Seniors about their portfolios and their goals after graduation. I was really impressed with much of the student work and the quality at which it was produced. Some of the stand out students were Aaron Bromirski, Crystal Jones, Jonathan Lawrence, Caitlin Robinson, and Jennifer Jones.
These students, and many others owe a lot to the hard work professor Randy Taylor put into the design program over the past 12 or so years. The students seemed to adore Randy and since it was his last year teaching, they wanted to honor him with a special gift during the show. The students knew about Randy’s love for the water/action sports and made him a custom longboard skateboard signed by all 21 designers and gave him his very own kite for learning how to kiteboard. How cool is that!
The show had a great attendance with probably well over 350 people to support the designers and see their end of the year video, POLYPHONIC which integrated each of the students work and personalities into it. Throughout the night, I got to talk with many of the students who attended my AIGA talk in November 2007. I also got to spend a lot of time with Mike Fretto of the wonderful company Rosa Loves. It was great catching up and talking about future collaborative possibilities.
Hopefully there will be more opportunities like this to give back to the design community. Thanks for the invite Randy! Have fun on your next adventure!
Last week I had the privilege of spending some time with a pretty famous guy named Rick Warren who authored the best-selling book in the world other than the bible. Rick has been a fan of the magazine RELEVANT that I’ve worked on over the past few years and stopped through the office while he was in town to chat with the staff.
Being that Rick wrote the best-selling book in the world, it gave him a lot of monetary resources and fame he could have kept for himself. I found him to be a really down to earth guy who is leveraging all that money and influence to make a difference in this world. He’s the only guy I know of that gives more than 90% of his income away, only to live on the left over 10%. He’s personally funded many global peace projects and training initiatives and currently meets with a range of influential leaders around the world like Bono, CEOs, business owners, and Presidents to see how he can help train and partner with others to help solve the major problems facing the world like poverty, disease, illiteracy and more.
I was glad to meet Rick and get inspired by his passion for life and the loose grasp he has on the stuff around him, ready to give it away at a moments notice. That’s a guy who is changing things.
On April 12 we attended the You Love to Hate art/fashion show put on by Dustin Orlando at Say It Loud in Orlando and overall the work was really cool, but there was really not as much of it as we hoped for. The turnout was great for an Orlando show and many artists and designers were in attendance such as Jeff and Sara from Lure, Hydro74, YASLY, BigGuns, Grant & Rachel Stewart, Chris Parks, Dres13, Brandon Dunlap, Peat Wollaeger, Bask, Dolla Lama and more. The fashion show portion started a few hours into the event and seemed a little unorganized and boring. My favorite part of the show was the collaboration wall featuring the work of Bask, Dres13, Dolla, Peat Wollaeger and more. I look forward to more events like this. Hopefully I can contribute to one of these soon. Here’s a peek at the work.
Here’s an awesome Pop-up book by Marion Bataille I ran across recently. It’s simple, inventive and just plain cool. It’s also suprisingly cheap. Buy it today!
The new book Custom Kicks, releasing in May by Maki is featuring our KENEDIK/Cameraluv Photo Op shoes. Over 140 other artists like Jeremyville, Chuck Anderson, Mike Perry, Emil Kozak and Jon Burgerman were also featured in the book which they claim will appeal to anyone who customizes, including sneaker freaks, fashion fetishists, and trend watchers.
Maki is a wacky and edgy small design studio based in the Netherlands. Check them out and check out the book on presale at Amazon.
These students, and many others owe a lot to the hard work professor Randy Taylor put into the design program over the past 12 or so years. The students seemed to adore Randy and since it was his last year teaching, they wanted to honor him with a special gift during the show. The students knew about Randy’s love for the water/action sports and made him a custom longboard skateboard signed by all 21 designers and gave him his very own kite for learning how to kiteboard. How cool is that!
You Love to Hate art/fashion show put on by 
