What a small little man you are

Don't waste your time and energy worrying about what others are doing. Especially if that someone is a douche bag.
Do the best that you can possibly do.
There is no better way to say FU to those people than by doing well.
So, do well.


TV On The Radio - Dancing Choose

he's a WHAT? he's a WHAT?
he's a newspaper man
and he gets his best ideas
from a newspaper stand;
from his boots to his pants
to his comments and his rants
he knows that any little article will do!

Ideas, ideas, ideas!!!

I haz them.

I had my last panel review ever on Tuesday. It went well. Very well. I left there with a feeling of finally heading strong in the right direction. Next quarter is going to be a really long road, and a short time to get there (we're gonna do what they say can't be done yeah yeah smokey and the bandit). The feedback given to my work was really insightful and helpful. Sure, there are always technical things that I could be better at ... I know this, the people on panel know this. They talked a little bit about the technical things, but mostly about making a better photo ... in the sense of a more meaningful photo.

I'm encouraged. I'm motivated. I'm ready to produce the best work that I possibly can. I had so many random ideas for photo shoots just floating around in my head, it was hard to make sense of them ... so I wrote them all down. Wrote down the concept, possible models, production needs, locations, everything that I could think of associated with the shoot. I now have a list of about 12 shoots that I want to do next quarter. That will equate to about one shoot per week. If I can pull everything off, and to the level that I'm hoping to achieve, my portfolio will completely transform next quarter.

A little late

This is the summer video ... I'm just now getting around to posting it here.


Summer '08 from Jimmy johnston on Vimeo.

The land that time forgot INDEED!!!

So I haven't been on here in a minute. I was actually reading on some other blogs, and then remembered that I had one of my own.

7th quarter now, three weeks left of that ... then I'm on my own.

I've got a few things lined up that I'm excited about. A shoot tomorrow that should be interesting.
A graffiti artist named Lerch. We're gonna have some fun mixing strobe, tungsten, and dusk light with a long exposure.
Then I have some products to shoot .. yay products.

I have some wicked ideas for some shoots ... I just need to get all my thoughts organized and figure out which ones I can actually do.

OH, and I love the darkroom.

the beginning of the end

Actually, it's almost the middle of the end ... but that's not as catchy of a title.
Almost finished with week 9! Wow, where has the quarter gone? Next week is it ... game over. So needless to say the battle for gear and studio space is on!!! I like to think that I won a small battle today. I got the beauty dish. My new favorite light modifier.
But all this fighting over gear stuff is getting old. It's a privilege to be able to check out gear. One that I take pretty seriously. I try to be as considerate as possible when I check out gear ... I think minimal. What's the least amount of gear that I can get away with? I want other people to have gear, because I know what it's like to be left out when it comes to gear. I would hope that other have the same consideration when they check out gear ... unfortunately, this is a one way street that I travel.

Other than that ... lots of shooting this weekend ... hopefully. Assuming all goes as planned, I should be good for next week. But we'll see.

Almost there

It's my pleasure to present to you, bottle+rocket.
The website is about 70% complete, but we're still announcing it to everyone.
What was that, "we"? Yes, we. Noah Culver and I are doing this venture together. It's kinda like tag team photoshooting.
Go check it out. Hire us. Be happy.

to the victor go the spoils

Well I did it ... I managed to pull off what I thought was an impossible shoot.
And it turned out really nice!
I'm still playing around with some different post processing options ... right now I'm kinda leaning towards a Dave Hill kind of post. It makes it look a little grittier. I'm just glad I was able to pull it off. Huge thanks to Denver for doing the hair, and huge thanks to Larissa for being my model for the shoot!