Worst book promotion ever?

…questions Tina Dupuy at mediabistro on this bathroom reading choice at a business near her in a public bathroom. See more here.

Time lapse video of advertising shoot

This ranks high on the cool scale:  On the link is a video of commercial photographer Peter Belanger shares a time-lapsed video showing us the creation of a Macworld magazine cover, from shooting the images to creation of the final cover design. WATCH IT!

Never before published Marilyn Monroe photos

Never before published photos of Marilyn Monroe were published today at the life.com website. The images were shot in August, 1950 and recently found after some house cleaning at Life. See them here.

Vibe Magazine to come back from dead?

According to an online story at the Wall Street Journal, Vibe Magazine is going to relaunch in a web-based form. Read about it here.

How to instruct models….

This isn’t some cheezy Craigslist photographer. Yuri Arcurs is a stock photographer who says he makes $10,000 USD per month doing what he does. In another posting on his blog, he writes that he is the “world’s top selling microstock photographer… in fact I make more then 1mil USD per year from royalties.” His blog is worth a read.

Sears portrait studio?

Fast Company magazine poked good fun at this photo released yesterday from the Korean Central News Agency, calling the Clinton’s delegation pallbearers, and noting that Chairman Kim Jong Il looks his “janitorial worst.” Read the story here.

Interview with Andrew Heatherington, AKA Jackanory

Learn what his name means and more in this interview with a great editorial shooter in NYC here.

Found on Tony Fouhse’s blog page.

My first billboard

Here it is, along interstate 8 in San Diego:

Football season is here

Well, almost. NFL training camps began across the nation, including the San Diego Chargers here. Been shooting a little bit of that and some Padres baseball.