Cheech & Chong , and my brother Jim

Growing up as the youngest brother had both its disadvantages, and advantages. My older brother Jim never beat me up. I think the fact that we are so far apart in age had an influence on that, or perhaps my dad had an influence on that one. One of the coolest things about my older brother Jim when I was growing up was that he was in the rock and roll business right of of high school. He took a job years ago that made me one of the more cooler kids in school. He was Cheech & Chong's road manager. Everyone wanted a free copy of "Big Bambu" from me just for the over sized rolling paper that came with the album. So roll the clock forward to 2008. Cheech & Chong decided to start touring together again this year so they tapped my big brother Jim to be their road manager again. So off down to Eugene on Thursday night with my wife Susan in tow to see the show at the Hult Center. We had a blast being backstage and getting third row seats. So here are some pics of my big brother Jim, and some shots from the show.

There's No Business Like Shoe Business

A few moths ago I had the opportunity to work on a stop-motion video featuring the history Nike's legendary Cortez Shoe with Nike designer Eric Duvauchelle. The thirty-seven second clip was posted to the Nike.com web site. We were working in a building where the Nike archive is located. It was very amazing to be in a room full of Nike history. We shot almost 1,000 images to put this thing together. The best momnet of the shoot was when Eric discovered the large Cortez shoe costume and decided to put himself in it for the video. And of course I had to take a stab at walking in his shoes.

Here is the link
http://www.nike.com/nikeos/p/sportswear/en_US/view_post?country=US&lang_locale=en_US&blog=en_US&post=en_US/2008/08/07/nike-cortez-archive

Here are some pictures from behind the scenes:

Eric pondering his next move.

The stars of the video. A few vintage Nike Cortez shoes.
















Eric in the Nike Cortez shoe costume.
















What I will be wearing next Halloween.

She Walks

Not that I want to make my blog a visual record of my daughter's milestones, but heck, she is one great subject to photograph. So at the ripe young age of seventeen months, my daughter Leah is now officially bipedal. She had a great time strutting her stuff at the Portland airport while waiting for our flight last week to California to visit relatives. We now must maintain a vigilant watch over Leah as she can move very fast in any direction. It is incredible how fast little kids can move. Or, is it that I am so dang slow as I age, or mellow as I like to say.