These 1/1 (they’re samples) Reebok Pumps are all mine! Yesterday we hosted The Kickz Stand Sneaker Swap Meet at Zen Garage and the boys gave me these kicks as a gift to say thanks. Was an amazing day despite the weather. I didn’t take any shots, but Ved did and I can’t wait to see his shots!
Mia having a good sniff like any sneaker freaker would.
Pumps!
Like a little window into the universe. I was always so fascinated by the see-through bits on sneakers as a kid.
I so need to clone myself. Last night I wanted to be at 2 places at the same time; The Harley-Davidson art show (check the previous post) and shooting Simmy with a 328 GTS with Photographer Matthew Mead for Zen Garage.
Whilst I didn’t make it to my own shoot, I spent some of today hanging out with Simmy and editing Sergio’s behind the scenes shots which made me feel a little better (she’s gorgeous and he’s getting good at shooting! All I did was a bit of dynamic cropping and slight colour adjustments).
Check out the shots: http://zengarage.com.au/2013/11/behind-the-scenes-simone-peres-ferrari-328-gts-shoot
My coverage of last night’s Harley-Davidson “For the Love of Lids” art show at Mary’s in Newtown is now up on Zen Garage. Was an amazing night hanging out with great people, great art, bikes, music, fried chicken, burgers and booze!
Visit: http://zengarage.com.au/2013/11/harley-davidson-for-the-love-of-lids-opening-night
PS: The show ends on the 30th of this month, so be sure to drop into Mary’s Newtown (Mary St.) before it ends!
Group shot of all the Artists.
TJ Guzzardi’s helmet. So glad to have met this guy, he’s amazing (we featured him a while back).
Ben Brown’s wild piece. I’ve know of Ben’s work for YEARS. So glad to finally meet this guy too!
Nanami’s piece on the left and Lachlan Bruce’s larger than life helmet on the right.
Our menu for the night, lots of people braved the JD Shake! Personally I stayed on the Young Henry’s and highly recommend the Mary’s Burger (oh… and the chicken!).
Little Bastard, because live music rocks.
The crowd.
Parked at the Dendy cinema carpark in Newtown yesterday, couldn’t help but snap this shot form outside. I love how it turned out!
That detail.
Nana’s show is on tonight, and she’s still frantically working on her piece right now (!). I’ve just published a feature on Zen of her progress from start to end. Visit: http://zengarage.com.au/2013/11/love-of-lids-nanami-cowdroy
I’m using my very old tomtom less and less, and lately I’ve been using my iPhone 5 with Google Maps for a sat nav. It’s been awesome except that I usually get to my destination with a drained battery, not to mention having the phone in the centre console means I can’t hear it well, or see it well.
I knew there was going to be a simple charger/holder available, didn’t know there were going to be so many available though!
I hit up MobileZap, was overwhelmed by the choices initially but ended up going for the Fix2Car unit with Griffin Charging Cable. The suction mount is super easy to use (very strong too) and mounting the phone sideways works a treat. Unit fits in the glovebox nice and easily too when not in use.
I’m happy. Visit: http://www.mobilezap.com.au/34173/apple/iphone-5s.htm
To celebrate 15 years of Infront (can’t believe I founded Infront back in 1999… So long ago!) we’ve launched a new Visual Response project. As always, it’s free to enter, and this time around there’s $8k’s worth of prizes up for grabs!!!
For more info, visit: http://www.ausinfront.com/involved/visual-response/visual-response-07-15
Big head time! Interview with yours truly on I Dig Your Sole Man.
Visit: http://www.idigyoursoleman.com/2013/11/in-their-shoes-justin-fox-zen-garage.html
Last Sunday I spent the day shooting JoJo at my place (she’s heaps of fun and cute as a button!). I was hoping for heaps of natural light (as my trusty GF1 loves it) but unfortunately it was a rainy day. I thought about postponing, but after a few words with some photographer friends (especially Matthew Mead who gave me words of encouragement) I decided to accept the challenge, give it a go, and try something different.
You’re meant to shoot with the light behind you, but I spent most of the day shooting silhouettes on purpose. I’m really happy with the end results. My fave pics below, more photos from the day on Zen Garage: http://zengarage.com.au/2013/11/jojo
Shooting into the light. Love this shot. Captures the grey day. JoJo’s pose is natural and her face looks amazing.
Had plenty of light for this shot so it came out normal (not silhouetted). JoJo hates this shot, but I love it, one of my faves.
Hair up! One of JoJo’s fave shots (it’s currently her facebook profile image!).
I went for a few fully silhouetted shots with some interesting results.
My fave shot of the day. I love it that the background is blown out, and that JoJo needs more light, it’s the wrong thing to do when shooting in low light, but it makes for a dynamic result.
Slayer?
Now I get it! Not sure what it is but I’ll be ordering it next time!
Toilets.
Got to see Lachlan Bruce’s helmet. Very cool!
Mary’s from the mezzanine.
Take 1!
Nervous? Sure, but she did really well.
Larry Bird? Whatever that is I want it.
Filming Nana’s helmet design (which is a work in progress).
The image on the screen was amazeballs. So nicely graded.
Lots of art on the walls at Mary’s. I love the vibe of the place, love the building too.
Spent the day helping Nanami out today. She’s been working hard on her helmet piece for Harley-Davidson, and today she had to be at Mary’s in Newtown to shoot a teaser video for the show (which will be held at Mary’s in 2 weeks!).
Massive tease to finally get to Mary’s and not have any friend chicken!!! They weren’t open during filming unfortunately.
Shoot went well but everything else was just nuts. I had the wrong car for starters (the MX-5), nothing fit in the car so we had to have art hanging out the boot (and we made do with a shoe lace to hold the boot down!), the exhaust is so damn broken that it’s now hanging low and scraping on absolutely everything and to not ruin Nana’s hair we had to drive with the top up (no aircon and a stinking hot day = sweaty goodness!).
The exhaust falling apart stressed me out so much that I had to drop in to High Tech mufflers after a quick bite at The Grounds (finally got to check it out! Loved it but had the camera buried in the boot, will have to drop in again some time soon). Booked in to fix it tomorrow morning!