Inceptive Notions

© Tom Munro

Huzzah! I finally gnabbed a shot of the Sara Bareilles image that originally piqued my interest. Granted this was taken with my iPhone but it’s better than the reflections in the last post.

In other news, I shot a wedding in Philadelphia last Friday and that was a blast. Now Spring Break is coming to a close and that is a tragedy.

Tree #2, © Myoung Ho Lee

If you’re in New York and have a free moment you absolutely cannot miss the show at Yossi Milo Gallery right now. I saw one of Myoung Ho Lee’s images when it was hanging in the back section of the gallery a few weeks back. I thought it was beautiful and was happy to find out a show would be up soon! Apparently it’s Lee’s first concrete body of work. This means no book, which I was saddened to find, but the images really thrive as large prints.

Tree #1, © Myoung Ho Lee

This is one of those cases where an artist’s work makes you realize how maybe-not-original your own ideas are. I, for the longest time, had plans to place white backdrops on the streets of NYC behind fire hydrants to work on a typology of sorts. For now I’ll leave that thought in the gutter.

Tree #12, © Myoung Ho Lee

You know, I just love trees.

Michael George :: Mar.23.2009 :: Advertising, Photographers :: No Comments »

© Tom Munro

Well, I’m pissed. I was walking home the other night and saw some surprisingly striking images in the display windows of the Banana Republic store on the corner of Spring and Broadway. When I went back to shoot them today I found a giant SALE banner covering them up. To make matters worse, I was shooting during the day so the reflections killed the images anyway. Now, my first reaction to these flubs was “Oh well, I’ll find them online.” Unfortunately, that has been a fruitless effort.

© Tom Munro

The images are part of a campaign entitled City Stories. BR has taken quite a few well-known musicians and interviewed them to find out what it is about the city that inspires them. The interviews tend to be less than inspiring in themselves, but some are worth watching (such as Chris Carrabba’s of Dashboard Confessional whom, no matter what anyone says, I will always love). They’ve also got some exclusive performances on the campaign’s website. However, there’s no photo gallery to be found and the images that are on the website are not near as good. One in particular that is not on the website is a black and white image that depicts Sara Bareilles reflected on the underside of a grand piano…Now it’s stuck behind a giant orange banner. At any rate, the images were shot by Tom Munro whom I had not heard of before but has some interesting celebrity work on his website.

Can you see her? (© Tom Munro)

If you enjoy any of the featured musicians I would say the website is worth a visit. If not, I would say let it alone and hopefully I’ll post the images once the banner goes away.

The musicians include:

• Ayo
• Sara Bareilles
• Chris Carrabba
• David Garrett
• Ok Go
• Liz Phair
• David Sanchez
• Esperanza Spalding
• Tommy Torres

Michael George :: Mar.18.2009 :: Advertising, Photographers :: 1 Comment »

Every so often a piece of advertising rises above the rest of commercial fodder. Home Depot’s latest Olympic sponsor commercial has done just that. I find it very cinematic, mostly attributed to the fantastic music. I discovered that it was actually created specifically for the commercial by Tonefarmer, a New York based sound design company (no chance in getting an .mp3 ).

Other favored advertisements:

1. Sony ‘Foam City’

2. Coke ‘Happiness Factory’

3. Nokia -- ‘The Fourth Screen’

Of course, it has to be considered that it’s all to sell a product.

Michael George :: Aug.19.2008 :: Advertising :: No Comments »