drewd The Adventures of Carlos d’Avis

Mesmerizing and Beautiful

I love love LOVE this Letter Flow animation.
Do you know what else are beautiful? Handmade bleach-stenciled The Hedge hoodies.

Dave Zucker and I have had our eye on this project for nearly half a year but never found the time or inspiration to complete it. Around two weeks ago, we realized that our dearest Claire Storck [...]

Heavens Descending

I think this photograph is by far the best I have taken so far this year. And I took it with my iPhone. Take that, Nikon D70! Photography is not about technology but rather inspiration and opportunity and timing and mostly life.
Wait, shit, the iPhone is technology. *runs away*

Perusing Stolen Goods

Laura commented on my previous post, noting her appreciation for the photograph above and, lo, I was motivated to write again of Europe. She mentioned the toothless nature of the sculpture, while I found its lack of eyes even more stirring (and appropriate to my recent discussion of Blindness). The British museum website has a [...]

Tilt-Shift Photography of American Commuting

Check out Vincent Laforet’s beautiful work. Let me give you an explanation of the tilt-shift miniaturization technique and more of Laforet’s work, this time a selection of tilt-shift sports photography.

Photo Processing

I loved loved loved David Hunt’s photograph of a winding Utah road and I wanted to see what else I could get out of the image. I processed first with Lightroom for exposure, white balance and sharpening.

I then took this image into Photoshop and played a bit more. I added more contrast, standard and [...]

Why I Care About Photography, Again

I care about photography because it lets me prove that people like me enough to sit still on the other side of a lens for a brief moment. Friends! That’s what those people are called. And friends are keen, and also, often, really ridiculously good looking.

Why I Care About Photography

I feel privileged to live with so much beauty and love in my life. Truly. Photography is one way in which I can honor and remember such joy.

My roommate, Sarah, and I barely knew each other last June, and certainly did not a year ago. Now, I’d be hard-pressed to imagine a better friend with [...]