There’s a ton of our studio and location shots of David Serby posted over at his cool new website.
With a new record “Honkeytonk and Vine” hitting the airwaves any day now, we should be hearing quite a bit from David in the next few months. He’s one of the most exciting things going on in country music here in So Cal right now, and we’re proud to be part of his team.
David Wood is a traditional country crooner in the style of Ernest Tubbs, with a deep deep bass voice and a song catalog co-written with many of Nashville’s finest writers. Look for his debut album in June 2009.
Click on the picture at left to see a short slideshow.
Just completed an upgrade to the Hollywood Sign Trust website, bringing the Seeing The Sign area up to date. The centerpiece is an interactive map of the Los Angeles area, showing simply where the best locations for viewing and photographing the Sign are.
Clicking on any location in the map takes you to detailed information on that location, including live Google Maps with directions, location photo samples, nearby attractions, and parking information.
Also added a cool pop lightbox effect for the photo samples, which uses a compact script to bring a nicely rendered window right over the regular content.
We also rewrote all the content to bring it up to date.
Country gentleman David Serby returned to the studio this week for some new promotional portraits. Keep an eye out for a new record from Dave soon… with all the heat his career has been enjoying, this one is sure to be burning up the country charts in a city near you SOON.
Click on the pic to view a small slideshow with some images from the shoot.
The Janks are a great new rock band with a sound like a modern Queen. We went for an old school vibe with these photos, which were shot in Laurel Canyon at the home of their manager and the surrounding countryside. Lots of saturated and unsaturated colors, natural imagery, great lighting conditions, and some very patient band members.
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Country gentleman David Serby is using a few photos I took of him on his website homepage, including a studio shot and a photo from a gig at SXSW 2008 in Austin.
A press shot of LA rock band Sugarwall, taken quickly near a runway at LAX. No, that lightning bolt isn’t real, though the plane is. Higher res version is forthcoming…
Honky tonker David Serby is using a portrait of mine as his main MySpace profile picture.
A beautiful record from a beautiful person, Lorie Doswell, recorded out of Ed Tree’s famous Treehouse Studio in the valley. The sound, which is rootsy Americana and folk, suggested imagery of nature and old things, and we were fortunate to find an old 60s Chevrolet truck to shoot with out east of Los Angeles in the Lancaster area. The dream-oriented theme led to a ghostly transparent background on the cover, and we shot her pictures to evoke the casual charm and confidence that is heard throughout Lorie’s music. The cd design is borrowed from the truck’s weathered speedometer, with the shiny disc surface showing through the numbers and rough edges. The design is 6 panel digipak with clear tray, matte finish.
A photo shoot with gospel and contemporary singer Andrew Pettit.
Honky tonker Grant Langston used photos from a shoot at the (now defunct) Cole Rehearsal Studios on his latest live record, which we designed together, as well as on his website, as seen below. It is the one on the couch:
Sugarwall has started using photos from our recent shoot in their promo materials. Here are two samples — higher res versions will be posted soon.
The shot with the airplane was photographed right at the edge of LAX, and that plane was really flying by at the time. The lightning, however, was added by the band.
…is a Japanese pop singer at Musician’s Institute in Hollywood.
found this old portrait of songwriter mick fury in the archives today
the kns allstars are a booty shaking, high energy, dance club rap and dance outfit… these shots were used widely for their promotional materials and for mine as well…
a lot of people ask about the guys in suits… those are in fact genuine wise guys who loaned us the cars for the shoot, but we escaped with our lives and these pics all the same
