My Waking Life

More from wanderings in Mexico with Kendrick.

I had a shoot in San Diego this month so I decided to drive down the coast and spend a few days exploring Baja California, Mexico.  I can’t say how much I love spending time in Mexico or anywhere that is Central America.  Here’s the first of a few posts from the trip - stay tuned for more.

So, I’m a little late on this post due to some time spent on the road in San Diego and Mexico (photos soon to come), but such is life.  This month marked Luceo Images’ second official meeting of the year.  I say official since we meet practically every week online to hash out recent business.  We’vebeen busy enough to bump our annual meet to a twice-a-year schedule and took advantage of the days following the Look3 festival to lock ourselves into a hotel suite and hash out the next six months of affairs.  A bigger write-up and more comprehensive edit of our photographs is up on the Luceo blog, here.

Luceo is pleased to have been included in this year’s Look3 festival.  Our group multimedia installation, Still Hoping, made its debut in the Look3 Theater and we’re very proud to have had the opportunity to share that space with the heavy hitters at The New York Times and Mediastorm –just to name a few.  It’s only been a year and a half since we all locked ourselves into an apartment for a week and plotted out Luceo’s future and we’re very pleased to see the fruits of our labor come together at such a unique event.

Kevin German, myself, and Matt Eich also represented Luceo in a few other venues.  German and Eich had their own respective installations in the POYi gallery and me and Eich both had projections that were included in Slideluck Potshow’s contribution to the festival.

The weekend turned out to be a good opportunity to catch up our friends from the MJR Collective as well as Miki Johnson from the Resolve Blog.  Her write-up, here, really sums up our sentiments about the state of the industry and our own approach to staying optimistic and productive in these times of upheaval.  That is something that, on a larger scale, Melissa Lyttle and the listserve and blog at Aphotoaday.org have been instrumental in doing for years.  We’re thankful to her for including our piece on today’s edition of that blog and also for keeping that forum and community alive and well.

And, of course, a huge thanks is in order to the Gina Martin and Jenna Pirog at National Geographic as well as Will May and Maryanne Golon from the festival.  Your support and encouragement was crucial to bringing our work to Look3 this year.

…it was a graveyard smash.

Last month I had the pleasure of celebrating my three-year anniversary with the love of my life.  She is my love, my personal muse, my inspiration and my life.  If I have the good fortune of spending the rest of my days with her then I’m sure I’ll die a happy man.  Cheers to you Kendrick.

The good folks at TIME picked up my essay on Cannabis Culture USA and it just went live today.  Check it out here or go to my website to see my edit here.