‘Moon’ trailer looks promising

April 10, 2009

Just checked out the ‘Moon‘ trailer. Not sure how I missed seeing this at SXSW earlier this year. Making sure not to miss it when it opens. That adds like a bazillion films that I need to catch. Oh iTunes, why are you so good to me?

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iOTW: Teresa gets hitched

April 7, 2009

Back when I couldn’t decide what I wanted to do when I grew up, I was working at a design temp at Sally Corporation headquarters, churning out sales catalogs ad nauseam. My partner on several occasion was the young lady you see above. We’d grumble through several editions of the Beauty Systems Group Educational catalogs, intermixed [...]

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Hanging out with Texas Governor Rick Perry

March 10, 2009

Last Thursday I had the honor to once again photograph an event featuring Texas Governor Rick Perry presenting at the 2009 Tech Success Emerging Technology Fund (EFT) Awards. I’ve photograph the Governor on a number of occasions while he’s in North Texas. I am sure he’s starting to think I am the only one allowed [...]

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I am Andy Warhol. I am Basquiat!

February 13, 2009

  I know who I am, but who’s this guy? Looks just like me, or pretends to look just like me!

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iOTW: Birds of a feather, bird-drop together

February 13, 2009

  iOTW is back and this image has been a favorite of mine from this past year. I spent about an hour sitting among the tourists in Amsterdam square. The kids were busy agitating the birds while the adults were busy feeding them. My goal was to capture flight. It’s amazing how fast these little [...]

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Oh look! The emperor does have new clothes…

February 10, 2009

Yes, I know, I’ve gone and done it yet again. I think tweaking this blog then promptyly abandoning any semblance of regular updates is like my past time. Truth is, I’ve been busy over there at PD. And I’ve been slightly neglected my photography. Which, to tell you the truth is the bread and butter [...]

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Blogging from BarCamp Jozi

October 20, 2008

  I spent the past 12 days in Johannesburg, South Africa. Here’s an image I found, taken by Erik “White African” Hersman. We had a great time talking about all things mobile tech, security, and courtesy of Paul Cook, a cursory peek into string theory. My brain is still wobbly from all the intellectual intake.

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iOTW: Life After Dark

October 18, 2008

Life after dark in Johannesburg is a mixture of contrasts. It is deceptively vacant and at peace,as it is a haven for crime. On my last day here, my fellow globe-trotting friend Robin took me on a night-time tour of the city, otherwise known as “getting-lost-on-the-way-from-Sofiatown”. We managed to park in the median in the [...]

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iOTW: Have a cup on me

October 18, 2008

I couldn’t pass up this pot of tea that was keeping my tea warm as I was surfing the internet at the Mugg & Bean in Johannesburg’s Rosebank mall. Natural lighting and a bit of chiaroscuro for ya. Shooting found objects can be some of the best photography around. They offer unexpected flashes of inspiration. [...]

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Vincent Lafore takes Canon’s 5D MkII for a 72hr spin

September 23, 2008

Filmmaker Vincent Laforet took Canon’s brand new 5D MKII for a spin around New York for 72 hours and came up with this stunning video, Reverie. In a word? Drool! At least you see what I am going to be spending my money on over the next 6 months. Yeah, high quality glass! And a [...]

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About. Freakin’. Time: Canon Drops long awaited 5D Mark ii

September 17, 2008

Remember Miss Sexy? Yeah, she just got a potential playmate. Too bad it’s gonna take forever for me afford the 5d Mark ii. I just recently bought the 5D Mark 1. I’ll set a target date before New Year’s. I have to do a wedding in Maimi, on the beach. Can’t think of a better [...]

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Sneak Peak at the 2008 Dallas Cowboys Cookbook

September 17, 2008

What you see there is a work in progress. So far so good. The back cover has a little subtle homage to the soon to be retired Texas Stadium. If you are a fan of the Cowboys, I think this year’s Cookbook is going to be something worth getting, especially if you can get it [...]

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iOTW: Shooting Naked Leather in Denton

September 13, 2008

This summer I returned to my college stomping grounds in Denton, TX for a quick shoot with Leatherwood, one of Denton’s upcoming bands. My ex called me to shoot her boyfriend’s band’s promotional images. For free. And I was like, yeahp, sign me up. The shoot brought back memories of the days when I spent [...]

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Why I hate being a creative sometimes

September 13, 2008

I don’t know who wrote this but it was one of the few forwards that I do actually read in my emails. As an aside, I think my friends have figured out that I don’t really send them email forwards all that often, if ever. Not only that, it’s a rare occassion for me to [...]

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Learning about the world we live in…

September 7, 2008

So I found this little gem while tunneling through the world of links that allow this phenomenon to be called the World Wide Web. I was doing some back end work, giving Project Diaspora a facelift. (If you haven’t seen it yet, go check it out, sorry I completely forgot to blog about it, that’s [...]

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My first large photo project goes live!

September 2, 2008

Haynes and Boone launched their brand new site this last week after nearly a year in production. The site features a good number of images that I spent the early part of summer shooting. I traveled to their Dallas, Richardson, Ft. Worth, Austin, Houston, San Antonio, Washington, D.C. and New York office over a two-month [...]

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iOTW: Walking in the Clouds

August 29, 2008

So last night I added some more carbon to my carbon footprint count that Dopplr is doing a nice job of tracking. We had a flyby of a storm cloud that was busy getting it’s business on with lightning and thunder (I assume since you can’t really hear what’s going on outside the plane). I [...]

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Getting my Dopplr on!

August 24, 2008

I set up a public profile for Dopplr finally for those that want to keep tabs on me. No worries, it’s nothing exciting, just my planned trips here and there and around the world.

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It’s Cookbook time again…

August 19, 2008

Yeah, you know, THE Cookbook! Every year. Same time, same madness. This year is going to be interesting. We starting the process of going digital. But. You know. Slowly as she goes. I hope my fall travel schedule won’t disrupt production. But who knows… I’ll get you more info a bit later… stay tuned-like.

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Yet another re-design in progress.. wait, you are suprised?

August 16, 2008

So I am spending the weekend relaxing and tweaking da blog to match the main site a little bit. Things were looking a bit, well, shabby, and I thought I might look under the hood and get some surgery done to the interface. It’s coming along nicely, but far from getting done. I have some [...]

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Updates from Scandanavia… or stuff you don’t care about

August 9, 2008

Ok. I know, I don’t have enough images on my parent site, so I’ve added a new Travel Gallery so you can keep up with me travels if you don’t already do so on Facebook. Well anyway, this is easier too since iOTW only usually features only one image or two at a time, this [...]

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Test post from wordpress for iphone

August 2, 2008

This is a total test

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tms ruge photography gets a facelift

July 29, 2008

So if you’ve been looking around to see why things have been broken around here, now you know. TMS Ruge.com got a new face life and unfortunately Random Acts of Penmanship had to be moved slightly. My apologies to all your broken links. You can now find this blog by clicking on RAOP BLOG in [...]

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Sunday afternoon at the dock

July 27, 2008

It just about 3pm here in Tonsberg, Norway. The sun never quite made it to dead center. Actually, the sun never makes it to dead center here, it just curves across the horizon as if it didn’t have enough momentum to kick it’s way to high noon. At midnight last night, there was still a [...]

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Well, isn’t that just craptastic!

July 23, 2008

Look at this! My server had a meltdown and my host is really doing a craptastic job of getting things fixed. That’s partially the reason that things look a bit spectacularly like crap. Oh and I am now officially redesigning this bloggy thingie yet… again… the work of a designer is never done. If you [...]

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