Hereditary Angioedema (HAE) is a very rare and potentially life-threatening genetic condition that occurs in about 1 in 10,000 to 1 in 50,000 people. HAE symptoms include episodes of edema (swelling) in various body parts including the hands, feet, face and airway. The boss and I shot a PSA for HAEA.org on a soundstage at Panavision in L.A. We used a real patient to show the effects of HAE on the body; using photos of different parts of her body taken when she was having an attack; and filming the same parts of her body in their normal state and then morphing them together in post production.
Credits // Director: Ron Jacobs/Spacehouse Productions, Producer: Marcello Bue, DP: Tristan Whitman, VFX: Rusty Ipolito, Editor: Jeremy Vannix, Creative director: Trip Hosmer, Art director: Emily Anderson

I ‘acquired’ a bunch of out-of-date single use cameras and spent summer weekends shooting my friends around the beaches of Montauk. It’s a rainy day here today so I thought it’d be a perfect day to post a few of them.

More images after the jump

The website I designed for my friend, the very talented, Top Chef fan favorite, Sam Talbot, launched a few months ago! Please check it out, follow him on twitter and go and eat in his amazing new restaurant Imperial No.9 at the Mondrian Soho. I was brought on three-quarters of the way through the project to come up with a design that truly felt like the essence of Brand Sam. I was already working on Sam’s cookbook so we had a body of photography to pull from. Joe Termini and I shot most of the photos on the site. We had so many great images to choose from I decided to do a CHEF. slideshow on the homepage – snapshots into all the different sides of Sam’s life. The background images are also on rotation. I also did a refresh of his logo and a little tagline graphic (cook nice.) that we’re using on the website, stationary, invites, and when he needs a logo for a step and repeat graphics etc.

Karen and Neil have been dreaming of starting a family, and the time has finally come to fill the nest. But the truth is sometimes even Birds and Bees have trouble making babies — 1 in 8 couples have difficulty conceiving…
Our client EMD SERONO came to us to create a follow-up video for their successful Birds and Bees campaign, http://www.increaseyourchances.org. This video was going to live in the social media space rather than on the campaign website, so we decided on a comedy RnB music video would be much more fun and shareable. Shot over two days in Brooklyn, the cast included lots of mummy extras (including me but I got left on the cutting room floor as I didn’t look like an authentic ‘mum’,) dolls as babies, a dog, a few cute babies and three really annoying toddlers.
Credits// Director: Isaac Rentz, DP: Aaron Phillips, Executive producer: Stephen Buchanan, Producer: Ashlea Hartz, Audio Producer: Drew Campbell, Production designer: Uriah Herr,  Editor: Mandy Brown, Creative directors: Trip Hosmer (who also wrote the song lyrics!), Scott Schindler, Art director: Emily Anderson

Kanye West is my inspiration for every project I do. No kidding, ask the boss.

This is me in the denim. I got booted out of the crowd scene for not looking like a mum. Good.







My crew. I was booted out of this photo for not adhering to the creative uniform…

Loyal reader. Sorry I fell out of the blogosphere for a minute. It’s been a crazy summer and I think the two snaps below sum it up. I started a magazine in Montauk, did a lot of surfing, managed to not be fired by my full-time job, fell in love, fell out of love, got a certificate and champagne for being such an amazing worker, art directed a cookbook, designed a few websites, fell in love, fell out of love, art directed a comedy hip hop video, did a lot more surfing, turned thirty. That’s it. Enjoy all the updates that are coming over the next few days.