Light/Dark Old/Young

Playing with Light:
The Art And Process of Capturing Emotion

Tom Hussey

TOM HUSSEY Photography, LLC

"In the course of a diverse 20-year career in commercial

advertising photography, Tom Hussey has established a

successful advertising studio. Respected industry wide for his

lifestyle photography and admired for his lighting techniques,

Tom has worked on local. national and international

campaigns. Based in Dallas, Texas, TOM HUSSEY Photography,

LLC is a full production photography studio.

Tom’s passion for photography began in the early 70′s when his

Dad got a new ”expensive” SLR camera. Tom asked to take a

picture and much to his mother’s horror was handed the

camera. He put the camera down briefly but was never far

away from it. Tom has taught photography on the college

level and worked in the Conservation Laboratory at the

International Museum of Photography at George Eastman

House.

Tom is a graduate of Southern Methodist University where he

earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film Production with a minor in

Photography. He holds a Master of Fine Arts in Museum

Practices and Conservation with an emphasis in Photography

from The Rochester Institute of Technology".

Tom Hussey is represented by Michael Ginsburg

and in Texas he is represented by Patty Hudson

Link to AAF Acadiana Event page & what could become an iconic advert photo...
http://aafacadiana.com/rsvpmaker/january-luncheon/
(Note: you'll see the photo of the Soldier old/young, as the rest of the ads in the pharma campaign are the same setup - which I don't like the idea of it selling drugs as much as the feelings it inspires in looking at the ads, which I'd seen before but never knew they were ads for an Alzheimer's patch?!)

Link to Tom Hussey Photography webpage...
http://www.tomhussey.com/
Link to his Blog...
http://tomhussey.com/blog/
(note: I especially love now knowing the stories behind some of these photos - on the webpage & the blog, which is my fav part--as much or maybe even more than just the photo's themselves...what was the photographer/the subject doing kind of thing - putting a place/time/feeling to it all I suppose...rather than it was part of an ad campaign or what is it selling or what camera/lighting did he use, etc/Etc...)

About (Tom Hussey)
"Sometimes we need photography to create a complex interplay between reality and illusion. Welcome to Tom Hussey's world. A world of many brands, and many audiences. A world involving many production needs. From location scouting, casting, styling, animation and photo retouching to lifestyle, portrait, and kid shots. A world located, in reality, in Dallas, Texas, but a world that knows no boundaries." - from the Webpage

My notes after watching the webpage Photo SlideShow--again seeing many photos we saw at the AdFed Luncheon last Friday, at River Ranch City Club (we had a different room this month for the luncheon/speaker, bigger maybe, but those mirrored posts? I will not comment on the buffet, my Grandmother taught me that classic line--if you can't say something nice...it was a good thing I was powered by Cafe Cohen espresso before I arrived?!)

OK, I do love light & shadow...I do love black & white...I do love a sense of humor...I love the stripey socks Birthday/Slumber Girls in a tent Party...I love the pink bubble gum...I love coffee mugs in coffee shops...Even love Miss Schlitz/Pal-Mal Black eye Hair in rollers...or the almost Norman Rockwell-ish boy w/a razor & tissue spots...or my cure for the curious in not visiting the Louvre, as now I've seen what the room looks like where the Mona Lisa lives--Mon Petit Postage Stamp...or from the Series esp like 'Reflections' or 'Recharge Your Karma.org'...surprised by the iHussey section - as in it's all iphone photos/apps (for these alone I may be more inclined to bump it up to an iphone, as soon as the Droid2 freezes up with forceclose errors again?!) Yeess--I've seen & also recently photographed the WienerMobile too at our Youngsville Rouses, so I like that one for Deja vu effect?!

Link to where you can create your own PDF Portfolio on his webpage - I had hoped to copy at least one photo to share, but copyrights make me nervous...
http://www.tomhussey.com/pdf/
Link to "not" his Wiki page - which at first, seeing the same name I thought it was him/the photographer...but apparently his Dad musta really loved Major League Baseball...or the Red Sox...to give him the same name, or that's my conclusion from very little evidence....

And there are 25 individuals with the same name on Linked In...

I took curious delight in knowing his wife did 'not' take his last name--why oh why would the woman not want to be called A Hussey?! hmmm...curious that...bad enough a man to live that name down during certain times (imagine it's not such a big deal now a days as people have forgotten, unless reminded by Turner Classic Movies am guessing)--but all in all no where near as bad as being a Boy Named Sue right?!

Link to more images/portfolio on Workbook Photos - Tom Hussey...
http://www.workbook.com/portfolios/hussey
(note: #15 saw this photo at the presentation for AAF luncheon, especially like the water in it, how it's captured as much as the guy's face...it is fun, I am a Pisces...which if you didn't know is a Water Sign--such is, I'm guessing, the attraction in the first place...)

http://www.workbook.com/portfolios/hussey
(note: #22 I adore these tiara/animal print wearing/book reading/prob drinking/Southern women--Oh how I would love to be a part of their book club meetings?! For the fun alone--somehow all that comes out in this photo, right?! We were told they do all travel wide & far to attend, hmmm, no surprise there... And they do so remind me of the SweetPotatoQueens--if you've seen those book covers, though I've never read one of their/her books...)

http://www.workbook.com/portfolios/hussey
(note: #72 - here's the almost Norman Rockwell-ish image of boy with razor, boy with lots of tiny pieces of white tissue paper stuck on his face...Tom mentioned the comparison so I'm just repeating--I didn't make that up, just so ya' know...)


http://www.workbook.com/portfolios/hussey
(note: #105 - #114 are the pharma series for the patch, all the old/young reflections...they are marvelous for many a reason, for me one of them is 'not' to buy a patch for Alzheimers?!)

His list of clients
(note: I imagine this is to the date of whenever the Workbook.com Porfolio was done...)

7-11
7UP
American Airlines
AT&T
Beringer Winery
Blockbuster Video
BMW
Boy Scouts of America
Brach's
BusinessWeek Magazine
Cadbury Schwepps
Chase Bank
Coca-Cola
DirecTV
FedEx Kinko's
Frito Lay
General Motors
Greyhound
HBO
Hewlett Packard
Home Depot
Hyatt Hotels
Inc Magazine
Johnson & Johnson
Jose Cuervo
LeapFrog Toys
Levi Strauss
Miller Brewing Company

Link to his Rep in Dallas--what's as much fun to see are the 'other' photog's images...
http://www.michaelginsburg.com/
(note: I'm liking the looks of Montalbetti + Campbell especially in this line up...they do conceptual imagery & portraits...their webpage link... http://www.montalbetticampbell.com/  And I could easily fantasize about them doing my Portrait photo?! They too have a sense of humor--check out their Biking is Believing image under Advertising on their webpage...
http://www.montalbetticampbell.com/#/ADVERTISING/Biking Is Believing/1/ among others--I could imagine myself with a ruffle collar of roses I think...time for bed & ad dreaming time?!)

12 Twelve Twelfth

Park's New Twelfth Night Characters...
a poster I can't seem to track back to, except for the image on PuzzleMasters.com webpage -
so have to give them the credit until otherwise discovered origins elsewhere...
(note: I like the period/Shakespearean costumes & wish had enough time to recreate one for Mardi Gras costume contest?!)

12 Twelve Twelfth...mixed up with 'Throw Me Somethin' Mister"

January 6th is 12th Night - 12 days after Christmas, counting from the 25th of December

Here in Louisiana that means King Cakes & the beginning of Mardi Gras - or Carnival Season
which will end on February 21, 2012 this year, aka Fat Tuesday

Gambino's Bakery - Lafayette, LA - King Cakes to order to ship...
borrowed their photo from the webpage, so you can see one - hope they don't mind & don't get the idea they're the best either, because everyone in town has their favorite & I'm not saying which is mine until I try them all again?!

Back to Twelfth Night, the play, not the King Cake...
I first heard about this production of the Bard's play on Kickstarter - where Acting up (in Acadiana) started their fund raising to even put on the play...

Link to Kickstarter...
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/actingupinacadiana/twelfth-night-on-12th-night?ref=live

It's great finding local folks/artists there trying to raise funds to continue their projects - I think so far 1 of those I've supported/Pledged to/Backed locally didn't raise all their funds & 1 (this one) did... plus 1 other wasn't local, but it supported Women as graphic artists, so was happy to support them & they also raised all their funds & pretty quickly too--great to watch that happen for them...

Here is what it said about their Kickstarted Project...

About this project

"We are Acting Up (in Acadiana) a small, professional theatre company based in Lafayette, LA which is in the heart of Cajun country (Acadiana) about two hours west of New Orleans, and we need your help to produce our production of Shakespeare’s 12th NIGHT. Here in South Louisiana, 12th night marks 12 days after Christmas (January 6th) and the end of the holiday season. It also commences the beginning of the Mardi Gras season when the first King Cakes are eaten, luncheons and Mardi Gras balls begin, along with other festivities. So, to produce Shakespeare’s 12th NIGHT on 12th night in South Louisiana will allow us to celebrate with our audiences and the community at large. The play itself will also be set here during Mardi Gras, highlighting the themes of overindulgence, masking and veiling, as well as the time out of time, topsy turvy, carnivalesque and multiple kinds of foolery.

We want to start 2012 communing in laughter. Mardi Gras serves as a cultural release valve. A time when everyone, rich and poor, conservative and liberal, religious and non-religious, EVERYONE eats and drinks together, listens and dances to music together, rides in and watches parades together, and in Cajun country at the Courir de Mardi Gras, chases chickens and makes gumbo together. It is a time that reminds us that we are more alike than different. It’s the way we plan to start our new year.

Acting Up (in Acadiana) needs your help to make TWELFTH NIGHT on 12th night happen. Your donations will help with costumes and our Mardi Gras costume contest prizes, with posters, postcards and mailings, with live rather than recorded music, and of course some celebratory food, beads, and booze. Our company is committed to progressing theatre as an art form through the development of new works and reinterpretation of classics, telling stories rooted in the unique time and place in which we live and work. What unites us as collaborators is our belief in ensemble driven work where every production is bigger than any individual involved and ultimately meant to connect with an audience and transform all who are present both on and off the stage.

Please become part of our ensemble and make 12th NIGHT on 12th night happen.

Thank you!!!!"

And their latest update (#4) on Kickstarter - Twelfth Night Opens This Week...
mentions going out to eat at Artmosphere, who's going to donate 50% to them too...so you can eat local to support local arts, a great combo?!

Hello All,
"Our final dress rehearsal is tonight!!! We open tomorrow and run 4 shows through Saturday. If you are around, we really hope to see you there! And remember to come in costume for the contests at each show! Tickets are available at the AcA or call (337) 233-7060 or visit www.acadianacenterforthearts.org.
If you want to grab a bite before any of the shows, try Artmosphere and tell them you are there for Acting Up on Twelfth Night and we will get 50%. Also, Friday night the Accidental Chef will be serving/selling chicken penne pasta.
After we close the show we will be requesting your contact information so we can forward your rewards!!!
Happy New Year!
Amy"

Link to local articles written up, so far, about the play too...

Acadiana Gazette
http://www.acadianagazette.com/archives/volume8/issue1/entertainment/CultureCorner.php
http://www.acadianagazette.com/archives/volume7/issue48/pdfs/Gazette.new.section1.6a.2011.pdf

The Times of Acadiana/The Advertiser...

http://www.theadvertiser.com/article/20120105/ACADIANA01/201040343/-1/ACADIANA

More from The Advertiser about Holding Twelfth Night Parties (I like the list of costume ideas, which might help for this contest at the Twelfth Night play...)
http://www.theadvertiser.com/article/20120105/LIFESTYLE/201050302/Goodbye-Christmas-Hello-Carnival-?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|FRONTPAGE|p


The Ind
http://www.theind.com/living-ind/9375-a-year-of-shakespeare
http://www.theind.com/arts-a-entertainment/86-aae/9077-here-is-some-theatre-news-darling

Downtown Lafayette
http://www.downtownlafayette.org/Events/EventsDisplay.asp?p1=8524&p2=Y&Sort=&Archive=

Link to KATC.com - Channel 3...
http://www.katc.com/news/aca-hosts-twelfth-night-/

Link to Visit South - article by Chere' Coen...
http://visitsouth.com/articles/article/twelfth-night-lafayette-la/

Link to Wikipedia about Twelfth Night & all things William Shakespeare to do with it - on stage, radio, film, TV...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelfth_Night

William Hamilton, A scene from Twelfth Night, Act 5 Scene i, c.1797...
borrowed from Wikipedia commons

(Cast of Original) Characters

Viola, castaway, disguised as a man called Cesario, in service to Orsino Orsino, Duke of Illyria, wooing Olivia Olivia, a countess, resisting Orsino's wooing Malvolio, steward to Olivia Maria, a Lady in waiting in Olivia's household Sir Toby Belch, Olivia's drunken uncle Sir Andrew Aguecheek, a simple minded companion of Sir Toby's, wooing Olivia Feste, Olivia's jester

Sebastian, castaway, twin brother to Viola, thought dead Valentine, gentleman attending on Duke Orsino Curio, gentleman attending on Duke Orsino Fabian, a servant and friend to Sir Toby Antonio, a captain and friend to Sebastian A sea captain, friend to Viola

 

Link to Acting up (in Acadiana) webpage...

http://www.actingupinacadiana.com/site/

note: read more about A Year of Shakespeare

Dates/Times playing...
January 5 Thurs, 6 Fri, 7 Sat - 7:30pm
             7 Sat - 2:00pm

Link to AcA for more info/tickets...
http://acadianacenterforthearts.org/
http://acadianacenterforthearts.org/Events/EventsDisplay.asp?p1=8181&p2=Y&Sort=&Archive=

Link to the Accidental Chef - Carolos Russo, who is kindly Cooking Chicken Penne Pasta before Friday the 6th performance at AcA...
http://www.accidentalcooking.com/about-2/

Link to Facebook page for Acting Up (in Acadiana...)
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Acting-Up-in-Acadiana/58043987410#!/pages/Acting-Up-in-Acadiana/58043987410?sk=wall
(note: I was hoping to find some more photos of the characters or the Twelfth Night play, but there were none - or yet?! but I did like the little video posted there of the 'Woman Behind the Madness' - to get to see behind the scenes for a quick bit, thanks?!)
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Acting Up (in Acadiana) - the fool & one of her crew...
borrowed from Facebook page

From the Director...
From the Program...

Note from the Director

"I loved Twelfth Night the first time I read it when I was an undergrad at the Univ. of Maine.
Here was a Shakespeare that reminded me of home & Marid Gras.
I think you will see what I mean whenyou watch the show.
The professional company members in Acting Up (in Acadiana) wanted to do a Shakespeare as our 1st show in the new theatre--we hadn't done one since 2005.
When these dates were offered, it ws clear that we needed to do Twelfth Night on 12th night.
It also seemed somehow appropriate that we do the show as it was the 1st show we did in residence with the Acadiana Arts Council when they were still on the corner of Lee & Main.
Now, we get to do it in this wonderful space.

As a director, it's quite speacial to see 3 of my actors in recurring roles, but 8 yrs later they are even better & richer actors than they were before.
Another actor has taken on a new role & has had the opportunity to experience the piece in a different way.
All of these actors make me laugh at every rehearsal.
I hope that you will love them as much as I do, because you are now part of this show.
There is no live theatre without you.

We also hope that you will continue to support the work that we do, even when we are developing new works, which are even more labor intensive than mounting a Shakespeare or another completed work.
It's important for us to share what it means to be a professional theatre artist, a concept that is still relatively new to Lafayette.
We continue to do shows on shoestring budgets, but hope that over time, our patrons will support a growing budget so that our production details can grow & so that o ur production teams can be paid equitably.
For Twelfth Night, 2,453 man hours were spent to create this collaborative adventure.

Thank you for being here & starting the new year with us..."

Director: Amy Waguespack

Production Team:
Costume Designer - Chad Trahan
Lighting Designer - Brian Schneider
Music Composition - Danny Devillier, Taylor Guarisco, Chris Stafford
Music Director - Danny Devillier
Set Designer - Hector LaSala
Set Design Assistant - Jeremy Lail
Set Construction - Robert Guidry
Prop Master - Destin Briant
Photography - Alyce LaBry
Videography - Cason Aycock *

*I would love to see the Video of the show on Friday Night - on the actual 12th Night...
because it was fantastic fun being in the audience & would be loads of fun to see it again?!

Cast:

Duke (of Illyria) Orsino - Colin Miller
(my note: I can't tell you what fun that was to see him reign supreme from the rolling bathtub, in his high & mighty black feather headress too?! Even more so after meeting him earlier in the year under more dressed--uhm more serious circumstances at CES, the Creative Economic Summit...)

Curio - Lillian Feist (gentleman attending on the Duke)

Valentine - Heaven Moore (gentleman attending on the Duke)

Duke's Attendants - Kate Lobdell, Sara Catherine White

Viola/Cesario - Breanne Hernandez (sister to Sebastian)

Captain - Dana Gourrier (sea captain, friend to Viola)

Sir Toby Belch - George Saucier (Olivia's kinsman)
(my note: now if I have the right character in mind then to get an idea of what I thought he looked like & maybe even acted like--have you seen the commercials on TV for the Credit Card Capitol One -  with the line: 'what's in your wallet' - where there are hoards of say Barbarian/Viking type raiders/pillagers taking over in modern times? or excuse me, I'm reading they're called Visigoths?! Uh huh...Well, in one of the series of them there's a boy who has a beard already & he comes to sit on Santa's lap to ask for a sword for Christmas - Santa pulls his beard to see if it's real by the end...that's who this actor reminds me of & I would of laughed at just that, besides his antics with Maria & Olivia & Andrew Aguecheek & a few bottles of fake beer or wine...these names too, Belch/Aguecheek like Shakespeare wasn't up to something to begin with naming these two?!)

Capitol One--characters...from a TV ad - so you can remember who I'm talking about, only didn't find an image for the boy on Santa's lap for Christmas who wants a sword (there is a YouTube, but nevermind & no matter, am guessing you can get the idea of what/who I'm talking about in trying to describe this one actor - Sir Toby - in Twelfth Night...)


Maria - Lian Cheramie (Olivia's gentlewoman-in-waiting)
(my note: her facial expressions & movements with her acting were so spot on comical, I just loved her - especially when she laughed in her part, or crawled...)

Andrew Aguecheek - Cissy Whipp

Feste - Kara St. Clair (clown - Olivia's jester - sometimes referred to as 'the fool')
(my note: also her movements & song & lines, done in majorette's uniform with boots & long tailed red coat was all together wonderfully fun & I loved watching her move as much speak as 'the fool'--no matter if I didn't catch all of Shakespeare's words or the songs lyrics either?!)

Feste's Crew - Chance Briant, Destin Briant, River Gibson, Mack McAnally
(my note: whoever was playing guitar & violin did a great job, like roaming minstrels would back in the day am guessing...having fun & playing music...)

Malvolio - Ricky Briggs (steward to Olivia)
(my note: if this is who they talked into at first wearing a suit & then red longjohn underwears w/a little stuffed black dog & then yellow hose/colorful high heels/pasted tassles/black satin puffy shorts w/suspenders - Kudos, on two counts, one for wearing all that & for delivering convincing lines in them...what great fun for us to watch this transformation?!)

Olivia - Hannah Briggs (a countess)
(my note: the sounds & movements this woman could make were way more than a 'drama queen' as I would call my youngest son at my leg dragging on the floor when he was a kid trying to suck up for something...this was the best comic relief for Shakespeare I could imagine, epecially her 'soft' moments or climatic realization of their being twins...oh Oh OH...joining the rest of the performances--it was a wonder we could hear the lines between the giggling?! )

Olivia's Attendants - Katelynn Hebert, Ashley Mays, Ali Pellerin

Antonia - Kelly Clayton (sea captain, friend to Sebastian)

Sebastian - Brian Crutchfield (brother of Viola)

Fabian - David Guarisco (servant to Olivia)

Officer - Dana Gourrier

Priest - Sara Catherine White

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Link to where you can read the Entire Twelfth Night play by William Shakespeare, if you feel like you missed something while you were there laughing (I know I did) or you missed it & want to remember what the Tempest like play was about...
http://shakespeare.mit.edu/twelfth_night/full.html

Link to Sparknotes of the play Twelfth Night - so you can do just like you did in school/college when you didn't want to/have the time to read an entire work of literature--you can just read the summary...
http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/twelfthnight

Link to something even better--a translation of Shakespeare's English into Modern Day (as in spoken now in our time) English...also from Sparknotes link to No Fear Shakespeare Twelfth Night...
http://nfs.sparknotes.com/twelfthnight

(further note: Oh my, there's even an iphone app...so you can take it mobile)
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Costumes I spotted in the audience, Friday Night...

Ragin Cajun Super Fans
Swami & his wife (if yogi's have wives?)
Pirate/Swashbuckling couple (yes there was a patch over 1 eye)
Gypsy lady
Flapper girl
Ballerina of sorts (there was a Tutu & there was a Tiara)
Beaded Bedouin lady
Were there more costumes in the crowd?
Possibly, but I didn't come early/nor stay late to see everybody there...

Now if I heard the announcements correctly at the Intermission--the pirate/swashbuckling couple won the Costume Contest, which I thought was to be for the most original costume...if that were the case, then I would of been voting for the Ragin Cajun Supper Fan couple - or a Carnivale version of them at least & I told her so at the end of the performance, passing them upstairs in the mezzanine...(she was ready to dance, no matter her high red heels or her sunglasses at night?!)

pink dragonfly standing on head = 5 words

Knew I was in for something very clever after the first line--Write More Good...
when I received this postcard in the mail as a reminder for the AAF November Luncheon...
River Ranch - City Club
November 18, 2011 - Friday

From AAF's webpage about the speaker, Wayne Geyer...

 

photo credit: AAF/Wayne Geyer webpage headshot...
(I need one of these, must work on that--as that free LinkedIn one didn't pan out...)
"For a lot of designers, art directors and other “visual people,” the idea of writing headlines and copy can be intimidating. But visual communication is still communication — and it often starts with a written idea.

• Learn to solve the communication, and then the design
• Distill any creative challenge to five words (or fewer)
• Learn to write boring headlines, and then make them better
• Bridge the gap between strategy and creative
• Write your way out of a wet paper bag

Link to AAF Acadiana webpage to read more...say his clients/brands & awards...
http://aafacadiana.com/2011/11/november-luncheon/#disqus_thread

Wayne Geyer makes brands sound more interesting. To do that, he works with designers, art directors and anyone else who has a story to tell about a product or service. If that sounds like copywriting, it isn’t. It’s more like 23% writing, and 77% knowing what to write about. You can ponder this and other Wayneisms in his “Write More Good” workshops, where he helps people who draw learn how to write. Yes, that means you—because it’s specifically designed for “visual thinkers” who want strategic tools and writing tips to solve their communication problems.

Since he left his dream job in the pizza delivery industry, Wayne has addressed large groups of people at places like the HOW Design Conference, the ad clubs in Fargo and Oklahoma City, the AIGA Austin Design Ranch and the National Student Show."

Link to his webpage...
http://www.waynegeyer.com/main.php

Note: especially love that he's charting on a map of the states--where he's eaten cheeseburgers...now must remember to ask my sister who lives in Florida a recommendation to pass on to him when he makes it there for a cheeseburger?!

Or - NoCilantroDotCom is another of his clever asides...

(note: there is even an "I hate Cilantro" webpage...& did you know - thanks Wiki - that coriander is cilantro, where have I been?! ...apparently not in my kitchen/not using this herb...& on his webpage he doesn't use an image of the leaves or plant, he only uses the bright green color on the pages...)

Well, I've requested a pdf of the highlights from the talk he made - since I didn't take notes after he told us we could do that...it was complete with 3 questions & 3 gifts to go along with being able to answer them...2 were good books & 1 was to Cafe Cohen Coffeeshop in Great Harvest (which as I'm a regular it's OK I missed winning that...) I thought right after each question--I should know that & then if I did would I really raise my hand to answer out loud (prob not--because...can you spell 'panic attack'?!)

His Challenge...
Can you distill any creative challenge down to 5 words (or fewer)?
He had a number of examples of what he'd started with, say 'boring' & what he ended up with...

A tip of his...
Put Down the Stock Book

Thank you Mr 'Service with a Smirk?!'
(note: borrowed from his webpage, if you say go to look at his Words that Cost You More list - which I'm guessing are words he really dislikes using & so they would cost you more, maybe, if you insist on using them in your copy...this phrase 'service with a smirk' will show up under his name there on that page--you have to keep a quick eye on his webpage I'm guessing?! as he will also call himself other things under other subjects...)

or otherwise known for real as Wayne G -eye- r
(note: after his slide of a notebook he made with his last name in different colored letters in order to show the emphasis on the 'eye' center part in order to say his last name correctly--I will like...never forget, now how clever is that--am I a visual learner then? hmmm...perhaps & didn't know it, or we all are & didn't know it as well...thus comes the creativity of a clever copywriter--say that last line 5 times really fast...)

Addy Awards - 2011 - Advertising Industy Self-Promotion...
Ad Club Promotion
Award: Gold ADDY® Award
Entrant: Design Army
Advertiser: AIGA DC
Title: It’s a Jungle Out ThereCredits: Pum Lefebure, Creative Director/Art Director; Jake Lefebure, Project Manager; Tim Madle, Art Director; Charles Calixto, Designer/Illustrator/Developer; Wayne Geyer, Copywriting

Self-Promotion, Campaign
Award: Gold ADDY® Award
Entrant: Design Army
Advertiser: Art Directors Club of Metropolitan Washington
Title: Support Locally Raised DesignCredits: Pum Lefebure, Creative Director/Art Director; Jake Lefebure, Project Manager; Taylor Buckholz, Designer; Lucas Badger, Illustrator; Wayne Geyer, Writer; Westland Enterprises, Printer
SALES PROMOTION

Sales Kit
Award: Silver ADDY® Award
Entrant: Design Army
Advertiser: Neenah Paper
Title: Stand Out in a Vanilla MarketCredits: Pum Lefebure, Creative Director/Art Director; Jake Lefebure, Project Manager; Lucas Badger, Designer/Illustrator; Sucha Beckey, Designer/Illustrator; Kelley Mcintyre, Designer/Illustrator; Wayne Geyer, Writer; S.W. Smith, Proofing; Fey Publishing, Printer

Link where I found the Addy Awards list...
(note: Wow--there are lots of  'em, so there could be more won by copywriter/writer Wayne Geyer & group that I just didn't see...have seen some of his ad copy on slides during this talk last Friday, which was great fun & can see why he would receive awards - from clever, fun/funny or thinking outside the box kind of perspective if nothing else...)
http://www.dcadclub.com/content.asp?contentid=585


Fine EXAMPLES...

Wayne Geyer ad copy...

word: Baloney

"Death. Taxes. Baloney."

Link to this advert/copy example, that he did also show as a slide during his talk...
http://www.waynegeyer.com/copywriting/examples/baloney.php

(note: so he's added to the old phrase - well known/worn or not, is it an idiom? that there's only 2 certain things in life: Death & Taxes...here he's added another word: Baloney--do you want to read more? of course you do?!)

Wayne Geyer ad copy...

word: Clog

"Any more authentic, and this
would be your waiter."

Link to this example & where you can read more...
http://www.waynegeyer.com/copywriting/examples/clog.php
(note: I especially loved the story behind this photo, out of a day full of photoshooting that this synchronicity would happen is just marvelous & the image is sooo right...)

from WikiCommons--because I can & it's not copyrighted...

During the talk, you could win 2 books or coffee & still many of us couldn't answer...

Question 1: What is copy? (hint: newspaper has something to do with it)
Question 2: What is the difference between idiom & cliche? (hint: they're the same but different)
Question 3: ___________________ (hint: I don't know, but if you were there please tell me)

I've forgotten that last question & am I pulling a "Rick Perry" answer--No, I've just forgotten the question during the hour talk that was jammed packed full of what was it? over a 100 or was it 200 slides?! tho am guessing this will 'not' be on the pdf of the highlights from his talk I've just remembered to request...

current issue of HOW magazine...

Wayne Geyer is also a contributor to How Magazine...
http://www.howdesign.com/
Twitter: @HOWbrand
(note: so I went to look under his Bragging section - Yes, he called it that - to find this out & was curious to read more & so now I've found another online design magazine...that I may get hooked on, Oh No...Oh Yes...Oh Yeah...btw did not find an article by him right off, was just skimming--another time to dig deeper...)

Fun Find: on his webpage under All Things Wayne...under Things...there is the word: Coffee...

Wayne's Coffee
(note: oddly enough, I have been to a Wayne's Coffee in Stavanger, Norway...actually it opened while I was living there & many of us were very excited to have this coffeeshop coming to downtown...they were going to have American style bagels & some of us expats were even more excited about that possibility--if you've even been in a land of Nordic food you'd understand?!)

Link to Norway'sWayne's Coffee...
http://www.waynescoffee.no/

Link to Wayne's Coffee in Stavanger, Norway - in the Storscenter...
http://www.waynescoffee.no/stvgstorsenter.html
(note: my benchmark everywhere in the coffee world is to order an espresso, single shot...there in Norway you would order a "Cortado" - in the US few barista's know what I'm talking about, except...to date...Jason at Cafe Cohen in Great Harvest does...now this is getting to feel like/sound like '6 degrees of separation' - only from Waye Geyer to me & what I know to be true?! O-o...)


What else I didn't know about Wayne Geyer...
Plays the guitar...on Firefly song
http://www.waynegeyer.com/relevant/playing/firefly.php
Sings...on the Marathon song
http://www.waynegeyer.com/relevant/playing/marathon.php

note: could not find either on YouTube, but they are on his webpage under Playing...
then the words: Firefly...Marathon Song...

Firefly is played by Dragonfly 32 - the band - again couldn't find on YouTube...
but if you Google you come up with the EuroVision in Helsinki, Finland - Winners from 2007 - called simply Dragonfly & they were from Croatia...so is 'this' band playing up on that? I do wonder--will I ever find out? doubt it, but it's curious...(could I ask the Guitar player? hmmm...one day, maybe...or maybe not...)

since the word has been brought up & I <3 the dragonfly...
photo credit: from Buzzle.com...
what I love are 2 things--1) pink 2) standing on head
(note: I have never seen either a pink dragonfly, nor one standing on it's head...so deff an outside the box kind of image for me--I did not go to the StockBook btw...I Googled it instead, is that just as bad?!...no, don't tell me...I will end with this, pink dragonfly standing on head...)

Fraternal Twin Theatre Nites

Heymann Performing Arts Center
Aquila Theatre
Peter Meineck
Macbeth
William Shakespeare
Nov 10, 2011

AcA
(C)ollaborate 78
Paige Krause
I've Stopped Having that Dream I've Been Having
Nov 12, 2011

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photo credit from their Facebook photo album...
note: this would be Macbeth, he as the new king & his wife as the new queen w/the lady in waiting to the background...so much was done w/just lighting on stage, some fog machine fog & black clothes--you just simply got lost in the story/the tradegy, because of the actors who were to me as if transformed & in the scene of Shakespeare - no matter a set composed of Hollywood proportions missing...it could of been 2 hrs or it could of been 2 days, I was just mesmerized - my only complaint was not being able to understand all the dialogue (but w/Shakespeare I don't think I ever had...) It was excellent that they ad a Scotsman, if I were to swear to it, play the part of a soldier who was to be a Scotsman...as some will call this play, the 'Scottish' play - very fitting...

Aquila Theatre (non profit org)

"...mission is to make classical works accessible to the greatest number.
A play becomes 'classical' because we recognize that after a time it transcends the orig culture it was created for. It retains the power to provoke the central question of what it means to be human. As a company dedicated to the classics, we feel a responsibility to acknowledge & explore newfound classical works. Founded in London in 1991 by Peter Meineck, Aquila is now based in NYC..."

Aquila's programs include:
A major annual nat'l tour
Productions in NYC
Education Programs
Ancient Greeks/Modern Lives

Link to webpage...
www.aquilatheatre.com

Link to their Facebook page...
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Aquila-Theatre/110952181699

Link to their Twitter...
http://twitter.com/aquilatheatre

Link to article in The Advertiser - Toil & Trouble...
http://www.theadvertiser.com/article/20111108/LIFESTYLE/111108017/Toil-trouble-?odyssey=nav%7Chead

(note: if you don't recall this is what the witches will say...something like Bubble bubble--Toil & Trouble...which is exactly what witches were known to do--stir up troubles?!)

Actor Bios...
Rachael Barrington - Lady Macduff, Rosse, Witch, Servant
Kern Falconer - Macduff, Duncan, Murderer 1 *he's done Edinburgh Scotland proud
Peter F. Gardiner - Banquo, Captain, Cathness, Porter, Messenger, Murderer 2
Aaron McDaniel - Malcolm, Fleance, Menteth, Witch 2
Guy Oliver-Watts - Macbeth
Rebecca Reaney - Lady Macbeth, Boy, Witch 3

Peter Meineck - Aquila Artistic Director
Desiree Sanchez Meineck - Director/Production Design
Nate Terracio - Managing Director
Eric Mercado - Staff Director
Lindsay Beecher - Office Manager
Kimberly Pau Donato - Artistic & Producing Assoc

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I've Stopped Having that Dream I've Been Having
Paige Krause
(C)ollaborate 78

"Following her yr-long creative exploration in the James Devin Moncus Theater, artist-in-residence, Paige Krause & her collective, (C)ollaborate 78, premier a bold new work entitles I've Stopped Having That Dream I've Been Having.

A dance/music/installation piece that incorporates the sincerity of humanistic connections. Krause creates a unique performance by investigating & introducing her own voice within the modern dance genre. Four performers challenge the line between reality & fantasy while interpreting & unfolding the complex interactions of relationships between individuality & uniformity. 

This exciting & inventive performance uses the flexibility of the theater to transform the space into a live installation, performed to an original & live score from composer Philippe Landry."

note: as equally excited for the performance as I was for the live score--both were amazing in that space, I was spellbound...

(note: I took a photo of the instrument, before I knew what it was - put up on Twitter, What is this instrument...with no takers I had to go ask someone, then looked it up online - what I wouldn't do w/o Google or Wiki?!)

He (Philippe) totally had me at the sound of that Harmonium...

Link to Wiki--if you're asking What is a Harmonium...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonium

Link to YouTube of the performance, but another time, another place...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cye6yuYRIjo&feature=youtu.be

note: of what I think was the first performance back in April of the piece - in this recent full piece in AcA there is the set design difference & 1 less guy performer, Brian Guidry (though now I could swear I saw him in the audience or in the lobby of the theater on the Saturday night performance when I was there...)


performers...
Esther Winn Burley
Kara St. Clair
Chad Trahan
Philippe Landry - composer
Brian Schneider - lighting
Marla Kristicevich - set design artist
(her string ceiling to floor to make that boxed in shape was such a great fit)

Note: on stage...4 performers, 3 girls, 1 guy, 4 plastic chairs w/metal legs, a large tapped up sheet of clearish plastic...w/the stringed outline & lighting, that's it...other than the sound effects/music/spoken words - which added to the whole as nothing else could...sounds so simple & yet their moves were so together & so many, I cannot imagine ever being able to remember that many moves thru hours of just sounds (as they said without a counted out measure of a musical score - or that the trained dancers mentioned as being the hardest parts in the talk afterwards...which I loved hearing their voices & them all talking about the background of these dreams or whatever else in putting this performance so well put together...) To have gotten to see this in Lafayette is just as astounding in my mind?!

Link to AcA event...
http://acadianacenterforthearts.org/events/eventsdisplay2.asp?fc=&fl=&p1=8102&p3=11/11/2011&p9=2&T=E

Link to AcA Facebook page - for more about the performance...
http://www.facebook.com/acadiana.arts

Link to The Ind article...
http://www.theind.com/arts-a-entertainment/86-aae/9346-dream-dance-performance-at-aca

Link to Paige Krause page - on Contemporary Performance Network...
http://contemporaryperformance.org/profile/PaigeKrause?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed


Find more photos like this on Contemporary Performance Network


Link to LouisianaEsthetic by Reggie Michael Rodrique - all the pleasure & pain of contemporary art in South Louisiana...
http://louisianaesthetic.com/2011/11/11/dancing-dreams-ive-stopped-having-that-dream-ive-been-having/

Brother Simon could do standup

Benedictine Monk Tunic & Scapular

photo credit: www.gothicgarments.com

(note: as didn't have one of the actual Brother Simon in his tunic)

Who knew a Monk could be funny...

I lost track of how many times I giggled or covered my mouth not to full out laugh, during Brother Simon's talk today at AdFed's Lunch 'n Learn...

Wish I could remember some of them, as you'd be listening it would take you a delayed second to realize he'd come up with yet another 'zinger' & you'd think did he just say that? Did a monk just say something funny--Yes he did?!

Non-profits not a typically fun subject, but there's no doubt this Monk is not typical - he deff blows the preconceptions outta the water I'd say...

And I like what he'd done for the Abbey's logo & webpage & how he designed thank you cards for contributions (taking design ideas from De Wit curtains in the Abbey or Rectory) & even the afternoon's presentation to an Advertising group, of all things - in a room full of people eating lunch at round tables where he was standing at a podium to give his presentation, which am guessing he's not use to doing on a daily basis - but we did all smile/laugh/later asked questions of him...

this a de Wit design on the curtains at the Abbey/Rectory 

that Brother Simon copied in order to make thank you cards that would print

As he said himself, as he took another drink of water, he was nervous having not spoken so much nor having seen so many people (when I was wondering somewhat if he also meant seen so many women too) in a long while - when they're not a silent Abbey but many hours are spent in prayers (did he say 5 hrs/times a day? which made me think of the Mosques with their calls to prayers...) And he also mentioned they eat in silence at the Dining Hall - so what a diff this day out was for him am sure...

Obstacles we think of in Abbey's/monastery's are not usually WiFi/Internet connections & print techniques or old camera's - for Brother Simon, also the Abbey's Communications Director, to at first try to do a modern day job of communications from ancient (if you can say early 1900's is ancient)/yet being remodeling facilities...

And besides a new artist I must look up, who painted in the Saint Joseph Abbey, I learned today about  rhythmic mode notes/inflective marks before the musical notes on 5 lines of today were made - or - they could be called breath notes--"neumes" (and you'll see them on Saint Joseph Abbey's webapge too, now you'll know what they are) They look like little square notes w/o a lot of tails down or strokes up...

a sample of  'neumes' or 'square notation'

I would of called this a chant, as in Gregorian Chant (which I have heard sung beautifully before inside the acoustics of an Abbey or Church....) Because of what the sounds are that come from reading words say in Latin in a song like way only by holding the breath longer on many a letter/note...

YouTube of Gregorian Chant by Benedictine Monks - don't find one of the Saint Joseph Abbey Monks...
http://youtu.be/fAdODk5vBoM

Oh my, now am remembering how I use to attend meditation classes at the Zen Center in Houston & they would have some ceremonies, we the public, could go to & attempt to 'sing' along - even with the words in front of me, often not in English, I couldn't sound like I was in harmony with anyone (it would take some practice I'm sure...)

Link to read more about neumes, if you're curious (like I always am...)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neume

Benedictine Artist Dom Gregory de Wit...

"Day visitors will enjoy tours of the Abbey Church and refectory, which were designated in 2007 as National Register of Historic Places properties. In 1946, Abbot Columban Thuis commissioned the Benedictine artist Dom Gregory de Wit to execute a series of original murals in these buildings. The Dutch monk lived and worked at Saint Joseph for 10 years as he painted the murals with mixtures that could withstand the humid climate. The magnificent results on the walls and ceilings have remained well-preserved and drawn lavish praise from critics and visitors alike."

Note: above text borrowed from AFF Acadiana webpage in their write up for the speaker...
Selling God: A Monk's Marketing Solution...

Link to AAF Acadiana...
http://aafacadiana.com/rsvpmaker/selling-god-a-monks-marketing-solution/

(note: check out their logo, like the walking ad board design guy in black/yellow...)

this is 'not' what I had in mind when I think of St Francis standing with the animals of the forest

but apparently this is what Dom Greogory de Wit thought - I can't seem to find many photos of the murals, surely there are postcards in the Abbey's giftshop...hmmm...

photo credit, taken in 2008 & found on this blogspot by I'm guessing a contemplative catholic who happened to visit the Saint Joseph Abbey & take these photos of a few select murals: http://contemplativecatholicspirituality.blogspot.com/2008/12/st-josephs-abbey.html

in the Rectory dining hall, the last supper mural by Dom Gregory de Wit - if not at one time the largest such mural of the last supper (with curious modern additions in it, as Brother Simon told us, water glasses or ashtrays?!)

photo credit: from www.peeepl.com (maybe this is like a Flickr page)


Artist Monk's Name: should be spelled De Wit & not DeWitt (but if you do a search, it may be spelled both ways) - the prefix title 'Dom' is from the Latin word: Dominus, a sign of respect (the feminine is Dame) & other languages could use Don & Dona *

*thank you Wikipedia

1 of their 5 apostolates...Pennies for Bread

the monks bake bread then take it to NOLA to distribute to a center that gives food to the poor & needy - after Hurricane Katrina I can only imagine how that must of been needed, possibly a reminder of the Bread Lines from back in the Depression Years if anyone had taken photos of the lineup (that was a time my Granny use to recall for us, her Grandkids - this from a Granny who got an orange for Christmas in her sock hung up on the fireplace & that was a big deal...)

Another of their 5 apostolate*s is Woodworking - where they had started making caskets, only to find out there was some obscure law on the books that supposedly only funeral homes could sell them...we'll be waiting to find out about this latest odd court ruling, as it's gone to legal action - can you imagine telling a church/monks they can't make/sell caskets for their dead parisheners/families, boggles my mind...(I thought all the crazy Blue Laws & such were done with in LA, but apparently there are a few leftover we don't know about - caskets being one of them?!)

*which I don't recall hearing that term before either - so my new word for the day after 'neumes' is 'apostolate', which basically in a community like this would be doing the work of the church...

Woodworking
(note: drawing gift for the day, was a monkmade wooden box - no, not a mini casket either - with a handcrafted soap inside, the soap making is a new venture the Abbey monks are taking on so folks can look for more to come from that idea soon...)

A link to an article about this court battle...
http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2010/08/st_joseph_abbey_battles_state.html

And one more link - someone asked in a nutshell if bad publicity was not also good publicity at times, or in this case then the Abbey/Monks/Woodworking/Caskets/Fundraising all came to the public awareness in the media/court debate...
http://veracitystew.com/2010/08/29/casket-making-monks-vs-louisiana-funeral-assoc/

Link to Saint Joseph Abbey webpage...
http://saintjosephabbey.org/

Check out the Monastic MultiMedia - YouTubes? Flickr photos?
on Abbey Voice Online - the 'digital scriptorium'

Under the Christian Life Center--they offer retreats out in Covington, LA...even art retreats (am hoping not just Icons) - would I love to go to the woods/gardens/cemetery with a camera or inside the Abbey to take photos of the DeWit paintings to start - or to sit in a room to write in total peace & quiet...no matter the Faith you can go as a group of up to 40 & stay in the modern rooms with meals, or at least the 1 photo of a room online reminds me of modern if not somewhat Scandinavian type furniture (remembering I just moved back from Stavanger, Norway...)

Sept 30 - Oct 1st the next retreat date on their online schedule...

Waiting for a 'Deo Gratis' in Lafayette now to laugh with the monks, or at least Brother Simon - but so far there are only fundraiser parties going on in NOLA & BR...

Wiki about the Abbey, if you're interested...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Joseph_Benedictine_Abbey

from Wiki about the Abbey...

The Abbey Church

St. Joseph Abbey is known for its Abbey Church. It is a fairly large building built in the Romanesque style. In 1946 the Abbot of the monastery, Abbot Columbian, commissioned Dom Gregory De Wit, a very talented Benedictine artist, to fill the abbey church, monastery, and monastery refractory with beautiful murals. These murals depict saints, stories from the Bible, God's creation, and stories from the life of St. Benedict. De Wit was able to come up with a mixture of paint that would withstand the harsh humidity of South Louisiana. Many visitors have traveled to the Abbey just to see these remarkable paintings.

However, this is not the only thing that draws visitors to the Abbey Church. In the early 2000s St. Joseph became a proud owner of a Dobson Pipe Organ opus 2000. This organ has become very well known. Many accomplished musicians have traveled to St. Joseph to play this organ and record many musical albums. This organ was also privileged to be the cover picture of the April 2001 edition of The American Organist magazine  The world renowned Fr. Sean Duggan, a monk of St. Joseph Abbey who teaches piano and organ at the University of New York, is well known for his playing of this organ...

(note: there was no mention of the pipe organ in today's talk, but now am curious to hear it...but then it doesn't take much for me to be curious?!)

2000 Dobson organ at St. Joseph Abbey, Saint Benedict, Louisiana
photo credit: http://pipedreams.publicradio.org/listings/2009/0912/

A link to a photo gallery starting from the Spring of 2005 - I especially liked seeing the white peacocks (not sure I've ever seen a white one before, as many zoos/gardens/grounds/countries I've been to-it's usually the regular colorful ones I've seen/heard & on at least one occasion have tried to take a video of them spreading their tail feathers...)
http://www.pbase.com/septembermorn/st_joseph_abbey

*NOTE: Addition since Sept 11 - written up in Dec 11/Jan 12 ABiz by John Mikell:
Link to article " The Anti-Loren Scott: Brother Simon Stubbs, a monk at St. Joseph's Abbey in Covington, addresses AAF Acadiana on his career in 'Selling God.' "
http://abizlafayette.net/publication/index.php?i=&m=707&l=1&p=19&pre=&ver=swf

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Lunch 'n Learn...I did learn something, a lot of somethings - so thank you AdFedAcadiana...
& esp to the 2 members who sent me Tweets last minute or I wouldn't have made it on time/if not early, because I thought it started at 11:30am not that it was pre-registration & 12:00pm was the start time - I'm never early, this was a first I think?! Well, you know who you are--again, thanks guys?! :oD