I made this parody of a Goodyear Blimp in Photoshop today for a commercial. The text, of course, is changeable. The aircraft registration number on the blimp’s empennage is improper, but instead shows the make of aircraft I based the artwork on: namely the Goodyear-Zeppelin 20 class of non-rigid airship which makes up the current American fleet of Goodyear Blimps. The livery is based upon the Spirit of America (N10A).

I was hired to shoot photos of two models looking to expand their promotional portfolio. I used almost my whole apartment for the shoot. Pictured above is Angelica against my living room sofa.

Let’s make it a good one.

I’ve got a lot on my plate today, tonight and over the weekend. I’m shooting commercials, partying and taking photos of models and cheerleaders. Hopefully, I’ll still be partially alive come Monday so I can supervise my piano getting tuned. More to come…next year.

Merry Christmas! I hope your holidays are filled with good will and cheer. I also hope you get some because, you know, everybody needs some some, sometimes.

I think I’m done with the new blog site. With the last version of the Wordpress-enabled site (I called it v2) came an irresponsibility on my part of basically overloading the site with too many widgets, plug-ins, graphics and things that slowed the site down. I was tired of that and the bigness of the site in general and decided to split everything up into subdomains. I had already been consolidating my other websites into subdomains here at iFX with inexpensive URLs guiding the way because individually hosting ALL my sites would be expensive and tedious. I’m hosted now completely at Bluehost and they’ve been very, very good to me thus far.

Now, iFX opens with a splash page that demonstrates the most important aspects of my internet presence: my cinematography (a demo reel and resumé, of sorts), my photography (to sell artwork and pimp myself out as a freelance photog), my blog (this bit) and my music (I’ve been known to compose and perform for my self and for movies).

Because my cinema and stills sites were already consolidated locally, the biggest step was to move the entire iFX blog to its own subdomain, something I’ve been wanting to do for a long time. Wordpress core made it easy and I just had to do some tinkering (old broken links, etc) and find a theme.

None of the prefab themes did anything for me so I decided to MAKE A NEW THEME FROM SCRATCH which I’m still sort of doing. I borrowed the comments code from K2 but everything else is me piddling around in the Wordpress Theme Editor, doing it live.

I hope the site moves faster and does it’s thing better and easier than the bloated v2.

So…I give you ImpossibleFX Blog v3. Enjoy!

Yeah, I’m totally redux-ing the whole site.

I’m doing the “splash page” thing again. I might wind up redux-ing the whole site.

I thought this story was kinda sweet in a weird not-really-Christmasy kinda way.