Submitted by Dustin Schmidt on February 21, 2012 - 8:54am
• Animated GIF's have been around since the early days of the internet, and they've always been kind of low-rent. But the recent emergence of cinemagraphs by Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg have breathed new life into an old technology.
(Cinemagraph by Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg.)
I follow several fashion blogs as part of my daily internet perusing. One of the stories that caught my eye recently is Burberry's intent to debut their catwalk collection via animated GIF's on Twitter.
Submitted by Dustin Schmidt on February 16, 2012 - 9:18am
Today is Old Hat's 8-year anniversary as the baddest sports design firm in the biz-nazz. Thank you to all of our clients for supporting us and allowing us to still be in business after all these years. We're very grateful to be able to do the work we do, and some of it has even been pretty good. ;-)
I've been at Old Hat for 4 1/2 of those 8 years now, so I've seen a lot happen since I started. Instead of boring you with the details, I've decided to post a short little photo timeline celebrating some of the last year. Happy 8th Birthday Old Hat! Here's to 8 more.
Submitted by Dustin Schmidt on February 13, 2012 - 4:53pm
• Cool post featuring early photos of hip hop artists before they were really huge. Check it out here. (via Feature Shoot)
• Like many I was sad to hear about Whitney Houston. When I was little my Mom had a small collection of records I used to listen to, with Whitney Houston featured prominently among them.
Even though I'm the manliest man among men (see below), I still love Whitney's music. One of my favorite songs of hers is below.
Submitted by Dustin Schmidt on February 8, 2012 - 4:42pm
Hey everyone! I've finally managed to find time to get the photo gallery up from NSF last week. If you were at the Old Hat Creative / OKC Thunder bash at the Chesapeake Arena last Tuesday and you stopped in for a photo then be sure to go check it out here. Some photos may have been omitted to protect the innocent.
(For the record, Bud Light Lime is probably my very last choice of drink. And in this case it was the last thing available, so there ya go.)
Submitted by Dustin Schmidt on February 7, 2012 - 8:52am
(Chris Jericho walks out in a sequined, self-lit jacket.)
• Last night I went to see the WWE in Oklahoma City at the Chesapeake arena. The WWE understands how to entertain like you wouldn't believe. I'm convinced that no one puts on a better show than these guys. Seriously.
Before you dismiss all this as some kind of WWE fanboy talk, let me just say that I don't watch it on TV and I've never been to a WWE live event. But I got the opportunity to check one out and I was incredibly impressed.
Submitted by Dustin Schmidt on February 2, 2012 - 8:38am
I was reminded on my way into work this morning that on this day last year Oklahoma got 12 inches of snow! Today at noon it's going to be in the low 60's. Crazy.
So...now that we're done with the weather, on to the news.
• Old Hat attended the National Sports Forum in Oklahoma City these past couple of days. Old Hat's Tracie Hitz was there the whole time chatting it up and getting some good info on things to implement in 2012.
On the second day of the conference Zac and Tracie presented on a panel alongside OU's Charlie Taylor and South Carolina's Eric Nichols. The title of their presentation was: Creating your Roadmap through the Digital World: Where Sometimes Going Forward Can Mean Changing Directions. (Now say that three times fast.)
Submitted by Dustin Schmidt on January 26, 2012 - 8:45am
Some of you may have noticed a missed blog on Tuesday. My apologies for that. I spent Tuesday morning preparing for an afternoon shoot with Oklahoma City's Russell Westbrook for an upcoming website and media campaign launching soon.
I can't share too many details right now but as soon as it launches I'll be sure to post some behind-the-scenes and give the scoop on how it all went down. And for anyone who might be wondering, Honey Badger DO care. Russell was a pleasure to work with.
Submitted by Dustin Schmidt on January 19, 2012 - 9:24am
Hey everyone! I got a couple of questions regarding the last couple of Behind the Shot posts (here and here). Today I want to address some of the things that were going on in Photoshop, specifically one of the plug-ins I use when editing photos.
One of the things I try to do with most of my pics is to remove the "look" of a digital capture through a variety of techniques and tricks in Photoshop and Lightroom. However, even though I love the look of film I have no desire to go back to mixing developer, stringing up negatives and waiting hours for things to dry or even working in the darkroom to make each individual print.
Submitted by Dustin Schmidt on January 16, 2012 - 2:25pm
Thanks very much to everyone that commented on the Behind the Shot with Kevin Durant post last week. I've been really impressed and flattered with the response it's been getting. I had no idea that Kevin Durant guy was such a big deal. ;)
I had a couple of other photos this past year that I was pretty happy with, so today I'd like to focus on a job that was shot for The University of Michigan and their football campaign.
Michigan came to us early in the summer to start discussing their direction for the 2011 football season. It was decided that the tagline for the year was going to be "This Is Michigan" after the instant classic Brady Hoke quote.
