Big thank you’s to: Monique, Rachael, Tilly, Mike, Chelsea, Nikki, Christina, Angel, Lindsey & Tiff!

Rock on!

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Anywho, this is just a quick update while we’re on the road. When I can, I’m making progress on the editing (those waiting, I thank you massively!).

…Firstly…

I need to officially thank everyone that showed up at the www.300AlmostNakedPeople.com shoot on the 13th. Besides the nerves and stress that I was ‘enjoying’ we had a great time and got some cool images. Hoping to have those done up soon.  Big props to Ben T. and M.J. at the Press Enterprise from stopping down to cover the event…and then for the amazingly awesome FRONT PAGE article in this past Sunday’s P.E. Thank you both for helping to get the word out!

Tara and Leah Mangan blew everyone’s mind with the cake of cake’s!  Thank you both mucho! There’s so many more people that NEED to be called out…once I have the images ready, they’ll all get the props they deserve. I’m definitely looking forward to doing it all over again soon. I’ll be posting more info on that as it becomes available.

Other things:

The Berwick Mural Project is rockin big time already. Alley Art is making major progress and the YMCA retaining wall will be in full swing once we return to PA. The blog is a touch outdated, but I’ll be making that right in the near future. We’ll be posting ‘artist profiles’ soon so everyone can get to know the great people MAKING this a reality. As always, we’re looking for volunteers all the time. Whether you can paint or not, there’s plenty of ways to get involved. Touch base with Connie through the BMP blog if you’re ready to be part of something HUGE!

Things To Do In Berwick

Check out this cool new Facebook group started by Berwick doer Steve Hampton. How smart is this…whether you’re looking for, or know of something to do in Berwick, share it here. Props to Steve for making this convenient and totally useful community board.

…and lastly…

I’ve got the goods on ANOTHER community art project that will need LOTS of people…about 100 I’d say. That’s all I want to dish on that right now as we have a few things to finalize, but if your interested you can talk to the man himself that came up with the idea. Berwick native, Zach Bremmer. Bro doesn’t even live here anymore and is rockin the creativity for the hometown. When I have more info set in stone, I’ll post it for sure…until then, dig it out of Zach if you can.

That’s it…time to go prospect for gold…Uncle Steve scored some yesterday and I need a tan, so why not!

These images are from our Winter Blues Promo.  Had a blast with everyone involved!  Thank you to all these great ladies for keeping life lighthearted and fun!

Rock On!

The Nationwide Insurance building wall

Prime location for some public art (decent photography on the 2nd floor as well, I’ve heard )

Berwick Theater wall

Another cool spot with a lot of viewing opportunity

BIDA wall on LaSalle  St.

I’m excited for this one.  LaSalle’s already got a lot of character…this could really go a bunch of cool ways!

Euclid Alley (The Start of Alley Art)

This is the spot that started it all for Connie.  She’s wanted to do ‘Alley Art’ since back in the day.  Alley Art exploded into the Mural Project as more and more people wanted to help.  If you spend any amount of time downtown, you’ll probably hit up Euclid Alley.  Another really exciting wall waiting for some paint.

YMCA Retaining wall

Looooooooooooong and narrow…visually interesting possibilities here!

If you’re from the area and can visualize each of these spots, think about all of them done up in murals.  What a cool, creative and interesting picture of Berwick that is.  Come be part of something fun!

Before I blast off:  Back in December we ran a little contest to get people to think long and hard about the life creative.  This Friday we’ll finally get a chance to shoot the winning idea.  Lindsey Beiter hit it hard with a great idea for her personal dream.  We’ll be shooting a few different images that I personally hope to see her use some day in a recipe book for her dream of being a chocolatier.  The grand-slam will be at the end of the shoot when we’ll be pouring a gallon or so of chocolate over her and rockin out a cover shot for said book.

I’ll be asking Kat, our rock-star editor and graphic design guru (not to mention make-up artist), to slam together a cover layout for Lindsey’s future book as well.  Should be fun!  I’ll also be shooting a bit of video footage of the day so people can see some of what we do on shoots like this.

We have some footage from some other recent shoots in the cooker as well…keep an eye out for that.

And lastly…a shout out to Jonathan and Mollie for use of their quaint and totally idea appropriate kitchen for this Friday’s shoot…THANK YOU!

Rock on!

I have two more painted individuals on the way – normal light, awesome paint – Hope to have those ready in the not too distant future.

Rock on…