RIP MCA

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Shot this in '97 at Boarding for Breast Cancer. Beastie Boys as Quasar a little side project they had. My buddy Mike Basich printed the shirts for them. MCA was a big snowboarder. Rode Snowbird with Mike and the locs back in the day. Would phone the house to check in with Mike from time to time. "Yo, is Mike around". I was like "me and MCA just spoke" haha!!

TOMS Fall 2012

Just back from a whirlwind ( 7 hotels in 9 nights) of a shoot with the TOMS crew.  The amount of good they do in the poorest of poor communities around the world is astonishing.  Yeah, they sell shoes and a lot of them.  But they give back and they do it in a real way.  100% of what they say goes to these communities -  does.  They work with "giving partners" all over the world and it is set up so that the integrity is intact and the children and communities are getting what they are promised.  

I witnessed a myriad of life changing things on this hybrid giving trip / catalogue trip/shoot.  Poverty to the extreme degree.  A way of life that makes you question humanity.  But through it all the people just want to live a happy life.  Little girls want lipstick, boys just want to run and the parents just want a good life for the children ( in most cases).   Simply put it makes me feel very very lucky to have what I have.  

Met a lot of great new people on the shoot and am looking forward to lasting friendships.  Thanks to Anya and Patrick at TOMS for bringing me into the fold.  

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ROXY SNOW

Thanks to ROXY and Amber Stackhouse for having me around. In a world of pimping my book around it's nice to have friends I gained in the snowboard world call me up and say "Kev, what you doing in a couple weeks". I love to dip back and see old friends. Thanks to Rob Mathis for covering the action photography. It's just not where my head is anymore. Although I got a few keepers! Guess I still got it.

Torah Bright making me look decent.

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Milking it

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"I'm so shy". Not for long after I get done with you.....

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Um, I am a large man...

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Milk, Roxy and TOMS

Off to Park CIty Utah followed by Alberta Canada for heli trip the next week to shoot some Roxy girls.  Looking forward to it.  Me and my backpack.  No more no less.  Just hired to shoot docu style - No action. 

After that, off with TOMS crew to South America on a hybrid giving trip and to shoot ads.  So excited to be shooting for TOMS.  Just think
they have a great business model and have done things right.  They don't fake their charity.  They mean it and they earn it.  Respectable.
I will try and post as much as I can from there.  

And lastly heres some BTS from a little thing we did over the weekend.  Can't wait to get this puppy edited.  I can say it involves MILK.  
Big ups to my partners at 6 Pound Rooster Jess Sluder and Jay Jaretsky ( did I spell ur name right dude?).  We make a 
team not to f with.

A 2nd big up to my DP Alain Betrancourt.  You make me look good.  You're a nice Frenchman too.

Thanks to the crew Jodi, James, Nathan, Paddy and Adeline.  Adeline you're a star!  Paddy you aren't to bad either....

Broncolor you make nice sunlight.

Here's a few snaps.

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Viva Barcelona

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Recently traveled to Barcelona to get food poisoning.  Patrick my 1st did the same.  Imagine that. 

In between more than frequent bathroom visits, Dr. visits and attempts to hold some fluid down, I actually shot a rather large library for the diabetes pharmaceutical company Lilly.  

Jokes aside, and aside from the 2 days of pure hell, it was a great trip and a great shoot.  

We didn't have much time to cruise  the city and see all that much of what the city has to offer, but I was able to crack off a few the day we arrived.

It's fun to shoot more traditional travel pictures.  Not my typical gig, but it certainly brought me back to days tripping around the world shooting shredders in black and white.

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Enjoy.