Managing Dylan

With the final presentation coming up for my Advertising Strategy class (the the only class that stands before me and graduating from college,) I decided to get into the studio with Dylan Bartolini - Volk and do some print for the campaign I’m creating for Texas’s Shiner Bock. I present on Thursday and can’t reveal much, but here’s a quick shot he took of one of our models / brand ambassador Thomas Roche.

If you are familiar with some of the people I have been working with while I’ve been in San Francisco then you have definitely heard me mention the name Cambo. Cameron Bartolini, as he is better known amongst his friends, has been working on his first solo project for a few months now and the below is the first single he is releasing with The Life.

“Cat Like Me” mixes hip-hop with soul, funk, R&B, and rock n’ roll to make a truly unique sound. Cambo & The Life will be releasing one single per month for the next year and each single will include a unique digital cover created by a national artist. Check out the below song and stay tuned for future releases and upcoming shows.

I’ll definitely be here this weekend :

Medicine Agency is proud to present the first official exhibition of photographs by San Francisco based photographer Sean Desmond. The show will feature a collection of 35 photographs from Desmond’s ongoing Tenderloin Project, a portrait in film and photography of San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood. To many, the Tenderloin is a poor and stigmatized area, to be avoided if possible, rushed through if necessary. As a point of departure, Desmond and the Tenderloin Project withstand such stereotypes and enter the neighborhood with eyes open and active intent.

http://www.vimeo.com/10518751

The images that emerge transcend a mere documentation of what we could all see if we only looked. We witness the Tenderloin through Desmond’s interaction with it, a process explicated in the Project’s films and evident in each photograph. Portraits of the neighborhood’s marginalized dwellers stand alongside portraits of the streets themselves, all—dwellers and streets, alike—caught in the act of living. The starkness of the black and white photography upholds the starkness of the locale, while magnifying the countervailing warm welcome of the subjects and vibrant animation all around. The viewer enters the Tenderloin with Desmond, with the objectivity of an outsider, and is left with the tension of intimacy, raw and tender.

Desmond’s San Francisco show will mark the first official exhibition of his work from the Tenderloin Project. The show will then travel to select U.S. cities, where Desmond’s penetrating images will give broader audiences a personal introduction to understanding what life is like in the Tenderloin.

A portion of proceeds from the show will be donated to Hospitality House’s Community Art’s Program, the only free-of-charge fine arts studio for homeless and poor artists in San Francisco. Promoting and giving access to art in the Tenderloin, Desmond feels, will allow his project to live on in the community for years and generations to come.

The show will also feature collaborative pieces by a variety of artists from the Bay Area and beyond, including Mike Giant, Greg Mike, Mark Bode, Apex, Oliver Black and others, with an exclusive silk-screened show poster by Sean Desmond with Mike Giant.

SF-based clothing brand Black Scale will also be releasing their second run of t-shirts and first run of pull-over hoodies featuring original photographs from the Tenderloin Project.

http://www.vimeo.com/10475991