posted: April 14, 2009

Ving turns 50

posted: March 16, 2009

Larry Summers, former Secretary of the Treasury and now the White House Director of The National Economic Council had in part, worked to easy Wall Street's regulation in the late nineties.  Today, he's been brought in to help fix this economic disaster.  Irony?  With so many economic "Cooks in the Kitchen" will they be able to agree on how to move the economy forward?
This portrait for The New Republic was commissioned by Christine Carr last week and just came out.
 
 

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posted: March 13, 2009

Hopefully we are all excited(or at least I am) for the upcoming baseball season to start.  Winter is on the way out, the grass is green again, the sunset is at 8:30 pm instead of 5pm and the Yanks, once again, have a good chance to be champs(or maybe not).    But just on the horizon is the upcoming trial of the once great Barry Bonds.   It's been pushed back twice now and you have to wonder why.   Are there some cracks in Fed's case against Bonds?  Well... maybe. 

Playboy asked me to do a piece for an article they were publishing about the possible railroading, by the feds, of Barry Bonds and his perjury charges of steroid usage.   The piece more or less blows up the Feds shaky case to get a conviction against Bonds.    The prosecutor Mr. Novitzky seems to have it out for Bonds in this piece and is obsessed to get a conviction by any means.  Although It's seems pretty clear to me from the enormous changes to his physique that Bonds benefited greatly from steroid usage and he's arguably the most vilified athlete to be associated with it's usage.  But where's the likes of Mark McGwire in all this, the guy who originally rode the bandwagon to "Hero status" for breaking Maris's seemingly impossible record?  The truth will come out one day and some are already admitting to their past usage (A-rod) but we still have some deniers out there(Clemens).  Will they be pursued like Bonds.  I'm no fan of Bonds and his home run record is bogus, in my eyes, but I wonder who will end up with egg on their face(Bonds or the Prosecution).We'll have to wait and see.

I've also added another piece I did soon after for ESPN the Magazine on the prosecutor in this case, Novitzky.  A piece that took more or less the same point of view about the case against Bonds.  However, it didn't publish because the story was sort of scooped by a piece that published on the internet.  Novitzky is the focus on this piece.

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posted: December 17, 2008

I thought I'd put up some of my 2008 rejects.  The naughty dark soul of Britney Spears for a Rolling Stone Cover that didn't make it.   A little too bad girl and less beautiful girl probably doomed it.   It was a heck of an opportunity either way and I put it up on my neighbors fireplace mantle piece for his big SuperBowl bash.  She's a naughty one. 

The other two were from a Fromm gourmet dog food campaign that never saw the light of day.  I was originally asked to do this assignment when the dog food scandal broke.   That was when chinese dog food exports, which was contaminated with melamine, poisoned a lot of dog.   That's not good timing for this gig and sure enough it was put on hold till the scandal died out.   Even though they gave me the go ahead to finish it early this year, it seemed doomed to never be published.  Advertising assignments  hard to come by for me and this was a lot of fun, even if it had the smell of doom.   To this date it's still unpublished.
 
Hope everyone is enjoying Christmas party month.
 

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