A couple of winners...

That's me on the right with the winner of 2009's Celebrity Chef Challenge - Head Chef and Owner of Tuli Bistro Adam Pechal. I photographed the event on Friday night and accosted Adam shortly after his win for my self-portrait +1. His food looked GREAT and I'm looking forward to trying his place out... I would have by now but moving to the 'burbs has hampered my Downtown eating time.

... sweet Rubicon, how I miss you...

Doug HATES Chickens

This is Doug and he hates chickens. He actually is my boss's husband (not to mention quite a looker, too) and he was contributing his male modeling expertise for a promo shoot for the InAlliance Celebrity Chef Challenge being held June 5 in Sacramento. Had a blast photographing him as well as a few of the contestants for this year's soiree. More great pictures will be coming soon - I just HAD to post this one ASAP!

Celebrity Chef Challenge

(Photo is mine - just to lazy to not use my istockphoto version!)

So, after a few year's break I'm heading back to the Celebrity Chef Challenge as their event photographer! Here's some info I ganked from their website:

On Friday, June 5, 2009 from 5:30-9:30pm the 7th annual Celebrity Chef Challenge will pit five local professional chefs and one amateur competitor in a head to head battle to determine “whose cuisine reigns supreme,” all to raise funds for individuals with developmental disabilities.

InAlliance is a great organization and I'm glad to be working with them again. Also, this year's event is going to be at the Towe Auto Museum - one of my favorite places!


For tix and info head over to www.chefevent.com

New Relanch Soon!!!

Over the last two weeks in between the birth of my daughter, Gabriella, and a metric ton of tests at school I have been working on a new look for my website. I'm VERY close to getting it finished and am very excited about it.

I am hoping that I'll get it finished by the end of this weekend. All I need to do now is to post images from a few of my weddings and I should be ready to go. Keep checking back - www.devinbruce.com !!!

Amazing Pictures

This Eastern European (is it un-p.c. to say Russian anymore?) website shows off some war-time photography mixed via photoshop with present day photographs of the same surroundings. Very moving - I just wish I knew the Crylic alphabet so I could read what in the hell it all is about.

Nice to look at anyway.


Click here to see and (not be able to) read.

For the Liz

A new portfolio from Dev! (Finally)

For Jen Mc.

She knows what its about...

Contest for Photographer's Forum Magazine.

Mr. Bo... Jingo?

What the hell is going on. Within the last four days I have seen this term -> "Jingoistic" <- pop up all over the internets - everywhere from articles to comment boards. This word, by the way, is one I have NEVER heard in my 30-flurerer years on this planet. The problem is that the people using it don
t really know what it means. Take this comment from a Yahoo news article about the apparent lack of coverage of Jamaican runner Usain Bolt's big-time win last week in favor of US swimmer Michael Phelps:

What's the surprise? The Nothing But Crap network has a proud tradition of jingoistic(Devin bolded this) coverage of events. If there is not a big American story, it gets relegated to the broadcast backwater or ignored entirely. NBC should be ashamed, but if 40 million people are stupid enough to watch their awful coverage things won't change.

That's nice - except that jingoism is defined as "extreme patriotism in the form of aggressive foreign policy". Where in the context of the comment above does the aggressive foreign policy appear Sounds like someone liked the sound of a word without bothering to figure out what is actually meant.

I am calling it right now: "Jingoism" will be the new buzzword for 2008. CATCH IT!

Bummed out...

So, I had to turn down a shoot with Maxim Magazine today. Muy malo. Well, back to work...

What up, Chris?

The original GHOST FACE KILLAH!!!!

Jesus-E???

Think about this - that the Wall-E movie was a story about the bible and the eventual second coming of Jesus. I was thinking about it last night and there are a lot of things that support that idea. Here are a couple of points - some with more credence than others (and make no mistake - I am not preaching - these are just thinks that I have noticed that matched up between the bible and the movie I saw last night):


Jesus/WallE = 5 letters each

Both died and were "resurrected" after dying for people's "sins" (in the movie the people's sin was sloth).

Both "saved" humanity because of their sacrifices.

In the bible the Earth was created in 7 days; in the movie the Earth was ready for moving back to on the 700th anniversary of humans leaving for space.

The girl's name was "Eve" (obvious allegory to Adam and Eve)

"Eve" carried life (the plant) inside of her and, because of it, became the de-facto mother of humanity.

The 2 fat people that "woke up" from their stupor on the ship were named... JOHN and MARY!!!

I'm sure there are more but I need to investigate more thoroughly...

I Really Outdid Myself This Time

Because of this I know I am in the right business...

Re: My last post (that should be below this);

Nevermind. Just listened to their whole album and they suck. They didn't use CAKE as an influence - the Flobots totally bit their whole sound off em. It's like if you put RATM and Cake in a blender and chopped them up with a bit o' bleach mixed in, then poured your concoction out on a screen to dry and turn into a papery recycled mess.

I DID like Handlebars... but bothered to look online where they had two separate versions of videos for the song. One (before they were signed) was a cool animated/graffitied piece about revolution. The newest one (made once Universal picked them up) is a childishly (literally) made video with kids... who act like mean adults!

Yuck. I wish John McC. would strike them down with his heavenly sword...

I'm calling it now:

Flobots for the win in 2009. You heard it here first... although it sounds like they owe CAKE a bit of a shoutout.

What I did on Cinco De Mayo

Self explanitory!

Busy, Busy Night

Tonight was Mikuni's "M5" Party celebrating the Downtown Mikuni's 5th year of being open. There was fun galore to be had and I was there to photograph it:


More coming soon. I'm trying to go to sleep at a respectable hour and if I play any more with these then I'm gonna end up being a Tired Timmy tomorrow!

P.S.

Byron Allen = Yuck.

Was just thinking about this...

I do think that music helps form who you are - especially if you are exposed to it at an early age. Through your early experiences, it shapes how you perceive the world overall. I remember the first music album I ever bought/received. My mom, on a whim, bought me U2's Rattle and Hum on cassette tape from K-Mart as a gift.

I remember taking it back, still wrapped in it's protective anti-shoplifting plastic cage (they used to put the tapes in these things and YOU would have to cut it out, thank you very much), and trading it in for the soundtrack to Weird Al Yankovich's UHF.

I think that explains everything.

Getting the Ball Rolling

I hate winter for photography. It has been quite rainy around Sacramento for the last month or so and I HATE having to be wet and uncomfortable while I am in turn trying to keep my equipment toasty and dry. Even the sunny days are shitty cold and usually windy. I think I had enough of that during my newspaper photography days...

The above pictures were taken for an art show where the only rules were that you had to find the crappiest camera possible to photograph with. I found this beautiful 2 MP beauty circa 2001 and hit the street on one of the before mentioned cold/windy days. Yuck.