Detroit's Eastern Market

I know that others like great graffiti art like I do, but we’re probably in the minority across the population.  Of course, everyone hates bad graffiti, basic “tags” or just people tagging any random building, wall, etc...  But great graffiti is as good as fine art, just on a larger scale in a public location.  So, if you like that type of thing, Detroit’s Eastern Market and Miami’s Wynwood Walls are amazing spots for this.  This photo is from the Eastern Market area of Detroit.  They host an international graffiti festival every year where they feature some of the world’s best.  This specific painting would probably fall into the Pop Culture art category, similar to Peter Max and others who work in this art genre.  Sorry I don’t know the name of the artist who completed this painting.

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UA

Today’s photo post is from our “Shutter Rush – Baltimore Edition” road trip.  If you watched the film, you know we went to Under Armour’s headquarters since they helped sponsor our film/road trip.  Here is a photo I took that night from their campus.

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Shutter Rush

As some of you know, I covered the Steelers’ last game of the season in Baltimore (along with most of their home games).  I can’t believe I’ve been photographing the Steelers from the sidelines for 8 years now.

Anyway, I traveled with two other great sports photographers @jasonpohuski and @jakemysliwczykphoto.  We made a weekend out of it…traveled together, photographed many cool spots in the city and covered the game together.  As part of that adventure, we photographed of course, but we also captured much of it via video.  All that was put together by Jason into a feature film called “Shutter Rush – Baltimore Edition”.  Jason even got @underarmour to sponsor this project.  Big thanks to them for all their support and gear.  I don’t know when, but it sounds like this film will be released on Amazon Prime and other major streaming services in the near future.  Once that happens, I’ll give you an update.  In the meantime, we’re actively planning our next trip to have fun and capture photos and video for the next Shutter Rush edition…   More to come.

Graffiti Alley

During our road trip to Baltimore, we made a stop at Graffiti Alley in West Baltimore….let me say that it was just amazing.  Of course, I love and appreciate nicely done graffiti.  This spot is basically, an “L” shaped alley that is painted with hundreds (maybe over a thousand) murals and graffiti (street art). 

The city (or someone) allows people to do make it sort of an outside permanent, but always changing, art exhibit.  This spot is consistently being used for photo shoots, videos, etc…  We did our own little photo shoot using steel wool (and Jake got sucked into photographing some local rappers).  I’ve done this in the past at various locations.  Normally, I’m the person spinning the steel wool.  This time @jasonpohuski did the spinning, while @jakemysliwczykphoto and I captured it via photos and video using five devices.

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