The other day I got a nice letter from the folks at Design Taxi to let me know that my site had been featured as the site of the day. Suddenly I’ve been featured on Netdiver.net, Mostinspired.com and Dailyslurp.com. I’ve also gotten some very nice letters from a few new friends in Germany, Finland and Norway who like my work. Thanks for the support everybody!
It’s been forever since I updated my blog and even longer since I even changed the images on my portfolio site. I’ve been really busy the past few months and the last thing I want to do after working 14 hours a day on a bunch of ad jobs for a couple weeks is look at my pictures and change my portfolios. So here’s what’s up:
Since the last time I wrote I shot ad campaigns for Northwestern Mutual Insurance, Sears-Kenmore, the Chicago Convention & Tourism Bureau, and Central DuPage Hospital.
Everything has finally calmed down and I got a chance to buy a bunch of new albums and hunker down and completely re-do my website. I’ve found that listening to the album “Mt. Eerie” by The Microphones is probably my favorite album of all time for listening to while I’m working on my website, next to anything by Califone or Stina Nordenstam. I also really dig Lee Scratch Perry or Ali Farke Touré for when I want to listen to something but I don’t necessarily want to have any idea what the singer is saying. Anyhow, they’ve all been pretty good at getting me to re-do my site.
I’ve redone my site so it’s all html. Got rid of the flash. It always took way too long to update. I ended up hating it and having dreams about actionscript. Also, most of the pics in the portfolios are new. Or at least mostly new in the sense that you probably haven’t seen them before or if you have you’ve seen them on this blog or you’re that guy across the alley in the other building who’s always looking into our studio windows but you pretend to not look when we look at you.
Check out the site. http://www.joewigdahl.com
Create Magazine interviewed me a while back for a feature article on studios around the midwest and I was picked for Chicago. The article, called “Shoot + Score,” focuses on how studios across the midwest are adapting to and using new technologies for commercial shoots.
I shoot mostly digital 35mm and 4×5 film nowadays by the way…
