VTOL Cities

As new RideSharing models quickly prove feasibility, investors and dozens startups are racing for what lies beyond self driving cars, VTOL. If legislation can keep pace with technology, our skies, and cities will quickly transform into something new.

We can begin to imagine new cities arising in the middle of nowhere, strategically positioned between points of interest. The drive for humans to escape cities, and the affordability of VTOL just might replace the Jet age.

This is an excerpt from my Medium Post: Flying Cars are Here to Stay

Ola Play

Helped imagine, design, source, and launched Ola Play, the largest connected Ridesharing network on Earth. Each cab became part of a distributed computing network. Banglaore, India:

Summer 2015 Selected Works

LOFTI CRIES

An equipment test to see what I could create in one weekend using only an iPhone 6.  240fps video processed with Slo-Mo app and edited in iMovie on the phone.  This is the Rig I used:

Joby flexible tripod and Reticam mount

The quality is unheard of for a mobile device. This outpaces the quality of many of my previous SLRs and even the original Nikon 1.  Audio used without permission, hopefully this video will help promote their work.

Hong Kong Protests and FireChat

Summer 2014 Selected Works

In order of date, the fireworks party photo being oldest. It really has been quite a summer, I'm now designing the future at Open Garden in San Francisco. These images tell the story of my travels. 

Interestingly enough many of these taken with a cell phone. I wondered as a child when the camera in my phone would reach digital SLR quality, and that year is 2014. 

Ambitorch

A year ago while camping in Florida, I wanted a better flashlight for reading and drawing. The problem with modern flashlights (and headlamps) is they have a concentrated beam. They are too bright and end up blinding. I wanted an ambient solution that spread light evenly over a large area. I created Ambitorch:

This uses three AAA batteries with a Ultra Fast-strobing Lumilux LED to produce a warm glow. It is an attempt to reproduce the light of a lantern, my favorite reading light. A prototype is in the works, a production model would likely use two (more available) AA batteries. Thanks to my sister Mere for modeling. Done in Solidworks, Photoshop, and Shot with my archaic Canon 10D.

Audiate: The Revolution Has Begun

     The music revolution is upon us. I have found some bright individuals who would like to make Audiate a reality. If we succeed we'll fundamentally shift how mobile devices interact, and how we listen to music.  Photograph taken by me of The Downtown Fiction at Night Craze in 2011. Art designed in Illustrator and compiled in Photoshop. The revolution has begun, this will be some fun.

Summer 2013: Selected Works

This summer was great, These photographs are a few of my favorites.  Featuring my friend Greg Rose as a model. I tried to capture the thoughts going through our heads (he moved to England). It's fascinating what you can represent through an image. Currently learning CAD and working on concepts centered around mobile mesh networking and music.

This Month's Explorations

Project: Photocollage + Photography
Client: Personal

Sarah modeling in front of some triangles in Trion Park, and a long exposure of Kiel waving glow sticks (with some lasers) in a tunnel beneath Irondequoit.

Project: Photo + Advertisement in Lake Effect Magazine

Client: 2Chic Boutique

CIty Ad + Photo Shoot

Project: Photo shoot in Rochester subway tunnels (with permision) and AD

Client: 2Chic Boutique

2Chic CITY Ad

Project: Photography + Design

Client: 2Chic Boutique. Printed in Rochester CITY Newspaper

More Party Photography! May 2011

Project: Party Photography

Client: Vinny Croglio, Night Craze TM

EDITORIAL USE ONLY

More Fun Garden Shots

Project: Photo Practice

Client: Personal
> Practicing some "artsy" shots. Limited commercial app, but still fun! Shot with junky old lens.

Night Craze 2011

Project: Photography for Facebook

Client: Vinny Croglio @ Night Craze
More: @Flickr.com

EDITORIAL USE ONLY

2Chic Airplane Photo Shoot

Project: Photo Shoot

Client: 2Chic Boutique
>> Special thanks to the Rochester Air Center
>> No thanks to the Rochester weather. This was all shot in ~40f wind, in under 20min.

2 Chic Advertising

Project: print ads

Client: 2 Chic Boutique
***Contrast depends on your screen calibration***
( it was difficult calibrating for the printer)

Train Bridge Photoshoot

Project: Long-exposure photography on penfield rd, Rochester, NY.

Client: Personal

Longboarding Rochester, NY

Project: High-speed Downhill Photography

Client: Jarid Bottaro
>Pro Longboarder Jarid Bottaro Shoots down the hills of Ellison Park in Rochester, NY.