Odorifous: T.C. Worley
Posted by Troy | Filed under Odorifous
As part of my inner-circle camping buddies (and so much more) over the years T.C. has inspired me—not to do something I don’t already—but to never give up on our greatest shared values.
- Do what you love.
- Collaborate.
- Get off your butt.
When young photographers (which is anyone with a Canon Rebel these days, right?) see the amazing work that T.C. is doing – mountaineering in the Alps, mtn. biking in the west and testing adventure gear around the world with Gear Junkie (this year alone he shot work in Chilean Patagonia, Germany, Alaska, Switzerland, not to mention from the Catskills to the Rockies…. ) they think “this is the work I’m going to do, he has the best job ever!!”
So they set up their Facebook page and wait.
Tags: interview, TC Worley, video
Odorifous: Mollie Greene
Posted by Troy | Filed under Odorifous
What is quickly becoming a shocking number of years ago I was a freshman at one of the strangest universities in the west wandering sheepishly around the world’s largest cafeteria clutching my overloaded tray and trying to maintain some composure because you know how I get around lunch (agog).
If I’d been in a movie the camera would be panning 360° around me..
Just then a new friend resolved the dissonance in the score, grabbed me by the shoulders and swooped me to a table of misfit ladies where I met my wife for the very first time.
But among those ladies was another special misfit who played a very important party in our story.
Tags: interview, Mollie, royal buffet
Odorifous: Von Glitchka
Posted by Troy | Filed under Art/Design, Odorifous
Glitschka Studios logo by Von Glitschka
At first glace Von Glitchka’s work might not seem so special… but (though this is a bit hard to explain) that is exactly what makes him such a master. Great design should after all, be “invisible.”
Tags: contest, interview, Von Glitschka
Odorifous: Thomas Allen
Posted by Troy | Filed under Art/Design, Odorifous
Sometime last year I had just a hint of an idea that involved taking my designs and photographing them to give it a little dimensional feel. I think the idea came when I was maxing out my photoshop skills to make client photos respectable for their print pieces. I come up with about a dozen new ideas each day though, so this one like most others came and went and was buried in my mental rolltop where all the clutter is stored.
Around that same time Ward Jenkins posted a few photos on Facebook of one of his favorite artists – Tom Allen.
Tags: art, interview, photography, Tom Allen
Odorifous: Lisa Congdon
Posted by Troy | Filed under Art/Design, Odorifous
Reindeer by Lisa Congdon
Lisa Congdon is inspiring to me because (like me) she’s a self-taught artist—no fancy art school, no grad school connections with whom to jump-start careers—and didn’t start working as an artist until she was in her thirties.
She’s one of those people that give the self-taught, mid-thirties, bible-college-grad like me a bit of hope for this “career” I’m working on.
Because I have a tendency to want to do everything NOW.
Tags: art, illustration, interview, Lisa Congdon
Odorifous: Edward Orato
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Orato
On my last night in Kenya last February the team was invited to the national director’s home to meet his family. It was quite an experience considering he and his wife currently have 19 children they’ve adopted (or merely taken in) living at home right now..
Just prior to the kids sending us off with a staircase seranade (imagine the Von Trapps were from east Africa) I happened to notice a painting hanging in the family dining room.
Odorifous: Todd Wilkerson
Posted by Troy | Filed under Culture, Odorifous
When Burger King first brought back their mascot a few years ago I thought it was the funniest and smartest ad campaign I’d seen in a long time. I was creating my first TV commercials at the time so I’d notice stuff like that.
It was also the first time that I realized other people from my generation were now working in the creative industry and companies were taking risks with them for their marketing. As soon as I saw the first ad with The King I knew it must have been created by other dudes who like me were weaned by the likes of Pee-Wee Herman and Ren & Stimpy.
Tags: interview
Odorifous: Ward Jenkins
Posted by Troy | Filed under Odorifous
Every so often I’ll come across an artist whose work is at once incredibly familiar yet totally unique.
Such is the case with Ward Jenkins.
I’ve been following Ward’s work for so long I can barely remember how I first discovered him. But I’m pretty sure it was when Grain Edit mentioned him back in the spring of 09… since that was right around the time I was discovering my great love for mid-century style.
And nobody does mid-century style like Ward. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: illustration, Ward Jenkins
Odorifous: Miller Mobley
Posted by Troy | Filed under Autism, Odorifous
Earlier this year there was a bit of a buzz about an article in The Atlantic about Donald Gray Triplett—who in 1943 was the first child to ever be diagnosed as “autistic.”
The article itself (by John Donvan and Caren Zucker) is really fantastic. Even though it is a bit long for a web piece, it is totally worth your time. I love the introductory story where Donald’s talent (in other words—savant capabilities) for math catches the attention of a travelling entertainer who asks if Donald can join him for his travelling show:
whether they spoke this aloud to their guest or not, [there was] the sheer indignity of what Polgar was proposing. Donald’s being odd, his parents could not undo; his being made an oddity of, they could, and would, prevent. The offer was politely but firmly declined.
I really can’t say enough about this article. I haven’t read anything on the topic that I’ve appreciated so much.
But of all the connectedness of an article like this to my own heart’s strings, it is this image that invoked the most emotion.
For even in a photograph you can see his eyes are so piercing that they’re transcendent. Like the eyes of most individuals whom I’ve met with autism—on the rare occasion that they happen to look straight into your own, they’ll see right through into your soul.
After years of practice I’m lucky to now get a chance to look my son in the eye at least once every day and it still gives me butterflies every time.
Luckily it took very little research to discover the man behind this particular lens—Miller Mobley.
Tags: art, Autism, photography
Odorifous: Leslie Nichols
Posted by Troy | Filed under Music, Odorifous, TV
Austin City Limits has to be one of the best and most important TV shows ever (yes, TV can be important)
Considering the long history of the show, I’m a relative newcomer to the audience. The first episode I ever saw was a Widespread Panic. (must have been around 2000-01?)
It was like I had tasted first blood.
Now a decade later, I have so many great memories watching the show…
Tags: Austin City Limits
