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HANGING CURTAIN MAKES CHANGING, HAIR, AND MAKE UP AREA COMPLETE

Thank you to Mark Wojahn, that guy who splits rent at 'the space formerly known as the photography crib' aka studio 145.

Adam Esco bent the pipe, I cut the pipe and Woj got the ball rolling and faciliated the hanging - then a trip to IKEA and last week's Thursday fashion shoot was on.

Too bad only one of the 3 booked models managed to make it :( Luckily Leyle did and she got the works. This is a shot of her with the new changing hair makeup curtain as backdrop.

The complete shoot needs to go somewhere...sometime soon.

ECLECTICoiffeur OF MINNEAPOLIS

http://www.eclecticoiffeur.com/

Writer Jahna Peloquin, and Kelsey who did some amazing hair for a very preliminary shoot I did back in 2005 here in Minneapolis have been building this organization for many years.

I just joined their facebook profile, and now that studio 145, 'the space formerly known as the photography crib,' is fashion ready - I am talking to a mutual friend about promoting a party here in mid-December.

We'll see what happens.

MUJA MESSIAH PATRIOT ACT

SHOT AT THE PHOTOGRAPHY CRIB - NOW WE CALL IT "STUDIO 145"

CAN'T GET IT OUT OF MY HEAD

Solid Gold, Minnesota local 80s revival - "Who You Gonna Run To"

These guys are as good in concert.

AFFILIATE JOB OPENING: NON-PROFIT MARKETING

Hannah Brazee Gregory of Shoestring Creative Group | the non-profit's agency out of Gardiner, Maine - my homestate - is looking for a Minneapolis affiliate for marketing and creative.

NEW BIO TOBIN

I have updated my portfolio and am proud to declare myself just as 'risky' and 'untested' as Barack Obama, but instead like....for photography. I suppose I prefer those labels over 'unispired' and 'stale.'

Here's the new bio, which can be found at the new address for my advertising portfolio:
http://portfolio.tobinrussell.com

BIO
Tobin Russell Brogunier

Tobin comes from New York City by way of Oberlin, Ohio and San Francisco, California. He was born in Maine, where he learned to respect people for the value of their character.

After a couple of published articles inspired an unnamed Los Angeles ad agency to launch a national campaign for Nissan trucks, it became clear that, although his work was good enough to be ripped off, his ability to broadcast his work over the din of NYC trustafarians was limited. Tobin researched his options. Because Minneapolis has a young, savvy agency demographic and a lively dialogue with 'middle America,' Tobin decided this would be the right place to launch his advertising career.

He goes by Tobin Russell. If you want to use the French surname, please pronounce it 'bro-gun-yay.'

Tobin's photography is challenging because it relies on context. It's an ambitious blend of irony, humanity and beauty. While individual images can be very compelling, what is truly compelling are the stories he is telling and how he is telling them: Stories about fundamental and universal human themes. Stories about consequence, experience and achievement. Stories about adversity, about community, and about perseverance.

While America offers tremendous opportunity, for many Americans life is a celebration of triumph over many great challenges. Tobin's work is about being fully, 100% American even when the story is not the myth of an effortless lifestyle America has sold the world.

Tobin's stories find something beyond islands of individual achievement and attainment of fantasy lifestyle. His photography offers a context, a world, a breathing community of contrast, interaction, inspired by the bravery of everyday heroes. Without this story, America doesn't work; with this story, America joins the world.

As Robert Weider is quoted in a DDB blog entry, "Anyone can look for fashion in a boutique or history in a museum. The creative person looks for history in the hardware store and fashion in an airport."

WORKING GOTV 2008

GOTV = get out the vote

Bouncing between Obama office on Central in Northeast to the Clean Water Action 'get out the vote' for Minnesota: endorsing Obama, Franken (super tight race with Coleman), Keith Ellison and local Minnesota House races - so it's a more direct get out the vote than Obama's got.

But the Obama machine here: Someone has knocked on my door every day since Sunday. I have received several phone calls from the campaign to volunteer and GOTV.

It's been a blazing week beginning with the phone banks last Tuesday at Clean Water where Jenna works, moving into an almost full day door to door for Obama on Friday, another evening of calls Monday and all day today at Clean Water Action: There is a tremendous amount of on the ground action going on in Minnesota right now.

There are at least 3 out of 5 very tight Congressional races, one exceedingly tight race for Senate and one really f-in important race for president. The phones are ringing off the hook.

I'd say sorry to bother you, but I'm not. It's that important.