alyssa miserendino photography : amimagery : little inspirations

FotoFest 2012, Houston Texas

imagine being surrounded by other people in your industry for five days straight from 9am until about midnight each night... this is the intense high i was on just a week ago at Houstons's FotoFest. i barely read an email or answered my phone. i simply took it all in, and best of all, i had the opportunity to meet other incredible photographers, whose work i've seen in magazine spreads or hanging on gallery walls. this was magical; especially when touting someone's name just 30 min earlier, then getting to meet her in person. synchronicity i say!

we were a group of image junkies getting our fill. we sat around in between meetings and shared some of our most personal and powerful work : the work that comes from within, that we do for our selves, from our heart & thus inevitably brings our viewers, & the larger world together. This is our Element.

 

Globetrotter Magazine debut with Our World Insideout

this is exciting! a new magazine with distribution in Singapore, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Lagos, London, and Chicago will have a 5 page spread on a few Brazil images from my personal project, Our World Insideout.

In addition, a wonderful and amazing non-profit I moonlight for, on the advisory board, embarc, is also featured in this issue! 

 

1st annual holiday party

We had our first annual holiday open house and studio this year and it was a blast. We opened our home and our small studio office where all the magic happens. Thank you to Whitney Hsieh for capturing the event for us. Whitney was a student in a class I taught this last semester, Social Practices in Photography -- this was the first time this clas was offered at Harrington College of Design, and I look forward to seeing it grow. 

Each room was open and the walls adorned with photographic work by Damien Thomposon, Lauren Whitney, Nikki Van Koevering & myself.

If you haven't heard, I'm also doing some underground interior ideation consulting. Our home showcased certain items, such as; a custom pot rack from an old barn beam (available for custom design for your home), office heated floors from fallen trees, custom made frames for a series of large photographic pieces, custom bedroom wall molding and scrap wood floor, and the much enjoyed hammock in my office.

Thank you to Fresh Ground Health for the delish homemade snacks & sweets the kids couldn't keep thier hands off, and Daniel Tomei for the homemade, grilled pizzas. Thank you to Cesari for your generous donation of wine! 

Have a wonderful holiday everyone! until next year.

congratulations & thank you nikki

sometimes life brings together amazing experiences & people, and nikki is one of those people! nikki came on board this summer to work in the studio & today i'm sad {but happy} to say goodbye to her. she has been offered a job at a great publication. i'm happy to see her move on to something that will fill her with something new. there were several times where i was blown away by her determination, catching up where i left off, and making people at ease with just who she is. her next employer is lucky to have a creative problem solver, kind, honest and super hard working woman on thier staff. please come by and say hello to nikki on the 18th at our open studio. nikki will have a couple pieces of her own on display.

t h a n k  y o u nikki for being a wonderful addition to the studio. i'll miss you!

happy thanksgiving

a year filled with more than i could ever have asked for & adventures beyond my imagination. it's the little things that make me happy. enjoy today ...

our wedding photos published on 100 Layer Cake

Our wedding (sept 2010) captured by the talented One Love Photo and ceremony/reception brought to life by so many talented artists, in different ways, was published by 100 Layer Cake. Click on the image below and scroll to the bottom to learn about all the hands who helped us make this a very special day for Conor & I. t h a n k  y o u everyone!

and I found Heather published it here with our awesome friends who gifted us this.

image © One Love Photo

i'm taking you to NYC with me...

thank you everyone for allowing me to share time with your family and document you. some of you are coming with me to New York today for three days of intense portfoilio reviews. You continue to inspire my portrait work (shown here) & my conceptual work .... t h a n k  y o u.

steve jobs & looking back

I hesitated posting this about six months ago, and instead sent the video of the below speech to someone I felt could gather inspiration from it. it was the best words I could find to help another. it's why I started this blog. why, what appears so seamingly disconnected in life, most often brings about the most ah ha moments. little inspirations. celebrate them, celebrate each other.

Steve Jobs at his home office, 1982 {Diana Walker}  

 

a little surprise

for my client and i -- when i asked her where she lived ... as it turns out she lives on a past employer's beautiful property with a marvelous garden. such a lovely circle of inspiration --love the small world. just a tiny sneak peek....

Paul Klein's Art Letter

Tonight is the opening of the show at Collaboraction. Read about it in the Art Letter blog by Paul Klein.