Photo Diary 9/29/12

The month of September has been a long one. I started school so all my free time has been spent studying and doing homework. I really have no time to take pictures, which upsets me. But I'll have plenty of time as the weeks go by. Shooting a little by little on the weekends. I've been planning to start doing bigger shoots in the near future. The month of October is always my favorite and I always get so inspired with the Halloween things. I have a bunch of things in store so stick with me! 

I'm also planning on working on my website more and getting that up and more usable. Also I need to start posting more on here. Just to throw up a small little shoots I do here and there. The only stable thing I use is instagram and twitter. Follow me on there @ unicorngrease to stay updated! 

I hope you are all doing fine and enjoying the fall season! Talk to you soon!

XX A U S T I N

Newspaper Dress 2.0

A quick little update on what's going on in my life. So I'm currently taking a break from packing to do this post. Tomorrow morning I'm leaving to go back to the beach! I'm going to turn into a beach bum by the end of the summer. Before I left I wanted to share with you all some pictures I took the other day.

I made another newspaper dress. I always find them really fun to make, because I construct them on the model at the location of the shoot. So it's a one of a kind piece that is literally ripped off after the pictures. So it's almost as if the dress is only alive and real within the picture and within the work. So I'll go ahead and show you all the pictures!

Special thanks to my friend Lauren for enduring the heat and letting me tape newspaper all over her! Also, I haven't been posting that many recent pictures from my shoots because I am saving them for my book. But I will be slowly releasing them soon, promise. 

XX A U S T I N

Website Redesign, Book Publishing, Business Cards, and Stickers! Monthly Update - June

I have been so busy this month. I've hit a stand still with my photography and needed a new start. I found myself wanting professionalism that my work, in photography, was lacking. For starters my website design grew old and was screaming for a redesign. That was one of the first things I tackled. I organized my work through categories to make everything a lot easier for viewing. I also cleared up the layout so it was more spacious and user friendly :) 

Along with the redesign I'm testing out different designs and materials for my business cards I'll be getting made at the end of the summer. I didn't really prepare for how difficult it would be to figure out what exactly I want the design and layout of the cards to be along with the images and paper material options I have. So I ordered a few samples which I will be viewing and deciding on in the next few weeks. 

Along with business cards I will be getting stickers made! This is probably the one thing I am most excited for. There will be two different designs printed, designed by my high school art teacher, and friend, Andrew Dart. Each having one of my characters on it; King & Unicorn Grease. If you follow me you'll know about each ;) The King one is finished (and can be seen above/on my website) and ready for printing, but the Unicorn Grease one is still in the process of designing. But once I have both finished copies I will post them along with a link for ordering.

I'll be printing more than I'll know what to do with and stick them on anything and everything I can get my hands on. So be on the look out. If any of you would like a sticker book or just a few to stick around just send me an email and I'll be glad to send you some! info@austinsullivanphotography.com

All of this leads up to me officially announcing that I will be publishing a book! 

I've been talking about/debating whether or not I was going to get one published or not for the past three years, but never felt that the time was right. Well I have grow so much since I have started photography and have such a huge collection of work and photographs that I feel that right now is the perfect time for me to go through with it. This will be my first endeavor and the book will be 100% written and designed by myself. I'm extremely excited to share this with all of you after keeping it a secret, for the most part, for a little over a month. I have the book title but knowing me it will change so I am not going to be able to share that with you until it is final and set in stone. I will however share with you an image from a shoot I did specifically for the book. That image can be seen above. 

The book will be composed of both photographs and writing. It's going to be what I like to call a "photographic biography". Letting you see the images I have created over the years along with personal information on my growth and development as a photographer. The book will hopefully be printed and ready for sale around Christmas. The only thing that will be hard is not sharing any of the images from shoots I have planned the rest of the summer and into the fall. Of course I will be showing you some because that would be too awful to just disappear for that time, but I really do want this book to contain as many "never before seen" images as possible. Although there will be a large portion of images you have seen from the past. Everything's still under editing and development so I can't say anything is really set in stone as of yet. But it is happening, and will be done.

I hope all of you are doing fine and enjoying the summer! 

I appreciate all the love I have been receiving and also all the emails you all have sent on the website. It means the world to me. 

XX A U S T I N

LOOKBOOK

So I'm laying here writing this inside of a blanket/pillow fort I built, listening to the immense amount of thunder and watching the flickering of lightning bounce around my room. It's 5am and I haven't slept in almost 24 hours. I don't know why but every summer for a short period I go through this weird faze where I literally cannot fall asleep. I can lay in bed for hours and will not be tired. It doesn't matter if I wake up early in the morning and have a busy day and tire myself out, I cannot sleep. It's awful. At least this night I get to listen to the rain and thunder. I haven't built a fort since I was little and I figured, what the heck; lack of sleep will make you do and oddity of things. But this is comforting and soothing. 


Aside from the little insomnia rant above, the reason I'm writing this post is to update you all on a new social media site I recently joined. I've been knowing about it for a few years but never really took the time to look into it and really figure out what it is all about. But when school let out a few weeks ago I went on and nosed around and really liked it. It's called LOOKBOOK.nu. Basically what the site is, in a nutshell, is where you take a picture of yourself and you list all the clothing you are wearing. You can fan others and 'hype' their looks, along with commenting. I thought it was a really neat way to share you fashion ideas and also pick up a few from other look bookers. 


The community on lookbook is amazing. Everyone is super friendly. I only recently created an account and only have 3 looks posted at the moment and have already received more hypes, comments, and fans I could have asked for in such a short period. If you haven't already I highly suggest visiting the site and creating an account of your own. You can view my page --> HERE <-- 
Below are some pictures I have on the site.

xx austin