The world wide web is the deal now for photogs. Gotta have a website, gotta have a blog. I credit Moose Peterson with nudging me into the blogosphere. For about a year, he was givin’ me the Moose Eye, ya know? “Where’s your blog?” Every time I’d see him. “Where’s your blog?”
So did a blog, and it’s been fun. But our website and blog have never been synced up style-wise, till today. Credit to first assistant Drew Gurian, who has been laboring on these puppies now for some time. Happy to say, they launch today. Lots of new work, new design, new linkage between the two. Love for you to check ‘em out. (If you’re reading this, you’re halfway done!)
Lots of inspiration, great work and strong voices on the web. One particularly inspiring voice is Chase Jarvis, who in terms of innovation, creativity, and the sharing of knowledge is at the top of his game. He just launched a series of really fun videos called The Consequences of Creativity, in which all sorts of dastardly things happen to him while he’s pursuing an image. He falls off a bridge, explodes into flames, gets hosed down, and also gets run over by a fast moving vehicle. So my studio started buzzing, and well, we have a lot of sick puppies here. One of our interns, Mike Grippi had an idea and here’s what we came up with…
a ton more stuff in the pipes..
more tk.
GT says:
on June 10, 2009 at 1:05 pm
Nice updates, great idea Mike! Joe next time offer to take is picture instead
lowell says:
on June 10, 2009 at 1:05 pm
love the site! the tid bit on jarvis is hilarious. you guys are too funny!
M.D. Welch says:
on June 10, 2009 at 1:09 pm
You are truly a bent man. Love the roast on Chase. I can see more spoofs coming now from other photographers. Love the new look of the blog, very clean and easy to find stuff. Drew did an awesome job on both the blog and website.
Dustin Diaz says:
on June 10, 2009 at 1:13 pm
It fits well with your Twitter theme too
The whole design is a good refresh where I find this change quite welcoming.
best,
Dustin
David Burke says:
on June 10, 2009 at 1:14 pm
Priceless! Love the roast to Chase! Both of you are an inspiration to us all!
Frances Knowles says:
on June 10, 2009 at 1:23 pm
Giggle, giggle! Loved it!
Adam says:
on June 10, 2009 at 1:24 pm
EPIC!
Dave Kallaway says:
on June 10, 2009 at 1:32 pm
New blogs are a great idea. You could write a blog on a napkin and just post the picture and I’d read it. (kinda like your lighting diagrams!).
Lindsey says:
on June 10, 2009 at 1:34 pm
Brilliant! Love the new site and the new blog! Thanks Drew for getting Joe on Twitter, too!
Jodi says:
on June 10, 2009 at 1:38 pm
You are so twisted! Nice work Joe.
Mike C says:
on June 10, 2009 at 1:41 pm
I totally dislike the new blog and website. What makes your web designer think that doing the site in all-flash is a good thing? Flash is for designers that can’t figure out AJAX for crying out loud! But I’m especially disgusted by the “upgrade” to the blog. I used to be able to see the posts in Google Reader as they actually appeared on your blog’s web page, but not anymore. Less is NOT more in the RSS stream. Joe, you’re a great photographer but you’ve agreed to the castration of your website. I hope you’ll reconsider things.
Les Doerfler says:
on June 10, 2009 at 1:43 pm
Great look on the new site and blog. Hats off to Drew for that.
Next up…how about a spoof on the stop motion photo/video craze that is currently the rage.
Diego Lorenzo Jose says:
on June 10, 2009 at 1:43 pm
Like the new look, Joe. And as always, a pleasure to read your thoughts. Hilarious video
Jeremy says:
on June 10, 2009 at 1:45 pm
I’m dying here! LMAO
steve K says:
on June 10, 2009 at 1:54 pm
great site, great work, you are gifted as a communicator. but really stupid, cliched video. and yeah, i saw chase’s which you parodied.
still, i’ll be tuning in.
Russell Schnitzer says:
on June 10, 2009 at 1:54 pm
Digging the new style, Joe. Thanks for keeping it fresh, and for the inspiration. Keep having fun.
Gary Crabbe says:
on June 10, 2009 at 1:56 pm
Really excellent on all counts.
Rob Hammer says:
on June 10, 2009 at 1:59 pm
your a sick man! Thanks for the laugh.
Elijah says:
on June 10, 2009 at 2:05 pm
Great parody of Jarvis. ha ha
Pshorten says:
on June 10, 2009 at 2:09 pm
Hi, New website is great but can you re-set your RSS feed so that the entire blog entry comes to our readers? It’s so much easier to follow everyone’s blogs that way.
Denis says:
on June 10, 2009 at 2:13 pm
Nice one! Love the consequences of creativy.
And a good lookin’ blog too! much better than the old one
Michael says:
on June 10, 2009 at 2:18 pm
Like the new look but, like others, would prefer that full posts get passed through the RSS feed.
Nice job on the video–hope you’re OK.
Cheers–Michael
monkeyinabox says:
on June 10, 2009 at 2:31 pm
That’s one mean tricycle assault. Things are certainly looking good around here as well.
LisaNewton says:
on June 10, 2009 at 2:37 pm
Great site. I’ve always liked a white background. I don’t know if you’re aware, but in IE, your top toolbar is out of the box, literally.
John Leonard says:
on June 10, 2009 at 3:05 pm
Love the new site. Glad to see you have more current stuff in your portfolio too! Love it all….well number 6 in the corporate portfolio looks like something I’d shoot.
Oh, and when are you going to talk about this great new dance photo with the multi-exposure thing going on? You hinted on it in April.
Jim Cutler says:
on June 10, 2009 at 3:08 pm
LOLOLOLOLOL!!!! Video Beautifully done. I’m sure Chase laughed out loud, too.
Daniele Barraco says:
on June 10, 2009 at 3:14 pm
Hey Joe… that’s what happen showing an iPhone on the street
Thanks for the laugh!!! Congrats from your great new website.
Dan from Italy
JoeH says:
on June 10, 2009 at 3:23 pm
LOL…no really…
I was laughing so hard, people started coming into my cube to see what was up!
Christian Frölich says:
on June 10, 2009 at 3:25 pm
Nice redisgn Joe, site is fresh, simple and concise, congrats, been reading Hot shoe …., you sure as hell opened my eyes and take a different aproach with speedlights.
Tony Pettis says:
on June 10, 2009 at 3:34 pm
Joe, you’re truly a whacked man.
But you know, bro, I think that’s part of the reason why we all keep coming back. Whether it’s strapping yourself to the top of the Empire State Building, freezing in the tundra or getting run over by a tricycle, we really never know what we’re going to get when we drop by. So we keep dropping by.
The update to the website is top-notch. Big-league look for a big-league shooter.
MikeP says:
on June 10, 2009 at 3:36 pm
Anyway to get RSS feed to show the whole post?
Waqas Ahmed says:
on June 10, 2009 at 3:41 pm
The RSS feed for the website broke with the new changes. It is no longer full text feed, making it useless.
Hopefully that’s a minor oversight and not deliberate. Love reading your blog.
Frank McPartland says:
on June 10, 2009 at 3:42 pm
Joe: New site looks great! Congrats!
Ivan M says:
on June 10, 2009 at 3:57 pm
Joe -
I’ll be another one to say, please make your feed available in full length for RSS readers. It’s a pain in a butt to click through to the web-site, and it’s so 90s.
drew says:
on June 10, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Hi again everyone…
Looking into the RSS situation right now, and promise to do our best to get it figured out very soon! If anyone has any thoughts on it, feel free to email me: drew@joemcnally.com
Sorry for the inconvenience,
Drew
Leif (Sweden) says:
on June 10, 2009 at 4:12 pm
Hi Joe
Great update - now even better then before
Love to see more
//Leif
Ben Madden says:
on June 10, 2009 at 4:38 pm
Looking good with the new layout, Joe. Guess the Tricycle Tirant made ’short’ work of your iPhone photo shoot.
Tell me, how is ISO3200 on the iPhone?
Johnny Yuma says:
on June 10, 2009 at 5:55 pm
That is too dang funny. Classic McNally.
carlos benjamin says:
on June 10, 2009 at 6:14 pm
Love the video. Not so much the new site. I have to chime in as a dissenter who can no longer see your posts in the RSS feed. If you could get that fixed I’d have no problem with the change…..
Ken Ely says:
on June 10, 2009 at 6:44 pm
I love the new site design, and the linking of everything McNally. I’m glad the best part of this hasn’t been changed a bit, the creativity and humor that makes this my first internet destination. Keep it up.
Kenny Theysen says:
on June 10, 2009 at 7:01 pm
Loved this video. Just something we would expect. Good job guys!
sandy redding says:
on June 10, 2009 at 7:06 pm
I’m with Carlos. Your new site has a truncated RSS feed.
Mark says:
on June 10, 2009 at 7:12 pm
Looks pretty good man. Love the video! Them midgets are terrifying!
darko pevec says:
on June 10, 2009 at 7:18 pm
oh, “waw”’s and “awesome!”s!
Fred Troilo says:
on June 10, 2009 at 7:19 pm
You are one sick puppy!
Geoff Powell says:
on June 10, 2009 at 7:32 pm
Love your new site Joe, and the blog looks great too. Cudos to your designer. And man, I love the video roast of Chase. That’s classic, particularly the first twenty seconds…
Keep up the good work Joe, you’re an inspiration.
Jason says:
on June 10, 2009 at 8:41 pm
Sorry, going to agree with Carlos and others on this one. Include the full post in your RSS and we’ll all be happy!
Eric Cote says:
on June 10, 2009 at 9:12 pm
Simply hilarious! Love the “I’m taking 2 to 4 pictures a day”
Ana says:
on June 11, 2009 at 12:25 am
I like the new look, congrats to you an Drew for the good work.
I especially like the logo, it goes well with the thin lines.
The video is soooo funny !
Cheers,
Ana
vokod says:
on June 11, 2009 at 1:17 am
Really love the new site. Actually, I’m working on a similar one, an integrated blog/portfolio/client site. Just in a bit smaller one