| Jan 4th, 2008 |
| quick notes.. somehow someway it's 2008.. the last month and a half was action packed.. started with a week long shoot in the turks & caicos islands. back from that straight into an architecture project for Intrinsik.. from that to a shoot in san diego for another week. back from san diego for 2 days and then off to another shoot in sydney australia for 12 days to finish out the year.. feeling pretty lucky to partake in some great adventures and be paid while doing it.. lifes good ya'll.. |
| Oct 9th, 2007 |
| blogger i'm not.. been busy busy. still busy busy.. getting new images up sparodically. tryin to get as many outdoor action and lifestyle images produced as possible before the snow flies. got some good jobs comin up to take me out of the impending winter. i'd say i promise to update the emissions more often, but it's unlikely.. but i will always be updating images, and that's what's important anyways.. layt |
| Feb 8th, 2007 |
| just back from a two week trip to the west coast. vegas, l.a., san diego, l.a., san francisco, reno, home.. shooting images for the new skate film, juxtaposer. check out the teaser at myspace.com/juxtaposerskate the trip was super productive. chaos from beggining to end as usual, but the kind of chaos you look back on and want to be right back in the middle of as soon as possible. i'll be posting a few images from the trip soon, but probably not to many, so they're not played out when the packaging and promos come out.. so check back soon, and keep your eye on the juxtaposer myspace page.. |
| Dec 4th, 2006 |
| once again, slackin on the blog tip.. quick updates.. new office downtown. sharing space with my friends ad agency, massivestudios.info, a crazy talented group of young fools. fittin right in.. we've already started to collaborate on some cool projects.. aside from that, lots of paperwork, and lots of indoor mini ramp sessions. |
| Sep 1st, 2006 |
| just walked in the door from a shoot in the deserts of southern california. mojave, joshua, colorado desert and death valley, and points in between.. it was a shoot for an upcoming issue of the LA Times Magazine, with a theme of a california road trip, as seen through the eyes of six different photographers, all with their own part of the state to document in their vision.. i was with paolo and we had the deserts..at the end of august!! HOT AS HELL! we shot three days, the first day it was 115 degrees, the second 110, and the third day, in death valley, it was 120 degrees!! completely surreal feeling, and actually scarey.. heat stroke was a serious concern... but shoot we did.. and lived to tell the tale.. |
| Jul 29th, 2006 |
| wow kids.. not much of a blogger am i.. last post was upon return from the virgin islands, 4 months ago, and now that story is out in the August issue of Outside Magazine.. it's titled The 40 Year Old Virgin Swimmer.. check it out, pretty funny shit. and if you have access to the july issue of Outside, the story we shot down in Baja Mexico last fall, on the Sea of Cortez, about the jumbo squid, ran in that issue. if you want to see the shots of these insane creatures we encounterd and some really nice portraits, track that issue down. so since the virgin islands trip, i've been way busy, shooting and assisting as usual.. had a shoot in birmingham alabama. my first trip to the deep south. pretty damn interesting. the city itself was visually loaded. the downtown city center was virtually abandoned. all these really cool old buildings, but nothing in em. i guess in the late 60's, around the time the civil rights issues were really blowin up down there, people just moved out of the downtown area. there were a few signs of a rebirth, but still a long long way to go. other than that, a bunch of random work.. architecture, lifestyle portraits, some hot mountain bike action, the usuals.. a good amount of editorial and advertising work as well. and of course the bombs and tags series rolls on.. if you're out there passin through the site, drop me a line.. peace. d |
| Apr 10th, 2006 |
| Just returned from assisting on a week long shoot in the British Virgin Islands.. A trip of extreme highs and lows.. Starting with lost luggage and some crazy caribbean guy sticking something resembling a chicken foot claw in my hand, to the high of a comped stay at a 5 star beach resort, to the low of spending 24 hours on a 20 ft. piece of shit boat on rough water with no blankets or shelter on a windy rainy night, to the high of another comped night at an even more exclusive beach resort, to the low of sinking our boat on the last day of the shoot.. crazy ass shit.. needless to say, i'm feeling pretty lucky to have made it back from this shoot alive and in one piece.. all things considered, an experience of a lifetime.. |
| Mar 7th, 2006 |
| Version 3.1 is now live. Ready or not . . . |
| Mar 3rd, 2006 |
| The DerikOlsen.com website has moved. It is now being hosted by MediaTemple. |
| Feb 23rd, 2006 |
| counting down on the release of the new site... promos to announce the launch are printed and ready to send out... |