max s. gerber(the latest shot)

jeremy is the manager of new business development for best buy. this is a title that probably means a lot more to you if you’re not a photographer and you work for a real company. to me, it could mean nearly anything. three things i know, though:
first, the inside of a best buy store is [...]

my mother hates nearly every picture i take of her, but through some maternal grace still allows me to take them. i think if tommy wasn’t here at the same time she never would’ve gone for it. it’s hard to refuse when you have an audience, even for the camera shy.

during an impromptu, last minute, non-photo-related trip to new york last week, i managed to sneak away a moment to visit marshall in his studio. always a good idea. if you don’t know marshall arisman, you really should take a moment to check out his website. marshall is the chair of the graduate illustration-as-visual-essay department [...]

i’ve lived in pasadena for four and a half years and have managed to always successfully avoid anything having to do with the rose parade. thankfully it’s usually over by noon, the time i drag my sorry ass out of the house to go find food. old town pasadena is always a big trash-strewn mess [...]

jenova is a different kind of video game designer. he’s not interested in shoot ‘em ups, or dragons and treasure. jenova chen designs games that are intended to invoke emotional responses in players. the cofounder of that game company, contracted with sony (he makes games for the playstation 3) his games are more atmospheric. as [...]

i was really sad to find out late last night that forrest ackerman died earlier this month. i was also kind of shocked that it took me almost two weeks to hear about it. forrest was the original sci-fi champion, the most prolific and enthusiastic supporter and collector of memorabilia ever. according to the quick [...]

the latest shot recession special: two CEOs in a row, now that these have both finally gone to press.
jay flaherty is CEO of HCPI which, as far as i understand it, invests in real estate. you’d think that’d be a recipe for disaster right about now but jay didn’t seem too concerned. they build medical [...]

i don’t meet many CEOs who share my encyclopedic knowledge of 80s movies. if fact, with just a few rare exceptions this encyclopedic knowledge has mostly been met with derision from my friends. it’s not really my fault that i memorized the entirety of legend, it just seemed to be on TV every fifteen minutes [...]

the nice thing about living in los angeles is that everyone i know eventually comes through here at some point, so i never really have to truly lose touch with anyone. a few weeks ago trillium came to town to visit her godmother, mary lambert (also pictured below). trillium and i went to college together, [...]

i’ve been meaning to post these pics for a while now, but i’ve been struggling to figure out how to explain the story concisely. in the end, i think i gave up trying to explain it. there was (is?) an ongoing pension scandal in the city of san diego with city workers, but the story [...]