January 30th, 2012 by Kris
Last week I had the opportunity to travel to Seattle for a few days. We drank some great coffee, ate some amazing cheese, and talked with a 30 year veteran of the chocolate business about all things sweet. On this trip we had the chance to sit and talk with James Beard Award winner, Tom Douglas. This guy actually beat Chef Morimoto on Iron Chef. For you non-foodies, it just means he’s a ridiculous culinary bad ass. His strong feelings about sustainability and a number or restaurants that walk that talk make him one of the best chefs out there. Durring our interview, I asked him what was the single best piece of advice he had ever received. He said that no one had ever given it to him, but that to him, it was innate.
“Get your ass out of bed, promote your business, work hard… treat your employees like kings and they in turn will treat our customers like kings. It’s not so much advice as it is a standard.” -Tom Douglas
January 9th, 2012 by Kris
On January 1st of 2012, I made the first major website update in the last 18 months. If you’ve not seen it head on over to krisdamico.com and let me know what you think! As some of you may know, I spent close to 6 weeks going through images from the last 5-6 years. There were about 600,000 files on 8 hard drive with about of those 235,000 being images. So, needless to say that was a lot of looking at old work.
I used Zack Arias‘ process to get the ball rolling, here’s the post with an excerpt from his blog and link to his article. Then I met with Amanda Sosa Stone and she’s helping me sort out the details. Now, the hard part for me, as I’m sure it is for all creatives is cutting our work down into a meaningful creation of images. Given my own devices, I’d have a loose conflagration (is that a word?) of image that might or might not make any sense together. Which is why an outside edit is super helpful.
Here are few images that didn’t quite make the cut for the homepage, but are still some of my favorite images! Hope you enjoy them.
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