MORE LEAPAGE

I just had to do this, I couldn't help it. Go see The River North Dance company Feb 12th or 13th! They rock!

HE JUMP SOOOOO HIGH

An excursion in dance again! Christian from River North Dance Company has powerful legs elevating him to super heights! more to come soon.

BANANA POPCORN CATERPILLAR WATERCOLOR

MORE PROCESS PICKS

More funitmes in ye ole studio! Cant wait to bury an other model sometime soon. Thanks Sonia Yoonhead for your awesome nail creations, Sharon for your face painting, I thank myself for my extreme talent, and Eleanor for her lovely face!!

HOW IT WAS MADE

Recent photo shoot outakes. How we done it! Sharron Casey makeup artist, Sonia Yoon art direct/stylist, me PHOTOG art direct.

MORE ERIKA PAINTINGS

Here are a few more little water color studies .

PAINTING

Water color painting - Mighty tree not so mighty

DAYLIGHT STUDY

sunset edge lighting.

PROMOTION BY ACCIDENT

I admit it, I googled myself, how vain of myself. BUT... I found this blog that has the River North campaign that I shot for featured. Thank you for the credits and the post http://casualtyofdesign.com/2009/11/beautiful-sexy-bodies-by-river-north-dance-company/ and here as well http://adsoftheworld.com/media/print/river_north_dance_company_spine

JAPANING

Last October I went to Japan. It is somewhere I have always wanted to go, ever since I can remember, ever since I could remember what Japan meant. Some may consider my trip lazy, or not, I dont know and I dont care. I lazily wandered, meandered on my bike in the streets of kyoto, hung out with friends, trying to figure out the differences between the American and the Japanese. All in all, I think that people are the same all around the world. Same problems, same needs, same desires, different scenery.

OLD BIRDS BRING NEW LIFE

This is an old photo I found recently. It means something completely different to me, beautiful in a better way.

The Sea is Dead

The Dead Sea (Yam Hamelakh -- "The Salt Sea") is the lowest place on earth, roughly 1300 feet (400 meters) below sea level.

BABIES LOVE ERIKA

I get this kind of look from people all of the time. Wassup? What am I doing wrong???

SKATING

today we shoot skaters. this is an outtake. i like.

TIME OUT TOUGHNESS

Last weeks Time out cover was of this badass gal, Brooke, who happens to play lingerie football on the side. I never knew this existed, I love learning about new things on the job!

ALTPICKING

Today i found out from Nicole Radja from Time Out Mag, that I was the feature artist on the Altpick website. What a pleasant surprise!

Cakes are yummy

I love chocolate, I love cake! I did a shoot for Vosges yesterday and we shot their new pancake mix. These photos are evidence of me testing out the product. I later found a similar photo of my brother, Marc, who had the same idea as me.

RAVEN

Collaboraction!!!! Last week I had the great opportunity to work with Joseph Ravens, a great performance artist, in making a piece for Collaborations upcoming show, Sketchbook. Joseph and I are both interested in the morphing of the human body using gesture and form. I am particularly interested in the skeletal and muscular gesture inevitably expressing surpressed emotion.

makro funk

John and Brad came over to the studio last weekend and we decided that macro photography is freaky. We ended up shooting super tight portraits of out teeth and eyes, FREEEEEAAAKY.