more pics from opening

opening reception

Here are more of Steve Wilson's fabulous shots from the opening at the Bohemian Gallery this past Friday night. Tomorrow I'll post his installation shots.

a good team

My opening last night was a great success! Thanks to all of you who attended. You made me feel as though the work was worthwhile, and you made me feel special as a photographer and a person.

Steve Wilson took lots of wonderful pictures, many of which I will share over the coming days. This is one of the best: my team!

On the left is Jane Aspinwall, who curated the show and wrote the introduction for the catalogue. On the right is Paul Churchill, installer extraordinaire. I can't thank them enough for making my work look so good last night.

Much more to come. For now, I'm headed to Kentucky for Mother's Day. Cheers!

steve

This world lost a smart, vibrant, caring, funny man this past Monday. Here is the article about our friend, Steve.

‘SoDo Mojo’ ad writer was devoted to baseball, sons

Advertising executive Steven Cunetta came up with one of the most memorable Mariners ad slogans of the 2000s — “SoDo Mojo.” He died Monday of cancer.

By Jim Brunner

Seattle Times staff reporter

COPACINO+FUJIKADO

Steven Cunetta came up with one of the most memorable Mariners ad slogans of the 2000s — “SoDo Mojo.”

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As a boy growing up in Brooklyn, Steven Cunetta obsessed about baseball as a fan of the New York Mets.

So decades later, when the Seattle ad agency he worked for landed the Seattle Mariners account, Mr. Cunetta was happy to put his enthusiasm for the game to work.

As an account manager for Copacino+Fujikado, Mr. Cunetta came up with one of the most memorable Mariners ad slogans of the 2000s — “SoDo Mojo” — and collaborated on many of the team’s other ad campaigns over the years.

Mr. Cunetta died Monday after a yearlong battle with angiosarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer. He was 55.

“While a lot of Mariners fans didn’t know Steve, they probably knew his work through the Mariners commercials,” said Kevin Martinez, the Mariners vice president for marketing.

The team plans to honor Mr. Cunetta with a moment of silence before Friday’s game at Safeco Field.

Mr. Cunetta is also being remembered for his devotion to Seattle PONY Baseball, coaching hundreds of kids in the youth league over the decades. The organization recently named its Bronco Championship trophy in his honor.

“He did it for the love of the game,” said Tim Crocker, another longtime volunteer with the league. “We used to say ‘Cunetta’s forgotten more about baseball than we’ve ever known.’ But that was wrong. He never forgot anything about baseball.”

Born in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1958, Mr. Cunetta grew up in a three-story walk-up apartment alongside three generations of his Italian-American family.

His father and grandfather were carpenters, and Mr. Cunetta attended Yale University with the help of a carpenters-union scholarship. At Yale, he studied psychology and sang with an a capella men’s choir called The Baker’s Dozen.

After graduation, Mr. Cunetta sold Bibles door to door, then took a sales job with Procter & Gamble before getting into the advertising business in New York.

He moved to Seattle in 1989 and worked for the ad firm McCann Erickson. He joined Copacino+Fujikado at its inception in 1998 and worked on the firm’s Mariners’ marketing campaigns.

Jim Copacino, the firm’s co-founder, said Mr. Cunetta “had this wonderful crackling energy,” a self-deprecating sense of humor and retained the fast-talking New York accent of his youth.

Living first in Capitol Hill and then in North Seattle, Mr. Cunetta was a devoted father of two sons.

“He put my brother and I first. That’s not just something he said but something he did,” said son Michael Cunetta, of Seattle. “He was at all the track meets, volunteering at school, coaching the baseball games.”

In addition to his son Michael Cunetta, Mr. Cunetta is survived by son Nicholas Cunetta, of Seattle, and brother and sister-in-law Michael and Maryann Cunetta, of New York.

A memorial is planned for May 18 in New York and plans are being made for a Seattle memorial at Safeco Field.

installing

One hundred photographs and 9 pastels. That's a lot of work! Paul Churchill got everything on the walls (and looking fantastic) in just one day. This man is amazing.

Paul gets an assist from gallery owner, Mike

I made this little stop-action video of Paul hanging the most complicated wall.

schlepping and arranging

Today Eddie and I delivered the last of five carloads of photographs and pastels to the Bohemian. Living in a condo, we are lucky to have some good storage space and plenty of those nifty hotel carts for transporting stuff from the storage space to the car.

Once we delivered the last few pieces, Jane (curator) and Paul (installer) got busy laying out the show. After about two hours, they had it all figured out. They are very good at what they do. Each also has a lot of patience and a good sense of humor.

On Monday, Paul will begin hanging everything. It's kind of amazing to see so much of my work in one place. At last count, there are 100 photographs and 9 pastels.

Yikes!

lenscratch

I'm happy to say that I am featured on Lenscratch today!!

a doggie and her human

I got a nice break from working on my show this past weekend when Maddie, a gorgeous rescued German Shepherd brought her human Jan to my studio for a portrait session.

Maddie was fabulously cooperative and easy going, and so was Jan. We had a great time together! I hope Maddie's regal qualities shine through and that it's easy to see just how much love there is between her and her proud mama.