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Author Archives: Kiliii Fish
Building Kayaks in Heaven (or Chewelah)
Just returned from a lovely kayak-building course in eastern WA state. Chewelah, to be more precise. It was, as you can imagine, gorgeous, but on top of that it was sunny and we worked with the doors open to the outside world most of the week. A lovely time, and six brand new boats made [...]
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Clear Water- Poster for the film about the Suquamish relationship with the sea
A few months ago, I had the opportunity to work with Tracy Rector and Longhouse Media on the promo poster for their new film, Clear Water. Longhouse Media’s an unusual media company– awarded by National Geographic for their work on films about indigenous peoples and minority issues. As a young indigenous photographer, it was great [...]
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Get Drenched by HUGE waves with Daydream Vacation’s new video for Seize the Fire!
Last month’s winter storm/music-video session with Daydream Vacation has debuted with Under the Radar Magazine! Says David Einmo of the shoot, “It’s Asya, me and the ocean. It feels really authentic to me. There’s no green screening us in. We were in the midst of winter storm and we got soaked by the waves, rain, wind, [...]
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Raven’s Lament Demo
What would Raven do? Listen to electric violin space opera dance madness, indigenous 2012 style. First demo track off the forthcoming album. AAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWkkkkk! Listen to the new track with the player on the right sidebar.
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Scaling a 250 ft ocean cliff for a Daydream Vacation
It’s not often that you get subjects that are willing to lay it on the line. Dave and Asya, the duo from pop electronic band Daydream Vacation, trusted me enough to scale down this cliff on ropes to shoot footage for an upcoming music video of their new single Dare Seize the Fire. Believe you [...]
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Ugly machine transforms into Hero. A photo makeover story.
I don’t typically work on products, but when art director at YArts described what she had in mind, I jumped at the chance to do something different and whimsical. Why not give a big utilitarian machine a hero treatment? So after shooting the big tank of a machine at Qwest Field in a field studio, [...]
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Why Greenland Paddles won’t kick your butt
I happened upon an excellent post from kayaker extraordinaire Greg Stamer explaining the differences and also primary advantages a Greenland paddle has over other kayak paddle types, especially the wing paddle. More after the jump.
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The one reason why artist hate their work– and why they must keep doing it
Folks, I can’t sum it up any better than this quote from Ira Glass. Found on Facebook somewhere but really a brilliant quote.
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Kiliii Fish now represented by Wonderful Machine
I’m excited to announce that I’m now represented by the photo agency Wonderful Machine. They have a fantastic team representing a terrific international roster of photographers and I’m looking forward to a long relationship.
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Modern Art on Traditional Mukluks
Louie Gong, one my favorite artists who blends a mixture of NW coast native and asian art influences into a rolling dynamo of style, has been doing his art on traditional Northern Native mukluks of late. I shot some portraits of Louie Gong for Manitobah a while back and here’s a tearsheet.
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