2024 11 12

Sipping a tasty Wisconsin Old Fashioned in summer. St Germain, Wisconsin. July, 2024. © Clayton Hauck

Self-promotional post today, because it’s going to be a fun one and you should totally be there! I’m hosting an event in my studio space next Thursday for the release of Crust Fund Pizza’s new pizza cookbook, Super Pizza World! Tickets are $75 but that also gets you a copy of the book (which is awesome and I have some writing in there myself!), along with a bunch of food and drinks. Plus, all the money collected is going to benefit a nonprofit organization in the building, Chicago Mobile Makers. As of writing this, there are about ten tickets remaining, so if this sounds fun, click this link asap for more info and to snag a spot!

-Clayton

2024 10 04

My half-drank Wisconsin Old Fashioned at Blink Bonnie, the best supper club in all the land. St Germain, Wisconsin. July, 2024. © Clayton Hauck

95 50 (random) Opinions:

1. roller coasters are fun

2. pizza is delicious

3. tacos are delicious and equally as good as pizza

4. trains are severely underrated in the US

5. Europe, while great, is an overrated American tourist travel destination

6. Rome is much better than Florence

7. cats are better than dogs, but the best dogs are better than average cats

8. photography is amazing, however, steadily losing its edge

9. if I dedicated my entire life to being a musician, I could probably make it work

10. being very poor and being very rich can give people similar carefree mindsets, while being middle class can be a constant hassle

11. my opinions are getting longer as I go

12. simple is usually better

13. Mexico is a massively underrated country

14. Japan is easily one of the best countries

15. Pittsburgh is one of the best cities in America

16. bitcoin is fascinating, while polarizing, no matter what the origin actually is

17. Ai will change the world, but more so in the less obvious ways that currently worry us

18. nuclear power should be far more utilized by modern society

19. nuclear fusion power generation will eventually be figured out and either solve all world’s big problems or create a human-induced hellscape

20. the sun is amazing. like, how does that even happen?!

21. the fact that the sun is one of trillions of other suns doesn’t make any sense

22. this very well could be some kind of simulation

23. god, which ever one you believe in, likely isn’t a thing, but surely something god-like exists, beyond our comprehension

24. the best US state is probably California

25. Texas is good, but I’d never want to live there

26. the best city in Texas is Houston, actually maybe it’s Austin?

27. Chicago is leagues better than Houston

28. San Antonio is an underrated city

29. Austin is an overrated city

30. professional sports leagues have lost some of their charms as they’ve become such big business

31. baseball is the best sport, but far from the most entertaining one

32. books are better than movies but movies are far more accessible

33. shows are really just long ass movies

34. one fun thing to do in a city you are visiting is take the train to the last stop and get off

35. opinions are like, your opinion, man

36. The Big Lebowski is not the Coen Brothers’ best film, but it is great

37. Barton Fink is the Coen Brothers’ best film

38. There Will Be Blood is probably my favorite film

39. acting, as a job, is a crazy job

40. rivers are neat

41. massive solar flare is a natural disaster that worries me, probably because I live in Chicago and don’t have to worry about the obvious ones

42. Chicago is an underrated city

43. rivers are better than lakes

44. the US relies far too heavily on cars and trucks and should better utilize our waterways

45. China is a fascinating place

46. Russia is a fascinating place

47. both China and Russia will look far different than they do now in a few decades in ways we probably can’t predict

48. history is written by the winners

49. school is overrated but also very important for a functioning society

50. Jet Lag the game on youtube is one of my favorite shows and I wish I came up with the idea and did it myself

-Clayton

2024 06 19

Blurry Allison enjoys a martini at Best Intentions. Chicago, Illinois. May, 2024. © Clayton Hauck

We just wrapped a video project for 50 Best Bars featuring the cocktail menu book at The Meadowlark here in Chicago, which is a great spot I regularly do photography for. Check it out below!

-Clayton

2024 05 24

Blurry cocktail at Attaboy in Nashville, Tennessee. April, 2024. © Clayton Hauck

Sometimes accidents make for more interesting results. Not realizing I had my ISO set to 400, this was the resulting image made while attempting to photography my delicious cocktail in Nashville’s super dark and very great cocktail spot, Attaboy.

I’m posting this because today I’m off directing a video piece at local cocktail spot Meadowlark… and what is video but a bunch of blurry photos strung together one after another, right? My pivot to video begins now! But also, I’m photographing cocktails Saturday as well in my usual still fashion, so really it’s just yet another job to add to my list of jobs.

Photographer, director, videographer, studio manager, blogger.

-Clayton