Clayton Hauck Clayton Hauck

2024 11 22

Yesterday, I had too many of these bad boys (cocktails) in what was the final night of a wild stretch of eight straight days of working every waking hour. Three big events and five days full of portrait sessions. Today, I enjoyed sleeping in while mending my hangover. I actually attempted to get a post up last night but fell asleep with the laptop in my arms. Yeah, I think it’s time I give myself some well-needed rest. Hopefully part of that rest will be to get a bit more focus into this here blog. It’s not work if you love doing it, right??!

-Clayton

Blurry cocktail at Bryant’s. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. July, 2024. © Clayton Hauck

Yesterday, I had too many of these bad boys (cocktails) in what was the final night of a wild stretch of eight straight days of working every waking hour. Three big events and five days full of portrait sessions. Today, I enjoyed sleeping in while mending my hangover. I actually attempted to get a post up last night but fell asleep with the laptop in my arms. Yeah, I think it’s time I give myself some well-needed rest. Hopefully part of that rest will be to get a bit more focus into this here blog. It’s not work if you love doing it, right??!

-Clayton

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Clayton Hauck Clayton Hauck

2024 11 12

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

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

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2024 10 04

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

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

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2024 06 19

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

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

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2024 05 24

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

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

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