2024 06 06
One of these days, Iāll tell you the story about how I photographed an entire cookbook and didnāt even get the cover image. I bring this up only because I wanted to post this image, which was made on that shoot. Still, Iām glad I took the assignment because it sort of shifted my perspective a bit for the better and made me want to further engage with the world of photography and cookbooks. If any of you famous chefs out there reading this is looking for a motivated photographer, hit a guy up (me)!
Last week I stopped by Huge Galdonesā studio as he was photographing a new book for chef Joe Sasto. His space is great! In our brief conversation we had as they were broke for lunch, my perspective on things was again shifted as I realized I need to up my game and become more of a legit food shooter. Compared to their setup, my cookbook shoot was a rinky-dink DIY operation with a budget to match! At least we had a cat assisting us, which made post production even more enjoyable (cat hair and food = bad combination ā again, hire me for all your cookbook photography needs!)
-Clayton
Regular collaborators Txa Txa Club (Liz and Daniel) in their home workspace. Chicago, Illinois. April, 2024. Ā© Clayton Hauck
One of these days, Iāll tell you the story about how I photographed an entire cookbook and didnāt even get the cover image. I bring this up only because I wanted to post this image, which was made on that shoot. Still, Iām glad I took the assignment because it sort of shifted my perspective a bit for the better and made me want to further engage with the world of photography and cookbooks. If any of you famous chefs out there reading this are looking for a motivated photographer, hit a guy up (me)!
Last week I stopped by Huge Galdonesā studio as he was photographing a new book for chef Joe Sasto. His space is great! In our brief conversation we had as they were broke for lunch, my perspective on things was again shifted as I realized I need to up my game and become more of a legit food shooter. Compared to their setup, my cookbook shoot was a rinky-dink DIY operation with a budget to match! At least we had a cat assisting us, which made post production even more enjoyable (cat hair and food = bad combination ā again, hire me for all your cookbook photography needs!)
-Clayton
2024 03 01
Tyler Perry is a billionaire and massively successful filmmaker. This is why, when he recently announced heās pausing plans to expand his Atlanta studio because of AI, people listened.
Tyler Perry Puts $800M Studio Expansion on Hold After Seeing OpenAIās Sora: āJobs Are Going to Be Lostā
I saw a wide range of responses to the headline online, from AI bros proclaiming movies will soon be fully automated, to others upset heās not investing a billion dollars into a film studio as a way to combat the rise of AI. Regardless of what you think about the headline, my guess is that the reality of his decision to halt work after surely spending millions of dollars on the project was made more for exesting economic reasons than because Sora released a few automated videos that look like a high end video game render. These AI videos, released only by the company that producing the renders and surely only gives us the best of the best, do look quite remarkable at a glance, on a phone, in low resolution ā and yes, it clearly shows where things are heading ā but I also donāt think weāre going to automate away our arts and entertainment despite it feeling like this is where we are heading.
Currently, the AI stories making the headlines are how good it is at making photos, videos, writing stories, graphic design, etc ā¦ all the fun and creative things humans enjoy doing. Whatās less exciting to read about is how AI can replace the less glamorous professions such as tax preparation, legal copyrighting, software coding, logistics.
Thereās no doubt AI is coming for all of us and will massively transform the world in the coming decade. Just look at the NVIDIA stock price and youāll see this is what the stock market believes. I think the AI revolution is already transforming corporate America in less obvious ways, namely employee headcount. Corporations are letting go and/or pausing hiring as they figure out all the ways to best implement AI into their corporate structure while replacing as many humans possible. The economy still feels relatively okay, but a storm is a brewinā.
Scott Galloway put out a nice piece (linked below) equating the corporate use of AI to the human use of diet drugs. We all do it, we just donāt like to talk about it.
Corporate Ozempic
I just wish I could automate a way to not think about AI so damn much these days.
-Clayton
Wow, itās been a lot of vertical images latelyā¦ Txa Txa Supper Club #30 at See You Soon Chicago. January, 2024. Ā© Clayton Hauck
Tyler Perry is a billionaire and massively successful filmmaker. This is why, when he recently announced heās pausing plans to expand his Atlanta studio because of AI, people listened.
ā”ļø Tyler Perry Puts $800M Studio Expansion on Hold After Seeing OpenAIās Sora: āJobs Are Going to Be Lostā
I saw a wide range of responses to the headline online, from AI bros proclaiming movies will soon be fully automated, to others upset heās not investing a billion dollars into a film studio as a way to combat the rise of AI. Regardless of what you think about the headline, my guess is that the reality of his decision to halt work after surely spending millions of dollars on the project was made more for exesting economic reasons than because Sora released a few automated videos that look like a high end video game render. These AI videos, released only by the company that is producing the renders (and surely only gives us the best of the best), do look quite remarkable at a glance, on a phone, in low resolution ā and yes, it clearly shows where things are heading ā but I also donāt think weāre going to fully automate away our arts and entertainment despite it sort of feeling like this is where we are heading.
Currently, the AI stories making the headlines are how good it is at making photos, videos, writing stories, graphic design, etc ā¦ all the fun and creative things humans enjoy doing. Whatās less exciting to read about is how AI can replace the less glamorous professions such as tax preparation, legal copyrighting, software coding, logistics.
Thereās no doubt in my mind that AI is coming for all of us and will massively transform the world in the coming decade (if not this year). Just look at the NVIDIA stock price and youāll see this is what the stock market believes. I think the AI revolution (a new Industrial Revolution) is already transforming corporate America in less obvious ways: namely employee headcount. Corporations are letting go and/or pausing hiring as they figure out all the ways to best implement AI into their corporate structure while replacing as many humans possible. The economy still feels relatively okay, but a storm is a brewinā. These changes arenāt yet mainstream news stories but I think soon everyone will start to feel the effects of someone they know losing a job because it is, at least attempting to be, outsourced to artificial intelligence.
Scott Galloway put out a nice piece (linked below) equating the corporate use of AI to the human use of diet drugs. We all do it, we just donāt like to talk about it.
ā”ļø Corporate Ozempic
I just wish I could automate a way to not think about AI so damn much these days.
-Clayton
PS - want to dig into this even further and get even more depressed? This video is worth your time and paints a largely bleak picture about our not-too-distant futures
PPS - My CPU is a neural net processor; a learning computer!