brett bulthuis
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An image a day
Jul 27th
I have decided to post an image a day, from my day or not, but in the prospects of staying busy and pursuing a kaizen lifestyle.
So here is todays image.
Mon Cheri: Mittins
Friends and Fireworks
Jul 7th
Hey!
http://www.brettbulthuis.com/4th/
Hope everyone had a great 4th of July weekend, above is a link to some images of friends playing around in my backyard with sparklers. If we had put on robes it would of been a very Harry celebration.
Here are my favorite 3
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p.s i think
Pride Parade Chicago!
Jun 29th
Hey!
Last sunday the 27th marked Chicagos 41st annual Gay Pride Parade. It was a celebration of everything awesome and gay! The streets were packed full of people who came out to show support and join in the festivities. I would estimate nearly ten thousand spectators cheered on and at least another two thousand participants were marching. It was well worth enduring the heat and packed transit systems.
Many big names came out to show support. Everyone from the Chicago Blackhawks who brought out the Stanley Cup to local famed T shirt company Threadless. The parade was a major success, and I have so many images to share.
Here is a link to just some of what I shot : brettbulthuis.com/pride
and here are my three favorites:
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Cheers,
B
whats up:
Jun 6th
Hey!
So this last week in between the rainstorms and moments of sunshine I took some time to head downtown and visit my friends. This brief holiday included a 2v2 soccer match in the alley, which resulted in my team winning 5-4. Luckily I had a great partner to play with. Thanks Vinnie! The event was pretty fun and involved a near death collision with a motorcycle in the alley, and some sliding around on gravel by Danny. It was not for the feint of heart.
Also I got to hangout with my good friend Eric Coleman, who has an art showing coming up in july. I will post more details on that when they arrive so everyone can come down and check it out.
Eric Drums
thats Eric on the drums, to my surprise he has picked it up pretty quickly over the last few months.
Also, one thing everyone should check out is The Zebra Factory on etsy.com . The Zebra Factory is filled with some great vintage findings by my girlfriend Krysta. Being a fashion design student, her natural talent for finding beautiful clothing and creating pieces of her own is something everyone should definitely see. So check it out, buy some things, bookmark, etc.
The Zebra Factory
Thats what is going on right now:
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been a week or two
Jun 1st
I have been super slow to update and way behind on informing everyone what has happend.
So here goes: I am in the Chicagoland area now finishing up school and trying to get a career started before I graduate. A few interviews here and there some assisting over there. Good experience so far. Been working with James Steinkamp going out on a shoot and learning from there.
Also had an interview that I believe played out pretty well at Hedrich Blessing. Have not gone out to work with the group yet, but hopefully soon. This summer could prove to be a very exciting and interesting beginning towards my career.
I have also been doing a lot of searching lately. You always hear the saying that if your hearts not in what your doing then its not worth doing at all. Well when I think about that and take it in, I know there is nothing else I would rather be doing. Everyone has needs that keep them sane and use what ever things to fill those needs. For me I love design, cleanliness, simplicity, beauty, and preservation. Those are pretty basic surface level needs, yet architectural photography covers all of them. Nothing inspires me more than a a beautiful structure that has every inch perfectly crafted and will be marveled upon for ages.
Form follows function- Louis Sullivan
Chicago Illinois
May 7th
Im here!
Well just outside the city technically, but I arrived in Illinois last week after a long drive from Santa Barbara.
The drive was pretty rad actually, once I got driving. If you followed my tweets about my trip, you saw a picture of my car on the flatbed of a truck. Sadly it died. It all started 6months ago when my timing belt snapped on the 405 north in Santa Monica on that big hill right near the Getty. So I had it fixed. But apparently the boys at Crown Auto either A. did a poor job in reconnecting the sensor that tells the engine to gas, or b. it broke some how.
This is a problem because when my original timing belt broke it put debris into the engine which wrecked the pistons and ruined the car. After a short rebuild it was working. The issue this time being with the gas sensor broken it rubbed up against the new timing belt, causing it to jump and damaging it. So to fix it was not a big deal but then there was no guarantee that debris didn’t once again plague my new engine, and the cost exceed the value of the car. So i sold the sucker for a quick buck, unpacked it and prepared to put everything into the rental car my mom had picked up at the airport.
Problem 2: Enterprise rental car did not allow the vehicle to travel cross country.!!!
Once again I unload my entire life and all my equipment and place it into a third car which had to be rented and were finally all set to go.
The benefit to this labor was, originally I was going to drive an overpacked and crammed 2000 Mitsubishi Gallant across country that had poor air conditioning, but I ended up taking a 2010 Ford Escape that was blacked out.
Did the trip in style.
All in all totally fun drive. Didnt stop driving after Vegas just went straight to Albuquerque, through Texas, Oklahoma, etc. Just rotated sleeping every five hours till we got here.
And thats why I havnt posted,updated, or anything major recently.
cheers,
B