Café Nordo: Somethin' Burning

Café Nordo returns to Seattle October 12 through November 18, 2012.

This fall, Café Nordo presents SOMETHIN’ BURNING, an immersive dining experience featuring craft cocktails, Nouvelle Roadhouse cuisine, and a deeply sincere special agent bent on finding the truth in a small town penetrated by insidious darkness.

I recently had the great pleasure to work with a great cast to create some dark publicity photos for the show. I'd like to introduce you to some of the characters.

Meet Angelica Crew - Daughter of Stan Crew, original owner of
the Hideout. She left Lost Falls before finishing
high school. She never knew her mom, and her dad was
not the easiest to handle. He raised a tough, swearing,
firecracker of a daughter...

Meet Michael Stern - Since sophomore year in high school
Michael has worked at the Hideout.... Most people think he’s
angry. He does have a habit of lashing out as if cornered.
He often feels cornered.

The photos were created on location at Cornish in Seattle. Let me know when you need photos to publicize your upcoming events or need new headshots.

Thanks!
John
info at cornicello dot com

Cafe Nordo returns for 2012

About a month ago I ran into Terry Podgorski at a SANCA show and asked about plans for a new Cafe Nordo. That was great timing, as they had a show just about ready to go (To Savor Tomorrow at the new West of Lenin theater in Fremont) and needed publicity photos. I had a really great time with the cast creating photos last year and immediately jumped at the opportunity to work with them again.

We emailed back and forth a bit and came up with a plan to create the photos at the Seattle Museum of Flight. What a perfect place to set the photos!

Terry and I met up early and scouted the location. We also stopped in the gift shop and were able to borrow some props to add to the photos. Soon the cast (Mark Siano, Max Davis, Ray Tagavilla, Opal Peachy and Aimée Burneau) showed up and we were ready to go. It was a slightly overcast day and we selected a glass enclosed walkway for the location. A single on camera flash (Shhh... don't tell anyone I used an on camera flash. Especially an old 540EX in manual mode!!) provided the needed pop on the faces. A few minutes work in Adobe Lightroom and we were ready to go. Hope you enjoy these photos as much as we did creating them.

Max Davis and Ray Tagavilla

Max Davis, Aimée Bruneau, and Ray Tagavilla

Opal Peachy

Aimée Bruneau, Max Davis, Mark Siano,
Ray Tagavilla, and Opal Peachy

 

Coffee, Tea, or...

Thanks for taking a look. Let me know if you are ever in need of staged publicity photos for your event or production.

Recent Work

Yes, I know. It has been months since I've posted here. Life has been busy. So, it is time to show some recent work. Here are two photographs for Cafe Nordo in Seattle that are running on their website and in a lot of local press and blogs. Would've been nice to have photo credits, but somehow they always get lost...
Here, in the first photo, we see, from left to right, Ray Tagavilla, Opal Peachy, Billie Wildrick and Mark Siano.