Back in the old days, I would shoot several album covers a month, but nowadays I get about one or two a year. Album packaging used to be a job requiring professionals, but the last time I was up at Universal my art director friend was comping up a cover from a iphone Hipstamatic file. I still love to be involved with Album art. Unlike magazine work, which is fleeting and lasts a month, an album cover is on the stands FOREVER! Anyway, working with David Sitek from TV on the Radio is such a blast! The guy is teeming with energy, super talented and just plain inspiring to hang out with! We shot the cover image in front of a weird looking painted mural of a tree that we had scouted in Burbank, but of course the legal department at Interscope shot it down and they ended up digitally removing it. We totally gorilla-ed the shot in the field with the record execs shooting at Dave. Thank god the legal department weren’t there for that.
