StockClerk Dave?

A lot of people pay money and go to the gym for exercise. Instead, I went to the supermarket, and they paid me! My part-time exercise program "disguised" as a stock clerk for a large regional grocery store chain never amounted to much else, but it was sure a lot of fun! I especially enjoyed the continual interaction with people of all sorts.

Along the way I noticed there were a lot of grocery store terms that nobody, so far as I know, had ever documented.

Well, documenting is in my blood. Thus, just for fun, the Stock Clerk Glossary was born! Take a peek: StockClerk-glossary-b.blogspot.com.

Along the way, I learned how to use a LOT of HTML, CSS, and, well, pure determination to coax Blogger into a tabbed glossary format. That experience later paid off, allowing me to seamlessly bolt a Blogger blog onto a customer's website while retaining that other site's look and feel. (See, "And this just in,..." below).

Calendar Covers

For Writers and Books, a local non-profit literary center located in Rochester's blossoming "Art Walk" district, I created a stylized photo collage of their renovated building and landmark sculpture. How many giant #2 pencils are there, you ask? Well, this twenty-footer is actually a #740 Pencil, because that's their street address.

The collage graced the cover of one of their quarterly course catalogs, for which Carol Bassett did the cover design and layout.

The original is shown left, and as printed, right.

I did several more covers, but except for spot color, these were all printed in black and white:

TIP: especially in candid portraiture, if you're after what photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson called "The Decisive Moment" (and not too concerned about resolution or sharpness), you can opt to shoot with a video camera. Later, just grab your subjects' most expressive single frames. That's what I did to create the middle (blue mastheaded) calendar cover above.