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Why Learning to Build Hollywood Flats Changes Everything
Want to learn how to build your own photo sets?
We are launching a new Set Building Course where David teaches you how to build a Hollywood flat from start to finish. Step by step. No assumptions. No gatekeeping.
A flat is essentially a f...
The Journey Journal Preview | DAY 18: Are We Over the Mountain Yet?
A Preview of The Journey Journal
We're documenting our cross-country art project in a daily journal from September 20 through October 25. Get the stories, behind-the-scenes photographs, unexpected detours, and personal reflections that don't make ...
The Schoolhouse at FLX Escapes, Finger Lakes NY: Stay 3 of The Journey
Our third stop on The Journey brought us to the Finger Lakes region of New York, where we spent the night at The Schoolhouse by FLX Escapes.
We arrived after dark, which was becoming a bit of a theme for us. By the time we got there, w...
Our First Photoshoot With a Mobile Photo Studio in Cape Cod
Cape Cod was the first real test of The Journey - our 7,500 mile photography project across the United States.
We spent two nights there, but we arrived after dark the first night. We ate lobster rolls, went to bed, and tried not to think too h...
Cape June Stays in Cape Cod: Stay 2 of The Journey
Our second stop on The Journey was Cape Cod, Massachusetts, where we spent two nights at Cape June Stays in South Yarmouth.
Cape Cod was a pretty big milestone for us because it was where we planned to do our very first photoshoot...
Mullica River Cottages Sweetwater, NJ: Stay 1 of The Journey
We did not exactly ease into The Journey.
On September 20th, after months of planning, weeks of building, and a final few days that felt like absolute chaos, we finally pulled out of Richmond around 7pm.
Which was, of course, several hours later th...
Days 8 and 9 of The Truck Bed Photo Set Build
By the last two days of the set build, we were officially behind schedule.
The problem was that we weren’t just trying to finish building a mobile photo studio. We were also moving out of our house at the exact same time so our renters could m...
Days 6 and 7 of the Truck Bed Photo Set Build
By Day 6, the set was finally starting to look like David’s original sketches for the truck bed photo set.
But we still had one pretty important question to answer: How exactly were we going to secure this thing to the truck?
David had theori...
Days 4 and 5 of the Truck Bed Photo Set Build
There are certain days in a set build where everything changes.
You face the flats. You stand the walls up. You finally get paint on everything. You step back at the end of the day and suddenly there is a thing where there was nothing that morning.
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Building a Cartoon Dress Out of Plywood | Attic Series Set 7
Is there anything more nostalgic than cartoons?
The bright colors. The simple drawings. The weird proportions. Everything is exaggerated and graphic and somehow just a little more exciting than real life.
I grew up watching shows like Rugrats...
Day 3 of The Truck Bed Photo Set Build
Day 3 of the truck bed set build was a really important one! The goal was to frame out the tops of each of these flats.
That part is so important because the set is actually designed to be photographed two completely different ways. Th...
Day 2 of the Truck Bed Photo Set Build
Day two of the set build had one very specific goal: frame out all of the side walls.
Which sounds simple enough until you remember that this set is made up of four separate boxes, and every box has two side walls.
So, eight walls.
It was a ...
Let The Build Begin: Day 1
The Journey officially kicks off on September 15th, which is somehow less than two weeks away.
And today was day one of the set build.
Starting a new set build is always a little daunting. The design has been living in David’s head...
The Journey Route Update: Our 7,500-Mile Cross-Country Photography Project
Okay...we revised the map.
And apparently decided to make this project a little more intense.
What started as roughly a 5,000-mile trip has officially grown by another 2,500 miles, because once we really started mapping everything out, there were j...
Attic Series Set 6 | Building a Beach Photo Set in Our Attic
There's something incredibly satisfying about taking a space that shouldn't become something... and making it become exactly that.
For our sixth set in the Attic Series, we transformed our attic into a surreal beach.
Not a realistic beach. A beach ...
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Jada + David Parrish are mixed media artists whose work explores the connection between painting, sculpture, motion, and photography.