Juan Hitters: febrero 2012

domingo, 19 de febrero de 2012

In Mexico D.F. for Dish Latino

Juan has been contacted by Flavio Dumaine from Miami-based Bonsai 3 for the new graphic campaign of Dish Latino. The satellite-TV monster company is filming several commercials in Mexico D.F. and Juan is shooting during these long sessions.

martes, 14 de febrero de 2012

Punta del Este for Arquitectura & Diseño (Spain)

March issue of Arquitectura & Diseño Magazine from Spain has just been released. It features a story shot by Juan with Sol Van Dorssen in Punta del Este. An amazing house on the beach by architect Martin Gomez gave the team many fascinating views and spaces to produce terrific pictures.

miércoles, 8 de febrero de 2012

Urban exploration for Graffigna

Juan has been recently shooting for Pernod Ricard on the production of a marketing kit for Graffigna wines to be used in the fast-growing markets of USA and Canada. Jean del Pino and Estefania Jacobs from the winery, alongside Federico Lleonart, Brand Ambassador of Graffigna, worked on the development of a contemporary picture style to address the bold spirit of Graffigna Centenario wines.

martes, 7 de febrero de 2012

Patio Bullrich

Juan has just started contributing with Patio Bullrich shopping mall. Pilar Calegari from Estudio Fbdi contacted Juan to produce marketing images for Buenos Aires most prestigious mall. A first stage was completed recently under the direction of Soledad Mendoza.

Story for Arquitectura & Diseño (Spain)

This house in the traditional Punta del Este style is located in the stylish San Rafael neighborhood and is surrounded by imposing Pinus Elliotti trees.

New covers for BIS Records, Sweden

David Kornfeld, graphic designer at BIS, has been closely working with Juan since 2002 in the production of high-impact covers suitable for the diverse titles in the ever-growing BIS catalog.

What's on the CD player this week

New film about Architect César Pelli

What's on the CD player this week

"Sound City": real to reel. Dave Grohl has put together many wonderful musicians and directed a documentary film called Sound City. The movie is about the sheer joy of playing and recording plain (or not so plain) rock music starring Chris Goss, Joshua Homme, Rupert Neve, Stevie Nicks, Tom Petty, Trent Reznor, Rick Rubin and Paul Mc Cartney to name just a few. The soundtrack is a true marvel, similar in a way to Slash's first solo album. It has been on steady rotation since I came back from Sydney.

Keith Jarrett at Teatro Colon

Tonight Keith Jarrett is improvising on the piano at Teatro Colon. It has been nearly three decades since I listened to "The Köln Concert" for the first time. The experience was revealing. It is probably one of the albums I have enjoyed the most. I clearly remember once driving with friends along a deserted road someplace in Uruguay while listening to Keith play the old Bösendorfer in Cologne. The compact cassette sounded awful, but I could do nothing but wonder: listening to this beautiful music recorded many years ago, in a far away city, while driving through this lonely country, was magic! Well, life has been good to me, and gave me the opportunity of contributing to ECM on Keith Jarrett's "Testament" album cover, a recording of two improvised concerts in Paris and London. This was a couple of years ago. Tonight I will be listening to the man himself, no state of the art recording or crappy cassette, just an incredible musician playing the piano. You bet I am looking forward to this experience.