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Al Gore was the keynote speaker at this year's PromaxBDA Conference held in NYC this summer. It's a media and marketing organization based in LA. I was comissioned to attend the conference and create artwork for their offices.
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Joseph Heller for NY Times Book Review. Nicholas Blechman, AD.
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New films from directors Steven Soderbergh and George Clooney for movie review section in American Prospect. Mary Parsons, AD.
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Prof. John Irwin who has just written a book about poet Hart Crane and his epic poem "The Bridge" about the Brooklyn Bridge. For Johns Hopkins magazine. Shaul Tsemach, AD.
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Andreas Hilka of Allianz for Plan Sponsor Europe. SooJin Buzelli, AD.
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I got the chance to meet Gore at a reception during the Promax conference. Here I am oblivious to the protocol of the "meet & greet". You're suppose to look at the camera, idiot.