Here's a quick sample of my work. If this video is too much, you can go to Peter Duke Photography, instead (or browse below). Here are my latest Instagram Photos and my work on Flickr. World Class Photography - Fashion, Portrait, Advertising & Editorial I've been making photographs for long … More
What medium does the message want? Messages, like water, will seek the medium best suited to its propagation. As a Media Strategist, I help enterprises find technology solutions to solve creative problems across the ever divergent landscape of today's mediums [sic]. My ability to communicate with … More
Creative Direction starts by defining the Problem, Success Criteria and Positioning for Creative teams, resulting in Creative Briefs that disciplinary specialists can use to benchmark their ideas and executions. Problem Definition The primary task of a Creative Director is defining the problem (or … More
American author, singer and actress, Hilary Duff wanted to take personal charge of her online presence. Hilary has a savvy understanding of social media and understands the importance of maintaining a direct relationship with her audience. Her Facebook page is fast approaching three million … More
Back in the day, Elena Davis and I worked together non-stop in the hectic fashion business. She was a model, and I the photographer. Years later, Elena was stopped in an intersection in Houston, Texas by a homeless woman with a simple request; "do you have some water?" From that moment of … More
The Shoah Foundation, founded by Steven Spielberg, was donated to USC several years ago, and is now known as the USC Shoah Foundation Institute. The foundation has created an archive of 104,000 hours of testimony from holocaust survivors and witnesses. The digitized video is stored in a … More
As Web Director for Virgin Entertainment Group, I produced and directed the creation of the Virgin Megastore Digital Preview System. The system is a web-based implementation that allows customers the ability to scan 250,000 CD titles and 11,000 DVD movie trailers. The system consists of 400 touch … More
Timeplay came to Playground Media Group to help develop a platform and content for a video game system, designed to be deployed in movie theaters. The challenge was to come up activities that could engage an entire audience. We created and developed "Behind the Screens", and interactive game show, … More
Microsoft approached me at the AFI enhanced Television Workshop (now called the Digital Content Lab) and asked me to design web-enabled High Definition Video discs that would be used on Windows Media Center computers. I brought the project in-house at Playground Media Group where we developed some … More
Early in 2007 I was asked by the Wilkinson Group to help concept and develop a plan on how to turn Tetris into a spectator sport for Blue Planet Software. Our ultimate proposal was to create a "Tetris Cup" to achieve the goals below. Although this plan has not yet been executed, the Tetris Company … More
LVSP is a $300MM project that was a joint effort between the Las Vegas Water Authority and the Southern Nevada Water District to educate Las Vegas visitors on water conservation and sustainable living. As Creative Director of Technology, my job was to oversee problem definition, design, and … More
I live on a dangerous street. Four people have been killed in recent years, three in a fifteen month period. My neighbors were up in arms and so I created a community website, Safe Westside, to focus the energy on engineering, education and enforcement solutions. Within 24 hours we had collected … More
Background In 1995, a talented Creative Director named Michael Von Hulsebus turned me onto an article in Communication Arts magazine by Hugh Dubberly that changed my … More
Dangerous Times It's the 21st Century, and you better come up with a scheme for creating and remembering your passwords. Every few days I get an email from a long lost friend, … More
I've been wondering, for several years, why DSLRs keep the 24x36 sensor in their "full frame" camera bodies. 24x36 was based on the 35mm film stock that was available, even though … More
I first became aware of non-photorealistic rendering in 2000 when Alex Mohr, Christopher Herrman and some other students at the University of Wisconsin created a non-photorealistic … More
I ran into some VERY COOL folks from at the 2010 Computer Game Developer's Conference, and heck, they interviewed me... right here! Big thanks to Marc Jackson! … More
The 2010 Computer Game Developers Conference in San Francisco was fun. There was a lot of noise in the hallways about social games, and the over-stated death of the single-player … More
A Southern California Life I've never been a surfer, but having grown up by the beaches in Southern California, I have many friends who are surfers... pros, punks, filmmakers and … More
How fast Is Your Brain? Dave Gray pointed out a rad article on the relative bandwidth of human sensory cognition called "The half-second delay: what follows?" Here's the … More
Once upon a time, someone said "information wants to be free". It's probably a reflection of the reality that memes want to be free. Information could be a classification of meme, … More
The future of intellectual property is 360° management. 20 years ago, I was hired as a photographer to shoot a wedding shower at Morton's restaurant in Beverly Hills. The groom, … More
Turn off Twitter. Just for a moment. Ignore your "friends". Don't comment. Don't post. Breathe. We live in a new world now. A world where anything or anyone we … More
One of my favorite podcasts of all time is Clay Shirky's "Ontology is Overrated". This was my first experience of Shirky's keen insight and cleaver delivery. He's a funny guy and … More
Which SLR to buy? I get asked this question a lot. A lot of things have changed in photography since my parents gave me a Yashica-A and 20 rolls of expired film one Christmas … More
Download Christopher Doyle™ Identity Guidelines 2008 This brilliant piece doesn't seem to have a home of its own on the web, so I'm re-posting it here. Christopher works at … More
Nastassja Kinski and the Serpent, originally uploaded by Balakov. Sometimes LOL just doesn't do justice to the amount of laughing... This is just funny, pure genius... … More
This post was going to start with "I was thinking", but then it occurred to me that any "thinking" I might have been doing was simply the significant pondering on the thoughts of … More
Recently, I took my second Disney Cruise. Leaving out of Los Angeles, this time, we went to Mexico. On the trip there was a couple of lectures by Disney's Head of Synergy, Jack … More
My Friend Christopher Fusco Wants You... For the Secret Society (whatever that is!) … More
My wife, Sara, and I used to play a lot of Scrabble. When we moved into our current house, I noticed that we actually had three copies of the official Scrabble Dictionary. Sara's … More
Here are some extreme closeups from the xRez Yosemite shoot. You could spend hours wandering around the multi-gigapixel images. xRez has a lot more plans for these images, and … More
I found a cool data visualization today called Wordle. Take a look at the way it renders my del.icio.us tags. (doesn't work with Chrome yet 06/24/2014) … More
