NEWS
Jun 27, 2011
It was 11 years ago today that I first bought funkfactor.com!!!! That's pretty old in digital years.
Jun 14, 2011
A bunch of new sites I designed are up!
buskers.ca
codapop.com
scott-macmillan.ca
Apr 16, 2011
I couldn't be in PEI over the weekend due to shooting the Ha!ifax ComedyFest but it looks like I won Visual Artist of the Year again at the ECMAs. Thanks gang!! I REALLY wish I could have been there to celebrate with you.
Mar 31, 2011
I won Best Music Photographer in the Coast's Best of Music awards. High fives and hugs to all you sexy voters!
Jan 24, 2011
Woohoo. I'm nominated for Visual Artist of the Year at the 2011 East Coast Music Awards. I just moved into a new apartment too. My new home office is sweet!!! Lots of natural light!!!
Nov 26, 2010
Whew! Finished two days of shooting Johnny Reid for his upcoming TV special on PBS/CMT. Look for my pics on the DVD when it comes out.
Nov 08, 2010
I'm back from NS Music week one award heavier. I got Visual Artist of the Year again. That's 5 years in a row now. I REALLY appreciate the support I get from this scene!!! HUGS all around!
CLIENTS
Alert The Medic
The Cottars
Dave Gunning
The Divorcees
Drum!
Duane Andrews
Hey Rosetta!
Joel Plaskett
Matt Andersen
Matt Mays
The Novaks
Rawlins Cross
Ross Neilsen
Pogey
Shanneyganock
The Stanfields
The Superfantastics
Tim Chaisson & Morning Fold
Thom Swift
Two Hours Traffic
Wintersleep

Taking a life lesson from the people who brought us peanut butter cups, I took the two things I love most, music and visual arts, and combined them to make a whole that was even more enjoyable than its parts. Mmmmmm... yummy!
With a background in radio, entertainment writing, club DJing and concert booking, I stumbled into the world of graphic design by making posters for the concerts I booked. Eventually, I learned that designing posters was way more fun than arguing over money with booking agents. That initiated a hiatus from the music business which launched me into the land of professional graphic design where I worked for about 5 years managing the Art Departments for IT Firms and Ad Agencies. Preferring to use my own photos over stock images, it was during this time that I began to teach myself photography. Yup, I'm self taught. I just push buttons until things make sense or catch on fire!
But eventually the world of music called me back to the fold. So I took what I'd learned and started my own company known as funkfactor. Now I spend my creative energy developing CD designs, websites, photo shoots and more for members of the entertainment industry.
This change in career has been very kind to me as I've won numerous awards including five East Coast Music Awards for both Photography and Graphic Design, several Visual Artist of the Year awards from Music Nova Scotia as well as a handful of Best Music Photographer awards from The Coast.
I also run Battle SNAP (a photo competition of my own creation), I'm a PHOTOPOLIS Committee Member, an ECMA Awards Committee Member, a Halifax Pop Explosion Association Member, the official photographer of Evolve, and the designer for both the Halifax International Busker Festival and the Ha!ifax ComedyFest.
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Visual Artist of the Year
2011 Music Nova Scotia Awards

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Visual Artist of the Year
2011 East Coast Music Awards

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Best Music Photographer of the Year
The Coast - Best of Music Reader's Poll - 2011
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Visual Artist of the Year
2010 Music Nova Scotia Awards

I recruited EMC from Three Sheet to do my thank you list
beatbox style! He's awesome and this is why!
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Best Music Photographer of the Year
The Coast - Best of Music Reader's Poll - 2010
photo by Aaron McKenzie Fraser
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Visual Artist of the Year
2010 East Coast Music Awards

This is Ray. We hung out a lot at the 2010 ECMAs. If you were there, ya probably met him.
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Visual Artist of the Year
2009 Music Nova Scotia Awards

Photo: Scott Blackburn
I wore my Jason mask from Friday The 13th when I ran up to accept my award.
Don't ask me why... I just do these things.
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Best Music Photographer of the Year
The Coast - Best of Music Reader's Poll - 2009
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Photographer of the Year
and
Graphic Designer of the Year
2009 East Coast Music Awards

Check it out, I won two awards this year. ECMA book ends!
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Visual Artist of the Year
2008 Music Nova Scotia Awards

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Best Music Photographer of the Year
The Coast - Best of Music Reader's Poll - 2008

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Photographer of the Year
2008 East Coast Music Awards

ECMA tally:
I got an award
The folks I work with had 29 nominations and won 11 awards
I had an exhibition with 14 photos, 7 got stolen
Overall it was a great weekend
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Visual Artist of the Year
2007 Music Nova Scotia Awards

Woohoo. I won! And I had an awesome weekend at White Point Resort... the magical land of beer and bunnies!
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Best Music Photographer of the Year
The Coast - Best of Music Reader's Poll - 2007

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Graphic Designer of the Year
2007 East Coast Music Awards

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Visual Artist of the Year
2006 Music Nova Scotia Awards

Here's me celebrating with a tasty beer.
Oh... and that's the award I'm drinking out of.
Yeah, you can't take me anywhere, I know.
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This photo was printed in the 2004 American Photo Reader's Contest issue.
It was a really nice pat on the back seeing as over 50,000 other photos from around the world were also entered.


As for the photo itself, it's not make-up as I am sometimes asked. He's a friend of mine who got swarmed by a group of people while walking home one night. They caught him off guard and pushed him down at which time he basically skidded across the pavement on his face. Once he started to fight back, they ran away like the cowards they were! So he successfully defended the $8 he had on him, ha. Unfortunately his face was a little worse for wear.
He's fine now though. He heals REALLY fast!!
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Alert The Medic - Press photos
Banshee - CD design, CD & press photos
Barley & the Durt - CD design, CD & press photos
Bucket Truck - CD photos
Catherine MacLellan - CD design, CD & press photos
Christa Borden - Web design
The Contact - Press photos
The Cottars - CD & press photos
Crash Test Dummies - Press photos
Dave Gunning - Press photos
The Divorcees - CD design, CD & press photos
DRUM! - Live photos
Duane Andrews - CD & press photos
Greyskull - CD design, CD & press photos
Hey Rosetta! - Press photos
Jamie Sparks - Press photos
Jamie Walsh - CD design, CD & press photos
Jill Porter - Press photos
Joel Plaskett - Live & press photos & New Years poster design
John Hughes - CD photos
Jon McKeil - Press photos
Kendra MacGillivray - CD design, CD & press photos
Kevin Davison - CD design, CD & press photos
The Letter Unfolds - CD photos
Mardeen - Press photos & web design
Matt Andersen - Press photos
Matt Mays and El Torpedo - CD & press photos
The Novaks - CD design, CD & press photos
Patrick Boyle - CD & web design, CD & press photos
Pogey - CD design, CD & press photos
Rawlins Cross - CD design, CD & press photos, & web design
Ross Neilsen - CD design, CD & press photos, & web design
Ryan Cook & Sunny Acres - Press photos
Sierra Noble - Press photos
Shanneyganock - Press photos
The Stanfields - CD & web design, CD & press photos
The Superfantastics - Press photos
Squid - DVD photos
Tim Chaisson & Morning Fold - Press photos
Thom Swift - CD design, CD & press photos
Two Hours Traffic - Press photos
Wintersleep - Press photos
Nokia - Photos for international ad campaign and former website manager
Halifax Pop Explosion - Official Photographer
Evolve - Official Photographer
Halifax International Busker Festival - Brochure, poster, website design and photographer
Ha!ifax ComedyFest - Brochure, poster, website design and photographer
Music Nova Scotia - Photos for website, brochures, posters, etc
MusicNL - Website design (not the current one)
Photopolis: Halifax Photography Festival - Brochure, poster, website design and board member
Junofest 2006 - Ads, banners, t-shirts, posters, postcards, etc.
Musicstop - Tradeshow photos
Molson Canadian - Ad photos & design
Habitat For Humanity - Benefit concert photos
Oxfam - Concert for Asia photos

I've had photos published in:
American Photo
Billboard
Exclaim
Chart
Gasoline Magazine
The National Post
The Globe and Mail
The Coast - cover shot
Halifax Magazine - cover shot
Daily News, Halifax - cover shot
HFX
Boom
The Independent
The Newfoundland Herald - cover shot
The Evening Telegram
Current
The Gazette
and many more I'll never see