About

I am Elizabeth Weinberg and I live in Los Angeles. Most people know me as a photographer and director, but before all of that I was an illustrator, graphic designer, and web developer. 

Let's go back to 1994. As a preteen nerd in my parents' suburban basement, I was helping n00bs as a SysOp on the Compuserve support forums. I then moved on to create my own ASCII-based punk fanzine that lived on a Compuserve music channel (if I can find any of these on an old drive, that would be a miracle).

From there I dove into learning HTML and Flash design and by 1997 I was a member of the graphic design crew Swankarmy. The web was fresh and new and exciting and a playground for creativity with no rules.  Everyone wanted their site to look like a David Carson piece, and fucking around in Photoshop and playing with fonts was heaven. In 1998, as a junior in high school, I worked as a freelance Flash designer for Dreamworks records.  They sent me their entire catalog on CD in addition to creative fees that added up to more money than I had ever seen in my life.  Thanks for helping me discover Ellliott Smith, Dreamworks!

From Swanky came scribble.nu, one of the first-ever blogging platforms, in the late 90s. I got the blogging bug and then created burntsienna.nu, which I ran on Blogger, then Moveable Type, then Wordpress. At the same time, I was beginining to focus more on photography so while the blog itself was designed by me, the content became more focused on photography and day-to-day ramblings. The blogging community of the early 2000's was a rather close knit (if you can believe it) scene and I still have friends I made in college who found my blog when they were in high school. 

As I moved on through college and graduated, I eventually phased the blog out and created a standard myname dot com portfolio site which still exists today.  My graphic design past sort of faded into the distance as I focused on my photography career.

Many creative industries have become a dumpster fire hellscape and I missed making stuff for fun so that's what you're seeing now. Enjoy!