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My favorite book plug of all time:

[…] Liezl packaged some of her best photos — including ones of superstars like Amy Poehler, Louis CK, Sarah Silverman, and Marc Maron — into a lovely book she designed herself, Liezl Was Here, which you can and should buy on blurb.com. It’s perfect for the comedy nerd in your life that won’t shut the fuck up about Community.
 

You can read the rest of my interview with Seth Madej, here, where we equate listening to comedy podcasts to old timey radio serials.  You can also tweet him at @SethMad with #SethBuyMeLunch, where he will hopefully go broke from accommodating requests for free lunches and writing interviews. 

Turns out Seth’s an entertaining writer, so you should hire him for such, if only to help pay for his wife’s hospital visit and subsequent stitches from falling in the shower.

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This American Wife. I did this fun little interview with Eric Martin a couple weeks ago where I talk about the origin of my first name, why I decided against the medical field in favor of graphic design, favorite photos, shows, and what I now look for when I shoot a show.  Starts at the 37 min mark.

(Also listen to Eric’s dyslexia kick in and mispronounce my last name repeatedly.)

epic:

This American Wife Episode 45 - 5 Second Films, Liezl Estipona

“Picture Pages” This week, the incredible true story of a studio that makes movies that are only 5 seconds long. See why they’ve partnered up with Patton Oswalt, Andrew WK, Weird Al Yankovic, and more (hint: it doesn’t take that long to shoot). Ben Gigli, Kelsey Gunn, Michael Peter, and Daniel Hollister from 5 Second Films finally get to take their sweet time. In Act II, photographer Liezl Estipona (Paul F Tompkins Show, Upright Citizens Brigade), reveals stories from her new book, “Liezl Was Here.” Stay here.

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Produced and edited by Eric Martin.

Hosted by Paul Jay, co-produced by Jen Goldberg.

Created by Ned Hepburn and Eric Martin.

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I’M BOOK O’ THE WEEK ON BLURB!@#

 

We think it’s safe to say that Liezl Was Here: Adventures in Comedy Photography features more photos of funny famous people than any other book at Blurb. It features the likes of Amy Poehler, Conan O’Brien, Sarah Silverman, “Weird Al” Yankovic, Ed Helms, Neil Patrick Harris, David Cross – you get the idea – all photographed doing what they do best: making people laugh live on stage.

While it’s easy to make a big deal out of the people in the book, it’s the photographer behind it all that really blows us away. Liezl Estipona is a Los Angeles-based photographer, graphic designer, and comedy fan. Her love for the genre is infectious. And she shared with us the story of how she got all these funny people in one book.

Blurb: You describe this book as totally approved by the comedians. Can you describe how you got involved, and got them involved, in this?

Liezl: I’ve been taking photos at The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre on my own, as a fan since, about 2007. During that time, comedians took notice of my photography and would invite me to their shows. After a couple years, the venue granted me full access to shoot any show in return for photos. Ten thousand photos later, I decided it was time to make something tangible of it in the form of coffee table book as a tribute to my favorite funny people.

(read the rest of it here)

Hey, it’s 10 questions with Liezl!

I’m not great at exposition but I obliged in this Q&A session with Toronto writer, Sharilyn Johnson. It covers how I got started shooting, who my favorite people to shoot, and why I decided to put together a book.

Question: can I just tell you that you're kind of my hero? I'm a graphic designer too but my ultimate dream is to work with comedy in some fashion, and so to me, you're basically living the dream and I totally envy you haha. Also, your photos are absolutely amazing and sort of make my life complete. How exactly did you get into working with/for these comedians? (basically, can I have your life?)

A lot of work. About 20,000 photos worth of work over 4 years.

Also, you can’t have my life, but you can have my soul crushing college debt.