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Chief Creative Officer BIG Creative | formerly @pirates @betr @miamidolphins @dbacks | @jwilleyphoto IG | Mental Health Pod @creativeAF6 | @Leica guy | he/him

Pittsburgh, PA

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Jon Willey

3 years

Hey leaders in sports, how are you ignoring your teams leaving in droves? How are you daily worsening their mental health and invalidating their feelings? How are you not forcing them to take the time off? Some thoughts from someone who hears their pleas daily: 🧵 1/

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Jon Willey

3 years

Everyone working in sports, watching sports, coaching sports or playing sports, heed this young mans advice.

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Jon Willey

4 years

@atrupar The best part is they are so mad at certain people for disrespecting our flag yet this is a clear violation of the US flag code lol ¯\_(ツ)_/¯... but hey, what are rules in 2020 amirite?

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4 years

@Chris_Grosse Casual

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Jon Willey

3 years

I was today years old. Why.

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Jon Willey

3 years

Stop. Calling. Entry. Level. $30k. Jobs. Directors.

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Jon Willey

4 years

@Chris_Grosse Gotta run this one back... 🤪

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Jon Willey

9 months

How it started…. …how it’s going!!

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Jon Willey

3 years

Today is my last day unemployed. Monday starts a new chapter not only in my professional career, but in @Pirates content and creative. Buckle up, burn the ships, LFG. See ya in a few days Pittsburgh.

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Jon Willey

3 years

The puddle The Shot

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Jon Willey

4 years

@therecount uhhhh why are they all of a sudden wearing masks now?

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Jon Willey

4 years

Still laughing at the Beavis and Butthead commercial and my wife can’t understand

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Jon Willey

3 years

Mom is cancer free!! 💖

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Jon Willey

3 years

If you are a leader in sports and are more more worried about what people wear and when they get in the office, than the work they produce, you’re doing it all wrong. Not a subtweet. Just an observation from experience.

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Jon Willey

4 years

Facebooking with your racist friends irl. The minute you validate an argument they “agree to disagree”

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Jon Willey

3 years

So. I’ve heard it four or five times the past few weeks as I’m looking for talent to fill some roles soon that “he/she/they are not baseball people”. Well that’s perfect then. I don’t wanna hire super-fans of a specific sport, I wanna hire super-fans of great storytelling.

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Jon Willey

3 years

Everyone: “Hey, did you get any good photos today? That camera must take amazing pictures!” Photographers:

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Jon Willey

3 years

Did it hurt? When you formatted that SD card you hadn’t downloaded yet?

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Jon Willey

3 years

Hey @Pirates 👋... u up? See ya soon... #burntheships #LetsGoBucs

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Jon Willey

4 years

So we have reached the point where we are pre-announcing that we are eventually announcing that we are leaving a job... and then teasing the new announcement about the next job. Got it.

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Jon Willey

3 years

Access >

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Jon Willey

10 months

Wanna know one of the best way to retain employees in sports?👇We had a strong bonus structure at the @MiamiDolphins based on profit as an org and performance as an individual. Life changing $. But I’ve also gotten $10 Starbucks card as a bonus. Bonuses matter and are achievable.

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Front Office Sports

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After selling a majority stake in the Mavericks, Mark Cuban sent an email to Mavs employees today with plans to pay out $35 MILLION in bonuses.

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Jon Willey

4 years

Twitter pharmacists: OMG 6 people got blood clots out of 7 million! Shut it down! The same Twitter pharmacists in their Twitter doctor phase: 500,000 people died? Y’all it’s just the flu calm down and LIVE your life.

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Jon Willey

4 years

How it started: How it’s going:

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Jon Willey

3 years

Do your job. Not everyone else’s. If things suffer because they don’t do theirs, then let it suffer. A hard but necessary pill to swallow. Leaders can’t effect change if everything looks great on the outside, but you’re taking on the brunt of the work to get it right.

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Dan Beltran

3 years

Today I was reminded to "work smarter, not harder" What are some examples of this in your own creative workflow?

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Jon Willey

4 years

@writingjax @NotRyanAdams @chicagotribune Adam Toledo didn’t get his day in court. Duante Wright didn’t get his day in court. George Floyd didn’t get his day in court. Shall I continue?

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Jon Willey

1 year

So excited to announce that I’ll be joining @WillPosthumus and BIG Creative as the new Chief Creative Officer! A long time in the making but it’s time to change and grow the sports creative world once again!

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Will Posthumus

1 year

I don't usually post about BIG Creative on here, but this one feels warranted. An announcement 15 years in the making and it feels like the winding roads we've been on as creative partners and individuals were always leading us here. Let's do something BIG, @jonwilley !

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Jon Willey

3 years

It’s been a minute. First @NFL game in about 3 years. Thanks for having me @donaldppage and @SurfM . Hope we can make ya proud.

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Jon Willey

3 years

I’ve written 5 job descriptions this week. Keep your 👀 open soon.

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Jon Willey

2 years

👀

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Jon Willey

3 years

When you're applying for a job, don't tell me how passionate you are about the team you are applying to... tell me how motivated you are, what interests TF out of you, and SHOW me your abilities... Those three together will immediately help me determine your level of passion.

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Jon Willey

4 years

The location The Shot

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Jon Willey

2 years

WE ARE HIRING @Pirates ! Photographer Coordinator, Content Production Shoot your applications in if you're interested!

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Jon Willey

2 years

Today was a good day

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Jon Willey

2 years

If your job is your identity, I’m here to tell you there is still time to change that.

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Jon Willey

3 years

Leaders, I’m not mad at ya but I’m worried about ur people. I get DAILY DMs from grads and people who’ve been in it for decades, that their MH is the worst it’s ever been. Show some fuckin grace n remember we are still in the middle of a global pandemic. I’m tired. Do better. 6/6

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Jon Willey

4 years

Facts

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Jon Willey

3 years

Caption Photo 🤝 Things that are perfect

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Pittsburgh Pirates

3 years

called strike

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Jon Willey

4 years

Respect the light.

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Jon Willey

5 years

People (sports creatives) need to stop and ask themselves WHY this job they want so badly is a “dream job”... Seriously ask themselves why? Because it’s their favorite team? Their dads favorite team? Because they wanna be on the field? Riches and gold dabloons? IG clout? 1/5

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Adam Eargle

5 years

If you’re a graphic designer taking credit for your teams success because you make recruiting graphics, you’re also setting yourself up to take responsibility when the success is absent.

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Jon Willey

3 years

They just installed these signs in Pittsburgh 🥺🥺🥺 it really can be this simple.

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Jon Willey

5 years

Imagine the next wave of tattoo artists who grew up drawing in @procreate . And imagine your reaction when they tap two fingers at a time on your arm. ✌🏻😳 #someofyallgetit

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Jon Willey

4 years

Spread the word

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Jon Willey

4 years

Every photographer who’s ever worked in sports and/or for a team knows how to find the angle and use the right long glass to make an empty stadium “look” full. Show us the 16mm shot with packed stadium. Good try Donnie.

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Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

4 years

THE SILENT MAJORITY IS STRONGER THAN EVER BEFORE! #MAGA

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Jon Willey

3 years

Can you bring your camera this weekend when you come over? 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

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Jon Willey

3 years

Don’t ever ask them why they need a mental health day. If you’re “tracking” their hours and they are salaried in sports, they should be able to take a day off unquestioned. They work their asses off. 50 hr weeks maybe occasionally but 70-80-100 is abuse. 3/

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Jon Willey

4 years

@GovMikeHuckabee @MLB Fixed it for you Mike

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Jon Willey

2 years

👀😍

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Jon Willey

3 years

Tell me you’ve grown as an artist without telling me you’ve grown as an artist… ‘92 vs ‘16

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Caitlyn Snelling

3 years

Tell me you’ve grown as an artist without telling me you’ve grown as an artist Sept 2019. Vs. Sept 2021

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Jon Willey

3 years

And the scoreboard works and has sound :)

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Jon Willey

3 years

It took a LONG time for me to grasp this concept. Still a daily battle but getting better. #recoveringpeoplepleaser

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Jon Willey

8 years

I'm so stunned and honored! Thank you @Procreate and @Apple for creating these tools to enable my ideas to come to life! #ApplePencil #wow

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Procreate

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Here are the winners of our Sketch, Paint, Create competition! See these and Honourable Mentions at #ProcreateArt

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Jon Willey

3 years

The latest episode of @TedLasso broke me in the last second You can be the best for everyone else your entire life, and forget who YOU really are. That shit isn’t sustainable It’s OK to ask for help It’s OK to break down during the biggest moments It really is OK to not be OK

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Jon Willey

3 years

All I saw was the photographer

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Seth Galina

4 years

this is the worst football play in nfl history

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Jon Willey

7 years

An autonomous flying swarm of 300 drones, FRANCHISE FREEDOM, exposes the tension between individual freedom and safety by numbers. #livingart #scultpture • • #BMW #bmwgroupculture #leica #leicacamerausa #bayerischemotorenwerke #studiodrift #pacegallery #leicaQ #faenahotel

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Jon Willey

3 years

Been screaming this for years. We need to stop calling work “family” and call it what it is: A job is a community of like minded people coming together make awesome things!

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Adam Grant

3 years

A company isn't a family. Parents don't fire their kids for low performance or furlough them in hard times. A better vision for a workplace is a community—a place where people bond around shared values, feel valued as human beings, and have a voice in decisions that affect them.

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Jon Willey

3 years

Game one

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Jon Willey

3 years

Think. Fucking. Different. Challenge what you were taught (and what was forced on you). It’s hard. I was the worst at it for 40 years. But the last 3 have changed my life. Challenge dogmas and ask WHY a lot (especially to yourself). It’ll change you. Quickly.

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Jon Willey

4 years

One of the hardest parts about job hunting after a 20 year career in sports is getting people and recruiters for brands or agencies to understand you did so much more than just photograph football on Sundays

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Jon Willey

3 years

🚨 Life Update! 🚨 I am excited to announce that... ... i mulched around the entire house this weekend! (and only ingested a few pieces of the beautiful and not very tasty mulch) That is all... for now. 😏

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Jon Willey

5 years

To every photographer who has asked me how to make it into the “pros”, remember when I said “shoot what you have access to and tell a story”? You don’t need to shoot in a big stadium with highly paid athletes to tell a story. THIS is how you do it.

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Jon Willey

3 years

Clemente in the Pittsburgh snow. As seen on my walk to the car tonight.

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Jon Willey

4 years

@TheAnimaniacs Some #FanArtFriday paintings I did a while back! #Animaniacs

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Jon Willey

3 years

Force them to take time off. They are adults and will make their own decisions, but it’s on you to help clear their schedules, get backups, and make sure the work gets done so they can take time off. Oh, and if you expect them to work in any way on vacation, your an asshole. 5/

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Jon Willey

3 years

Trust me, the work will get done eventually and no one will care if a tweet or graphic doesn’t go out. (And you may need to step in and help with workload, WITHOUT any guilt trip. Being a leader doesn’t exempt you from doing.) 4/

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Jon Willey

3 years

If there’s one thing I’ve learned the past 100 days back in sports, it’s that we are all very much dealing with the trauma of a global pandemic we are STILL IN. Our collective mental health is not great. At all. Take it easy on yourself and others around you. Love y’all.

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Jon Willey

10 years

My shot of the night before the @MiamiDolphins beat the Bills ... #USA #SaluteToService #StrongerTogether http://t.co/WWnX55tqho

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Jon Willey

3 years

Everyone’s cool supporting mental health awareness until it doesn’t fit their agenda… take care of you Naomi!

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NaomiOsaka大坂なおみ

3 years

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Jon Willey

3 years

Sometimes they just want you to listen and validate their feelings. It can be that simple. They want to know you hear them and are actively working on change, even if it will take a while. 2/

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Jon Willey

3 years

More puddles More pictures

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Jon Willey

9 months

My 2nd year at the @MiamiDolphins I got this DM. He really wanted to be a Sommelier & was dabbling in photography. He sat next to me every home game holding my gear (learning) and shooting some partner signage for a year. Now Carlos is documenting legends every day. KEEP GOING!

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Jon Willey

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How it started…. …how it’s going!!

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Jon Willey

1 year

Such a huge team effort to bring this to life over the past two years. So proud of what this means for the city and our team.

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Pittsburgh Pirates

1 year

No matter how much we’ve evolved, what’s in our blood has always been true. In this city, we bleed Black and Gold.

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Jon Willey

3 years

And finally, we all know salaries can be brutal getting in the biz. It’s your job as a leader to make sure that if there’s too much work for one person, but you can’t give any bumps at the moment, you need to do your best to lessen the workload. Try saying NO for once. 5/

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Jon Willey

4 years

There will be PLENTY of time off for self-care in the off-season

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Jon Willey

3 years

Wanna come work here? I’m hiring 5 roles on our team. Your office will be just outside left field ;) GD Fellow Video Editor Dir Stadium Pres Dir Story AD

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Jon Willey

4 years

The photo. The drawing.

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Jon Willey

3 years

The level of support I get from mom and dad is off the charts! They are not only my biggest fans but they immerse themselves in wherever my career leads, no questions asked! Love you both! #LetsGoBucs

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Jon Willey

3 years

Photo twitter: ugh why won’t the photo vets mentor us? Vets: ok, here are our thoughts on cheering on the sidelines since someone asked Also Photo twitter:

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Jon Willey

4 years

Ya kinda had to be there

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Jon Willey

3 years

Surround yourself with those that make you happy. Those that truly care for you. The rest is just noise to distract you and intrude on your happiness. You get to decide who you devote your time to. No one else. Choose wisely friends.

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Jon Willey

3 years

Repeat after me: IT’S. OK. TO. NOT. BE. OK.

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Jon Willey

4 years

Opening the JPG embedded in the EPS file when the client sends you their “vector logo file”

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Jon Willey

3 years

Imma keep posting these if y’all are cool with it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Jon Willey

3 years

Petition to make sports design less ... sports designey... (don’t look that word up)

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Jon Willey

4 years

Suicide figures are up 200% since lockdown. Could 2 followers please copy and re-post this tweet? We’re trying to demonstrate that someone is always listening. Call 1-800-273-8255 (USA hotline) Just two. Any two. Copy, not retweet

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Jon Willey

4 years

@mjdesmo

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Jon Willey

7 years

A quick doodle portrait of @MartysaurusRex while he gave an inspiring talk on Creativity and doing your thing during @MLCConnect #MLCC2017

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Jon Willey

5 years

We joke about 🔥 emojis and 🐐 call outs but it’s becoming a real problem in the industry and it’s re-wiring our feedback/rewards systems in a bad way. Step back and think about YOUR why. No one else’s.

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Jon Willey

2 years

Flawless

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Jon Willey

2 years

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Jon Willey

4 years

A job is three things—do you keep learning? Do you like the people you work with? Are you recognized for what you do? If you have the three, stay. If you have two, stay but prepare the next move. If you have one or zero, no work is worth your mental health: leave. Link in next

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Jon Willey

3 years

Wtf is actually happening in sports and society? We let teams draft rapists, we build “safety plans” to keep men accused of assault away from women, but omg u smoked weed, ur out! I just don’t understand how this keeps happening… we keep enabling this bullshit bc “sports”.

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Jon Willey

5 years

Hello. My name is my Jon. I’m 42. I’m the COO of @Betr and a hyperrealism artist... Happy #portfolioday (am I doing this right?) ;) These are some drawings I did in @Procreate over the past 4 years from photographs I took during my time with the @MiamiDolphins #notphotos

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Jon Willey

3 years

Literally got the band back together. If only for just a weekend series. @WillPosthumus

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Jon Willey

3 years

I’ll give you a dollar if you stop calling it creative services...

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Jon Willey

3 years

The view never gets old

@MLBONFOX

FOX Sports: MLB

3 years

All of the lights 😍⚾️ 📷: @Pirates

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Jon Willey

3 years

Let’s just take a deep breath this morning design twitter 🤣

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Jon Willey

3 years

Putting rain gear on 4 cameras and lenses in the middle of a game

@espn

ESPN

3 years

Name something that 𝙞𝙨𝙣'𝙩 an Olympic sport, but 𝙛𝙚𝙚𝙡𝙨 like an Olympic sport 🤔

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Jon Willey

4 years

Some Miami Open frames - circa 2018 #keybiscayne

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