Category: Misc
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Event and Music Photography: Bloc Party Photos at SXSW 2007
(cross-posted from my Static Photography blog where I’m starting to get more work in the music and band photography space… yay!) Other than fashion photography some of our favorite shoots are live concerts and bands. Static Photography was at South by Southwest (SXSW) again this year and had the chance to shoot over 30 bands
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Checklist of model-photographer negotiation items.
Checklist of model-photographer negotiation items. Every arrangement between a model & a photographer is unique — there is no “set” contract, and everything is negotiable. Problems occur when things are left unsaid during the negotiations, because both sides may have different expectations.
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Cold Wet Saturday Fashion Photoshoot in Vancouver
(This is cross-posted from my fashion photography blog) Some cold wet Saturday's in Vancouver it's just plain hard to get rolling. To fire up our creative juices this weekend, Static pulled together a shoot with aspiring models Margaret Torgerson, Jordan Petryk and Bill MacEwan to build up their portfolios and have some fun. We pulled
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The New York Times on Corbis and the Future of the Stock Photography Market
The New York Times on Corbis and the Future of the Stock Photography Market “More interesting and innovative things are happening on the pages of Flickr these days than on Corbis and Getty,†said Mr. Shenk, referring to the photo-sharing site owned by Yahoo. “If we can use this type of opportunity to find the
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One City, Many Destinations Photo Contest
One City, Many Destinations Photo Contest The ONE CITY, MANY DESTINATIONSâ„¢ travel photography competition boasts the ultimate grand prize: CITY Magazine’s cover shot. Amateur and professional photographers from around the world are invited to submit images for juried competition and a chance at
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JPG Magazine Submission: “Americana” by kris krug
JPG Magazine Submission: “Americana” by kris krug Vintage, rock ‘n’ roll, and muscle cars says America to me Please vote over at JPG Magazine
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The Travesty of Canadian Mobile Data Rates
The Travesty of Canadian Mobile Data Rates I redid the graph to look at 1GB usage and look at just the 4 Canadian carriers. Fido and Rogers come in at a whopping $4100 per month, and Telus, who I’ve long dismissed, is actually really competitive.
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Headshots for Local Actor Mark Huculak
(This is cross-posted from my photography blog over at http://staticphotography.com) We recently had the chance to wander around Gastown and dowtown Vancouver with actor and musician Mark Huculak. He looks like Justin Timberlake and sounds like Akon and he was an absolute pleasure to hang-out with and shoot. I shot 100% film on this including
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kdon dress for sale at suicidegirls.com!
kdon dress for sale at suicidegirls.com! After a little back and forth communication between ?Designer Suicide? and I, we agreed upon the dress. 30 dresses were made at Discollection, and shipped off to the girls, and now WHALH! they are for sale. I make a bunch of clothes that are equally a
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Clothing not from China
Clothing not from China Discollection has a Suicide Girls branded dress for sale. Discollection is the sort of store that you could once find on Queen Street West here in Toronto. Kim, who owns Discollection, actually made these dresses by hand, and they are selling at only 150$
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Learn better photography with Kris Krug at Northern Voice
Learn better photography with Kris Krug at Northern Voice Scoble made a video of my photography talk at Northern Voice and it’s on the front page of PodTech this AM. Thx Robert. 🙂 Next time link to my photography blog at http://staticphotography.com. *wink*
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kelsey+rustin | lake tahoe
kelsey+rustin | lake tahoe My sister got married this weekend. I inherited a new brother and sister. These are the pics. They’re not mine. They’re amazing!
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Understanding the Community/Evangelist Role, and profiles of a few of my Favorite Folks
Understanding the Community/Evangelist Role, and profiles of a few of my Favorite Folks One way for companies to adopt to this is to hire or create a role called a ?Customer/Community? + ?Evangelist/Advocate/Manager/Guy/Girl? or some variation of. I know many of those that are the leaders, and at my previous company, I had that role.
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iTunes and EMI to drop DRM
iTunes and EMI to drop DRM iTunes and EMI to drop DRM The speculations were rampant, and today Apple and EMI announced that they will begin selling DRM free tracks. This is great news for pretty much everyone. Other rumors swirling about the joint EMI/Apple press conference invo
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The it Lists – Parasuco ?it? Denim
The it Lists – Parasuco ?it? Denim Parasuco is a Montreal based jeans company that has quietly emerged (and grown up) as an international fashion brand with a cult-like following. ?Donna Italia? (famous Italian mag) listed Parasuco as one of the top 10 hottest denim brands in the world
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The it Lists – Parasuco “it†Denim
The it Lists – Parasuco “it†Denim Parasuco is a Montreal based jeans company that has quietly emerged (and grown up) as an international fashion brand with a cult-like following. “Donna Italia†(famous Italian mag) listed Parasuco as one of the top 10 hottest denim brands in the world
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Matthew Good Accused of Virtual Assault And Hate-Filled-Blogging By David Gratton
Matthew Good Accused of Virtual Assault And Hate-Filled-Blogging By David Gratton Today I was accused of virtual assault by David Gratton, the owner of a local web company here in Vancouver and the employer of my ex-wife. I was alerted to the entry by way of our site?s incoming links feature this morning and went
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ChangeEverything One Change at a Time
ChangeEverything One Change at a Time Act locally, think globally. That’s one of the premises behind Bryght VPS site, ChangeEverything.ca. Community members on ChangeEverything.ca submit "changes" no matter how large or how small and the community works together to help accomplish those goals
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Social Design for the Web: Moo Cards are the Most
Social Design for the Web: Moo Cards are the Most I introduced myself to a friendly woman with a British accent at the CommunityNext conference in Palo Alto and learned that she was from a company call ?Moo? that makes mini business cards. She quickly produced a white box of cards and since that time