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Thx to friend and collegue Ryan Holmes for wrapping up my tenure as President of Raincity Studios so eloquently. 😉 “Kris is a dynamic figure, often seen scaling walls and crushing ice. He has been known to remodel train stations on his lunch breaks, making them more efficient in the areas of heat retention. He Read More …
(cross-posted from my photography blog.) My photograph studio Static Photography has had the opportunity to travel to many different conferences for awesome photographic opportunities! Whether it is shooting portraits at Microsoft Tech Days , or giving a photo recap talk at Gnomedex 2009 , or even heading back to Pop!Tech to be their official photographer, Read More …
Gnomedex is the geek’s geek conference. This single track conference produced by Chris Pirillo and Lockergnome has always provided the best and brightest in high-tech to technologists and enthusiasts alike. This conference is in its ninth year. The first few Gnomedexs were held in Des Moines, Iowa, with a quick crazy year spent in Lake Read More …
For the last two years I have had the opportunity to be the official photographer of Pop!Tech , a 4 day fall conference that happens in Camden, ME. Over the past two years I have shot dozens of speakers while they were presenting on a wide range of topics, including inner-city violence , the fate Read More …
The following is an interview with me done by Kemp Edmonds of the British Columbia Institute of Technology. We spent a couple hours talkin’ “Philosophy of the Internet” and this is what came out of it. Thanks a lot Kemp for capturing lots of my ideas and writing them up! 🙂 The original interview appears Read More …
When you live in Vancouver, summer time is all about spending time on the Gulf Islands and this summer is no different. I just got back from a seven day adventure on Cortes Island which five of those days was spent at Hollyhock at the Summer Gathering. The Summer Gathering is an invitational conference that Read More …
UPDATED: The Panel Picker for the SXSW festival has been released! You can vote for this panel here! Voting ends September 4th. I often talk about the internet theory that the web is being moving from a web of pages to a web of streams. We are all familiar with the traditional method of internet Read More …
Here’s a year-end wrap-up post I made over on my StaticPhotography.com blog… Before running headfirst into 2009 we wanted to take a minute and reflect on all the awesomeness that was 2008 for us here at Static Photography . Let's start by saying this has been one of the most exciting and diverse years ever Read More …
As the national broadcaster, the CBC has a special place in hearts of Canadians. Growing up in the USA, there is really no equivalent – PBS is well intentioned but just doesn’t have the public mind-share the ‘Ceeb garners with important documentaries and top-shelf sports coverage. Now that i think of it, the ability to Read More …
1. Most effective presentation: Beth Kanter – She raised $3,000 for a poor Cambodian to go to school. 2. Most effective single slide: Earth from the Surface of Mars – Scott Maxwell 3. Most laughs from a presentation: Earth from the Surface of Mars – Scott Maxwell – (LOLCAT Remix)
My resolution is revolution but here’s a couple more goals for the coming year… – Read more books (one a month). – Eat more lunch (everyday!). – Get an acting agent (I want to play a villian in a movie this year). – Don’t be in love… be love. Updated: I should also prolly talk Read More …
Here’s the video, some notes, and some links from my recent talk about Twitter vs Pownce on the Lab with Leo TV show. I *really* shoulda included a review of Jaiku in my comparison. D’oh. *smacks head*
I had a great time at nextMEDIA in Banff this year. Thanks to Mark Greenspan and team for pulling together such a wicked event. Highlights for me were: * the Net Neutrality panel with JRoks, Kooze, Matt, and AmberMac * reconnecting with MC, finding some time to hang out with David Vogt and making new Read More …
Check out this awesome video that explains how Wiki’s work by social designer Lee Lefever. Click To Play
I took this quiz that Thomas Hawk pointed me towards and the results that were ‘the robot’ thinks that my photography most resembles Helmut Newton’s… who happens to be one of my inspirations. Awesome. 🙂 Which famous photographer are you? Helmut Newton: Known for fashion and nudes illustrating themes of mass media, glamour, sex, and Read More …
Drupal vs. WordPress: Which is better for blogging? How do Drupal and WordPress, the leading content management systems for blogging, compare for the average user? To find out, Linux.com used a preconfigure Drupal site from Bryght and a free site from WordPress.com to set up two similar sites. We compared
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.
(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 Read More …
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 Read More …
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