In the process of drooling over my iPhone 5, I got the inside line on two new photo apps that I love and want to share... Lightt and Mirrorgram. First, is.... Lightt Lightt is perhaps THE breakout photo app that splits the difference between photos and video better than I've ever seen in mobile, while nailing the best of both worlds (ala some of my chasejarvisFRAMES videos but in created in your hand on the... read more ›
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In case you missed our December 6th, 2011 episode of chasejarvisLIVE, it was all about the portfolio. We had Allegra Wilde, visual strategist and co-founder of eyeist.com on the show, talking about common mis-steps and some of the best ways for your work to get noticed. She even gave us a quick portfolio review and a sneak peek at her upcoming service eyeist.com. Yesterday Allegra and her partners launched their product for the world. Check... read more ›
Oct
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If you're a regular reader, you know that I am on-the-record with a deep belief that photography and filmmaking are not all about speeds and feeds or how big your megapixels are compared to mine. Nonetheless, I do have a healthy respect for the technical side of the craft -- and for those who dive in deep. Like the guy who made this video, for example. This optical illusion is "purportedly" made possible by synching... read more ›
Oct
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At only 22 years old, LA resident Megan McIsaac has a truly impressive body of work under her belt. She has a way of capturing the world around her with pure honesty; of illicting incredibly intimate reactions from her subject matter. She has taken the Tumblr world by storm, garnering thousands of notes on each image she posts - something about the simplicity and rawness of her photography seems to reverberate with a broad audience.... read more ›
Oct
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Big news. Ramit Sethi is doing a 3 day intensive course on creativeLIVE starting today. Right NOW in fact. If you know who he is and why I'm so stoked, go to creativeLIVE.com/live RIGHT NOW for free. If you don't need or want to earn money with your creative work then no worries - total respect - skip this post and jump over to 13 tips for a more creative success (one of my fav... read more ›
Oct
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UPDATE: I HAVE THE CAMERA IN MY HAND. ONE WORD - AWESOME. MORE WORDS LATER. IN THE MEANTIME...HERE ARE SNAPS WITH MY iphone5 (ahem...my favorite iphone of all time) ... --- and here's the post from earlier this morning of footage from this little powerhouse. Last night GoPro initiated the launch for the new GoPro camera. I'm intrigued. So I'm going to go join in the fun - I'm on the first flight to San... read more ›
Oct
16
Hey everybody, Kate here from Chase's Production crew. Just like many of you, I use email as a daily communication tool in my job. A flood of incoming emails to address and a long list of outgoing messagesis usually on my daily list of "to dos". Wrangling this beast of inbound and outbound communication is a necessary evil. As such, I have been working hard at becoming an Email Ninja. I especially love this article... read more ›
Oct
15
Felix Baumgartner's skydive from space, inspired me to look at more mind-blowing photography from outside our atmosphere. The photography and work of Michael Benson caught my attention. He has created a spectacular view of the solar system. Truly never before seen photos. To make the images on display in his upcoming book, Planetfall, Benson first curated thousands... read more ›
Oct
15
Congratulations to "Fearless Felix" and the crew at Red Bull for inspiring the world's imagination yesterday when Felix Baumgartner stepped out of his capsule halfway to outer space and plummeted back to Earth from more than 120,000 feet (24 miles) above Roswell, New Mexico. The 43-year-old pilot became the first person to break the sound barrier outside an aircraft reaching speeds of mach 1.24 (834mph). To break the record, he stepped off a tiny ledge... read more ›
Oct
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Up until the mid-1800s, building a home was a laborious task requiring many hands, heavy lifting and carpentry skills that were becoming less and less common. Then there was the industrial revolution, when "balloon framing" was introduced. This paradigm shift in the industry of home building saw framing constructed of two-by-four "sticks," held together with nails. Although regarded with skepticism by some, this easily-assembled method -- made possible, as Michael Pollan suggests in A Place... read more ›