One fine day a creative director in a big corner office downtown kindly agreed for me to come show him my work. Hooray! So I came to his office and showed him my work. Frankly, the work was bloody awful. All of it. Imagine the worst, cheesiest...crap. Only far worse than that. The creative director was a nice guy. You could tell he didn't think much of my work, though he was far too polite... read more ›
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http://www.facebook.com/v/142860226404[UPDATE: I dunno why Facebook has relegated me to this still image here above, when it's really a video. In many cases, when we've posted a video that's been flooded with traffic, they've stopped serving the video to ease up on their servers. In any case, I'm not sure what's going on, but if you click 'continue reading' below, you will get to see the vid...]Posted this to Facebook yesterday, but thought it should go... read more ›
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Alright. This is just plain cooler than cool. All y'all have seen photography's "painting with light", the technique where you leave the shutter on your camera open for a long time, use a light and drag it around in the frame, and get some cool stuff, writing, shapes, etc. But what do you get when you fuse this technique with one of hip hop culture's oldest pastimes? You get HALO, the brain-child of Parisian artist,... read more ›
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It was just reported today at TheNextWeb.com that CBS will insert the world's first paper-thin interactive video screen into copies of the September 18th issue of Time Inc.’s Entertainment Weekly:"The screens will be around the size of a mobile phone display and have rechargeable batteries. When readers open the magazine to the ad pages, it will activate a chip used to store the video (similar to a singing greeting card), they will then see a... read more ›
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In our most amazing Songs For Eating and Drinking evening to date (they keep getting better, but maybe that's just my bias...), my partner Hebb and I today bow down to the greatness of these musicians. And what a lineup we had... The splendor of this night a couple Wednesday's ago - the hottest day in Seattle's history - will be forever burned into my beanie little brain. Sample of the bands represented on... read more ›
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Being a professional creative might seem like the ultimate dream job for some--and for many of us it is. But it ain't always easy. In fact, staying inspired is really hard work. I recently received the above tweet (to @chasejarvis) and it got me thinking. Here's 9 things I've done over the course of my 10+ year career that have helped me overcome those times when uninspired or stale work invades:1. Make a major life... read more ›
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WARNING: Nerdy tech content. If you're shooting a lot of video with all the video dSLRs and even the iPhone 3Gs, you've no doubt noticed the slight "wobble" when panning those cameras quickly. It usually translates visually into the slanting, or canting, of what are supposed to be vertical lines in image that you're recording. This phenomenon is the result of the digital rolling shutter, the mechanism by which these cameras write to their... read more ›
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There's been a lot of hot fuss lately about what's possible with new projection media, especially in urban environments, onto building facades, etc. Last time I was in Paris there was similar stuff emerging on building walls in the Marais, but this seems to be evolving quickly and really taking off. Impressive live performance here in this video from NuFormer.If you liked that real clip and you want to see what NuFormer think is possible,... read more ›
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[UPDATE: Martin has chimed in with more details and original photos...all info after the jump].After reading the headline of this post and looking at the image, you're probably waiting for the other shoe to drop. What's the catch? Well, there isn't one. Yes, my pal Martin Gisborne used only an iPhone 3Gs and a telescope to get this shot. He did some slight tweaking in Aperture, but no crazy-fancy space cameras, no Photoshop, no compositing,... read more ›
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Whether you love it or hate it, the term "journalist" is increasingly being accepted by our culture to include freelancers, bloggers, even just citizens who happen to "be there".In a crazy story I read about first over at Wired Mag's new photo blog, RawFile, they report that a student photographer who photographed paramedics tending to a homicide victim was given journalistic protection provided for by the law. From the Wired story: "In recognizing the journalistic... read more ›
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