Apr 07

Introducing creativeLIVE.com: Worldwide FREE Creative Education [updated]

[updated 8-April 2010: I added the recording of the live announcement after the jump] Hello Friends! I'm happy and proud to announce today that over that past year I've been working together with my super-tech friend Craig Swanson to bring you the world's first LIVE creative education internet channel. And the best news? It's FREE. That's right, it's free to watch any and all live feeds from some of the world's best creative... read more ›
Apr 06

LIVE Broadcast: Special Announcement + Q&A

What: special LIVE announcement + Q&A; followupWhere: at the url www.chasejarvis.com/LIVE When: Wednesday April 7th at 10:40am USA west coast PDT.(1:40pm USA east coast USA EDT) GMT -8 on the international clock.Hi Friends. If you've been tuned in here, then you know we've been doing a good bit of LIVE broadcasting lately. It's been really fun. And there's more of it to come WEDNESDAY. I've got an exciting announcement I'd like to share with you... read more ›
Apr 02

I’m Live at TEDx This Sunday. Fearlessness in Creativity.

Hopefully you've heard of TED talks. If you haven't, you must check them out. The annual big TED conference happens every winter in California, but there are a series of smaller events that happen worldwide year round... Just so happens that I'm delivering one of those talks at Carnegie Mellon University on this coming Sunday, April 4. Easter for those of you who observe it or like eggs and bunnies. I'll be talking about Fearlessness... read more ›
Mar 30

New iPhone Photos in My Portfolio: Be My Editor

I began posting portfolios of images shot with my iPhone more than two years ago now. And my love affair isn’t wearing off, it’s growing stronger. The best camera still is--and always will be--the one that’s with you.I post iPhone snapshots everyday to my twitter, facebook, and www.thebestcamera.com, but I haven’t updated my iPhone portfolio page in quite some time. Until yesterday. I dug through a huge pile of images and completely refreshed the gallery... read more ›
Mar 17

Exploring Risk: Conversation Yields Innovation

The times they are a changing. We're finally breaking into a new era, one that's much less about companies filling formulaic advertising buckets like single page ads and 30-second spots, and much more about finding new approaches to connect meaningfully with an audience.As a professional creative, this is a huge breath of fresh air for me. It’s with that in mind that I’m excited to introduce some of my latest work: two short films... read more ›
Mar 16

Creativity Alone is Not Enough

There was a time when good advertising photos and commercials stood out because they were creative. When just having a picture in your ad could set you a part. But those times are long gone. In today's crowded, noisy world good advertising photography and video must transcend just 'creative'. Arguably, everything that is made is creative. But if you flip through any magazine or browse any interesting site, there are images that engage you and... read more ›
Feb 26

Building Sets, Making Sausage and Making Fake Snow

http://www.facebook.com/v/357096821404There's the fancy part of photoshoots that, frankly, gets too much press. Because real photoshoots and films are made in the trenches. Might be an epic and cinematic image looking through the camera, but more often than not you're standing next to a freeway composing the shot with snot running outta your face, the models is standing on platform painted to look like the background because they're too short for the set, and the PA... read more ›
Feb 24

R.I.P. CR Johnson

Just got off the phone with some good friends at Freeskier and Snowboard Magazines and learned some painful news. The news of the sudden death of a friend and one of the great skiers of our generation, CR Johnson. I feel compelled to share this here, in large part because we connected through photography. According to eyewitnesses, CR got caught up on rocks going off a cliff on Light Towers at his local Squaw Valley,... read more ›
Feb 23

Creative Advice from Carl Jung

"The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves." -Carl JungI read this quote right about the same time I stumbled on Aaron Gustafson's work. Aaron, a recent MFA graduate from Parson's, it seems has a love for skydiving. Aaron is creatively compelled to shoot with a 4x5. Aaron is letting his mind play with... read more ›
Feb 13

Magnum Print Collection Sold to Michael Dell

One of the most famous print collection in the world was this week acquired by the private investment arm of computer man Michael Dell. All told, over 185,000 photographs from the likes of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, Elliott Erwitt, Ernst Haas and Eve Arnold were unloaded. I was shocked. I couldn't find details of the actual sales price, only estimates which indicated the sale was valued at around $30 million, and insured for $100 million.... read more ›