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Aug 10

Bad Day

Exene Cervenka and Modi Frank have finally released their short western film from the 80′s entitled “Bad Day” and it is available as digital download at Bad Day.

“Bad Day” features legendary X front man John Doe, Academy Award winner Kevin Costner, Grammy Award winner Dave Alvin, and Academy Award winner Michael Blake. Also appearing in the film are Doug Knott, Chris Desjardins, Jenny Aust, Julie Christensen, Gigi Blair, Gil T, Paul Greenstein and the late Peter Haskell.

Viewers will be able to pay whatever they want for the download in order to view and a portion of the proceeds from “Bad Day” are going to Gulf Coast aid organizations that help the people affected in the Gulf region. (my emphasis – So check it out, and you can feel extra good about it as well.)

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Aug 10

Hipsters throughout history, the definitive list

You’ll find the list and slideshow here.

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May 10

Copyright Law for Dummies

Image rights explained visually:

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May 10

Quick Notes

  • Looks like there is a very real possibility for a high speed rail from Eugene to Portland to Seattle. President Obama has made high-speed trains a priority. Our region got $560 million last year to get started.
  • My portfolio provider, APhotoFolio, becomes the first portfolio web design company to release a custom iPad version built in HTML5. How cool is that?!? (Check it here.>
  • It’s up to you, but if you’d like you can Follow me on Twitter. I will be announcing a portrait session special on Twitter, and awarding one of my followers with a free portrait session at the end of next week.
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    Jan 10

    1959 Bel Air vs. 2009 Malibu Crash Test

    Quite a few of my friends have older model classic cars. This is for you.

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    Sep 09

    Itsy Bitsy Bakeshop

    How absolutely cool and scrumptious is this?!?

    itsy bitsy bakeshop cupcake for CCDG auction

    Many of you will recognize this shot from an earlier post, but it’s totally worth a post of its own.

    From the Itsy Bitsy Bakeshop‘s website:

    The Itsy Bitsy Bakeshop is a domestic bakery baking delicious gourmet cupcakes in Salem, Oregon. We use only fresh, natural ingredients in our cupcakes- no mixes here! Our cupcakes taste homemade because they are homemade. Our kitchen is inspected and licensed by the Oregon Department of Agriculture.

    Amy Barr is a fabulous person and maker of cupcakes. Yummy, beautiful cupcakes! Right here in Salem. You can be guaranteed I will be using any excuse to order many, many cupcakes.

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    Sep 09

    The Best Camera & Chase Jarvis

    So Chase Jarvis worked with software developers Ubermind to create thebestcamera.com – iPhone App , a combination iPhone app and social media site.

    Of course, I bought it, and I have to say I’m happy overall. I think the crop feature needs some work, and because the shutter lag is quite long at times, there needs to be a straighten feature as well.

    Given Chase’s popularity and social media presence, this should do very well. (This popularity is well deserved.) Naturally, I’m going to blame him for giving me another time-suck with the ability to see photos from others in real time.

    A couple quick shots I took while getting my morning coffee:

    Flower Entrance, Funeral Home.

    Best Camera app, Flower Entrance

    Morning coffee.

    Best Camera app, morning coffee

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    Sep 09

    Cool opportunity – Encaustic Workshop

    September 26-ENCAUSTIC WORKSHOP

    Painting with Hot Wax.

    Learn the ancient art of Encaustics with DEANNA WHITE. Learn the history, safety and how to make your own wax paints.

    You will try fusing techniques with the beeswax, using different heating tools such as a heat gun, torch and flat iron.You will work on your own projects at your own pace and will have one finished painting, maybe two, depending on how you work. You may want to bring some of your own *personal photos, special papers, and any other flat items such as leaves, for collage. Deanna will also have a large assortment of papers and collage items. *Photos must be fresh Kinko photo copies which are toner based, not ink jet.

    Saturday, September 26, 11:00-4:00. $65 includes all supplies.

    Visit Deanna’s website

    You can register here. I’d hurry there are only 3 spots left.

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    Sep 09

    Five New Pictures from the Hubble Telescope

    Fascinating and beautiful: Five New Pictures from the Hubble Telescope | PDN Photo of the Day.

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    Sep 09

    Anthony Bourdain takes on kiddie TV

    As the father of a 3 year old, I definitely find myself agreeing with his take.

    FOR PARENTS ONLY | Anthony Bourdain.

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    Aug 09

    Poodle Panda

    The poodles transformed into pandas, horses and even snails at creative grooming dog shows.

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    Aug 09

    Proud Flesh – Sally Mann

    Sally Mann:

    But that long history of picture-taking didn’t make it any easier to make the Proud Flesh photographs. Rhetorically circumnavigate it any way you will, but exploitation lies at the root of every interaction between photographer and subject, even forty years into it. Larry and I both understand how ethically complex and potent the act of making photographs is, how freighted with issues of honesty, responsibility, power, and complicity, and how so many good images come at the expense of the sitter, in one way or another.

    via Sally Mann: Proud Flesh – Conscientious.

    Definitely interested in getting my hands on the monograph

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    Aug 09

    Total Crisis Panic Button

    brilliant.

    total crisis panic button

    (photo from Wooster Collective dot com)

    Wooster Collective: Total Crisis Panic Button.

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    Aug 09

    “I was at a show of a friend who just graduated from art school.”

    Dushko Petrovich: I would be likely to critique it as excrement, and talk about its qualities, you know, its color, smell or something like that…because that’s exactly what the person didn’t want to hear.

    via Art Fag City » Paper Monument’s Roger White and Dushko Petrovich *Knew* Excrement Art Would Be A Hot Etiquette Topic.

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    Aug 09

    Top 20 Stupid Client Quotes

    1  AndyK #7225  |   Rating: 4.82

    It was a late evening call from a former potential photography client. “Hello, XYZ Photography, this is Andy speaking.” “Hi, I’m Michelle, I talked to you a few months back about taking pictures at my wedding, but we decided you were too expensive so we hired ABCD Photography instead. They were over $100 cheaper!” Me: “Yes, I do recall that, so how can I help you?” Her: “Well, we just got the pictures back [10 weeks after the wedding, much longer than my 2-3 week guaranteed delivery] and they look pretty bad. Well, there are a few good ones, but most are really bad.” Me: “I don’t understand, if you have a problem with the pictures, shouldn’t you be calling ABCD Photography?” Her: “Well, I don’t think the other photographer knew what she was doing, so we wondered if you could maybe fix some of the pictures?” Me: “How many pictures need fixing?” Her: “Well, she gave us 400 pictures on a CD, and I guess about 10 or 15 look good. We figured you would know how to do lots of neat stuff on the computer to make the pictures look better, since all the ones on your web site look great and the printed samples you have look fabulous. See, the thing is, we spent all our money on the wedding and kinda need somebody to do it for free, and was just wondering…” Me: click Disclaimer: all company names and individual names are fictitious but the rest of it is unfortunately true.

    via Clientcopia : Coping with stupid clients

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    Aug 09

    DO WE RETOUCH? YES!

    Then we edit the film and choose the best pictures. This is done in tandem with the star; the creative director, Cindy Searight; the photographer; and myself. Then we allow the postproduction process to happen, where we mark up the photograph to correct any awkward wrinkles in the blouse, flyaway hair and other things that might detract from the beauty of the shot. This is art, creativity and collaboration. It’s not, as in a news photograph, journalism. It is, however, meant to inspire women to want to be their best. That is the point.

    …

    Did we alter her appearance? Only to make her look her personal best. Did we publish an act of fiction? No. Not unless you think all photos are that. But in the sense that Kelly is the picture of confidence, and she truly is, then I think this photo is the truest we have ever put out there on the newsstand.

    (my emphasis)

    from Pictures That Please Us: Lucy’s Blog: Self.com.

    A bit contradictory, don’t you think? (found via jezebel).

    Update: Joerg Colberg also had a post about the use of photoshop and mags: “Photoshopped images: the good, the bad and the ugly” – Conscientious.

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    Aug 09

    The Worst Homemade Star Wars Costumes

    Enjoy.

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    Jul 09

    That’s Not Art

    Funny.

    People post ridiculous "art" to Tumblr which often consists of a photo with "meaningful" text overlaid. These pieces frequently make it into Popular. We reblog them here and call them out for being stupid.

    via That’s Not Art .

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    Jul 09

    What If Aphex Twin Was A Little Girl?

    Ok, I know I found this on vastly more popular sites, and you’ve probably already seen it, but it made my day. So there. Do yourself a favor and stick with it close to the minute mark. I promise it’s worth it.

    ( via +KN | Kitsune Noir » What If Aphex Twin Was A Little Girl? )

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    Jul 09

    Still ancient, still horrible, parade still draws a crowd

    There are many reasons I miss my home state, and this is definitely one of them.

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    Jul 09

    The Practical Limits Of Knowledge

    While summer camps are going on, there is not much more that I can do, and my online reading takes a back, back, BACK seat. So I’m just getting to this. But a goal of mine (and potential conceit) is that my photography eventually develops to the level of Ta-Nehisi’s writing:

    Again, I’m a liberal in large measure because, in my time, liberals have been about the business of expanding the national consensus, of including of voices, of attempting to reconcile past wrongs. I don’t think all of those attempts have been successful. But given the choice between that and an ideology that condones Willie Horton, condones Bob Jones, condones discrimination against gays, for me as a black man, there simply isn’t much of a choice.

    This holds for other issues outside of race–faced with a group that asks its bureaucrats to censor science, that asks its presidential candidates to deny evolution, that employs phraseologists when faced with the challenges of the environment, I know which one I’ll pick. But even as I say that, I can see the limits of my own thinking–maybe if I had more than an informed layman’s knowledge of the health care debate, I’d think universal health care was a terrible idea. My politics are as much based on trust as they are on actual knowledge–I simply trust liberals more.

    via The Practical Limits Of Knowledge – Ta-Nehisi Coates .

    You are reading his blog, right?!?

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    Jul 09

    Game show looks to convert atheists

    What happens when you put a Muslim imam , a Christian priest, a rabbi and a Buddhist monk in a room with 10 atheists?

    Game show looks to convert atheists

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    Jun 09

    Wordle visualization – music I’ve been listening to

    wordle - music i listen to

    I think I like this one better:

    wordle - music I'm listening to

    using wordle. (via yewknee)

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    Jun 09

    Thomas Aquinas would have loved genetics

    Many know that I grew up Catholic, and I’m quite familiar with Aquinas (always one of my favorites, though I wasn’t as big a fan for Aristotle). Great article from the Guardian:

    In the five ways Aquinas was not trying to prove the existence of God at all, but was showing that an acceptance of Aristotle is no bar to belief in God. This is why he ends each argument not with "QED God" but "And this is what all men call God". Aquinas does not think God exists. He thinks he is existence.

    And countering the common refrain I’ve heard most of my life about “But what came BEFORE the Big Bang”,

    Aquinas would have had no problem with Hawking’s contention that the Big Bang didn’t need somebody to light its fuse but can be explained mathematically.

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    Jun 09

    brilliant advice

    The Reverse Cowgirl: Letter to a Young Writer .

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    Jun 09

    The Comfort Wipe is a modern solution

    “Think about it. Toilet paper is really archaic and disgusting. The Comfort Wipe is a modern solution.”

    And it’s Ergonomic!

    UPDATE: Disappointing. ComfortWipe, We Hardly Knew Ye .

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    Jun 09

    Asian Poses

    Because I’m a photographer, that’s why:

    Asian Poses – The Definitive Guide to Asian Poses .

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    Jun 09

    Why the 2012 cult is a silly scam

    Why is this tsunami of stupidity so irritating to me? I think it has a lot to do with one of the more recent moronic convergences I found on some 2012 site. One that supposedly aligned the Maya’s 2012 thing with the Hopi end-times prophecy. The best cultural explanation I found for this flowering of idiocy said that New Age fads like the Hopi prophecy and 2012 are a kind of cultural colonialism in which white people endow the minorities they have wiped out or repressed with mystical powers made more mysterious by their virtual vanishing.

    (my emphasis) via Why the 2012 cult is a silly scam. – By Ron Rosenbaum – Slate Magazine .

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    Jun 09

    Will the Antichrist be a homosexual?

    I love google ads.

    Will the Antichrist be a homosexual?

    via Faith : Will the Antichrist be a homosexual? – Frontiersman .

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    Jun 09

    30 Awesomely Bad Unicorn Tattoos

    30 Awesomely Bad Unicorn Tattoos: A Gallery . (via Art Fag City )

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