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First Studio Photography… now Studio Monthly.
In late April, one of my favorite publications ceased to exist. Only a week earlier, Studio Photography magazine had announced their partial rebranding as a source of news for location and studio as...
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Commercials, lions, and manipulation
Interesting video of what goes into a high profile commercial photo shoot. In this case for Bebe, posted on Giulianobekor.com. Very cool to see what the actual shots were and what the printed ad ended...
View ArticlePC vs. Mac, and PC wins a round
So according to a story in todays Wall Street Journal, Apple is feeling stung by the recent Microsoft ads that show regular folks shopping for laptops and trying to buy one under $1000. Here’s one of...
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Future of Photography Part I
Just got back from the InfoTrends Digital Imaging conference. There seems to be alot of speculation around the future of photography, including the 6Sight conference which is dedicated to the question....
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White House has a Flickr stream, and so do we
Our Digital Anarchy Flickr site is pretty new. The president’s Flickr stream has been around since April. What does this say about a government institution having better web 2.0 outreach than a young...
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Trade show amid the palm trees.
Digital Anarchy exhibited at the Senior Portrait Artists (SPA) Event earlier this week. It was yet another trade show, but this time we were on the island of Coronado, just off the sunny coastline of...
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Spicing up corporate photos.
Good article on Ragen.com about the ‘4 techniques for spicing up corporate photos‘. This website typically reports and comments on Public Relations news, so it’s interesting to find this article. But...
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The beauty of randomness: Captchas.
While I find captchas as annoying as, well, everyone else does, I also enjoy the beauty of their randomness. Our company Digital Anarchy builds some of its products around that idea, like our Texture...
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Fun & games till someone expires.
Every so often I get an email that makes me smile. I like good marketing and catchy marketing language. This email from Layers magazine fits that category. My Layers subscription is running out and the...
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Good Design. Bad Design.
Still in design mode as we revamp our Digital Anarchy website, here is a comparison of good and bad design techniques. Two designers give their opinions and share easy to fix mistakes that can turn bad...
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Fashion for female photographers.
I recently came across an article about a photography vest that’s cut for the female figure. The vest is by Foto Fashionista and “offers female photographers a more fashionable choice for carrying...
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Why You Should Enter Photo Contests.
Recently, one image of mine was selected to be a part of Photomedia Center’s 2010 Open Juried Exhibition. As an emerging photographer, I am very thrilled and honored to be included in such a fine body...
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Beautiful Example of ‘In-Camera’ Motion Graphics
BDDP Unlimited has created a beautiful spot for Solidarités International about the dangers of dirty water. While not a CG piece, it looks like real water and ink were used, it’s still inspiring both...
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Sometimes Commercials Are Good
Seen a lot of commercials over the last two weeks watching the NCAA tournament. Here are the outstanding ones (yep, just two… the rest were crap): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qf8OGLqE1s Brilliant...
View ArticleHow To Not Be A Starving Artist
In the previous post I mention an article from NPR: Silicon Valley vs. Hollywood. In that article they quote filmmaker Tim Chey as saying: “We do it for the art, we do it because we want to tell our...
View ArticleYou’re creative? You’re a scoundrel!
Why would a dishonest person honestly report their dishonest behavior in an anonymous survey? Would a creative person label himself as a chronic paper clip thief to mess with such a survey? “Why, yes,...
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The Distortions of Retouching
Did you see the before and after shots that Britney Spears released? Can’t say I’m a huge fan and I would never have imagined I’d be mentioning her in the Digital Anarchy blog, but, yet, I just did....
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Don’t be a Grumpy, Old Photographer
I recently was chatting with a photographer who pretty much blamed all the ills of the industry on Moms in hot pants. Yep, that’s why he no longer goes to WPPI and why the photo business isn’t what it...
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Why Don’t TV Manufacturers Get It? Stop Making TVs!
It’s been a couple years since I wrote about no one wanting 3D and people wanting Internet enabled TVs. TV manufacturers still don’t seem to get what people want. We either want TVs to be the same...
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What Does the Creative Cloud Mean to You?
Last month we asked folks to do a survey about the Creative Cloud and how they felt about it. I thought I’d share the results as some of you may also be curious what you’re fellow users are thinking...
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Creating GIFs from Video: The 4K Animated GIF?
LIKE Digital Anarchy! I was at a user group recently and a video editor from a large ad agency was talking about the work he does. ‘web video’ encompasses many things, especially when it comes to...
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