Advice For Aspir­ing Photographers

Emerging by Cheryl Jacobs Nicolai Photo license: © Cheryl Jacobs Nicolai. All rights reserved

Found this post on JPG mag­a­zine. I think that the inspi­ra­tional words that Cheryl voices are eas­ily trans­fer­able to anyone’s career path. Replace the word “pho­tog­ra­pher” with your dis­ci­pline. Lots of gems in here. Thanks Cheryl. My Advice For Aspir­ing Pho­tog­ra­phers Cheryl … Con­tinue read­ing →

Comic Sans

McSweeney's Internet Tendencies © 2011 . All rights reserved.

See the orig­i­nal post and browse all the other McSweeney good­ness here. I’M COMIC SANS, ASSHOLE. BY MIKE LACHER Lis­ten up. I know the shit you’ve been say­ing behind my back. You think I’m stu­pid. You think I’m imma­ture. You think I’m … Con­tinue read­ing →

Diesel Island Adventures

Microsite for Deseil Island Adventure - Deseil Clothing Diesel

Diesel has launched a great new microsite that fea­tures cut-out mod­els sub­merged in beau­ti­fully lush back­grounds. It’s rem­i­nis­cent of Thomas Allen or Chip Kidd’s book cover art, but adding motion and some sub­tle real­ism, like flow­ing hair, adds a level of dimen­sion­al­ity that really makes it mes­mer­iz­ing. … Con­tinue read­ing →

Bodygroomin’

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Remem­ber this? Before there was Old Spice there was the Philip’s body­groomer. A sim­i­larly funny attempt to use the web to rein­vig­o­rate a brand and launch a new prod­uct. The think­ing was the same, but maybe the tim­ing of spark­ing viral cam­paigns … Con­tinue read­ing →

Leica M5

Leica-2 © 2010 . All rights reserved.

I’ll never for­get the first time I saw this cam­era. It was handed down through my fam­ily from a great man. “Uncle Wally”. He had a pas­sion for pho­tog­ra­phy that had been infec­tious enough that I think it was steeped … Con­tinue read­ing →

Aspire

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Fun to see how kids react to watch­ing the air races. They see things seem­ingly impos­si­ble, become pos­si­ble. At what age or event do we allow our­selves to walk away from won­der and awe and replace it with the ordi­nary … Con­tinue read­ing →

Cribs yo!

blog.CRIB-5 © 2010 . All rights reserved.

Time break-down. Keep in mind that these fig­ures are com­bined totals of each activ­ity groups and are totally esti­mated. 6 months: mea­sur­ing, cut­ting, drilling 1 month: sand­ing, pol­ish­ing, glue­ing, stain­ing 7 weeks: drink­ing beer, g&t’s, moji­tos 3 weeks: clean­ing up 16 … Con­tinue read­ing →

The Fur — Photoshop Effect

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Pretty straight for­ward. Found myself try­ing to make a real­is­tic pile of fur with a pho­to­shop brush. Nerd Alert, right? I know. No ani­mals were harmed.