Love this photo of a young Florida pageant contestant from Melodie McDaniel’s series “Beauty Pageant.”
Love this photo of a young Florida pageant contestant from Melodie McDaniel’s series “Beauty Pageant.”
Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
12 Timeless Rules for Making a Good Publication (from the @Atlantic archives via @alexismadrigal)
I love this photo (by Stephen W Thomson) of our highly civilized and partially feral city.
(That’s a museum parking lot!)
Calling All Photography Buffs: SWTC Partners with Pictory
Working on a really cool collaboration with Levi’s for Pictory. Check it out — submit by November 19th!
We want to hear your stories. We want to learn your perspective. We want to know what you think it means to be a woman, through photos or text. That’s why Shape What’s to Come partnered with Pictory, an online showcase for people around the world to document their lives and cultures by submitting a single, captioned image. This week’s Pictory theme, Notes on Being a Woman, asks contributors: submit a self-portrait and tell your story of getting to where you are as a female, and how you may have impacted others. Who were your mentors, what have you learned, and what advice would you give the next generation?
Share your accomplishments, advice and experiences; we want to see a snapshot of your story.
Score some awesome prints while helping Lauren Lemon get back on her feet!
Lauren had every piece of camera equipment she owned stolen from her home. Luckily there is a BENEFIT taking place to help her get it back. Check it out and toss a couple bucks her way if you feel so inclined.
(via laurenlemon)
Some of you may know that I’ve stumbled into hosting creative retreats, in addition to my work on Pictory. Check out the “greatest hits” collection from my last event, Phoot Camp 2010!
Instagram = Insta-favorite
There’s a new photo sharing tool for the iPhone, and it’s catching on quick.
Using Instagram is sort of like micro-flickring. You follow a feed of your friends’ iPhone photo answers to a silent “what are you doing?” question. It’s like Twitter for those who prefer to take information in through images. The fact that it can also record your location makes it a fun way to keep track of where you’ve been.
Pros: As the lowest barrier way to share photos with friends, it helps motivate you to take images again. In my opinion, it’s more fun to scan through images than tweets. The square format fits great in the phone, and the filters make everyone’s images look good (if inauthentic).
Cons: The ease and feedback loop of using Instagram may steer some away from taking “real” photos. (Think of tweeting vs. blogging.) The app saves images at 612x612. The number of processing options (fake lomo and polaroid type treatments) is daunting. The branding (logo, icon, etc.) feels too quirky for a product that could have a lot of mainstream appeal.
The social concept of the app is brilliant and probably has many of us thinking, “Why didn’t I think of that?” I’m excited to see where the team takes it from here — hopefully they’ll expand the focus on the sharing aspects and slim the focus on the kitschy faux polaroid processing.
Download it, and if we’re friends, follow me at LBM!
I’m so proud to be picked as a “Hot 20 Under 40” by awesome San Francisco magazine 7x7! Here’s the write-up mentioning my work founding Pictory and Phoot Camp.
This photo was taken by Cody Pickens and crew, and the blurb was written by Jessica Battilana.
I was so excited about the new 360 Spinner camera when it came out. So I was pleasently surprised when Jen and Amit from Photojojo showed up at Phoot Camp with one to play with! Stay tuned to the Phoot Camp site to see more of these panoramic shots.
Laura Brunow Miner at an after party in the Herbst Theatre, San Francisco for a Pop-Up Magazine performance that had us reading our Pictory captions live on stage while the images were projected on the big screen.
The desktop metaphor was the right interface when no one knew what a computer was.
– Amit “superamit” Gupta in a tumblelog post from three months ago looking forward to the Apple tablet (iPad). Amit hoped and correctly predicted that the operating system of the new device would have more in common with the iPhone than it would with the 25-year-old Mac “desktop” interface.
But the point is, the web kinda hates bounded, holistic work. The web likes bits and pieces, cross-references and recommendations, fragments and tabs. Oh, and the web loves the fact that you’re reading this post in Google Reader.
– Robin Sloan on Snarkmarket.
From the California Roadtrip Photostory by Daniel Gebhart de Koekkoek.
Austrian photographer Daniel Gebhart de Koekkoek came across the pond for my Phoot Camp last October, and then spent weeks after travelling the US. I love the California he’s captured in this series.
Time Capsule by Michael O’Neal
“Even though my parents just moved from New Jersey to Florida, they took an important part of the old house with them. Dad’s old red Craftsman is more of a time capsule than a toolbox, and it immediately transported me back to my dad’s garage. Grease, Gojo hand cleaner, old coffee cans filled with nuts, bolts, washers, and fuses of all shapes and sizes — a vivid picture with an accompanying scent. The lid to the toolbox is always open, displaying a collage of important photos adhered with yellowed Scotch tape. They hold special meaning to my dad, and now, to me. Since I can remember, my dad was always working. He would work all night as a diesel mechanic in Manhattan, driving the empty highways while I was sleeping, then go straight to another job in the morning as a freelance contractor. I remember having to tiptoe around the house when I got home from school, so as not to wake my dad. I know he did it all for me and my brothers, so we could have the things we needed to succeed. My mother always told me, “Your father has hands of gold,” but I never realized how much of an artist my dad was until I became an adult. Until now, I never realized how similar we are. Fixing cars never interested me, but I have inherited the desire to make things better and beautiful, and to create something from nothing. Dad and his toolbox taught me to be my own artist.” -Michael
Every two weeks I will release a new showcase on Pictory, and when I do, I’ll post a favorite image here to remind you to go check it out. This one is from Coming Home, an image collection of the houses we grew up in. Also, check out the awesome guest design from Tumblr member Matthew Buchanan!
