SHOWstudio - PSP - AMAZE ME

ShowStudio has set up these free standing video recording devices. They then get some creative types to issue briefs on what they are looking for. The public are then invited to interpret these briefs. Pretty amazing stuff to watch. London is full of interesting people!

I wanna something like this here in one of the many abandoned windows downtown. Showstudio had something like this one time in a window that was motion based so it only recorded when someone came up to it. That would be cool.

Dishing it out

The Register-Herald--Dishing it out: "Dishing it out

Man beams 5,000 radio, TV channels with a dozen satellite receivers
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Is Morty on the chopping block?

All the mags I shoot for are to be gone in the new year.
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MTS Allstream plans to eliminate between 750 and 800 jobs in a cost-cutting move.

The company estimates it can save between $50 million and $60 million annually by chopping the jobs, which make up about 12 per cent of the company's workforce.

The Winnipeg-based telecommunications company (TSX:MBT) said the majority of the cuts will be made in the first half of 2006. According to MTS Allstream's website, the company currently employs about 6,600 people.

MTS officials say 80 per cent of the job cuts will be out of province. In Manitoba, the reduction will affect about 100 jobs in the first half of 2006.

The company aims to save at least $100 million over the next two years as part of a broad restructuring plan. The company will take a one-time charge in the fourth quarter of this year that will cut its earnings per share by between 38 cents and 40 cents.

MTS Allstream provides communications services to residential and business customers in Manitoba, and operates a 24,300-kilometre national broadband fibre optic network.

MTS paid $1.7 billion in cash and shares for Allstream in 2004.

Clients New Websites

Watch out, everyone is re-doing there websites:
Warehouse One

Ricki's

Both will feature my work extensively.

Coming to a Ricki's near you!

The Christmas Visual campaign for Ricki's is rolling out across the land. I have to say I am VERY pleased with the way it turned out. I still get a thrill when I see my images big and in a store!

UPDATE: yes I KNOW the image is sideways. I rotated and saved As in Preview but it didn't take. I don't know why. I have to go back and find that image and re-do it. I will, soon, promise.

Update: Done.

The Big Moo: Stop Trying to Be Perfect and Start Being Remarkable

A little inspirational biz book. Short snippets written by 33 various influencers. Something in there for everyone. Sounds like Elephant man might need to read this one. Small size, easy browsing it was a perfect airplane book last week.

Hot Dog Spot: The quest for the BEST Hot Dog in Los Angeles

Everyone , every thing, will have a blog in the future.

Just another crazy dat at the studio:
8:30-3:30 Siilver jeans
3:30- 4:30 build room set
5:00-10:00 Shoot people are pets for PetPlan Pet Insurance

The changing face of Music

Rob made me think about this last week...
I think back to all the time in my life spent in various music stores in every place I have ever been in the world over the years. I think about how most of them are gone. That's a huge shift in the way we interact with one very huge and important creative medium. I really don't think we'll truly understand how huge it was/is for a little while more, then perhaps it will be too late for many things and we'll never look back in other ways. Which is which remains to be seen.

Lemme try and state this more plainly. It's gone from my peak consumption of, on average 1 cd purchased in a brick and mortar store PER WEEK, to being able to count on one hand how many times I did it this YEAR! Most of my purchases of books and Cd's occur on online. Bookstores thankfully are still around, and I frequent them still pretty often. Our ideas of buying, the physicality of things we cherish, the experience, are all changing. Our kids won't have a problem with this, will they? They'll just stay home and shop.

Lisa is GONE!! So I guess my vote is for Kim!

UPN: "Tyra sees Lisa as someone with fire, personality and spunk, and she takes gorgeous photos. However, some of the judges see her as too much of everything. Jayla is the polar opposite; she takes nice photos and has a nice personality, but nothing pops. Will it be the spitfire or the nice girl? In the end, Jayla gets another chance, while Lisa smiles sadly as she is eliminated. She hugs everyone before heading back to the hotel to pack her things.

Lisa is thoughtful as she prepares to leave the hotel. 'If I didn't win or I didn't make the top three, oh well. I gave it everything I got. I stayed true to myself the whole way through. No regrets. This whole thing was pretty damn cool, man. To go through an experience like this where I actually get to live a dream--it's exciting. It's good. And if it's over, then it's over.' "

What if Kate Moss came to my studio?

This answers that nagging question.

It's a Quicktime movie, part of the Moving Fashion project featuring 30 secs of "moving fashion" filmed by all sorts of fashion types. This one is "directed" by Kate Moss CAUTION: contains boobies, possible NSFW.

I imgaine this was after a quick "pick me up". Those paper back drops are like $85 each, eh? She'd owe me!:-) Though to her credit, I don't think there is anyone in this town who could do this in front of a camera, fully dressed, let alone with no shirt on. Models look at stills and think you "hold still" for photos.

"I am not an Advertising Animal, I am a free man!"

Medium Rare

The elephant man takes on advertising. The nagging question remains: Will he take Morty himself, one of the most prolific and annoying advertisers in this market? That remains to be seen, though like the other elephant man this one hides behind the mask, perhaps allowing him to say what needs to be said...

Make way for the dean!

Seems the Dean of the Asper School of Biz is a multitasker. So rather than wait around we use it for the shot. Blackberries are everywhere.

Lucky Liam

After the baptism, he needed a beer.

Winter Is Here

Oh Joy, oh bliss

Geoffrey M. Barrenger Photography

This guys does some very cool fashion stuff. It would be nice to find someone here in town to do this kind of work. It has always been a challenge to do this kind of work here in Winnipeg, since the talent, hair & makeup people don't tend to take this stuffseriously. I have gotten close, but there is always some element of the work that's lacking, the makeup isn't as strong, or the hair is lame or the talent is weak. It can be frustrating.

Oh to work with people who really "get it". Ok that's my rant for day. All postive from here.

Camera Toss

One of many photographic sub genres created by the onslaught of digital cameras. You toss the camera during a long exposure and make accidental art. Very cool stuff. I am going have to try this in front of some Xmas lights.

Counting Heads

The blog of a first time publsihed author who lives in a cabin in Alaska. The blog follows his book tour. This is cool.

A case for CAPIC

(It's been a year of membership for me. I have had a few calls from beling listed with them. I am very jealous of the events held down in TO. I only wish we'd get our shit together here in Winnipeg and get enough members to host some events.)

This from an editorial on Headshot Rentals in Toronto:


Are you a CAPIC member? If not, why not?

Not to be too melodramatic, but your world is not the same as it was 10, or even 5 years ago, and in case you haven't noticed, much of what has changed can be traced directly back to digital. The day was when your thorough understanding of one or two main types of film and a couple of types of Polaroid could allow you to envision the results of a shoot as you stood over the set. What you needed was a good assistant, a great lab, a client with a sense of the value you presented, and the skill to make it all look easy. What you did on Monday was not much more technically different than what you did on Friday, and your world was pretty neat and tuck.

Then along comes digital, slowly at first, but now at a pace that you can't ignore, and those same clients want more than they used to, in less time, for less money, and you're now the lab, spending hours in front of a monitor editing and processing files! Sound like a dilemma? It does to many, many photographers, and they don't know where to turn for help with how to invoice, what they are expected to know, how to keep from working yourself into an early grave, and their recollection of CAPIC is that of an organization looking to hold bake sales and retirement parties.

News flash; the CAPIC of 2005 is the resource many of you need to have on your side. If nothing else (and there really is a lot to CAPIC), the seminars and events that are put on are well planned, relevant to todays issues, in venues that are inviting and relaxing, and the information is absolutely invaluable. For the minimal fees that are collected for membership and attendance at events, if you did nothing more than make a new acquaintance with another photographer in the same boat as you, and you can each share information and learn something, the value is obvious. In these days of doing lots of extra work for the same dollar, invest a few hard earned dollars in yourself, and join CAPIC. You will never regret it.

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The Fish Wrapper

The new and improved Fish Wrapper. On Blogspot till we get the website sorted out.

Omni Glass

Some people are surprised to learn that shooting models and all that fun stuff isn't what we do all day. This is an outtake from a shoot for OmniGlass. These are window frame samples. This is what it means to be a photographer in Winnipeg.

NWC remote behind the scenes

better late than never. I can't seem to get these online with all the captions I wrote for them. Oh well. You can probably figure out most of what's going on. The depressing hallways of concrete were our hotel/shopping/commerical centre.Thats where all the old men drink coffee and play checkers all day.

The huge banquet hall was beings et up for a wedding. Pieces of buildings were being used everywhere to hold open all the different doors in these buildings, it was like a maze!

If you keep going to near the end you'll see the plane we fly in. We had to push that thing out of the mud to take off. The plane is heavy!

Tan Jay

Some outakes from a recent shoot for Tan Jay.

The Cool Kids

"Think Calvin Klein in the 90's meets the cool kids of today meets.... I dunno, ...help me out here, I am trying...."

Sometimes, with "models" in this town, you get what you get

WHO Xmas

Images from the upcoming Xmas campaign for Warehouse One.

The Fish Wrapper

it was bound to happen! Well I made it happen, really. But if there is anyone who is doing all sorts of stuff worth reading about AND able to write about it in an entertaining way, it's Shel

Let's hope she manages to keep it up!

those little dolls

For Winnipeg Life Mag

The Market on Academy

Shot for the upcoming Ciao magazine. YUMMY!

Gluttons

Gluttons for Ciao Magazine.

PDN hands on preview of Aperture

The more I read about this program the more excited I am getting. It seems everyone is inthe same boat as me, using upwards to 3 different application to edit organize and process my ARW files. One big sweet app to rule them all, the $599 price tag seems better and better. I am holding off upgrading iView to ver 3.0 for $99, until I get to see this app up close and in person.

I am getting EXCITED to get to San Fran!

Clash City Rockers

It all started here for me. After this music (and everything else) was never the same again. Unless you were there, I guess you'll never really know how crazy this was.Joe Strummer was/is the coolest guy in rock! By the way, the fashions are back and check out the lighting, very chic!

Behind the scenes NWC

The next big thing are the Heelies. I had gravel in my ears to get this one! Krista is doing a great job of assisting me on this one.

Former Spectator reporter captures journalism prize

An article about Shel's life and her recent prize!