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For the past three days Kristopher Tate and I have been working on releasing the next version of Zooomr, Zooomr Mark III. It's actually been a lot harder on Kristopher than it has for me. Although we've collaborated on a lot of the ideas for this next version of Zooomr he's really the one who does all the work. He's the one who knows how to code things and I think is the most brilliant software developer I've ever had the privilege of knowing.
After being up for three days straight working on our conversion Kris finally hit a wall last night. Normally Kristopher sees a screen of code and just starts typing non-stop. Last night, after three days of no sleep the lines of code just melted into jibberish.
So we caved and both got some sleep. It's amazing how wonderful sleep can feel when your body really needs it, when you've gone through extreme levels of sleep deprivation.
Back in college I edited my college newspaper. It was one of the most fulfilling things I've ever done in my life. It was really the fact that I missed that part of my life so much that got me into blogging. Back in college we'd publish the paper once a week on Fridays. I'd begin every Wednesday morning fresh enthused. We published the paper on a bunch of old Macs. Mac Pluses, Mac SE/30s, and boy were they slow in comparison to the firepower of the MacBook Pro that I'm writing this on right now. Then 48 hours or so later I'd drive the paper to Goleta where they printed it up for us in a few hours, then drive back and get it out.
Anyways, this has been Kristopher's life for much of the past six months. Working 18, 20 hour days trying to build something that we both love and our passionate about. But last night was just too much and so after three days he crashed.
So a few minutes ago I woke up on Kristopher's couch and looked outside his window and saw the most beautiful colors over the San Francisco Bay. And so I did what I do and went out on the balcony and took this self portrait. My hair's a tad messed up, but I think it shows the beauty of not only what a San Francisco morning looks like, but what a fresh start and a new day looks like.
Kristopher is back inside coding like mad right now. Both of us with a renewed sense of purpose and dedication and intense desire to build something really cool for the world of social photo sharing.
Hopefully we get this puppy out today.
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Spring blossoms blooming in Sydney's Royal Botanic Gardens :)
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Ok so as most of you know (those who have been my Flickr friends for a few years now) Chris (a.k.a. Kookanoid) is one of my best buds. Two years ago we started a "Traveling Blythe" group where we'd send one of our girls out in exchange for the other one's girl. I got her lovely and unique Blythe Prudey and she got my TG Bethany and MRB Jacqueline (you can see pics of their visits on both my stream and Chris's). Well- let me just say, when I opened Prudey from her carefully packed box- one look is all it took! She's amazing! This awesome personality comes through and she really is the cutest Blythe ever. I had such a great week with her- took her EVERYWHERE with me and my whole family got into it and we had a blast. It ended up that Chris herself came to visit us soon after. Of course she brought Prudey. Each time Prudey left, I was so sad to see her go.
Then, as many of you know, I lost my brother Kristopher in Nov. 2009 and went away from my Blythe hobby for almost a year since I was just in a bad state. No need to say more. Anyway- apparently during that time, Chris was commissioned to make "Maudy" a cousin to Prudey who would look very similar to her- like twins- for another Blythe mom who admired Prudey so much. Well, she did and Maudy was born here in the US and on her way off to the UK.
Maudy traveled to a new mom not too long after where she got a makeover but she didn't really look like Prudey anymore. Her new mom decided to put Maudy up for adoption again so Maudy could continue to spread her love all over the world! In an ironic twist of fate- Maudy ended up back into Chris's arms for one final makeover (bringing her back to her original state- once again looking as much like her twin Prudey as possible) and once Chris is done with her- she will be traveling home for the LAST time- into MY arms with me and my 20 girls! I am so excited I can hardly type this. For years I have admired and loved Prudey! It feels amazing to know I will finally be able to have a little bit of Prudey and Chris in my life with dear Maudey.
Notice I changed her name from "Maudy" to "Maudey". I feel like since she's been all over the world with- hmmmm, let me see, 4 mommies now? and a bunch of makeovers- it's fitting for me to makeover her name a bit to reflect the "Prudey" influence and inspiration inside her.
So please, won't you all help me welcome "Maudey" my wonderful and original Kookanoid custom! This pic above is from her arrival today at Chris's house. As soon as she'd redone, we'll post more pics. I just can't wait to get her home and give her a kiss on the top of her sweet little head!
The armoured gauntlet of Kristopher Manabo's giant mecha, as seen at the AIMBOT's display at Grant MacEwan University in Edmonton, Alberta.
Saturday on the beach, just down the road from the Headlands, the pre-nerd out nerd out had us all standing in the sand, a short ways away from a wedding party having their photos taken, them trying to figure out if they should take their sunglasses off, us chowing down on Twizzlers and posing for each other. And yes, we had half a mind to flash mob that wedding party, flood them with the click-whirr of instant cameras. But several of the groomsmen looked beefy and prone to awkward violence, and I couldn't bear making more difficult the life of the wedding photographer who, if her face was any indication, was quietly regretting the choice to take a job that required her to line up ten people on a windy beach, including an older woman who had an obvious problem with her feet, as they and her lower legs were horribly swollen. It was only moments after this shot that I pointed out said feet to ~Kim~, to figure out which of the familiar ailments we'd seen on the job this woman was suffering from.
But enough about sullen photographers and fat feet! Julia and Kristopher are, as Julia would say, SO AWESOME!!! Julia, who I'd only actually met once before, did the whole LA crew nothing but solids the entire weekend. And damned if the photos she took almost make me wanna shoot digital.
And Kristopher? That guy is twelve kinds of nice. Smile on his face whenever you glance his way, not a foul word to say about anybody, takes photos that make you wanna punch yourself in the nads.
He does dress like a weirdo, but I respect that. Feather in the hair, heh. Damned kids.
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2 yards (folded in half) of Spoonflowers Bamboo/Cotton mix fabric with my design "52" x Magnolia Little Gem - Sage"
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Just like Nerd Out: LA, I got a chance to meet folks who, in addition to being excellent photographers, were also excellent people.
Oh sure, I'd talked to Kristopher on IM, I'd commented on his Flickr photos, but it's not until you meet the skinny-jeans wearing, feather & punk tail in his hair sporting giant that you really get to see that he is, without getting too sappy, a sweet guy. Just an honestly good dude, dude.
But damn, he sure is goofy-lookin'.
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Yay! Christmas for me, has come early, thanks to the special holiday 'Gift Wrap' print offer at Spoonflower!
I was sooo excited when my gift wrap order arrived, it was totally ridiculous!!!
.... now all I need to do, is decide if I can actually bring myself to use it!
In the meantime, here is a Tutorial for some 'Easy As' : Shabby Scrappy Christmas Stars
~ Enjoy :)
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(Explore April 26, 2010)
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Featuring 'Kristopher K' original fabric designs :)
... as I wanted to update the look of our guest bedroom, I decided to start with a simple "easy as" headboard slip cover.
This fabric slip-cover, is fabulously easy to make, and can transform the look of an existing headboard (be it modern, antique, painted or stained, timber or chipboard ;) in a matter of hours.
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Fabric Designs by Kristopher K
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Beauty retouching
Photographer: DanaColePix
Retoucher: Kristopher Fuentes
Model: Bambie Vaage
MUA: Martine L.
Watch this video on Vimeo. Video created by kristopher ray fuentes rivera.
Kristopher: what manner of beast is this? does Polaroid make this?
Bart: no. this is a light meter, that gives us the necessary information to adjust our cameras depending on the light in any particular situation.
Kristopher: Polaroid?
Bart: no. it's a light meter. not a camera. not Polaroid.
Kristopher: light?
Bart: fine. this is a magic light machine, that, using elves, tells us the amount of light in the room, and then lets us adjust our Polaroid accordingly.
Kristopher: Aahh. Why didn't you just say so?
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Yeah - I've finally made a new tablecloth for my table - using 3 yards of printed Upholstery weight fabric from Spoonflower, with my design "Mod Floral - Natural." Matching napkins in design "Mod Floral - Dark Spice" printed on Quilting Weight Cotton :)
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Kristopher Tate and I are here up in Seattle today in all day meetings with Getty Images as part of a blogger junket put on by Edelman PR with help arranged by Steve Rubel.
Bloggers attending here today include, Mark Bixby, PodTech's Robert Scoble, TechCrunch's Marshall Kirpatrick, Buzz Bruggeman, and Lockergnome's Latthanapon “Ponzi” Indharasophang.
Update: Robert Scoble has a post here as well.
This morning Jonathan Klein, Getty Images Co-Founder and CEO met with us to talk about Getty's business, where it's been, where it's at today, and where it is going. Bruce Livingstone, Founder and CEO of iStockPhoto (which Getty bought last year for $50 million) is also here meeting with us.
I'll have lots more details later about things going on at Getty, but here are some basic comments from this morning's meetings.
Getty indeed is a powerhouse. Getty was Co-founded in March of 1995 by Klein and Mark Getty. The company today is the largest stock photography company in the world and included both stock images sold to marketers as well as editorial images sold from news events around the world.
According to Klein, Getty earns more money each year than their closest competitor, #2 Corbis earns in revenue. At present the site has over 10 million images to search and has 120 million searches per month.
One of Getty's most popular type of photography comes from their entertainment division. They just earned the most money ever from a shoot with Brad Pitt and Angelina Joele and their new baby. All money raised by that shoot was donated by both Getty and Pitt/Joele to charity.
The average price for a Getty image is about $300, although they have images that have sold for more than $100,000. iStock photo, by contrast, sells their average image for about $1.85.
Getty is focused on getting shots by the Pros up online while iStockPhoto is open to everybody. iStockPhoto adds about 25,000 new photos into their library each month. These photos are selected by a staff of about 45 editors who look for specific photos that they think can sell. According to Bruce, their business is expected to take off much more in the future and they anticipate "hockey stick" like growth as they add new editors and more user generated content.
According to Klein, Getty is increasingly looking to broaden their business internationally. They are actively localizing their web properties in various languages and have one of the largest editorial photographic staff in Iraq today. Klein said that one of the big ways that Getty increases local photography around the world is to send their staff overseas to actually train local photographers who can then shoot for Getty.
Robert Scoble asked Klein about the social user generated content that is appearing on the internet and where he saw this going, especially as it related to editorial useage.
Klein said that he did not see Getty getting into the user generated editorial imagery just quite yet. One of the issues with user generated news photos is that Getty feels that they need to maintain high editorial standards to ensure that photos are not doctored, etc. before they are sent out to publications all over the world. Because of this high scrutiny they only use their pros for these types of shots.
Klein did say though that they were interested in the user generated photography from a consumer perspective but said that this was a business that Getty was not super knowledgeable in and that they would more than likely partner with someone in the future vs. build this type of a business themselves.
According to Klein, Getty Images' success is largely due to the fact that they were one of the first stock companies to understand that the digital world was coming. They were one of the first stock agencies to aggressively build out a digital library and to digitize their content for online delivery.
I asked Klein if he saw room between the $1.85 iStockPhoto image and the high end Getty images and he said that he thought that Getty would continue to close in on this gap area in the future.
The biggest change coming for the stock business according to Klein is the proliferation of great images that are increasingly being created due to lower barriers to entry for fine photography. As the digital cameras of the world get better and better and cheaper and cheaper, more and more people are able to create stunning images. This is something that Getty is hoping to capitalize on by opening up Getty Images themselves to many more Pros in the future through paid site exposure on Getty's site as well as capitalizing on the amateur images being created through iStockPhoto.
I'll have more notes and photos up of our day at Getty later. To see shots that Kristopher and I have taken while up here in Seattle, you can click through here.
kristopher by jon knox
figured i'd take advantage of the shitty weather to tke some moody pics of jon knox latest figure, kristopher
Kristopher is impressed by the sleek no frills design of this model, but he knows it’s what’s on the inside that counts.
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Featuring 'Kristopher K' Fabric Designs from the 'Delft Blue' collection
From Left : Delft Blue - Delft Check - and - Delft Rose Blue
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Continuing my “Personal Space” series is this portrait of Kristopher in the studio. I chose to let him be outside of a home setting because the photography studio has become so deeply entwined in his identity. He is off to SCAD in fall to continue his photography education, and deservingly so.
Strobist: Much like my other recent portrait of a photographer in a studio, I took a “every light available” approach. All but one light in this photo is some version of a Calumet Travelite (the Genesis above his head is the lone exception, and yes, it fired). Of camera, I have a soft box at probably around half power to the right, for my key, and a sort of soft spot beauty dish type modifier as the fill light, very close to being on-axis with the lens. It was set probably at least 2 stops lower than the key. Every other light is behind him and in the photo … the rim lights are probably around 1/2 or 3/4 power, and the spot behind him is to supply subtle fill that also mimics how one would light a background. The hair light is set pretty low, but still functioned. Now that I think about it, I probably left a couple of the lights out, but this is a good chunk of them. Everything was triggered by optical slave or Pocket Wizard. Shot on Ilford Delta 100 film in my lovely Hasselblad 500 C/M with a 50mm f/4 C lens at about 1/125 on f/16. 100 ISO, of course. Developed in Kodak TMAX developer and scanned by Nikon D800 (see links below).
Backlit film scanned by Nikon D800 on an enlarging stand. See how I edited it here: jamiemphoto.squarespace.com/blog/2013/12/26/digital-editi... ... And this is how I "scanned" the image with a DSLR: jamiemphoto.squarespace.com/blog/2013/12/22/yes-your-dslr...
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'Silhouette' features a subtle 'tone on tone' floral design with a soft linen texture.
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Designs by Kristopher K - from top "White Wild Rose" and "Jewel Mosaic" printed by Spoonflower on Bamboo/Cotton Blend Fabric
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I've had a lovely lazy Sunday finishing my new design: "Winter Meadow"
Hope your having a lovely weekend too :)
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