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The material abundance we all enjoy was made possible by an industrial economy that focused primarily mass-producing material goods. The philosophy of mass production was based on Henry Ford’s big idea: If you could produce great volumes of a product at a low cost, the market for that product would be virtually unlimited. In the early days his idea held true, but eventually, every market gets saturated and it gets more and more difficult to sell them more stuff. By 1960, 70% of families owned their own homes, 85% had a TV, and 75% had a car.
As markets became saturated with material goods, producers found a new way to apply the principle of mass-production in mass-marketing. With a TV in nearly every house, producers had a direct line to customers. Customers became known as consumers, because their role in the economy was to consume everything that producers could make. Increasingly, this producer-consumer economy developed into a marketing-industrial complex dependent on consumer dissatisfaction and the mass-creation of desire for the next new thing.
New technologies of communication have splintered the channels of mass-communication into tiny fragments. It’s no longer possible for mass-marketers to reach out and touch all of their customers at once. The megaphone is gone. And with the rise of social networks and peer-to-peer communication channels, every customer can have their own megaphone.
To many mass-marketers this feels like a chaotic cacophony of voices, and it’s hard to be heard in the crowd. But to most customers it’s an empowering feeling to have a voice, to be heard. Even if a company ignores your complaint, the world will hear, and if companies don’t respond they will eventually feel the pain, as customers find new places to go to get what they want.
The producer-driven economy is giving way to a new, customer-centered world, where companies will prosper by developing relationships with customers by listening to them, adapting and responding to their wants and needs.
The problem is that the organizations that generated all this wealth were not designed for this. They were not designed to listen, adapt and respond. They were designed to create a ceaseless, one-way flow of material goods and information. Everything about them has been optimized for this one-directional arrow, and product-oriented habits are so deeply embedded in our organizational systems that it will be difficult to root them out.
It’s not only companies that need to change. Our entire society has been optimized for production and consumption. Our school systems are optimized to create good cogs for the corporate machine, not the creative thinkers and problem-solvers we will need in the 21st century. Our government is optimized for corporate customers, spending its money to bail out and protect the old infrastructure instead of investing in the new one. Our suburbs are optimized to increase consumption, with lots of space for products and plenty of nearby places where we can consume more stuff, including lots of fuel along the way.
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There's a second part to this one here....
"I see a mansard roof through the trees,
I see a salty message written in the eaves.
The ground beneath my feet,
the hot garbage and concrete,
and now the tops of buildings, I can see them too...."
- Vampire Weekend
'Mansard Roof'
Took a quick photo last night to test out some product photography gear and product photography table that I made. I also wanted to test a lighting setup that I had read about.
The lighting setup didn't seem to work at all which was so frustrating so I just made it up myself.
I'm not really happy with the results but it's the first time I've ever tried to photograph a bottle so I don't really know what I am doing (obviously).
Would love some criticism and tips on how to improve. Because it was done so fast I forgot to take a photo of the setup...sorry.
Basically, the setup was:
1. AB800 with 7" reflector and 10° grid with purple gel up the back on camera left pointed at the table sweep so that it would create a gradient across the back of the sweep. Didn't work, but still created a nice light purple background.
2. AB800 with small softbox camera right pointed up to the roof to create a fill for the rest of the photo. Initially the softbox was low in front of the bottle but I kept on getting a terrible reflection of the softbox so I had to point the softbox straight up and bounce off the roof of the room. Not ideal, but it kind of did the trick.
3. White 52" reflector standing straight on the right hand side of the table.
4. Large foam core cardboard standing straight on the left hand side of the table.
5. large foam core cardboard held by me just above the camera lens pointing on a 45° angle towards the product for fill on the front.
6. 1/160, f/9 @ 100ISO, Canon 5D Mark II with 100mm Macro L f/2.8 lens.
Post-production was minimal (as it was just a test). Increase in clarity, vibrance and saturation. I think that's it. Took a couple of mins in post-production.
About the brand
Incredible Italian flavours all together in one fresh, modern Italian brand. We believe great food doesn’t need to take forever when Soli is around. Stone baked wood fired pizzas, hand shaped hand topped breads, delicious sauces made in Italy and all ready to serve in less than 15 minutes.
Products
Fresh pasta – filled and unfilled. More Italian lines – sauces, antipasti platters and flatbreads – to come 18th May
Where to buy
Waitrose.
A flash in each of my 'softboxes' (now with spill catchers!).. a reflector white side in hovering over the top, and a seamless background made of some flexible signage material I got from the sign store around the corner from work.
As much as I'd love to mess around to get each and every shot absolutely perfect, they're published in a very small size, and I'm shooting/processing 250 products a day sometimes... This setup allows almost anything to be shot to a more than acceptable level for the use.
Photographer: Fred H. Politinsky
Subject: Product Illustration
Today brands are everything, and all kinds of products and services - from accounting firms to sneaker makers to restaurants - are figuring out how to transcend the narrow boundaries of their categories and become a brand surrounded by a Tommy Hilfiger-like buzz.
---- Tom Peters
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Voronezh is a city and the administrative centre of Voronezh Oblast in southwestern Russia straddling the Voronezh River, located 12 kilometers (7.5 mi) from where it flows into the Don River. The city sits on the Southeastern Railway, which connects western Russia with the Urals and Siberia, the Caucasus and Ukraine, and the M4 highway (Moscow–Voronezh–Rostov-on-Don–Novorossiysk). In recent years the city has experienced rapid population growth, rising in 2021 to 1,057,681, up from 889,680 recorded in the 2010 Census, making it the 14th-most populous city in the country.
For many years, the hypothesis of the Soviet historian Vladimir Zagorovsky dominated: he produced the toponym "Voronezh" from the hypothetical Slavic personal name Voroneg. This man allegedly gave the name of a small town in the Chernigov Principality (now the village of Voronizh in Ukraine). Later, in the 11th or 12th century, the settlers were able to "transfer" this name to the Don region, where they named the second city Voronezh, and the river got its name from the city. However, now many researchers criticize the hypothesis, since in reality neither the name of Voroneg nor the second city was revealed, and usually the names of Russian cities repeated the names of the rivers, but not vice versa.
A comprehensive scientific analysis was conducted in 2015–2016 by the historian Pavel Popov. His conclusion: "Voronezh" is a probable Slavic macrotoponym associated with outstanding signs of nature, has a root voron- (from the proto-Slavic vorn) in the meaning of "black, dark" and the suffix -ezh (-azh, -ozh). It was not “transferred” and in the 8th - 9th centuries it marked a vast territory covered with black forests (oak forests) - from the mouth of the Voronezh river to the Voronozhsky annalistic forests in the middle and upper reaches of the river, and in the west to the Don (many forests were cut down). The historian believes that the main "city" of the early town-planning complex could repeat the name of the region – Voronezh. Now the hillfort is located in the administrative part of the modern city, in the Voronezh upland oak forest. This is one of Europe's largest ancient Slavic hillforts, the area of which – more than 9 hectares – 13 times the area of the main settlement in Kyiv before the baptism of Rus.
In it is assumed that the word "Voronezh" means bluing - a technique to increase the corrosion resistance of iron products. This explanation fits well with the proximity to the ancient city of Voronezh of a large iron deposit and the city of Stary Oskol. As well as the name of Voroneț Monastery known for its blue shade.
Folk etymology claims the name comes from combining the Russian words for raven (ворон) and hedgehog (еж) into Воронеж. According to this explanation two Slavic tribes named after the animals used this combination to name the river which later in turn provided the name for a settlement. There is not believed to be any scientific support for this explanation.
In the 16th century, the Middle Don basin, including the Voronezh river, was gradually conquered by Muscovy from the Nogai Horde (a successor state of the Golden Horde), and the current city of Voronezh was established in 1585 by Feodor I as a fort protecting the Muravsky Trail trade route against the slave raids of the Nogai and Crimean Tatars. The city was named after the river.
17th to 19th centuries
In the 17th century, Voronezh gradually evolved into a sizable town. Weronecz is shown on the Worona river in Resania in Joan Blaeu's map of 1645. Peter the Great built a dockyard in Voronezh where the Azov Flotilla was constructed for the Azov campaigns in 1695 and 1696. This fleet, the first ever built in Russia, included the first Russian ship of the line, Goto Predestinatsia. The Orthodox diocese of Voronezh was instituted in 1682 and its first bishop, Mitrofan of Voronezh, was later proclaimed the town's patron saint.
Owing to the Voronezh Admiralty Wharf, for a short time, Voronezh became the largest city of South Russia and the economic center of a large and fertile region. In 1711, it was made the seat of the Azov Governorate, which eventually morphed into the Voronezh Governorate.
In the 19th century, Voronezh was a center of the Central Black Earth Region. Manufacturing industry (mills, tallow-melting, butter-making, soap, leather, and other works) as well as bread, cattle, suet, and the hair trade developed in the town. A railway connected Voronezh with Moscow in 1868 and Rostov-on-Don in 1871.
Product shoot for Streekmakers
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March 9, 2022
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I don't know when Keurig started selling cats, but I'll take it. Look how cute this one is!
The dog is passionate about his cleaning products. You know this because he is on way more products than a dog with a bandana should be. The real questions is does the bandana act as the signifier between dogs who put in an honest days work and those that are just lazy.
An eastbound local to Hoboken passes below some of the only remains of what once was the Union Oil Products plant in East Rutherford.
NJT 1630 @ Sport Wye, East Rutherford, NJ
MNCW Comet V 6705
Fine Jewelry by Christine Darren
Website: www.christinedarren.com/
Strobist:
Elinchrom BXRi500 in Large Softbox Directly Overhead
White reflector on Camera Right
fired via Skyports
A friend of the family is launching a line of jewelry and asked if I could take some product photos.This was a great opportunity to test out my DIY lightbox www.stjeanm.com/blog/2013/11/diy-project-light-box
Picture taken with an Olympus E-M5 and Industar 61 L/Z.