Photo Awesome

I’ve been reading the Conscientious blog lately, and it’s full of good stuff. Today I came across this post about the value of attending portfolio reviews, much like several of us will be attending in just… 8 SHORT weeks!

For those of you that add photos to your facebook and myspace profiles: (Thought you might want to know what they can ‘do’ with your photos)

To the issue of facebook owning your photos, The original wording of 
Facebook stated that you pretty much give them all rights to your work 

“By posting User Content to any part of the Site, you automatically 
grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, 
to the Company an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, 
fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to use, 
copy, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, excerpt 
(in whole or in part) and distribute such User Content for any 
purpose, commercial, advertising, or otherwise, on or in connection 
with the Site or the promotion thereof, to prepare derivative works 
of, or incorporate into other works, such User Content, and to grant 
and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing.” 

But they have updated their TOS to include 

“You may remove your User Content from the Site at any time. If you 
choose to remove your User Content, the license granted above will 
automatically expire, however you acknowledge that the Company may 
retain archived copies of your User Content. Facebook does not assert 
any ownership over your User Content; rather, as between us and you, 
subject to the rights granted to us in these Terms, you retain full 
ownership of all of your User Content and any intellectual property 
rights or other proprietary rights associated with your User Content.” 

As for MySpace, they make it clear that they don’t want your rights, 
and that the only access to your work they need is so that they can 
display the work on your page. The exceprt of the TOS is here, 

“MySpace.com does not claim any ownership rights in the text, files, 
images, photos, video, sounds, musical works, works of authorship, or 
any other materials (collectively, “Content”) that you post to the 
MySpace Services. After posting your Content to the MySpace Services, 
you continue to retain all ownership rights in such Content, and you 
continue to have the right to use your Content in any way you choose. 
By displaying or publishing (”posting”) any Content on or through the 
MySpace Services, you hereby grant to MySpace.com a limited license to 
use, modify, publicly perform, publicly display, reproduce, and 
distribute such Content solely on and through the MySpace Services.” 

Just a post to send the good word to all the new awesome photo grads.

I also want to point out this site where, with your newly recognized digital media skillz, you may have another promising career option…

Hey, I have some paper for sale:

Premium Luster roll paper:

Two 36″ x 100′- $120 each

Theta paper Matte 30″ x 100′- $100

karen236@aol.com

I came across this art website called www.myartspace.com. They got vids and galleries of shows. You can also sign up for free and upload some art. Kinda Interesting . . .

Photoshop Disasters is a compendium of user submitted pieces of really bad Photoshop. Funny thing is, people got paid to make these monsters, including my recent fave, Florida’s nipplegate.

Well this might be the coolest thing ever. Maybe you’ve already heard of this but if you haven’t check it out it’s quite amazing.

“Using photos of oft-snapped subjects (like Notre Dame) scraped from around the Web, Photosynth (based on Seadragon technology) creates breathtaking multidimensional spaces with zoom and navigation features that outstrip all expectation. Its architect, Blaise Aguera y Arcas, shows it off in this standing-ovation demo. Curious about that speck in corner? Dive into a freefall and watch as the speck becomes a gargoyle. With an unpleasant grimace. And an ant-sized chip in its lower left molar. “Perhaps the most amazing demo I’ve seen this year,” wrote Ethan Zuckerman, after TED2007. Indeed, Photosynth might utterly transform the way we manipulate and experience digital images.”

Adobe has released Photoshop Express, a web-based version of Photoshop. Basic retouching, 2GB online backup, and some kind of gallery thing. Interesting.

I know everyone has played with a polaroid camera at some point. Well, if you have, and you didn’t really know what to do with the little things except tack them around your room, there is now a place where they can go forever. The Polanoid project is a website (and dedicated gallery www.polanoir.com) to preserving the exhibiting the art of the Polaroid. It’s kind of like a flickr page, except only for polaroids (and now analog film). The bonus is, if you get featured as the “Sited of the Day” there is a chance you can get shown in Vienna at the gallery Polanoir. check out the websites.

Polanoid
Polanoir

This is clever… string + bolt + washer = tripod! OK, “stabilizer,” but still pretty cool.

Hey!

I have an opportunity for two students to attend this weekend’s National Geographic Traveler Seminar this Sunday for free if you help with registration.

If you are interested contact me at:

saishman@scad.edu

-Steve

Hello everyone! Long time no see…

I’ve been working A LOT this quarter and I’ve missed the Friday outings.

Anyway, I am considering purchasing a medium format camera for next quarter and I would like to know what you use and why you like it.

Thanks in advance

Danielle

So a site I rarely frequent (oxymoron?) posted a new method for speeding up the process of spotting scanned film. Anyone ever thought of this? I haven’t had a chance to try it yet, but it seems like it might work well.

Now we can color correct our images in this brand new color viewing station.

To understand the importance of viewing stations read this.

Two new DSLRs… D300 and D3. Glad I didn’t buy that D200 this year!

Study says Inkjet printers are filthy, lying thieves
“A new study says that on average, more than half of the ink from inkjet cartridges is wasted when users toss them in the garbage. Why is that interesting? According to the study, users are tossing the cartridges when their printers are telling them they’re out of ink, not when they necessarily are out of ink.”

This is the article on plagiarism/appropriation that I mentioned yesterday, by Jonathan Lethem for Harper’s magazine.
harpers.org/archive/2007/02/0081387

and this is the Washington Post story that led me to it…

“The Brooklyn-bred novelist (”Motherless Brooklyn,” “Fortress of Solitude”) is fascinated by what he calls ‘the mysteries of authorship — the idea that things arise in culture that don’t quite belong to anyone.’”

I don’t how many, if any, of you go to Moakler around the corner for your film processing, but they are closing soon. Retiring after 25 years or so.

Photoshop CS3 is out. Macworld has a review. The short answer is get it now.

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