Arts/Media

Interview with Vince Dudzinski aka @pairadocsdesign

by A.J. Wood March 24, 2009 Arts/Media

About 12 days ago I had a chance to catch up with a friend of mine Vince Dudzinski. First of all, let me say that my buddy Vince has the distinct honor of sharing my daughter’s birthday today. So Happy Birthday Vince! My gift to you? A blog post, heh heh. For those of you [...]

Tagged as: howto, interview, pairadocsdesign, photographer, vince dudzinski

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Fun Fun Friday

by A.J. Wood March 20, 2009 Adobe

How YOU doin’? It’s been quite a week, which ended with Sydney being sick today with a viral infection. Not how I planned to start the weekend. If you’re in Austin for SXSW this weekend, be sure to catch my sister Lesli’s band The Redwood Plan tomorrow at Lovejoys. I had planned to be there, [...]

Tagged as: fun, nearbytweets, photo, photography, photos, play with pictures, tweetlater, Twitter, Twitter Tools

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Heard Around the Interwebs

by A.J. Wood February 25, 2009 Adobe

A few quick hits for Wednesday: Ritz Camera the world’s largest camera retailer filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Monday. Ritz operates some of its stores under the name Wolf Camera, and its creditors include Nikon & Canon. According to a post in DPreview, “Court papers suggest that Ritz Cameras owes over $40 million [...]

Tagged as: bankruptcy, News, photography, ritz camera

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Quick Links Tuesday

by A.J. Wood February 17, 2009 Arts/Media

In case you missed it, RC posted a great tutorial that combines Lightroom’s web gallery upload with the Shadowbox plugin for WordPress last Friday. What does it do? Checkout the flash gallery I created of my daughter. You may be aware of the service called Twitturly that ranks the most frequent URLs tweeted, but did [...]

Tagged as: Flash, photo gallery, RC Concepcion, shadowbox, twitturly

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Your Newest Adobe Community Expert

by A.J. Wood February 13, 2009 Adobe

I am excited to announce that this week I joined the 2009 class of Adobe Community Experts. THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! to Dee Sadler, Stacy Sison & Lynly Schambers-Lenox for nominating me. It is a privilege & honor to be considered worthy of such a great community of talent. I hope I can share as [...]

Tagged as: Adobe, adobe community expert, community

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Forbes & Crowdspring Fire Up Designers

by A.J. Wood February 7, 2009 Arts/Media

It may have been lost on the general public, but earlier this week a Forbes article was the shot across the bow for most of the professional design community. In the article, Christoper Steiner interviews CrowdSpring about their “design contest” business model. Based on the comments to the article, the topic is one that is [...]

Tagged as: community, crowdspring, design contests, designers, forbes, graphic design, outsourcing

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Why You’ll Never Be David Hill or Innovation Will Never Die

by A.J. Wood January 20, 2009 Arts/Media

If you visited Scott Kelby’s blog you know that yesterday he revisited the “Dave Hill” technique, and today’s post was part II. I was surprised to read the disclaimer on the top of Scott’s blog, yet another reminder that people can be idiots. First of all, it’s disappointing that anyone–let alone a man who devotes [...]

Tagged as: dave hill, innovation, lucis art, photography, Scott Kelby

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But I’m an Artist! or Understanding Art & Business 101

by A.J. Wood January 15, 2009 Arts/Media

This morning I caught a post by @Landailyn over on her blog Janinealogy. I felt the opening dialogue made the point: Question: I am: a) retired, b) bored, c) unemployed, and I’m looking to work from home! I’ve used Photoshop for years! Does anyone have any ideas on what I can do to: a) start [...]

Tagged as: art, business, Janinealogy, money, photo restoration, photography

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