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Last Updated: 8/6/2009

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City: Seattle
State: Washington
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Monday, April 13, 2009 
Flutter...the new Twitter

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Friday, April 10, 2009 

Category: Blogging
This confirms it I can only date girls who use verizon now....





Tuesday, April 07, 2009 

Category: Art and Photography
Now that most photographers have gone digital, some started that way, most of us keep our important pictures are stored on a hard drive. If you are like me you have a external hard drive that is slowly getting filled. Mine is a 1TB MyBook which currently has 300GB of space, yes that is around 700GB of pictures. 

Its commonly said that if you do not have two copies of a file, you do not have a file. Personally I am just as bad as everyone else at this. I do have a lot of my pictures backed up on DVD, but as i have found DVDs fail, very easily.

Other good solutions are a separate external drive mirroring the first drive. Another even better method is sending your pictures to  "the cloud". Basically backing up online, which is generally a monthly charge through a service like Carbonite. They backup your information through a program running in the background. This is a great service if you can afford it. Not keeping your pictures in the same place as your backup is always a great idea.

If you have not heard of "Drobo" this is another great solution for inhouse storage.

A Drobo is a redundancy backup system. It is basically a drive cabinet that can store 4-8 harddrives in it. Your files are spread throughout the drives and backed up as well. So much so that if a drive fails, which they do, you can simply pull it out and replace it and the drive will auto repair your information. You can put any size drive into your Drobo, 4 TB drives will give you around 3 TB of usable space. Not the cheapest solution though a 4 slot Drobo will set you back $500, not to mention the cost of the drives; which thankfully are cheap through sites like newegg. The downside is that all your files are still in one spot, which leaves them open to fire, flood, theft, ect. Better then not having backup at all though and it does not require you to manually do anything to backup your files.

All and all storage is cheap and all of us should have our pictures backed up. If nothing else at least backup your "good stuff" or important picture memories. Even a thumb drive can be a good solution for backing up the pictures that you cannot afford to loose.

More about the Drobo here
http://www.datarobotics.com/

More about Carbonite
http://www.carbonite.com/
Friday, April 03, 2009 

Category: Art and Photography
As
part of its newfound bankrupcy status, Ritz Camera's gearing up to
close more than 300 of its around 700 brick-and-mortar stores across
the US, or about 43 percent of its retail presence. Starting April 4th,
the affect stores will begin liquidation sales that'll go on until --
in the words of the press release -- "everything is sold to the bare
walls." Forget DSLRs, if you were needing any fancy, brick-and-mortal
shelving units, now might be your chance! Hit up the read link for a
PDF listing all the closing stores.


Monday, March 30, 2009 

Category: Art and Photography


What's the world coming too, really? Not only did we see the first official presidential portrait shot with a DSLR this year, but we're also seeing the first feature film to be entirely shot on one as well. Searching For Sonny
has grabbed the rights to that latter claim, a little ditty written and
directed by one Andrew Disney. As expected, we have Canon's almighty EOS 5D Mark II
to thank, though Nikon fanboys will surely love that their lenses were
used. Head past the break for a sneak peek, and hit up the read link on
April 15th for the full trailer. Indie filmmakers, this is the break
you've been waiting for -- don't screw it up.

Continue reading Searching For Sonny: first feature film shot on a DSLR

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 

Category: Art and Photography


Amung the other 50,000 point and shoot cameras Canon has released in the last few months. They have released a brand new Digital Rebel.

Read - Official press release

Read - Amazon listing

What does this mean to you?

You can now buy the old rebel for a bit cheaper!



Tuesday, March 24, 2009 

Category: Blogging

Hi Everyone,

Long time no update.

Too be honest I am not on MySpace really anymore. Most of my daily picture uploads are done on Facebook.

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/profile.php?id=765785102&ref=profile

But as a MySpace exclusive announcement I thought I would let you all know that my website is going through a major redesign.

Backed by SmugMug.com www.jazzydigitalphoto.com will now exclusively sell prints for purchase. The site should go live the end of this week/beginning of next.

I am starting by adding over 500 of my top choices through the last few years. The pictures range from conceptiual to real. From people to landscapes. People will be able to purchase small prints or poster prints.

I am choosing to not be a "gun for hire" any longer. Instead I will be focusing on shooting concepts and enviroments for print sale. Of course I will still be having photo sessions with people for general things and to keep my wits sharp!

I will let you all know when I go live.

Till then I thought i would share one of my favorite pictures from a swing dance video shoot I was on a couple weekends ago.



The whole picture set can be found here

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=232797&id=765785102&l=ee3d138eae




Wednesday, February 25, 2009 

Category: Blogging
We lost one of our employees to another company.

He gave me two weeks notice last Monday, he also had a planned vacation from that Thursday to Tuesday. So I have been on the hiring rampage over the last week.

Tuesday at 10:00 AM I posted a Craigslist ad, which consisted of a two page "myspace-esk" survey. Asking everything from their experience to their favorite movie star. It also had sample customer questions.

By 4:15 PM (I wanted to be 4 PM) I had 100 applicants reply. By Wednesday I had over 200 applications. I Started culling through them and Thursday morning I pulled the ad from craigslist. The final count...223.

Out of those I chose a top 16, then a top 10. Calling the ten for interviews on Friday and Monday. Basically one every hour. By Monday night I narrowed it down to three picks. And Tuesday I made my final decision caled and hired my one guy. And emailed the other 9 to thank them. (four responded back saying to bad.)

Lesson: The job market sucks right now. I had ex corperate lawers, and PHDs all trying to get a part time up to $16 an hour job!

Other news my Kindle 2 has shipped! Can't wait till Friday to play with it.



If you do not know what a kindle is i suggest you check it out on Amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00154JDAI/?tag=googhydr-20&hvadid=3098353127&ref=pd_sl_41di7k8jq1_e



Thursday, February 12, 2009 

Category: Art and Photography






Lost & Found: The Camera That Rose From the Dead




It’s a modern-day fairtytale:
Once upon a time, a man found a digital camera at the bottom of a river.
After prying open the rusted-out remains of the camera, he found 244 miraculously undamaged pictures on the memory card.
The kindly man started a blog for the sole purpose of finding the person who took the pictures. Only 8 days later, he was able to reunite the long-lost photos with their joyful owner.
The great thing is, he’s not the only knight-in-shining-armor out there. I Found Your Camera is a hub for people who found photos or cameras and want to return them to their owners.
The moral of the story is: if you lose your camera, don’t give up hope
— somebody somewhere may be trying to find you. If you lose it on the
train, if you lose it on a boat, if you lose it in a goat, you can find
it, yes you can!
I Found Your Camera

The first place to look if you lose your camera (or find one!)
The Camera That Rose From the Dead

The story of a drowned camera raised from the depths and restored to its loved ones.






 

Wednesday, February 11, 2009 

Category: Blogging
Companies often send us emails about products they would like us to sell for them. I have actually added a few products from these emails, but most are not quite awesome enough for us to carry. Rarely does someone actually send us a product without calling first, but in this case they thought the below product would sell itself.

Photobucket

This product is called "Mail Ballz"

http://www.mailballz.com/

Basically it is a mail box alert. you install the metal bolt on your box and hang the ball from the ring on the bolt. When the door opens the ball naturally drops off the bolt and hangs lower by the chain. If the ball has dropped you have mail!

....

US Postal Service accepted.
US Postal Service accepted. Hauling the mail.

Amazing right! And no we are not offering it on our website...you will have to find it elsewhere.

Also I thought I would share today's XKCD with you because it is amazing.