Web Monday Zurich #12

Web Monday Zurich #12

My mind is still bleeding with inspiration from Web Monday Zurich #12. I sometimes paint and at some point I get into a sort of trance with the colors and shapes that paint themselves on to the canvas – the madness takes over and I think I’ll crawl out of my skin. I admit this [...]

WPZ - Mathias Concept Meeting

WPZ – Mathias Concept Meeting

The Web Portraits Zurich project is moving forward. This was a project I started on Amazee to integrate photography with my interest in web technology. The first portrait shoot is with Mathias Möller, who works at Amazee and freelances for laut.de, a German music blog. The Web Portratis Zurich project is as much about exploring [...]

Google Wave - Photo Project Brainstorming

Google Wave – Photo Project Brainstorming

I’m running a project on Amazee called Web Portraits Zurich. Basically it’s about creating cool portraits and images of people in the Zurich/Switzerland web and startup community. To try and be a little innovative, I started the project not just as a way to gather a lot of cool subjects to shoot with (like any [...]

The Creative Space

The Creative Space

Environment plays a huge roll in creativity and creation. Physically this happens inside a relative thing we call “space.” Call it a room, a studio, your office, a play-pen, a workshop, a bathroom, baby crib, whatever – the place you work and where you do your creative stuff. It’s where you do your [...]

Digital Holga - Yashica EZ F521 Review

Digital Holga – Yashica EZ F521 Review

Yashica released a cool little camera called the EZ F521. It’s been released in Japan and I ordered one from Japan Exposures, this is a review of the camera and additionally of the Digital Holga concept. The Yashica F521 has been labeled the Digital Holga. I think this makes sense on some levels and is preposterous nonsense in [...]

Margarita - Urban Location Photoshoot

Margarita – Urban Location Photoshoot

Margarita contacted me via Stylished.com (she’s also on ModelMayhem: #1243386) and we setup a quick photo shoot in the urban area of Winterthur, just outside of Zurich, Switzerland. What follows is a break-down of the shooting process.
I conduct my photo shoots similar to the way one might assemble a portfolio of research projects. See, some [...]

Alexandra - Anatomy of a TFCD Model Shoot

Alexandra – Anatomy of a TFCD Model Shoot

A little while ago I started networking on with models on websites like Model Mayhem and Stylished to organize some shoots. One day I was reading my email and saw a contact from Alexandra (MM# 809690) on Model Mayhem, she liked some of my shots of Amber and we organized a TFCD shoot. [...]

Sony A900 - First Impressions Sony A900

Sony A900 – First Impressions Sony A900

My photography-digital-imaging-hobby-obsession has started peaking in the past few months. After putting up some profiles on Model Mayhem and Stylished I started getting requests for Time For CD (TFCD) shoots. So I figured: Hell, why not try out a Sony A900? Why the Sony A900? Well, I have a Minolta 7D, [...]

Wedding Trip: Revolt from the Singles Table

Wedding Trip: Revolt from the Singles Table

After a few years and various cups of coffee and a couple of things in between I’ve released my first book. It’s self-published – not official in the sense that someone has put up financial backing to get it into print. In the digital age, what is the point unless one has been approached already [...]

Revolt From the Singles Table - Cover Design

Revolt From the Singles Table – Cover Design

I’ve been slowly working on finishing a sort of short-story or non-novel about a wedding I attended a few years ago. The wedding sets the backdrop for thoughts about love and relationships, life and death, the normal stuff I think too much about. Naturally, once you write the book, you need to represent [...]

Ricoh Camera Evolution - GXR System

Ricoh Camera Evolution – GXR System

Ricoh has announced the GXR system, essentially it brings to reality a concept some people have talked and dreamed about since the digital imaging revolution began, a system with swappable sensors. Ricoh has taken the concept a bit further and released a system more akin to the not-yet-released Red Scarlet than, say the Lumix GF1. The GXR system includes [...]

Digital Holga - Yashica EZ F521 Review

Digital Holga – Yashica EZ F521 Review

Yashica released a cool little camera called the EZ F521. It’s been released in Japan and I ordered one from Japan Exposures, this is a review of the camera and additionally of the Digital Holga concept. The Yashica F521 has been labeled the Digital Holga. I think this makes sense on some levels and is preposterous nonsense in [...]

A Tourist in Detroit - the Real City

A Tourist in Detroit – the Real City

Editor’s Note: The following words have been writing themselves for over a year, but the author is a lazy one and finally we had to shackle him to a coffee shop table in a location just out side Zurich, Switzerland and beat the sentences out of him. This is the first in a series (which [...]

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