Posted by Codejoy
Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:00:00 GMT
I got into the photography class I wanted to this semester. It is a photography I class, aka photography 270. Its every Saturday for like 6 hours, makes for a long Saturday but I am very excited to be taking the class. The first assignment is to bring in a photo that makes us think, or evokes some sort of emotion and then talk about it. I think I have that covered, though I can tell the class is going to be VERY time consuming and that worries me since its been a long while since I've had to worry about such time constraints. More later... oh and hi (ya been a while since I blogged)!
Posted in Me, Photography | Tags art, class, photography, school | 3 comments
Posted by Codejoy
Wed, 05 Dec 2007 16:39:00 GMT
So no updates to the blog, no updates to my flickr. Ya its safe to say I am in a bit of a slump, I keep hoping its one of those brooding slumps where I remerge stronger and better than before, but really I think its just a slump brought on by the busyness of the holidays. My photography is sucking as of late, my technology hates me (built a "cheap" computer that went over budget and then missed the mark of doing what it was built to do but I am still trying). You know its bad when i don't even have an image to go with this post, wait let me put one up.
Posted in Me, Rants | Tags blah, blech, slump | 3 comments
Posted by Codejoy
Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:44:00 GMT
I know there are some non-techy visitors I have at this blog, but sometimes I have to get on my soap box and preach the gospel of technology and kids. There is this initiative that has been in the works for a while called "One Laptop Per Child" (OLPC) which basically means that kids in poor and developing nations can get a laptop that is built for their environment to use and get on the internet with. The background of this initiative is located here. I bring this up now cause it is the season for giving, and this OLPC has a new initiative "Give one, get one", where you can essentially donate 399$ to the organization and receive one of their OLPC laptops and also by doing so, send one to a child in a developing nation, 200$ of that can be a tax write-off. Get this: the laptops can be "wound up" for power, one minute of cranking is 10 minutes of use. How about that? So if you can, please Give one, get one.
Posted in Me, Deep Thoughts | Tags Childs Play, Give one get one, OLPC, One Laptop per child, Penny-Arcade | 3 comments
Posted by Codejoy
Thu, 18 Oct 2007 14:43:00 GMT
I am not a photoshop junky, I have a business called "Thomas Custom Digital" and yet, I rarely photoshop any of my photos. I might be finally getting some wedding gigs here and in the interest of presenting the best final image I can possibly present, my photography sans the photoshop might change. I like keeping my photography a pure form sort of thing, I often even get annoyed at images that others take that I like that I end up finding out they are heavily photoshopped. Its like nothing is real anymore, makes it feel cheapened slightly. But then if one can make a truely awesome picture with some photoshop magic, then why not? This post was inspired by the strobist speaking of an up and coming photographer named "Joey Lawrence" (no not of the "woah" type). Apparently his work is very cutting edge and most his images are photoshopped. The link here shows off some of the guys work and even there is an YouTube video there.
So I guess I have to decide for myself, to photoshop or not to photoshop ? That is the question
Posted in Me, Photography, Deep Thoughts | Tags image, joey, lawrence, photography, photos, photoshop, strobist | 4 comments
Posted by Codejoy
Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:06:00 GMT
Finally Apple has done it, they announced a SDK for the Apple iPhone (and also for apples iTouch). What is an sdk to my non-techie readers, it stands for "Software Development Kit". Basically its a bunch of programs that allow a developer (me) to write programs and software for a device (iPhone/iTouch). Why is this a big deal? Cause it allows most ANY developer (not a big famous/rich/powerful) one to write software for these devices. The software(s) I plan to write, why they will be photographically related of course! Or I might go back to my roots and build some video games for your iPhone or iTouch (mobile gaming is where I got my game programming start professionally speaking) so who knows, the kit doesn't come out till feb but the knowledge that it is coming is a glorious thing.
Posted in Me, Hacks, MacOS X | Tags iPhone, iTouch, news, Programming, SDK | no comments
