Changes at Superstock
Superstock, a Stock photography agency with 3,8 million images has promoted Carole Spike-Robertson to UK Sales Manager and has named Matilda Anderson as Marketing Manager. Spike-Robertson, most recently from Jupiter Images, has worked in the photo industry since 1996. She also worked at Getty Images , starting in captioning and later picture research. At Jupiter Images she moved to a [...]
5 ways to Engage people after the recession
In our series of guest author articles Marcelo Borges, co-founder of insight-2-performance adresses post recession actions to re-engage people in businesses. The recession has damaged national economies and businesses and produced traumatic effects for millions of people worldwide. In the UK alone 2.46 million are currently unemployed. According to the Office of National Statistics, in 2008 [...]
Music Video with a social media element
I’ve shared a number of video’s here that took user generated content to create new unique content. Kutiman used random elements and put these together. The video here creates original content through contributions of a large community, a bit like this one that has been released recently. It does appear that in the end all content will be [...]
Star Wars uncut, helping to recreate a classic
Here’s an interesting social Media experiment; Star Wars uncut is recreating Star Wars episode one A new Hope by splitting it in 15 second clips and allowing 473 people to film/create the scenes and create a totally new version of the original movie. Check out the trailer below and the site for more details. In fact, there [...]
This will make you reflect on the crisis, superflex movie
While the recession appears to be nearing its end and banks seem to be back to business as usual there are many personal stories that will be told about this period, some encouraging , some confrontational, like this project shows. This has been aired in the UK by Channel 4 and will be featured on [...]
Securing a job after the recession
A few months ago we asked Steve Lake to share some tips on how to set up a CV and how to get a first meeting when looking for a job. Steve worked at Pepper Stark, an industry consultancy where he was responsible for recruitment. A few months later times are still tough but there [...]
The campaign to make people happier
Here’s a great Swedish campaign aimed at changing behaviour “We believe that the easiest way to change people’s behaviour for the better is by making it fun to do. We call it The fun theory. http://www.rolighetsteorin.se/”
Preparing for your next job
In times of downsizing and redundancies we asked Steve Lake his view on the job market, and more importantly what can be done now to secure an industry job in the future. Steve Lake is a veteran of the Stock Photography industry. He was responsible for recruitment at Pepper Stark in London where he developed [...]
Chris Buck Interview
Deb Henderson of Moodboard and the Factory blog was inspired by a 2008 interview on Rob Haggarts photoeditor Blog and caught up with Chris Buck. A 20 year veteran he was the first recipient of the Arnold Newman portrait price in 2007. He is now based in New York and Los Angeles. You are hugely successful at [...]
Start taking pictures in your backyard, Gerry Thies
The lure of new and exciting locations for the creation of images is tempting. When I had my first cameras growing up on a farm in Iowa I photographed little of my surroundings. I remember however, how a 90-mile car trip to the zoo tapped my right brain. And by using a Polariod Swinger, I [...]
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