Posts Tagged ‘photography’

Fortune favours the brave: Why the best marketing opportunity of your life might also be the scariest. / La fortune sourit aux audacieux: Pourquoi la plus belle opportunité de votre vie peut aussi être la plus effrayante.

The best marketing opportunities might be the scariest. If you want to know what a commercial photographer can offer you, why not see what they can do in 72 hours of sub-optimal conditions with the pressure of a competitive screening at the end. That’s how Robin O’Neill saw the Deep Winter opportunity, when she “manned” [...]

Swimming in the Deep Summer talent pool

It’s got to be said, trite as it may sound – the real winners at Kokanee Crankworx’ Deep Summer photo showdown are the audience members. 6 photographers wrangling crews of 6-10 athletes, editors, assistants and moral-supporters, over 72 hours, dedicated purely to art? A quick crunch of the numbers and that’s 3500 hours of creative [...]

I’ll see your moodboard and raise you…

Pillow Line Stop Motion

Pillow Line from Kari Medig on Vimeo. Making its rounds on the viral circuit is this latest work from Nelson’s talented photographer Kari Medig. Kari won the 2008 Whistler Ski and Snowboard Festival’s Pro Photographer showdown. It is great to see he is keeping up the great work. Here’s a show I put together for [...]

Origin Mountain Bikers Represent on the Cover of Bike Magazine

Proving that all our shit talk about “You are where you live” is undeniably true, Origin staff member Lindsay Burch and her husband Dave are on the front cover of mountain biking’s bible, Bike magazine. Shot by Sterling Lorence, the best photographer in the sport, the couple were riding in the mountains high above our [...]

Touching Strangers by Richard Renaldi

NYC-based photographer Richard Renaldi‘s latest series of photographs features strangers touching each other. No, not in the pornographic sense but in a very congenial yet awkward way (in most cases). The result is an intriguing view of how humans interact within their “personal space.” Check out the rest of the series HERE.

Mr Brainwash, Leibovitz, Fairey & Scher Artwork at CAN & DID Obama Inauguration Show

Politics aside, art found a new place last year in social commentary and inspired many artists such as Mr. Brainwash, Shepard Fairey, Paula Scher and Annie Leibovitz. These artists and others will be showing at the upcoming CAN & DID Exhibition opening in New York on Inauguration Day, Jan 20th ’09. Whether commissioned or not, [...]