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Posted by Dominic Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:04:00 GMT
This ought to be interesting for all you photographers out there.
Scott Kelby asked Attorney Ed Greenberg (who has over 30 years of experience on the topic) about copyright, model releases and shooting in public.
The result is two 10-minute video clips that you can watch here.
I highly recommend taking a look - there’s some really good information in there.
Posted by Dominic Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:37:00 GMT
I’m vaguely entertaining the idea of getting a new desk as part of moving to my new house.
Through some random occurrence on the internet, I came across these guys, who have manual and electrically-adjustable desks, in heights from about 25” to 50-some”.
Having just contacted Rockford (the local distributor) today to get price information, I came across this link in my RSS reader, not 30 minutes later….
Even though I don’t shoot film, it looks pretty sweet.
Posted by Dominic Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:41:00 GMT
It’s closing day.
You take half day off, sleep in, are well rested, get ready and head to the title company.
There you meet up with your Realtor and the representative from your mortgage lender.
Then you meet with the representative for the title company, sign all your paperwork, sign away your firstborn AND second-born.
It wasn’t actually THAT bad. In the whole process, it was rather anti-climactic. I signed a bunch of paper, initialed a few pages, and we told lots of stories (and discussed good restaurants).
And then it hit me. I now own a house. Well, mostly.
After lunch, and after I got to work, the phone started ringing incessantly.
The title company called, we missed a signature on one of the million pages.
The mortgage lender called, they had an error in underwriting, and needed some extra paperwork to explain my mother’s gift of money to me (to help with funding the house).
The insurance guy called, and during the conversation we found out he hadn’t sent me the paperwork to sign yet.
This was followed by the most expensive next 30 minutes of cellphone time. 2 calls to Norway, several calls to the bank, lender, title company, etc.
I think it’s all good, and as far as I know, I’m still the owner of a new (to me) house.
Yay.
Posted by Dominic Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:47:00 GMT
I am sorry, dear readers, for having neglected you as I have for the last few weeks.
Life has been rather busy and eventful - so it’s been difficult to find ways to express everything in a concise manner, without taking to run-on sentences, excessive blather, et cetera.
(Blah, blah, stop avoiding the subject, Dom)
Fine, fine.
Here goes:
I am getting closer on the house purchase. Against all odds, the government and the banks decided to approve my financing. After 10am tomorrow (Tuesday) I’ll have a house. My very own house.)
I spent an evening a few weeks ago with some fellow photographers making images. Surprisingly enough, the image I like the most, didn’t get popular. Another one did instead. Strange.
I was coerced to attend a wedding for Memorial Weekend (under duress.) Nah, it wasn’t really that bad, just hot, humid and sweaty. All ingredients in a Texas summer wedding. I happened to take some photographs while there, carefully avoiding upsetting the photographer they had hired. I think I did well— we ended up exchanging business cards and lighting/equipment tips at the end of the day.
In my own infinite wisdom, I spent Memorial Day outside in the heat sweating while looking for small hidden containers. This is also known as geocaching, and apparently a dangerous summer sport in Texas. (I spent the evening recovering from dehydration and heat exhaustion. (Despite having drank water - apparently not enough.)
Did I mention I’m closing on my house tomorrow?
(Yes, you did.)
I spent this last Saturday floating down the Guadalupe river in an inner tube. Being a very common Texas recreational activity, it was much fun. On the downside, I did lose my sunglasses— on the bright side, they weren’t my expensive prescription ones.
I did bring a camera on this trip, but it wasn’t without it’s own problems. The LCD on the back was broken (effectively shooting blind), and we briefly lost the camera + photos toward the end of the trip. I’ll let y’all know when those photos are up.
Posted by Dominic Tue, 20 May 2008 16:35:00 GMT
Aliens on Earth shoot @ IBM
… more to come.
Posted by Dominic Thu, 15 May 2008 05:42:00 GMT
And now, dear readers, we interrupt the (apparently) usual house buying conversation with some photography news.
Last weekend, 25+ photographers and myself descended upon a location in the far reaches of south Austin known as Dunvegan Keep.
A gentleman took his rather large backyard and converted it into some prime sort-of medieval themed photography backdrop. There’s all sorts of gorgeous things to shoot people infront of, behind, through and in.
The day of shooting was a success - I spent the majority of the time experimenting with natural light - diffusers, reflectors and several other tricks - and had a great time.
As did the other photographers, from what I’ve heard.
Edit: You can see the rest of the photos here.
Posted by Dominic Tue, 13 May 2008 05:48:00 GMT
I’ve finally uploaded photos of the interior of the new house.
Warning, the photos are fairly large, they are panorama shots.
Look here.
Posted by Dominic Sun, 11 May 2008 05:52:00 GMT
A bit of backstory:
I’ve lived in my current apartment for over 8 years. Prior to that, I lived in the complex “next door” for 18 months, and before that, I lived in a complex off Duval and Mopac (different part of town but nearby.)
It struck me on my way home tonight, that I am going to miss this part of town. In many ways, 78759 and it’s surroundings, has been my “stomping grounds” while in Austin. I’ve always lived in that zip code, but now that’s going to change.
It’s a bit sad to think about. 10 years in the same part of town—and whereas I’m not moving far way, it’s far enough to where the “local grocery store” is a different one.
I won’t be able to walk to Amy’s Ice cream, or Barnes & Noble, or Thundercloud… I don’t know. In many ways this part of town as been my “universe” for so long, it’s hard to think of any other place being “it.” (Of course I know this is wrong—in due time I’ll be used to living at the new house, and things will subtly change.)
Having said all that, it’ll still be a sad day when I no longer drive down Jollyville, take the turn onto Great Hills Trail and hope for the lights to be green until I U-turn for my apartment entrance….
