[updated 8-April 2010: I added the recording of the live announcement after the jump] Hello Friends! I'm happy and proud to announce today that over that past year I've been working together with my super-tech friend Craig Swanson to bring you the world's first LIVE creative education internet channel. And the best news? It's FREE. That's right, it's free to watch any and all live feeds from some of the world's best creative... read more ›
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What: special LIVE announcement + Q&A; followupWhere: at the url www.chasejarvis.com/LIVE When: Wednesday April 7th at 10:40am USA west coast PDT.(1:40pm USA east coast USA EDT) GMT -8 on the international clock.Hi Friends. If you've been tuned in here, then you know we've been doing a good bit of LIVE broadcasting lately. It's been really fun. And there's more of it to come WEDNESDAY. I've got an exciting announcement I'd like to share with you... read more ›
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Hopefully you've heard of TED talks. If you haven't, you must check them out. The annual big TED conference happens every winter in California, but there are a series of smaller events that happen worldwide year round... Just so happens that I'm delivering one of those talks at Carnegie Mellon University on this coming Sunday, April 4. Easter for those of you who observe it or like eggs and bunnies. I'll be talking about Fearlessness... read more ›
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Remember the campaign I shot for SanDisk down in New Zealand last autumn? T'was the campaign where SanDisk was cool enough to let me blog/tweet/facebook about shooting the ads in real time, which made it the first global campaign of its kind. In part, those ads I shot have been used to promote their Best Photo Sequence contest in partnership with Freeskier and Snowboard Magazine.Plain and simple, the best skiing and the best snowboard photo... read more ›
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Even after years of doing this stuff, I still get excited watching $70k worth of camera hanging 30 feet in the air off a couple of measly bolts.Last week I posted two 3 minute films that I've been commissioned by Russell Investments to create exploring the topic of 'risk'. In these vids (please check them out here if you missed them), our crew hauled a RED One digital cinema camera and a handful of... read more ›
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Running dry on ideas to push yourself and your photography portfolio? Here's 5 ideas worth stealing. Perhaps one might catch your attention, or inspire to you do something similar. Or very very different. 1. Photograph one of your grandparents extensively. Might sound boring, but I assure you it will be profound. If you're lucky enough that your grandparents are still with you, spend an entire day--or better, a week perhaps--photographing your grandma or grandpa. 1,000... read more ›
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It was good fun poking through all the great comments as hundreds of y'all deconstructed the advertising image I posted on Tuesday. Tons of great insights, lots of great ideas I didn't use (but might next time) and, while it was a tough choice, I think J. Harrington was the first person who most accurately pulled apart the technical aspects of this image. We'll send him a signed book or something fun. In the meantime,... read more ›
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Deconstructing the work of others has been--and continues to be--one of the most influential things in my technical development as an artist. I’ll always bring my own vision, but I’m constantly asking myself, how in the hell was this, that, or the other photo made?That said, we’ve dug into this before on a similar post that proved to be quite popular and--according to feedback--fun and helpful. As such, I’m interested to hear how YOU think... read more ›
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In the era before blogs really hit the mainstream, it was very unpopular in photography circles to share thoughts, techniques and insights about the craft as well as the industry/trade. It was taboo. Well, the monopoly on information has obviously crumbled and, while it upset a handful of ivory-towered folks in the photo, film and video industries, we've broken out of that paradigm to a new era of more democratized creativity. Let's consider doing the... read more ›
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Ok, I promised a follow up to Friday's funny video post about making sausage. If you missed it, my point was largely that shooting ads and making commercials is much like making sausage--you love the taste of it, but you'd probably risk losing your appetite if you watched it being made.That last part of that statement is of course tongue-in-cheek, since learning more about how we make this sort of stuff--as it relates to... read more ›
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