Good friends and non-profit En Foco are presenting a series of artistic and professional development workshops in NYC. The first session entitled "Successful Strategies for Professional Photographers" is scheduled to run this Saturday, June 28th, at Calumet Photographic.
For details and registration visit the En Foco website.
Photo Credit: Lauri Lyons, Flag International series
Well the lads and lasses here have been working away on making the Veer Ideas section even more usable. Here’s a quick list of some of the highlights.
Notifications:
Well, this one really just makes sense :) Now you’ll see when someone has commented on or tagged your posts, portfolios, profile, and worlds, and when someone has added you as a contact. You can also set up e-mail notifications if you like. You can access notifications on your member page and a link will appear next to your name at the top-right of every page. As an interesting side-note, you can see who is following you using the “See who has added you as a contact link” at the top of the contacts page.
Drafts:
Now you can create posts and portfolios in draft mode which lets you publish everything when you’re actually ready.
Centralized Worlds:
All of those fantastic worlds are now viewable from the “See all worlds” link on the World of Possibilities 2 page, and from members pages under “Activities”. The Fat has been cleaned up and is now reserved for design-related posts.
Simplified Links & Bits:
Go nuts and use free form text and html to add interesting information about yourself. No more fields to fill out...
For the Geeks:
Lots of Ruby performance improvements. Booyah!
We hope you like the latest additions to the site and, as always, just drop us a line or leave a comment here if you have suggestions for additions or changes.
Well it’s out. It’s been a long, hard slog and the work is far from done but I'm so happy to have it out. Since September of last year my team’s been working away at revamping the ideas section of Veer.com. We previously worked on features from all the other parts of Veer.com - from design to usability to functionality. This time we took a little detour - deviating from the previously mandated .Net environment to a new Ruby on Rails platform. Booyah.
We’ve included all the usual suspects - portfolios, profiles, interconnected-goodness and of course the Skinny - but what I’m really excited about is the focus on content with new sections like The Fat - and on continuing to explore the ideas that inspire us. Inspiration is all around us and sometimes we just need a moment to let it happen. I’m hoping the new ideas section will be a moment that allows creatives the room to feel inspired.
If you're in NYC this week you may be fortunate enough to catch the last few days of Myra Greene and Sama Alshaibi's beautiful exhibition at Umbrella Arts Gallery.
Using wet plate ambrotypes on black glass (a beautifully raw and delicate medium) Myras work entitled "Character Recognition" was "a visual reaction to the self imposed question 'What do people see when they look at me?'" Across the room, Sama Alshalbi's work "negotiates the shifts between personal and family history, creating a context to understand the impact of war and exile."
The exhibition is produced by En Foco, a non-profit organization that aims to support the creation of work by photographers of diverse cultures, primarily U.S. residents of African, Latino, Asian, Native American and Pacific Islander heritage.
If you're in NYC and have a moment, it's well worth a look.
Umbrella Arts + Projects
317 East 9th Street (between 1st & 2nd Ave)
New York, NY - 212.505.7196
There's a warmth and lightness to Audrey Kawasaki's work that lulls the viewer into believing that her characters are filled with innocence. Dig a little deeper and she often challenges us with that uncomfortable tension between personal notions of right and wrong.
Street cred slipping along with the integrity of your over-worked stencils? Fret no more - Stencil 1 supplies fab pre-assembled & reusable stencils for the tagger with a day job. I'm all about the monkey head.
So you like Interpol and you have a hankering to shoot a short film, eh? Why not enter the Matador Records | Interpol Short Film Contest and see if you can't master colors other than black.
The fact that the new Powszechny Dom Kredytowy website is as humorous as it is slick is no small feat - especially when you consider the client Max Weber (not Max Webster) had to work with - an auto loan and insurance conglomerate in Poland. Very A-Ha.
I seem to have developed a bit of a fascination with South American designers. The addition of Sudtipos faces to our Umbrella collection may have been the spark that's started this little flame. Poking around this morning I found this little Flash gem by Emiliano Rodriguez. Of course, the sharing of any South American goodness you happen to come across would be greatly appreciated!
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