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Just launched – PhotoMerchant: Portfolio, Website and Store for professional photographers

I’ve recently just launched PhotoMerchant – a Software as a Service application deployed in the cloud, offering Photographers a cost effective and simple way to design and manage their own website and photography business. It’s a pretty comprehensive tool that aims to compete with the likes of SmugMug, Zenfolio and PhotoShelter but we have plans to make it the killer app amongst professional photographers.

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Stop-motion photo-video experiments – part II

This is the second part to my stop-motion experiment, this time tracking the progress of my one-year old daughter Coco. Click through for video…

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Stop-motion photo-video experiments – Part I

During a recent trip to Victoria with my wife Lea I thought I might experiment and make an impromptu video of our Horse Draw Cart mini-tour through Melbourne. Click through to view the video in High Definition.

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“From the Hip” Lomography coffee table book

I love my lomo kompakt automat LC-A; it’s as addictive as it is expensive. For many years the camera has been an extension of my everyday life, rolling off snaps whenever I remember that the camera is in my bag or if something unique catches my eye. View some of my lomographic collection here…

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MassMedia Studios

During the 4.5 years I have spent with MassMedia Studios I have seen the business grow from humble beginnings, successfully expand into global markets and become part of an innovative global digital agency (in Blue Freeway). The exponential growth is the result of a team of very talented designers, developers, producers and managers of which I feel privileged to have worked closely with in various capacities. It’s important that I acknowledge the many people that I have worked with during my tenures as this is as much their portfolio as it is mine.

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Plastic Forks: The crap amongst the pidgeons

Before YouTube and Vimeo there was Plastic Forks: an online video repository for the worlds video off-cuts and half-arsed video projects. It was never intended to compete with the short-film sites such as iFilm or Atom Films. Instead, the idea was for the video stream to be rich with potential, random ideas, rough sketches and video experiments. The result would be streaming video wallpaper and a chaotic video noise wrapped up under a single brand.

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3D Stereoscopic Anaglyphs

Anaglyph is the name that describes the three dimensional images and film that come to life by wearing glasses with Red and Blue lenses. Popularised in the 1950’s, the technology is now much refined with less intrusive glasses that either flicker at high speed or use subtle chroma tinting to retain the full colour in an image.

But I really enjoy trying to replicate the 3D stereoscopic effect with off the shelf tools and video equipment. The best results have been when using 3D animation tools (such as Strata Studio Pro) whereby the render process automatically outputs a stereoscopic image and the only post processing is adjusting the Red and Blue hues.

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Shift Happens

A disturbing and deeply intriguing insight into the state of the future and the world as we know it. Courtesy of Jeff Brenman.

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Ask a Swans Supporter

The Ask a Swan Supporter blog and podcast delve into the delectable delights of AFL football, the Sydney Swans Football Club as well as a running commentary on anything that seems interesting at the time (however fleeting and/or relevant). If you like footy, tomfoolery, a dash of shenanigans and a healthy dose of Ninja inspired [...]

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Hi, I Killed the World

Awesome UGC film based on the time paradox of Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure (Starring: The Time Fucker) Hi, I Killed The World from DaveAOK on Vimeo. Tweet This Post

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