I am all for marketing yourself in the smartest and most creative ways possible. I think people need to stand out in a sea of competition… show their personality or whatever else makes them unique and attractive to hire.
We all already know that Facebook and Twitter are great for this. You get to build a [...]
Although pretty much all of my recent clients know about Dropbox (because I pretty much force them to use it so they can get their deliverables) I feel as though there are still tons of people I know who do not… and this post is for them. Or perhaps I should say it is for [...]
Aardvark
Aardvark is a service that allows you to ask a question to the community… and it will send that question to someone who is available and might know the answer (based on categories that its members sign up for) and then typically provides you an answer within 5 minutes by one of these other community [...]
Tracie shot a nice, simple and quick tutorial on how she altered the wedding dress that we will be shooting during the Hawaii Photo Fusion trip. This is the first of almost 2 weeks worth of daily videos we’ll be posting. Enjoy!
Coming next, a first test of the Ewa-marine underwater housing in a regular pool. [...]
First of all I want to preface this post with the magic word… FREE.
WHY
I often hear some of the same things when people see some of our (The Bui Brothers) work or the work of some of the other photographers currently producing great photo fusion videos…
“I could do it if I had nice [...]
WHY
I am visiting O’ahu for a week as I do the Hawaii Photo Fusion tour with the wonderful model and makeup artist, Tracie Cotta. We are being sponsored by SmugMug to come out and spend a week shooting photos and videos to create a series of video tutorials and behind-the-scenes looks at some of our [...]
Although I’m in a couple of the testimonial videos saying what I think not only of the Tofurious SEO Workshop itself but also of SEO in general, I wanted to actually write out a few short things about my experience with all of this so far.
As a disclaimer… Lawrence is my friend. But he became [...]
Lan and I hung out in the RVIP Lounge at the LA Film Festival this past Saturday with Hayden Black, Kestrin Pantera, Jonathan Grubb, Batgirl (the dog) and a few other cool people.
We didn’t really spend much time at the festival, and it was the day before it ended… but we did walk past the [...]
I just called 911 for the first time in my life about a half hour ago. I need to wake up in 3 hours to go shoot some crazy crane move at CHLA… but I thought I’d jot this down really quickly first.
I was coming down the 22 East… passing the 5… when I noticed [...]
I am not a designer.
The being said, I’m actually pretty proud of myself for putting together the page for the new Shootsac promotion. Lan and I did the video (Lan’s post work on this one was AWESOME) and I put together the page with a good deal of input and advice from Keats. [...]
After seeing everyone else do it… I thought I’d go ahead and try Tweetcloud, which makes a word cloud of your most used words through your Twitter posts. I have no idea how accurate this is… “going”, “know”, “think” and “vegan” are supposedly my most used words (minus the stop list, which removes the [...]
This one is good for all my non-photographer friends who just like to take photos and maybe do some simple edits to them. I assume most of the photographers I know actually own a copy of Photoshop…Adobe has just released a beta of Photoshop Express… which is basically a scaled down FREE version of [...]
Kate and I were surprised to receive a strange looking 5 dollar bill as change at Rite Aid today. I guess it isn’t taking long to get the new bills into circulation.
I understand the need for better and more technologically advanced anti-counterfeit measures… but it seems as though our paper currency is looking more [...]
I am deathly ill.
Ok that might be a slight exaggeration… but it does feel that way. I haven’t felt this sick since I had malaria… and that’s saying a lot.
Anyhow… besides the sickness it led to, WPPI was awesome. Shootsac did very well (which was the only true goal I had for [...]
Ok, so I’m not very good about keeping up with blogging. I have never been much of a blogger, I always figured that no one really cared much for what I had to say unless it was something really important. Considering, though, that I have very low readership here… I guess I might [...]
It’s been a while since I’ve really written anything here, just a few video and photo posts, but I’d like to record a little about The Winnies.
Irina Slutsky came up with the concept and started planning The Winnies, and she brought Lan, Bonny and I on as organizers to handle the logistics and website. [...]
Pixelodeon was an awesome event held by some very cool people at the American Film Institute in Hollywood. about page. (it’s actually the one posted above) It was basically a place to showcase a wide variety of videos to be found online from of an amazingly diverse array of content producers… and more than that [...]
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Lan did a photo shoot of Rudy and Casey, the geniuses behind Galacticast. It went quite well, and though I wanted to leave it to Lan since it was his shoot, I did sneak [...]
Lan did a photo shoot of Casey today, and I snuck in a few shots here and there. Here’s a rough image (pre-edit) that I enjoy. More from the shoot to come.
So I leave for Vietnam in less than 2 weeks. I’ll be there for 5. It sorta crept up on me and I didn’t even realize that it was so soon until this past Monday. I guess I should start planning what I’m going to take with me… but I won’t. [...]
I’ll be leaving for Vietnam in two months and a week. I’ll be staying there for 1 month. During that month I hope to do the best photography and video of my life. Either way it will be a great experience, I am sure.
I also finally started a regular job again. [...]
Holy crap this is cool. It’s a Google map for a portion of Mars, made with the help of NASA. Not very useful… but it sure gets the mind running… you know… old dreams of becoming an astronaut. Actually, I don’t know if that’s what I was interested in when I was [...]
Josh brought up something in Storytime that I have also realized over the past few years. I don’t bring up my mysterious health problems to doctors because I forget to talk about them when I am there in the doctor’s office. I know, however, that I really only forget because I don’t want [...]
The feedback that we’ve gotten on the new episode of Noodle Scar has been great so far. People seem to really enjoy it, which is great motivation for us to keep going. It’s gonna be tough (coming up with decent new content every week), but it’s been lots of fun so far… so [...]
Lan and Bonny and I have just started a new project that we’ve been talking about for a while, Noodle Scar. It’s supposed to be a mostly comedic semi-news type show that will be hosted by Bonny. The first episode is already done. We are going to start with a goal of [...]
Bonny reports from Santiago Canyon Road at Irvine Lake on the fire that has thus far consumed 6,500 acres in the Cleveland National Forest and caused the evacuations of 2,100 homes.
This is a new vlog, brought to you by the Bui Brothers and Bonny Pierzina. Check it out at www.noodlescar.com
Well, the day before we began shooting our documentary, we had to put the brakes on it… for now. Being regular guys with no previous film/video knowledge really… we didn’t know a damn thing about permits. We certainly didn’t know it would cost us $250/day to shoot in Santa Monica even without a [...]
The meet went really well yesterday. Everyone was cool… no weirdos (except maybe Aaron and I) and no assholes. It pretty much went as well as it possibly could have. I took lots of pics, but as usual, only a few came out good. The rest are useless… mostly due to [...]
I am unhealthily addicted to shallow depth of field (actually is there such a thing as a healthy addiction?). I can’t seem to stop down the lens and shoot with some depth (with very few exceptions). It means that any photos I take have a subject and then some blur. They almost [...]
Calling all photographers… there will be a Los Angeles Flickr meetup this coming Sunday in Chinatown. Read about it here.
I like the idea. I’ve wanted to do it before… but never had the opportunity. To be able to just meet up with a bunch of people you don’t know, who you may [...]
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