Letter to Canon about my 5D Mll software, feel free to use

January 22, 2010

Canon U.S.A., Inc.
One Canon Plaza
Mr. Yoroku Adachi
President & CEO, Canon U.S.A., Inc.
Lake Success, NY  11042
Ref: Canon 5D Mll software

Dear Mr. Adachi
I am writing to you concerning the perceived lack of support for your 5D M ll camera. At least that’s the way the general photographic community and users I belong to feels about this camera.

When is your R&R department going to issue an update on the firmware or software to bring this camera in line with the rest of your digital cameras video capabilities. I was told at 2009 Photo Expo that this software should be ready this month, January 2010, for download but so far I’ve received no such announcement.

To say I am quite disappointed that none of these missing features have been included for this camera is an understatement.

– Add / Improve: In Full HD (1920×1080) mode, allow these frame rates: 29.97, 25, 23.976 fps
FIX the current 30.00 fps to the standard NTSC 29.97 fps
Improve the video quality in 23.976 and 25 to minimize “jello” effect
– Improve AutoFocus algorithm in Live View mode (contrast detection mode)
– Add Focusing Aids in Video mode, maybe face reconnection?
– Add HD (1280×720) video mode with the above frame rates.
– Improve: Make HDMI output at FULL HD (1920×1080) and CLEAR of any overlay or information when recording and/or when just watching in Live View (if when recording is not possible)
– Add: a split video function to continue recording once the 4GB limit is reached in another video file without stopping the recording process.
-Allow Audio Manual Gain
-oh why limit recording time to 12 minutes?

This lack of support has me wondering why I’ve stayed with this company through my A1 & F1 cameras  right into the digital age, even after your company dumping the FD line of lenses. That was a sizable investment on my part while having to part with my favorite lenses.

So my question is when will your company wake up and take care of it’s customer base?

Sincerely
Mr. Jene Youtt
cc. https://fuzzypictures.wordpress.com

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“Call for Artists : 12X24 Art Initiative”

January 21, 2010

“Call for Artists : 12X24 Art Initiative”
2010-01-21 until 2010-01-29
 Arts Incubator
Kansas City, MO, USA United States of America

“Who wants to wait until you’re dead to be a famous artist?” Now announcing the Arts Incubator’s new 12X24 art initiative. The Arts Incubator is now accepting applications to enlist 12 talented and determined artists for an intensified 24-month program called 12×24 art initiative and will assist resident artists to: ·  establish & maintain a rigorous studio schedule ·  identify long-term goals ·  create your business plan ·  broaden your art income potential ·  develop professional skills to launch and grow a successful career ·  build your regional and national professional network ·  take on the challenge and live your dream The 12X24 curriculum is intensive and includes studio critiques, marketing strategies, business management and networking. All graduates will leave with the experience and tools to accelerate their careers as artists. Application deadline is 1.29.10.

For more information, contact Jennifer at 816.421.2292 or jtuttle@artsincubatorkc.org .

The Arts Incubator helps artists to acquire a productive studio practice while learning the business skills required to establish a successful career in the arts. We are a nonprofit organization dedicated to working with artists in the development of their careers. In addition to affordable studio space and 24-hour access to multiple studio facilities including a wood and metal shop, printmaking facilities, technology studio and a photo studio; AIKC provides business workshops, one-on-one consulting and access to arts industry experts. The Arts Incubator is located in the Crossroads Arts District, a community experiencing national recognition as one of the top arts communities in the nation. Please forward this on to your friends.leas Arts Incubator 115 West 18th Street Kansas City, MO 64108 816.421.2292 http://www.artsincubatorkc.org

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what i did to waste my time today

January 13, 2010

the task at hand was trying to fix a Lightroom error message which i finally did by deleting the preference phist files and the LR folder in adobe application support. well that was pretty easy, now on to the major problem of moving the picture files from one HD to another.

well i read the forums which were written in martian, well they could have been for all i understood, but i tried a number of times following the instructions all to naught. but i did manage to find these couple of images from a shoot this spring, well actually last spring

classic greek male nude pose

classic greek pose

nude male

don't look

it seems it’s always like this, i do the session with the model and think i never get anything except a few good pics then i move on. later in life i come back to the folder and find these gems. well i think they are pretty nice.

all this comes at a time when i am reading Taschens art book on Caravaggio explaining his life and  times and showing absolutely gorgeous reproductions of Caravaggio’s paintings.

Caravaggio, for me, is one of the creators of chiaroscuro painting which i happen to like and seem to emulate in my work especially in this series. you have to realize i am more of an artist than just another shooter. i use a camera as a tool no more, no less. maybe the members of photography gallery were right in not wanting me to show my work there, their loss not mine.

nude male

the fall

this is one of two images almost the same and tonight  through my foggy brain i can’t make up my mind which one i like. well it’s not something i have to do now or forever. life is like that .

nude male

the fall ll

being an artist isn’t as easy as it seems. this morning i gave mary some feedback on her breast cancer grant proposal draft for the labor of love pix blog.

mary wehrhahn has been a great supporter of my work and i think shes got some great stuff on her web site, i especially love some of the lighting because i did it. but she is coming into her own and maybe time for me to retire and enjoy the ride.

time to lay my head on the pillow with something to read before i fall asleep. good night all

jene youtt

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Photography isn’t expensive

January 5, 2010

compared to restoring a muscle car. we are right in the middle of taking a piece of history from the junk yard and crusher and putting it under our butts. this is how we bought the car. looks good right?1970 xr7 red convertible

well we thought this was going to be a fun car and someday it maybe just that. so over a year later, 15 months, the car went into a body shop for major floor replacements. that’s what salt does to sheet metal.

1970 xr7 red convertible

1970 xr7 red convertible

passenger side floor

1970 xr7 red convertible

passenger floor & door

the white doors came all the way from california, mary and i had to put them on but first ream out new door hinge bushings and learn how to install and line up doors.

it’s a shame i don’t have before pictures but these are just the middle pictures because as you see there isn’t any interior in the car, nothing to sit on. it’s all sitting in marys basement and we are having a brunch get together latter this month and guess who is going to have to more all the parts.

oh i didn’t mention that the car needed a drivers side quarter panel, wheel wells, door striker post and a trunk floor.

1970 xr7 red convertible

trunk floor

1970 xr7 red convertible

trunk floor

but someday the car will look as good as we first saw it on that rainy day in long island.

1970 xr7 red convertible

as first seen

considering all my photography gear 4×5 graflex, n1 contax, hassy 503, f1 canon, yashica 120, 5D Mll & 20D it all pales in comparison to this project. going back to our original plan to tour the southwest of america with the top down, wind blowing in our hair, shooting Laszlo Kovacs style pictures is the final plan.

so maybe we’ll see you along the way between blast of air horns from the knights of the road. be sure to say hello.

jene

www.jeneyoutt.com

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Tim Burton @ MOMA

December 31, 2009

or how i learned to love the ‘A’ train at rush hour.

yesterday mary and i took the kids to MOMA to see this show as did most of the tourists visiting new york that day. to say the lines were long is an understatement because as i past them they reached to ave of americas  from the entrance. i knew i was in trouble right away.

moma is not my favorite museum but i remember it more fondly before they spent $858 million on its renovation  and expansion which has seemed like an actual reduction in viewing experience. they say there is more room  for exhibits but the whole museum experience for me is too crowded, not just popular shows as is the burton exhibit, but the hallways, stairs, bathrooms  and moving to the elevators, everything is square and small.

i tried looking down on the sculpture garden from one of the floors only to be blocked by some horizontal bars that obstructed my view. what was yoshio taniguchi thinking while designing this space?

even with the open space in the middle of the museum,which to me in reality feels restricted space where one can never touch. maybe it’s a japanese thing. when i first revisited moma they had Monet’s water lillies hanging there, what a waste to try to see them so far away,50 or 100 feet away, since then they’ve moved them to their own room next to the second floor cafe  which now reminds me of the port authority bus terminal waiting room. what happened to the nice quiet room they hung in at old moma?  but the room does make a nice place to drink your cafe latte or whatever comes from the cafe. slurp quietly.

i now feel crushed by the weight to the condo tower, or what ever it is,  above the exhibit space i guess by the money represented above. but i am being distracted by my hate for the new building. but before i move on you know the nice first floor restaurant in the old building, the one with lots of light coming in the floor to ceiling windows, well it’s now a much smaller members only dinning room. the masses are shuttled to the other cafe’s, now just feeding rooms on long impersonal tables popularized by barbican courts to feed the masses with no views.

but the tim burton shuffle show, and that’s what the experience is, shuffling along, reminding me of an old character on the life of riley radio show, digger odell ‘i’ve got to be shoveling along’, which in a way suits tim burton’s work very well. but because of the crowd one is moved along or bumped into by the mass. most of the show consists of small working drawings and it’s  really exhibited in a very small space.

what i’ve aways thought the strong part of burtons work were his movies. at the entrance to the exhibits there are a number of televisions sets showing different segments of a video piece. they don’t seem to be coordinated as the first one ends the next station should  begin so one can see the video as a whole. as it is now the next video is already running so you move to that staqtion in the middle. how hard would it be to sync things up? hello museum. ‘well move on there, we’ve got your money’, there is big crush  behind you and lots of kids,, little ones to the front please, ‘hey you big oaff could you move, you’re blocking the screen for everyone else, yes you.’

the crowd moves on one more hansel & gretel video with a small space to sit. the crowd moves on into bigger smaller room with models of characters from movies them over to the egress, hey what happened ? ‘oh bauhaus, looks interesting lets go there.’

did i say how much i despise moma, yet i go there, now i won’t pay $20.00 to visit a place with a lot more money than i’ll ever see, but target still subsides friday’s at moma which i support by going and making purchases at target stores. so supporting the arts is always nice.

if only i could get some people interested in buying my art work oh well see www.jeneyoutt.com or my OMP portfolio  for samples.

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winter solstice

December 23, 2009

last winter i convinced mary to go up to st johns the divine to hear paul winters winter solstice celebration. living in new york one has exposure to all these wonderful events. i think it took me 28 years before i made my first solstice celebration so now i’ve made two of them.

this was something i though her grand daughters might enjoy but they are still too young or maybe they will never enjoy a music concert, mary doesn’t think it would be their cup of tea.

but we enjoyed it, maybe not as visual as the summer celebration i first saw but then again is anything able to match our first time at anything? for years i tried to match how great i felt or thought i felt with my first cigarette, although it might have been nauseous but cool. glad that’s over with.

at least now the day will be lengthening and it will soon be time to shed our wraps and let our bodies bask in the sun, woop tee do. i love bodies even this strange one appearing in my mirror everyday. were did that Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni body go?

but if you’ve been putting this off as i had done for years, i suggest you circle the date , mark you ical or what ever it is you do on 6/1/10 and look at living music site to book your tickets for the summer solstice celebration. st johns  is a wonderful music venue and maybe something will be reborn in you to sing and dance as if nobody is watching which they aren’t.

hey i even bought two cds so i can connect with those moments again lying in bed with my honey and howling at the moon. whooooooo . try it you might like it.

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wedding pictures

December 22, 2009

here are a nice couple on their wedding day, well sort of we took these pictures as part of a promation from their upcoming show of  a section of “Forever Hold Your Peace (for now)”, will be performed at the upcoming Frenetic Fringe Festival in Houston, TX this month.

we all have a pretty good time doing  these pics. it’s all part of my philosophy of ‘meeting interesting people’ to work with. it seems Rob Davison of kinetic architecture and i are interested in some of the same performance expressions  so we have said ‘lets work together’. who knows what will come out of it.

bride & groom

Kinetic Architecture

bride & groom dancing

Kinetic Architecture

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streb

December 18, 2009

i went over to see rehearsals at streb because i really like their work but as things go i really didn’t get anything i liked except this young man learning how to work with silk. oh well

maybe someday i’ll figure out how to take a professional picture but this is all i got

abstract color image of silk acrobat

abstract color image of silk acrobat

whats really bothering me these days is Apple dropping KEY CAPS from Snow Leopard and i have to go into system preferences to find it and Adobe seems to have dropped symbols from CS 4 all pretty stupid ideas if you ask me. where did all those groovy symbols go? oh  but i still miss all the symbols in KEY CAPS

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Two More Highline Arrests ordered by Parks Commissioner

December 18, 2009
know your rights
Two More Highline Arrests Ordered by NYC Parks Commissioner

Sunday 12/6/09

ARTIST President Robert Lederman and ARTIST member Jack Nesbitt were both arrested on the Highline Sunday, 12/6/09 at approximately 12:30 PM. Lederman was previously arrested on the Highline on November 21 and issued 5 summonses for vending without a Parks permit.

In today’s arrest, the artists were handcuffed by 5 Parks Enforcement Patrol officers (PEP), taken to the 6th Precinct, held in a cell, and later released with two Criminal Court summonses given to each artist for disorderly conduct and failure to comply.

Lederman and Nesbitt are both plaintiffs in a Federal lawsuit (Lederman et al v Giuliani decided in 2001) which overturned the Parks permit requirement for artists. Since 2001 visual artists may sell in all NYC Parks without needing any license or permit.

Today’s arrest was the 43rd for Lederman. He has never been convicted and has won 5 Federal lawsuits about about street artists’ First Amendment rights.

The PEP officers were led by Inspector Robert Reeves. The arresting officers stated that the arrest was directly ordered by Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe.

A video of the arrest is available on Youtube at this address:
http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=KcHH5TwA7zw

Still photos are available here:
http://www.flickr. com/photos/ street_artist/ ?saved=1

Below are links to official Parks Department documents, the Federal court ruling and other materials proving that artists can legally sell in any NYC Park. There is also a link to materials from the Friends of the Highline website showing that it is a 100% public, city owned park.

Lederman and Nesbitt are represented by attorney Julie Milner, who plans to file a Federal civil rights lawsuit this week about these arrests. The defendants will be the City of NY, The Parks Department and the Friends of the Highline.

Robert Lederman issued the following statement after being released:

“What the public and the media should ask the Mayor, Commissioner Benepe and the Friends of the Highline is this: If this is a public park, doesn’t the First Amendment, the Federal Court rulings and the laws of the City of NY, all of which exempt First Amendment protected street artists from any license or permit, mean that you cannot keep on falsely arresting artists for not having a park permit? And if the Friends of the Highline is advertising that they have a food vending concession up there already and plan to have more, and they also sponsor numerous art shows on the Highline, how can they legally ban First Amendment protected artists? We were arrested today as criminals, but the sad reality is that we are the ones upholding the law. It is the Mayor, the Parks Commissioner and the Friends of the Highline that are committing the only criminal act associated with these arrests. They are in blatant contempt of court.”

Contact:
Robert Lederman
artistpres@gmail. com

Highline Park rules and info proving it is a public park
http://www.mediafir e.com/?jquw20znq wx

Highline Park website
http://www.thehighl ine.org/

Public art exhibitions on the Highline
http://www.thehighl ine.org/about/ public-art

Parks Dept memo to PEP officers on street artists being able to sell in all NYC parks
http://www.mediafir e.com/imageview. php?quickkey= zdgokmzkela& thumb=4
http://www.mediafir e.com/i/? rnnomwng1tr

Street artist Federal court rulings
http://www.mediafir e.com/?ihzato0xj ct

NY Times on Parks Department artist permit ruling
http://www.mediafir e.com/imageview. php?quickkey= n5y0mvezjjm& thumb=4

NY Post on street artists in parks Federal Court ruling
http://www.mediafir e.com/i/? fjemmnnnmom

ARTIST website (all vending laws, documents, media coverage etc regarding NYC street artists)
http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/nycstreeta rtists/

Street artist videos
http://www.youtube. com/profile? user=artistpres

Parks Dept spokesperson, Vickie Karp Issued the statement below as a response to the 11/21 arrest:
Vickie.Karp@ parks.nyc. gov
212.360.1371

(Note that they fully acknowledge that artists can legally sell in parks.)

Parks statement QUOTE:
“The High Line is a unique public space, a thin elevated corridor at less than three acres with pathways as narrow as eight feet wide in some places. Many activities are prohibited. These include biking, skateboarding, throwing a baseball or a Frisbee, or walking a dog. The High Line can receive as many as 25,000 visitors on a busy day, walking along its long linear surface surrounded by fragile new plantings. Mr. Lederman and other vendors are able to ply their trade in hundreds of New York City parks and on hundreds of miles of city streets, where visitors can linger and enjoy their wares.”
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Media coverage of the previous Highline arrest on 11/21/09

NY Times
http://cityroom. blogs.nytimes. com/2009/ 11/23/artist- arrested- for-42nd- time-this- time-on-the- high-line/

NY Post
http://www.nypost. com/p/news/ local/manhattan/ for_art_peddler_ it_high_dry_ line_UM2ALn7XJE3 1CInyNcWyPL

NY Press
http://www.nypress. com/blog- 5438-free- speech-not- so-free-artist- arrested- at-high-line. html

Gothamist
http://gothamist. com/2009/ 11/23/high_ line_7.php

The Villager
http://www.thevilla ger.com/villager _344/highlinearr est.html

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man ray exhibit at jewish museum

December 18, 2009

Man Ray exhibit at The Jewish Museum

For those not familiar with his work, Man Ray was perhaps the father of surrealistic photography. While living together in Paris his girlfriend, Lisa Miller, accidentally invented Solarization when she walked into one of his dark room sessions.

After Man Ray fled the Nazi invasion of France and returned and returned to the U.S., Lisa Miller went on to become one of the first women War Photographers and one of the best.

A true trail blazer, Man Ray influenced avant-garde photographers whom followed, notably Andy Warhol.

If real creative inspiration is your photographic passion, familiarity with Man Ray’s work is a must.

See Link: http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/manray

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