Posts Tagged ‘TED talks’

actors head shots and a tour of the invisible, not a bad few moments of time

September 29, 2012

sometimes when bored with what i am doing or not doing i click on my TED Talks link to get a different perspective on the world and who knows maybe learn something to boot. the video below is one of those such talks. its a cute animated tour not too heavy and not too lite. at the end there is a quote from the poet A.H. Auden, i think, that best describes how i feel sometimes.

 Ted talk by john lloyd on a ‘tour of the invisible’

i do enjoy my abilities to create whether or not it’s for profit. i really don ‘t need the fame and fortune as i am blessed with a wonderful life now. it’s not always been that way but who has time to live in the past anymore. heck i can barely keep up with now.  it’s taken me way too long to learn to share things without thinking about a reward, even if the reward is good karma.

so it is with this post of a couple of portraits i took of my neighbor, we’ve lived in the same hallway for i don’t know how many years now. he’s career has been in the theater as mine has only as an actor and singer. not always is age kind to us. richard and i have spoken about what we’ve been up to, he’s doing movie extra work and i asked him about pictures, actors always need pictures, he said he had some but………………

well why don’t you stop by and i’ll take a look says i. one day we hooked up and i saw what he was using and offered to do new ones for him. well months later he did ring my bell and this is the outcome below. i am not a headshot photographer but i’ve seen my share.

simple shot: Key 22″ beauty dish camera left. overhead soft box.

serious

maybe this is the one he’ll use, i don’t know and it’s so hard for him to judge

which i liked but his right ear lobe looks too big. the next one i asked him to rough up his hair and this is what we got

we both like this one but probably not too business like

but i think these are much better than the one he was using no matter his choice. better than the one below where everything was in sharp focus, i had to blur the background on this one.

oh well it’s nice to help other people. good luck richard lyle thomas

jene

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Here’s what David Pogue & the NY Times don’t what you to know about SOPA/PIPA

January 22, 2012

well getting ready for playoff sunday and running out of home improvement projects i turn to the internet, namely TED talks for entertainment/knowledge because of the way my mind works they are one and the same. i wrote about SOPA/PIPA here and blacked out this site in protest but what i didn’t know was the whole story. this TED talks video blew me away in it’s detailed explanation of what’s really going on from Clay Shirky blog

sopa/pipa

then i found this TED talk with more outstanding control information. way back in the 60’s my friends and i discussed the controlling aspects of television where if one could keep people watching images flash in front of their faces they stopped talking about well just about anything. no one said how difficult their lives where and how to maybe change it. no one discussed the world affairs. you just sat there doing nothing, well maybe consuming things. all across America and the world people sat in front of their televisions and said nothing.

but thank goodness we live in a free country and can turn off our televisions or can we? groucho marx said television was educational in that every time someone turned the set on he went to read a book. now we have the internet to control our time and the forces of control at our faces once again both criminal and corporate from Mikko Hypponen.

internet security

well i hope everyone is enjoying them selves today. snow removal done and plaster drying, so are my hands.

jene

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hey hot shot update

October 1, 2009

what a small world. i know it doesn’t seem that way as we jump on a crowded subway car at rush hour, well maybe it does.there is a TED talk that shows exactly where we are in the cosmos which is informative. it’s given by jill tarter who is the head of SETI titled ‘are we alone?’ a question which has always interested me since lying on top of my garage looking at the stars.

Mary and i picked a photo out of the first batch put up, we both loved the colors and composition of this rather abstract image. it reminded me of a padlocked door i found in panama so i told mary why not pick it, which she did.

the small part of the world was that photographer picked my photo.Blue Ladyher name is christine finkelson and we both print on some of the same hahnemuhle papers. and i think but i am not sure but christine might be over 23 years old.

looking at the hot shot crowd makes me feel old for an ’emerging photographer’ but there were some of us there. mostly the crowd seemed right out of collage and comfortable with the single bar scene. but hey i’ve been wrong before.

we got out of there alive and had dinner around the corner and maybe made a few friends along the way. not a bad evening at all

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