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RSA Animate – Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us

Brian — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 06:12:39 +0000

This illustrated video is adapted from Dan Pink’s talk at the the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) is not only a great example of effective presentation, it’s interesting and entertaining. Enjoy.

KORE Website Redesign

Brian — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 00:15:06 +0000

KORE is the company and website of all-around superman and good friend, Kent Kroeker. If you know Kent, you know the man just does NOT ever slow down. Appropriately, Kent has been racing in Baja for over a decade. I was there at his first solo Baja 500 in the pit crew and recently I was able to lend some support again. This time in the redesign of his website. (I haven’t touched the online store portion.) If you haven’t caught up with Kent lately I think you’ll enjoy browsing the Racing News. I’m planning on attending one of his races later this year and you’ll see some photos from me then. Check out the new design here.

New Voice-Over Talent

Brian — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 23:03:19 +0000

It’s my pleasure to introduce you to a new up and coming voice over talent, Vilija Marshall. Vilija does voice over acting for commercials, radio spots, video games and anything else requiring professional level voice acting. I’ve worked with several voice pros and although also a great friend, I don’t think my judgment is being clouded by that when I say she’s really good. Vilija has a distinctive voice and I think you’ll be hearing a lot more of her in the near future. Here’s some rough demos to get a better idea of her range.

Character Demo
Commerical Demo

Vilija said she wanted to put together a small site to start showcasing (sound casing?) her work so we put together www.vilijamarshall.com.

Online Photo Edits in Flickr with Picnik

Brian — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 06:42:24 +0000

If you’re not on a photo-sharing site then go with Flickr. In fact, if you’re on Google’s Picasa and you’re not using their desktop software you might want to switch because now Flickr has integrated Picnik with robust tools for editing your photos right on the web. This is a huge advantage if you’re just sharing your photos on Facebook or the like. If you want to be able to print your photos or share full resolution images then stick with Picassa. Or just use both.

Here’s a look at the easy interface for editing on Picnik.

A crop I like better is here: http://www.briangerry.com/imagery-2/ Click on the thumbnail for the full view. The image was shot a couple weekends ago out bowling with family and friends.

Throttling Back

Brian — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 22:44:51 +0000

Life is busy and no time for photography. Missed my post completely last week although I was out of town. Also lost one of my memory cards but that’s no excuse. Nope, just too busy and still catching up from attending the SXSW show. Here’s something entertaining in the meantime. Oh, also check the out site I built for Jody who helped me out with some great nutritional information. Sorry it only took me 2 months Jody. Or go about your business you have enough to click on already!

#Influence Logo

Brian — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:18:46 +0000

I’m doing more on the graphics side of things than photography of late so I thought I’d share a little of that. Here’s a simple logo I recently designed for Influence San Diego a website for the San Diego Social Media Awards. The Influence site is a great way to discover top blogs in San Diego. The blogs there are all nominated and voted on by the online community so you’re getting the benefits of crowdsourcing the discovery of great blogs.

God Stopped By

Brian — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 02:04:38 +0000

God stopped by Newport today and I got off this shot. Okay, that’s not true. I actually took five exposures and stitched them together. Sunset photographs are passé I suppose but I’m glad I caught it. Many thanks to the “Big Guy.”

Note: Please click on the image to see the pop-up pano.

Site Change Up

Brian — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 01:54:59 +0000

Is my website broken? No I’ve actually does this on purpose. I’ve been thinking more about site usability lately and I realized that own site here wasn’t all that use-able. I’m on here more than anyone else and I realized that although I liked the textured background and some of the other visual niceties, it was also getting in the way. (Thanks also to some user feedback from my wife…”Which one is your last post?”)

So I’ve stripped it all out by applying a fresh theme and making a few customizations. My plan now is to add in detail only where it improves the overall experience over time. I still love graphics and robust, bold sites but I also feel like this will help me concentrate on the content. What do you think? Thanks for stopping by my little corner.

Rained Out

Brian — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 23:08:49 +0000

So sort of a slow week for photography. Amazing how a sick pup, a dentist appointment, doctor’s appointments and a long work week eat into free time. Sheesh!

In stark contrast to the above is a quick shot from last week: a casual sunny parking lot portrait of my friend and colleague, the incredibly nice Ahna Fender. Ahna is a talented artist in addition to the preceding. Check out her art here at Artruckus.com.

Thank you, Ahna for having such a generous spirit and letting me take the snap. I wish I could have found a better background…like a houseboat would have been fantastic I think. These are the trade offs I suppose of “bloggety” photography. “Phoblography?”

So ends my 6th week of blog posts for Project 52. Thus far I’m both happy with and disappointed in the posts I’ve added. I’ll concentrate on the former along with the realization that it gives me plenty of room for improvement!

Photographer at Play

Brian — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:52:17 +0000

This past week I had the opportunity to team up on shoot with my good friend Karl from Dimension Three Architectural Illustrations. Karl was actually working while I was hard at play working on a shot for my latest #p52 post. Karl does amazing architectural illustrations and hopefully he’ll let me share his finished work here when he’s completed it.

But back to playing. Karl’s not missing a twin but here’s what they would look like if they were weird enough to dress exactly the same.

I also shot a quick 5 image panorama. It’s stitched here.

Here’s my contact sheet for shoot.