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by DouzyThis is a photo of a real crocodile who luckily enough kept his mouth wide open for a while to enable me to take that shot. I darkened it for adramatic effect then dodged along the teeth to let some of the texture of his skin show through.
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Female dragonfly laying eggs. I took this photo in the middle of a pond while my wife took care of steering the rowboat. Have a look at my other photos. For example: / / / / / / / / / / / / / / Or browse through one of my categories flower / poppy / water / leaf / other / reflection / macro / insect / dragonfly / damselfly
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The year ahead ...
by RedBubbleWe spent most of January catching our breath and thinking about the year ahead. We’re not entirely done with out thinking – because the …
We spent most of January catching our breath and thinking about the year ahead. We’re not entirely done with out thinking – because the devil’s always in the details. But there are a few outcomes I’d like to share. We think we need to communicate ‘more betterer’. We’re often so busy ‘doing’ that we forget to tell you what’s going on and why we’re doing particular things. So we’ll try to be better and more regular communicators. The way we view RedBubble is that we’re in a partnership with the artists on the site. This influences every element of our thinking. And the partnership works like this – we take care of the boring back of house work to free people up to concentrate on their art / writing – and marketing themselves. We solve hard boring problems that individually are very difficult to solve (e.g. manufacturing and shipping goods around the world). But we can’t do everything. We’re a team of 16 – and we’re flat out. Over the next eighteen months we want to grow this to a team of 30 – but even then we won’t be able to do all the things we want. We want to involve you in RedBubble. For example, we’d love to be more involved in selling your work – but the reality is that out of the 16 people in the company now only one has a sales focused role. So we need your help to sell your work. And I think you’ll be far better sales people than we could ever be – but what we can do is to provide the tools / advice to make the selling process easier. This is one of the things we’ll be working on this year. Better tools and advice. Better products. Sales features. I am completely inspired by wikipedia. I’m inspired by the fact that it’s trusting and it works. And this is what I want RedBubble to be – a trusting site. Over the course of the year we want to hand over control of the site to the members of the site. Just like wikipeadia. So if you’re keen to get involved there’ll be lots of opportunities! And this trust needs to extend very deeply – this year we’re going to be very open with our thinking and internal numbers. Our view is that open communication is essential to a healthy partnership. For example, for those of you who wonder about the financial side of things – the current profit margin on the RB base price is 10%. Over the course of this year we’ll be looking to improve our logistics to increase this to 23%. With this money we need to pay all our expenses – staff salary, equipment et cetera. Here’s a quick snapshot of the RB team and our jobs (to give you a sense of what we’re all doing day-to-day) : Xavier – Website builder / Justin – Website builder and thinker / Hop – Answers e-mails and chases up orders / Bridget – Does the books / Ben – Website builder / Tom – Looks after logistics / Ed – Looks after t-shirts / Dave Cheney – Keeps the computers running / Fran – Looks after writing / John – Website builder / Jo – People stuff on the site / Dave Librach – Groups and other people related stuff on the site / Martin – Thinker / Peter – Bus driver and everything else / Grant – Website builder and seller of stuff / Paul – Makes things look beautiful Thoughts, comments, feedback all welcome. Most importantly, are we heading on the right track? Peter
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The road map for the next few months
by RedBubbleSo, we said January is thinking month, yet here we are mid-Februa…
So, we said January is thinking month, yet here we are mid-February and we’re still thinking quite a lot! It’s been incredibly valuable to us to take a step back, look at what we’re really trying to achieve here, and how we make all the pieces fit. The first thing I guess you need to know about RedBubble is that we have no shortage of ideas, and no shortage of suggestions from the community. It’s actually quite rare that we hear of a bad idea — most ideas are great, or as Xavier would say, winners. So when we’re faced with hundreds or thousands of great ideas, the challenge is deciding what’s going to solve the biggest problems for the most people, and making sure we stay true to The Big Plan. A huge part of The Big Plan is the buying and selling. Artists are happy when they sell their work, buyers are happy when they find something they want to buy. With this is in mind, we’re going going to be spending a lot of our time over the next few months looking at our products, as well as how they’re bought and how they’re sold. What does that mean? Hopefully that means… Revised wall art products We don’t think we’ve got the wall art stuff right yet, and this is going to change. Pete’s already previewed our plans for framed wall art with interchangeable matted prints, but this is just the tip of the iceberg — we have some top secret stuff wall art products we really hope we can get ready. Wall art needs to be big and we still haven’t been able to find a way to economically ship big wall art around the globe, so this is high on our list (still). Post cards Our greeting cards still need some attention, but we’re also really keen to do post cards and some other printed promotional stuff that helps the artist sell their work and promote themselves. Photo books Calendars were a roaring success (and they weren’t even publicly available for sale), so we’re pretty keen to get a photo book product out there for everyone to buy. More T-shirt options We’re keen to have more colors and styles available to the buyers, as well as more options for the artist (like front and back printing, shifting the print area around on the tee, etc). Better selling tools As Pete recently discussed in the year ahead, we feel we’re in a partnership with the artists, and we need their help to promote their work and sell it. So we want to give you tools to do that. Business cards and post cards will help, but so will some technical stuff like allowing you to have a more product-oriented profile page and some more widgets to embed in other websites. Personally, I’d really like to help other artists sell their stuff by promoting it, so that’s something we’re going to explore as well. Better buying tools Not everyone is a buyer, but for those who come to RedBubble (or to your profile) with cash in their hand looking to buy something, we want to make it really easy. Mooks and publications In addition to In The Moment (on sale in a few days) and our current competition Gaia, Fran is working hard to introduce more periodical publications in the form of Mooks (not a magazine, not quite a book, get it?) to get more of your fantastic writing and art published. Disclaimers and footnotes This is the big stuff that we really think will make a difference to RedBubble over the next few months, but it’s not a definitive list at all. There’s no guarantee we can get all of this done of course, and there’s obviously other things that we’ll need to take care of along the way, but everyone needs a plan and something to focus on. Hopefully you’re as excited about this stuff as we are! — Peter & Justin
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and who wouldn’t want to curl up next to her
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Cotton Wood seeds were flying today. Horrible if you have allergies, but looks like snow in the summer = )
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The Next Wave
by RedBubbleCompanies are not Islands (to misquote Donne). They have a context. They are part of a wave, ahead of a wave or just idling along nicely….
Companies are not Islands (to misquote Donne). They have a context. They are part of a wave, ahead of a wave or just idling along nicely. What is RedBubble’s context? It is quite possible to see RedBubble as an art site, a social network, an e-commerce site. From my perspective, none of these do justice to what you are creating. They don’t account for the passion and the energy that exists. They also don’t help explain why we have come so far, so quickly. Right now RedBubble (less than 18 months from launch) is already be the third largest art site in the world – behind only DeviantArt and Art.com. As I dwell on this, I think we are more closely related to the movement in “user generated content”. The advent of blogging has allowed millions to become active participants in the media. Likewise YouTube has emerged as a true complement to commercial television but with open access. In both phenomenon the creators and consumers of the content overlap and there is a move from the mass to the niche. It is possible to find blogs and videos that precisely match your interests from skateboarding dogs to latest Web 2.0 developments. So what about RedBubble? I think you are leading the wave of user generated art. This art is much more accessible, diverse and relevant (most of the time) to people’s myriad interests. And just as the mainstream media and TV dismissed (and dismiss) blogging and YouTube as peripheral, we are seeing such a reaction from the art world. This is understandable (albeit patronizing) reaction. It is also unnecessary. The challenge of RedBubble is that we declare everyone has the right to participate in the creation and purchase of art. This can only enrich the totality of the art and creativity in the world. This has other benefits – which I will leave for another post. Martin (aka Pilgrim) p.s. We know the site has been a little unstable over the weekend. There was some sort of attack – probably accidental – and problems with image loading. These are largely resolved although there is ongoing work. Thanks to everybody who let us know.
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This is taken from Whitehaven Beach in the Whitsundays… The views from the island are stunning! Best Viwed large.
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“All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.” Buddha Another version of my all-time favourite place to take infrared. / This is on the Hunter River at a place called Hexam in Newcastle, Australia.
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Model is Missy / Makeup and Hair by Loran Bean / Assistant – Adam / Photography and Post by myself Comments are very appreciated. please leave one! I thought I might say a little bit about how we got these Ophelia shots. Missy is a VERY talented photographer friend of mine (to view her work, go http://missyjanek.deviantart.com/) and she has also modeled for me in the past. I thought she’d be great for this concept, so we started about 3pm yesterday. All was going well until she got in the pool and said “I don’t know how to swim!” So we struggled and propped her up with pool noodles and floaties and Adam even held her legs while she tried to stay afloat. I felt like she really was going to drown a couple of times! (We kept her in the shallow end, of course! and my dog was keeping watch as life guard.) For someone who had not really been in water before, I think she did a great job. :)
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Part of the Ophelia series. / Model is Missy / Makeup and Hair by Loran Bean / Assistant – Adam / Photography and Post by myself Comments are very appreciated. please leave one! I thought I might say a little bit about how we got these Ophelia shots. Missy is a VERY talented photographer friend of mine (to view her work, go http://missyjanek.deviantart.com/) and she has also modeled for me in the past. I thought she’d be great for this concept, so we started about 3pm yesterday. All was going well until she got in the pool and said “I don’t know how to swim!” So we struggled and propped her up with pool noodles and floaties and Adam even held her legs while she tried to stay afloat. I felt like she really was going to drown a couple of times! (We kept her in the shallow end, of course! and my dog was keeping watch as life guard.) For someone who had not really been in water before, I think she did a great job. :)
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Part of the Ophelia series. / Model is Missy / Makeup and Hair by Loran Bean / Assistant – Adam / Photography and Post by myself Comments are very appreciated. please leave one! I thought I might say a little bit about how we got these Ophelia shots. Missy is a VERY talented photographer friend of mine (to view her work, go http://missyjanek.deviantart.com/) and she has also modeled for me in the past. I thought she’d be great for this concept, so we started about 3pm yesterday. All was going well until she got in the pool and said “I don’t know how to swim!” So we struggled and propped her up with pool noodles and floaties and Adam even held her legs while she tried to stay afloat. I felt like she really was going to drown a couple of times! (We kept her in the shallow end, of course! and my dog was keeping watch as life guard.) For someone who had not really been in water before, I think she did a great job. :)
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Your move now…
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Model is Dan / Makeup and Hair by Loran Bean / Makeup inspired by latest shoot on ANTM. / Shot in new studio! Blog facebook and Twitter
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Canon Rebel xt Canon L 70-200 F4 US Robin Southern Ontario Canada /
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Next… / If you’ve ever had to endure the torture of auditioning, you’ll understand how the word Next can make your blood pressure rise and your heart sink. / Photomanip / Available as an art print, card, canvas, mounted print and poster. / Image copyright © 2009 Shanina Conway. / Copying and displaying or redistribution of this image without permission from the artist is strictly prohibited. Thanks to Needanewname for the hand stock and to Marcus Ranum for the Model stock /
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. fuzzy / peachy / cuddling and passion / fruit / kisses . trouble is a friend . o8.29.2oo9 / acrylic on canvas / 20” square .
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Thanks to my niece, Skye, for being a good sport :D Image taken with Motorazr V9 mobile phone camera and post-processed in Photoshop CS4. FEATURED ON THE REDBUBBLE ‘FEATURED ART’ , ‘BUY WALL ART’ AND ‘BUY GREETING CARDS’ PAGES – 27 OCTOBER 2009 / Group Features: ‘Speaking Photos’ – October 2009 ‘Mobile Phone Capture for A Mobile Life’ – October 2009 ‘Outside the Box’ – November 2009
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The naughty nurse is ready to inject you with her vaccin, she is so diseased sick looking that the viewer does not feel( I hope!) confortable getting vaccined, to me this is the symbol of any gouvernemts telling us stories, telling us they’re doing everything for their own good as in reality, they are just thinking of their own interests. ..I know what a fun story, ain’t it? ..you gotta have this print!! This is a classic, and only rarely you will stumble upon something like this!!
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My take on a song thats currently haunting me – Regina Spekter’s “Genius Next Door”. Her lyrics are often enigmatic, apparently she prefers for the listener to use their imagination regarding the topic rather than giving it all away. For me, the song is sadness in duality – for the environment, and the youth of today. Please watch the video below:
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