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Just in time for Georgia’s 30th birthday we managed to organise a small photo shoot back home. We used a one-light setup with a couple of reflectors. A large part of the photos were shot without flash, but with big white foamcore boards used as reflectors.
Enjoy…!
Just been stumbling upon the following video while researching for an upcoming article on my marketing blog. Absolutely fantastic display of an Aurora Borealis with music of The Gladiator, a must see!
Klaus Kampert, a German photographer residing in Düsseldorf has published a range of his very beautiful nude and dance photos on the Behance network. His work is truly inspiring and is oriented towards the American “straight photography” of Weston, Adams and Strand. His interest is for people photography with focus on beauty, nude, portrait and dance. He’s been working with some leading advertising agencies together, but is most known for his nude and dance motives which are collected in fine-art circles.
In any case Klaus has an amazing eye for esthetics and light. Have a look at his gallery here.
A while back I stumbled upon an article on Google’s latest addition to its portfolio, boutique.com – I saved the article and today had some time to check out the site myself. Here’s my take on it. Continue reading
Within my blog I have already touched upon the importance and relevancy of trends for businesses and organisations, but haven’t actually given any overview of the most important megatrends that shape our societies and impact our lives. I would like to change this by introducing you briefly to these megatrends. Of course this descriptions are based on my interpretation of these trends, the avid reader (or rather surfer) will come across different names and definitions, which however will describe more or less the same sort of phenomena. Continue reading
Sean Armenta has published a couple of really nice tutorial videos onVimeo – Sean Armenta as part of an Fstoppers contest last year. I was meant to mention them earlier, but never got around to write a note about them until now.
Today I have discovered an interesting site for the fashion concious among us: FashionStake. The site presents clothing of smaller, independent fashion designers. The visitors can vote on the different fashion pieces which they think will become the most popular in the store and thus determine the crowd favourite. The pieces with the most votes will make it into the store to favourable prices, skipping in this process intermediaries, wholesalers and outlets. The voting participants who got it right will get some rewards for making the effort and thus are motivated to vote again.
- via mindjumpers.com
As weird as it might sound, I love data and statistics – but let’s face it: with the upcoming of the internet and the abundant availability of sources, the understanding and useful representation of it has become a challenge. Often my the enthusiastic tackling of large data sources ends up with me being totally confused and overloaded by what I am trying to understand. This is a problem of the times and luckily other people have realised this and have begun to cleverly visualise data in formation graphics.
These graphics make complicated topics and data relationships easily understandable – it has become a bit of an art and a trend in itself in the past couple o years. Anyhow, today I have collected a couple of these information graphics on social media and I would like to share these with you.
SEO-Guru Rand Fiskin of SEOmoz explains in below presentation the most effective steps in SEO. The presentation was held during the InfusionCon 2011.
For a lot of people entering an IKEA store is like a brief escape from the realities of every-day life, a Scandinavian holiday-moment amidst the daily grind. The family excursion to Ikea has become a valid substitute for a day out if the weather is mediocre or there is a strong chance of rain. Not for nothing the Ikea subsidiary in Norway is checking weather updates and is planning its staffing according to the local weather prognoses.
The time that consumers wanted merely to overcome a distress has long gone. Nowadays consumers want to be entertained and seduced. Shopping has become an event, the experience has become more important than the actual sales object and like in the case of Ikea the shopping event represents a brief escape from the daily life.
Carsten Witte – “Eyeliner” for MAXIMA Magazine:
Carsten Witte is a German photographer from Hamburg and has an incredible portfolio of beauty pictures. He’s been presented a while back in various photography magazines and has really made a name for himself with nude and beauty shots.
These two shots are from a series for “Maxima” magazine…
Have you been coming across new Internet services lately and wondered how they actually fit into the social media landscape? The offer has become huge and fragmented and it is increasingly difficult to make sense of it all, at least to the average mortals among us. Problem is that as marketers one needs to be aware of what’s out there and also understand how all pieces fit together and in a second step understand what they can potentially mean to the business and how they can be applied to current business circumstances.
This is relevant for all players in the field, for the big, multinational organisations, to the small and mediums sized companies right down to the individuals who have a need for self-marketing (think of local/ regional politicians or freelancers). So how can one get an oversight of what’s out there?
I have been browsing myself for some free reading material on (digital) marketing, social media and related topics the last couple of days and thought I might as well share this with the world. All books or presentations are freely downloadable, but sometimes combined with a registration. A couple of my links are referring to German sources, the rest is English – might be a good opportunity for you to brush up on your German skills… 
Here are some more outtakes and bloopers of the VW commercial…
I really like that sort of stuff….
This is a pretty cool video and a piece of excellent viral marketing. It works!
For all you geeks out there…., enjoy!!!