I just traded my audiovox smt5600 for this 2 year old Nokia 7610. I love it. I love using Shozu to upload pics to flickr. I heart it. I crave the Nokia N91. I am in love with Nokia. Thank you Nokia for giving me such a great platform to interface with!

I am Bre and there is a little test going on now to see if a group of people can mess around with search engines. The trick is to tag a post with the brrreeeport and then see what happens. It just so happens that it sorta has to do with my name. Why are all these people trying to make me famous? You can go to technorati and check out the viral nature of my report… ahem, the “Brrreeeport!”

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There is such a great art scene in Seattle and not enough good conversation about it. I dream of a community that is sharing the Seattle art experience and having fun discussing it.

I am thinking that it would be fun to have a blog community in Seattle where we write about the art in Seattle. It would be great to get together and have a shared experience of going somewhere and seeing some art and then taking that conversation online.

I also think that it would be really cool to have a site that aggregates the posts by people who are artists or interested writing about Seattle art.

I can imagine a site that would look like a blog, but it would automatically post the articles that the team members post on their own blog about art in Seattle. Maybe something like whip up?

Carolyn and Steven? What do you think?

I’m in a room with a bunch of bloggers talking about photography. Kris Krug is moderating and this is an awesome forum and group about photography. Some of the following is stuff some other people said and some is what I think as I’m listening. There is a great website for vancouver photographers called vandigicam. I want a Seattle photo camp!!!

Topic: Cross-processing. Kris King has been shooting slide film (E6 Fujia Provia 400 is Kris’s favorite) and developing it as negitive film (C41). The result is that they use the wrong chemicals for the film and you get some crazy colors, bleeds, graininess and saturation. (Try out tungsten film too which will make colors crazy too because it’s used for indoor lighting, which is used for yellow indoor light.)

Anastasia brought up the subject that sometimes film is more appropriate than digital and vice-versa and she likes shooting poloaroid when she wants to give away pics.

Polaroid film is cool. I heart polaroid film. Type 655 and 55 film makes both a positive and a negative.

Roland has 17,000 photos on flickr. A lot of his photos are shot with his 2 megapixel cell phone. Roland also gave a cool lesson on making a one minute movie with photos.

Depth of field is a tricky thing to explain. I get it, but I’d need to really think about how to explain it. Basicly in order to get shallow depth of field, you need to open up your apererature.

Also, in the middle of the range of the f stops, you’ll get sharper pictures.

The difference between film camera lenses and the digital cameras is 2/3 the size or 1.6x the digital to get to the film.

Canon EF-S lenses are for digital cameras and will

Jess asked about raw format which doesn’t white balance and is often big Jpeg does some processing in camera before outputing it. If you’re ok with that, don’t worry about it.

Ken Rockwell has some cool tutorials.

Derek of said that no matter what camera you are using, it’s worth learning about how cameras work and take the effort to learn how to run a manual film camera.

Will said to pick one thing to figure it out. For example, figure out framing.

Play around with the rule of thirds.

Go out and look at street photographers work.

Play with bracketing and set it at autobracketing.

Go with pro photographers and watch them.

Shoot at sunset and sunrise.

Change your point of view.

Robert gave an idea to turn around from the action and see other things.

I’m at a Moosecamp which is part of a blogger conference called Northern Voice. I’m hanging out with my blogging peeps. I’m happy.

Here are my links to explore: I Make Things, Room 132, We Are The Media, my feed, and my flickr photostream.

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Some vloggers put on a persona in front of the camera, but Clark ov Saturn is putting his personal life out in the world for others to see like few others. Clark is gem of a person as well as a professional actor and video blogger out of nyc. Today he had his biological mother on his video show, “Zip Zap Zop.” Among other personal topics, they talked about why she put him up for adoption. Clark is one of the bravest vloggers I know. He’s not afraid to share his life and family with the world. I’m watching his feed with desperate anticipation and looking forward to seeing more of Clark’s family and friends on his show.

If you aren’t a vlogger, I’m curious about what you would share with the world on your imaginary future video blog. If you are a vlogger, I’d like to hear about what your level of intimacy is with the camera and the audience. How much do you share of your life on camera?

This episode in this series documenting the making of the new cottonwood stone circle focuses on the team that helped to make it happen. The next episode in this series will come out in a few weeks and will document the ceremony marking the official opening of the circle.