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Monday, March 22, 2010

Immaculate Perception is Hot off the Press!!




I realize that no one is reading this, but I figure I should write it anyway, since I'm so damn proud of myself that I could scream and throw things at the wall!

That being said, my right arm is kind of sore from patting myself on the back all weekend, and I think I might have put my back out as well, but hey, I'm very pleased with what I accomplished this past weekend, so a couple of days in the hospital is a fair price to pay.

So what exactly did I do? Well, after six long months of focused, time consuming work, Immaculate Perception finally went to press on Sunday, 21 March 2010!
If you have a moment you should really check the book out. I think you'll agree that the results are pretty amazing!

I've never really thought of myself as having a particular style of photography, I've always just shot the things that interested me and left it at that. But when I looked through the book for the very first time, I was completely taken by surprise that a very recognizable style quite literally jumped off the page at me.
So that's pretty cool in my books

Anyway, I've already begun work on assembling Immaculate Perception Volume II, but I don't expect that book out until next year at some point

If you have any questions, all of you non-existent people who AREN'T reading this, write to me.
Or better yet, send money!
Hahahahahahahahaha!

Oh, before I forget, here is a link to the actual book.

Talk to you later, crocodile.

C

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Welcome to the New and Improved Froz'n Motion Website!!




www.froznmotion.com


So finally, after nearly 4 years of trying, my brand new website is up and running for all the world to see!

But I have to tell you, this has been no easy task. It has been an uphill battle the entire way, one frought with the kind of trials and tribulations that would normally cause a grown man to cry, if crying weren't such a social stigma and so heavily frowned upon by a society that likes its men tough and cryless.

For nearly two solid years I dedicated myself to the task of trying to design the site myself. I bought every single book and magazine I could lay my hands on trying to educate myself on the ins and outs of web design. But for some reason, the things I read about and tried to apply to my site never looked anything like how I actually pictured that site in my head. For some inexplicable reason the two processes kept moving further and further apart until they were about as far apart as two things are capable of being before falling off the edge of the earth. Now, when I think back on it, I can't remember if it was one thing in particular that made me lift my head and remark to myself, "Hey, I have no talent whatsoever in designing websites," or if I just got fed up with the whole mess and moved on to something more promising. But either way I stopped trying to do it myself and set off trying to find someone to do it for me, which, incidently, became its own adventure in itself and took almost the same amount of time I wasted trying to do it myself.

I had people asking to do it, I had people practically begging me to do it, I even had people whom I promised to pay handsomely to do it and who swore up and down that they would do it, but when it came down to the nuts and bolts of actually doing it, no one ever did. It was as though my little "website" project was cursed and carried some kind of disease, judging my the swiftness at which people ran away from it.

Finally a friend who owned a coffee shop in Toronto agreed to do it and posted a neat and tidy little website for me that showed my photographs off beautifully. The only problem was that I had no control over the content of the site. I couldn't publish new photos onto it or take the ones down that I no longer cared for. Plus no one could contact me through the site, which was a huge problem. The site became like a beautifully crafted "ship in a bottle" that stood majestically upon my bookshelf. People could look at it and praise its beauty and craftsmanship, but it didn't really do anything except sit there and look pretty.

For all its problems that particular site stood there as my offering to the world for almost a year and seven months.

But it wasn't right.

And as my photography business aspirations grew, the site obviously didn't grow along with them.

So it had to be revamped.

So I did what every red-blooded Canadian does when they need something done in a bad way and done quickly - I posted an ad on Craigslist for a web designer.
And I sat back and waited.
And I waited a little longer.
Finally a few offers trickled in and so I took the most promising one of the batch I received.
It wasn't until a few weeks after I agreed on a designer that I discovered, much to my horror, that my spam box overflowed with nearly 150 responses to my Craigslist ad!
And I didn't see a one of them!
I was a little shocked, to say the least. But by that time a designer had already been chosen and money had already traded hands.
I was stuck with who I chose.
He was an affable guy who seemed to know what he was doing.
So I let him do what I imagined he did best.

To say it was a frustrating process, as it turned out, would have been the kind of understatement you read about in books about earthquakes and tidal waves and volcanic eruptions.

Three months later a rickety version of the site finally went live, only, it turned out, no one could access the website with an older type web browser, or who possessed a computer with a smaller screen - like the size of screen you have when you own a laptop.

Things weren't boding well at all for my new website.

My estimate was 1 in around a hundred people could actually access the entire site. For those other 99 people who tried to access the site, all they got when they opened it up was the first page and that was it.
It didn't go anywhere and it didn't do anything.
The web designer said it was an unfixable problem, that the world needed to wake up and get the newest web browsers available on the market, or just be happy with the first page of the site.

My wife went ballistic.

She finally contacted a web designer friend of hers an a country far, far away who agreed to fix the site.
And, three weeks later, the new site came alive once again.

And here it is!