Fine Art Photo Show Call for Entries: Deadline 10/30/2007

About a year ago, I juried a show for The Center for Fine Art Photography entitled People, Places Things, and it was a fantastic experience. There were so many great photographs submitted, and those that I chose for exhibition can be found in this online gallery. I also had a chance to visit The Center for Fine Art Photography in Ft. Collins, CO, to see the show hung on the walls of the gallery, and that was a great experience. I’m also very happy to announce that I have been invited to be the juror for a show this year entitled: Planes, Trains and Automobiles.

The exhibition is open to all professional and amateur, domestic and international photographers working with digital or traditional photography or combinations of both.

In addition to all award winners being invited to submit a framed piece for each image selected for inclusion in the show at the Center’s gallery, other awards include:

* Juror’s Selection award: $500
* Director’s Selection award: $300
* Gallery Visitor’s Choice Award: $100
* Two Artists’ ShowCase Online subscriptions – the Center’s new online image marketing website (preview at www.artists-showcase.org)
* All exhibitors are included in the Center’s online gallery
* Inclusion in the Center’s 2007 Exhibition Collection CD which is distributed to selected galleries, collectors, design houses and corporations world wide

Entries are being accepted online until 11:59PM (Mountain Standard Time) October 30, 2007. For more information, or to submit your work, visit https://c4fap.org/cfe/2007PlanesTrains/planes.asp

Exhibition of Fine Art in Oahu, Hawaii

A new exhibition of Digital Fine Art will be opening on 10/26/2007 in Oahu, Hawaii at Gallery I’olani at Windward Community College. The exhibition is in conjunction with the Digital Art Society of Hawai’i and includes the following: digital motion graphics; mixed-media digital animations; digital and digitally mixed-media printmaking; digitally manipulated photography and digital painting.

The show runs from Oct. 26 through Nov. 16, with an opening artist’s reception on Friday, Oct. 26th, from 4-7 pm. The opening will include a Digital Printing demonstration by Stefan Meinl.

Exhibiting artists are: Peter Chamberlain, Gaye Chan, Ellen Chapman, Bobby Crockett, Joan Dubanoski, Jim Egan, Chris Gargiulo, Scott Groeniger, Jan Hathaway, Diana Jeon, Kloe Kang, Stefan Meinl, Violet Murakami, Arthur Nelander, Kirsten Simonsen, Phil Uhl, Jay Wilson and Shige Yamada.

For more info, visit: https://gallery.wcc.hawaii.edu/flash/ (808-236-9155)
Gallery Director:  Toni Martin

Amazon.com now allowing video reviews on many items

I just took a look at a product page for the book I recently completed, and noticed that Amazon is now allowing people to upload video reviews of products (including books, as far as I can tell). I didn’t see the option for DVDs though (I can envision the fans of sci-fi flicks dressing up to review their favorite movies).

I think that these video reviews will be very interesting. I could not find a press release for the new service on Amazon.com’s press release page, but there may be some official announcement for it somewhere online.

(Above) Screen grab from a book’s description page on Amazon.com.

I searched a bit on Amazon.com and found a video review, posted on October 3, 2007, for a Panasonic wireless network camera (he called it a “nanny cam”). You can find that video review here. The reviewer is Shawn Collins from WeViews.tv; he has a very good site with many reviews of gadgets, books and other items.