rLgLhttp://www.tobinrussell.com/photography-blog/the first comprehensive online identity of tobin hustleen-US2010-03-10T08:14:30ZSquarespace Site Server v5.9.2 (http://www.squarespace.com/)Congratulations You Got Ithttp://www.tobinrussell.com/photography-blog/2010/3/8/congratulations-you-got-it.htmlTobin B2010-03-08T02:20:41Z

]]>Could Someone Please Get This to Mark Boal before the Oscars?http://www.tobinrussell.com/photography-blog/2010/3/7/could-someone-please-get-this-to-mark-boal-before-the-oscars.htmlTobin B2010-03-07T19:40:20ZAmericana Culture Yes Documentary Events Humor Pay Your Dues Before You Pay Your Rent People Make Everything Happen good luck card mark boalI don't have his email address, to I'm hoping if you do you could get this to him.

]]>It's Snowing in Georgia, Againhttp://www.tobinrussell.com/photography-blog/2010/3/2/its-snowing-in-georgia-again.htmlTobin B2010-03-02T14:35:32ZCulture No Events climate change environment

March 2, 2010

Upside down world. Natives say they can't remember the last time it snowed in March.


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Spring comes early

]]>Classic Website 'Dead End'http://www.tobinrussell.com/photography-blog/2010/2/19/classic-website-dead-end.htmlTobin B2010-02-19T18:35:41ZCulture No Observations ad agency design sales websiteFri-No One's at the Ad Agency-day, February 19, 2010
From my desk in Athens.

As I continue to troll my way through Atlanta advertising agencies, I keep eyes open for more examples of what does and does not work on websites. And while this unnamed agency's website looks OK (it falls victim to the chunk'o'color design scheme I find redundant), it has some basic web problems.

I got to this page by clicking 'Who We Are.' After I click that three names and a bunch of the color chunks I was referring to pop up. Why not start with a profile that is showing? Not in the cards. So I click on Bill's profile here and here I am - no links to the next guy's profile, just the link to the annoying 'extra click' page 'Who We Are,' which makes the browser back button more useful and faster to load. Whoops.

What you are seeing above, I would call a classic website 'dead end'. I'll probably throw that term in my definitions shortly as well.

xoT

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]]>Utilizing Multiple Browsers for Project Managementhttp://www.tobinrussell.com/photography-blog/2010/2/16/utilizing-multiple-browsers-for-project-management.htmlTobin B2010-02-16T19:11:39ZTools best tools software technology toolsFebruary 16, 2010
From my desk in Athens, Georgia

I am currently working on two major projects, three actually - but the podcast does not require lots of browser tabs to be remembered.

I have installed three browsers on my computer: Safari, Firefox and Flock (the social networking browser by Mozilla / Firefox).

If I leave a window with multiple tabs open, my computer asks if I want to save the tabs for the next launch of the program. So, at the end of the day, I close all the windows I don't want to save and leave open the window with tabs that I want to save.

For Flock I save my tabs about Atlanta ad agencies I am currenlty researching and the Google Docs I use as carrots to lead them along my path. So Flock, right now,  is dedicated to this project which has been ongoing for over a week and will continue until my target caves.

I am also working on much nicer portfolio websites for www.brogunier.com and for portfolio.tobinrussell.com using a program called Pixelpost. I have a window with multiple tabs about this project saved on Firefox. When I want to continue that project I can launch Firefox and all those annoying code pages will reappear. I haven't launched Firefox in days, because I haven't need to work on that project and Flock is my primary browser.

Bonus: Let's say you have a work email account at Gmail and a personal email account at Gmail. You can't be signed into them both at the same time..unless you are signed in on different browsers! Get my drift? Same with twitter or any other account you need to be logged into.

(Note to self/world: The next step in browser/platform development needs to be allowing multiple identities to be signed into one platform. Just needs to happen. Tweetdeck and a handleful of others do this on the iPhone, but it needs and probably will happen on computers soon enough.)

xoT

]]>The Liquid Properties of Fire II, Nice Desktophttp://www.tobinrussell.com/photography-blog/2010/2/16/the-liquid-properties-of-fire-ii-nice-desktop.htmlTobin B2010-02-16T15:10:19Z'best tools' Light Tools fire photoshop softwareThis file is optimized for use as a desktop - it stretches 1650px wide and if it distorts how will you or anyone else ever know? Click the image for the full size image, then right click the big one to download it to your desktop, then make this cool, energy saving image your desktop - plus you can see files on black a lot easier.

The limited rights version without the tag is $400 via Paypal. Bump up the resolution to full for another $200. Buy yourself some rights and you need be negotiating with yours truly. I like it for your next ad campaign and there are 20 more like it.

This is actually the second entry I have done on this topic: I have a series of images of fire which looks very liquid but I never published it - it's about a month old on this site. My German friend claims every German knows fire is 'plasma' but I'm not 100% buying it.

In any case I love how liquid fire can look - and I adore shooting light sources because...well...they are light sources! You are starting with the result and all you need to do is subtract from there. (My love of screenshots is no doubt another firefly to the light behavior of yours truly.)

And as a side note regarding 'Best Tools,' I am away from my fully current, very expensive CS4 creative suite as this fire shot was put together, so I used the best online photoshop editor out there. www.pixlr.com. So close to PS it is uncanny. Love it. Works great. Totally intelligent. Up there with the best PC program of all time for image management the Faststone Image Viewer. Nothing on Mac I am aware of comes even close. Even Capture One Pro falls flat compared to Faststone.

]]>Now That's a Websitehttp://www.tobinrussell.com/photography-blog/2010/2/15/now-thats-a-website.htmlTobin B2010-02-15T19:23:29ZCulture Yes audience design technology websiteThis Atlanta agency, Fletcher Martin, has a great website. It looks great. It works great. It does cool things that don't get in your way. The copy is intelligent and friendly. It has little nuggets of embedded media, like the interview with Andy Fletcher (audio is a little weak, but not catrastophically so) - and here's a kicker - when you are scrolling through the principles at the agency it doesn't lead you to a navigational dead end. This is a number one problem on many Atlanta agency sites I've visited - always with the back and forth on the browser. Whereas this site smoothly moves you along, maintaining form and framing for each topic, then returning to the lovely central form of the main page with the textual background, centralizing the main topics, never losing site of the web visitor's quest for various types of information.

Now THAT'S a website.

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