This Weekend: October 14 – 16, 2011
Oh, Thomas, what now?
Another one bites the dust…the week is ova! FACE/OFF 2011 has officially kicked off! Start submitting those photos & videos for our most anticipated annual competition and event we curate right here at Smashbox Studios. Still, there’s more: while your creating your destiny, submit your work to Making The Shoot for a chance to crank up your career and shoot a celebrity on one of our stages. HAUTE opportunities served on a silver platter. You have tricks, we have TREATS so get into it…and your next couple of days when you Read more
FACE/OFF 2011: Judges Announced // Call For Entries
Fashion. Advertising. Celebrity. Editorial. The time has come. FACE/OFF —— an annual photography and video competition showcasing the creative excellence of rising-star photographers and directors both near and far. It all unravels in the most highly-anticipated event @SMASHBOX Studios on December 8th, 2011 in West Hollywood.
Let’s add some edge to the excitement that ensues. We’re conducting interviews with our highly-esteemed panel of judges and want to include some of your questions — you know, so you can get an inside view at who’s lookin’ at you. Leave your question in the comment box —— Seriously! Just look at this list! —— IN LOVE!
Greg Garry – Photo Director
Kimberly Brooks – Art Editor, Huffington Post
Guy Oseary – Co-Founder, Rock Paper Photo
Steven Carr – Director, Producer
Justin Tyler Close – Creative Director, The Lab Magazine
Matthias Vriens McGrath – Photographer
Davis Factor – Smashbox Founder & Photographer
Stephen Kamifuji – Creative Director, Genlux Magazine
Ettore Zuccarelli – ezProductions
Brian Bowen Smith – Photographer
Albert Kodagolian – Director/DP, Bueno Films
Rocky Morton – Director, MJZ Productions
Jeremy Power Regimbal – Creative Director, The Lab Magazine
Rick Callahan - Copious Management
+MORE TO COME!!!
…FOR PHOTOGRAPHY & VIDEO SUBMISSIONS (and more info), CLICK RIGHT HERE!
All That Buzz: Making The Shoot x Smashbox Studios
Pay close attention to this one, lovers, we have a BIG announcement. Making The Shoot, an international photography competition hosted by The Lab Magazine & Photoculture has a mission to create life-changing opportunities for photographers worldwide, and submission time has begun. This competition is dedicated to seeking and promoting emerging talent while helping move a career forward in a big way. This isn’t like most photography contests — they’ll be sure to offer great prizes courtesy of sponsors, but it’s the opportunity given to ONE PHOTOGRAPHER that their most proud of. In January 2012, the winner will be flown to Los Angeles for a fully-financed celebrity shoot to be published in The Lab Magazine No.5 — and it’s all being shot @SMASHBOX STUDIOS! This news should make your top tweets of the week, so for the love of capture (and the list of judges!)… Read more
Feast Your Eyes: Pete Eckert x Artists Wanted
Fascinating. Riveting. Inspiring. Three words that merely match the passion that accompanies Pete Eckert — a photographer who is blind but a blind photographer with stellar vision. So stellar that he was the Grand Prize recipient of Artists Wanted in ‘Exposure’, an international photography competition and was awarded thousands of dollars along with a formal reception at Leo Kesting Gallery in NYC. Now that’s a classy celebration. Explore your own opportunities with Artists Wanted as well, that is, after you feast (click) those (play) eyes (!).
Lust Object: Lomo LC-A+ Russia Day Camera
From Russia, with love. Pretty much, this beauty wins our hearts for our weekly lust object. The Limited Edition Lomo LC-A+ is all wrapped up in red leather and shows off signs of fertility, cherishing Russia Day with the original legendary lens that started the Lomographic movement — The Russian Minitar. If you’re a romantic like us, get into it, because Lomography has one of its most enticing treats: The Russian Passion competition that has you sending in some sweet kisses… XOXO!
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