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quiksilver holiday party 2009.
by josh on December 17th, 2009
so…went to the work party last night. which was actually a lot of fun. it was at the house of blues here in anaheim. here’s some pics i stole from others:
good times, open bar, live band, and plenty of random buzzed induced conversations. least here it’s not really your typical corporate holiday party. you know, the kind where it takes a couple of drinks for people you’ve seen for the last year to finally get friendly….and then it’s back to pretending you don’t know each other the following day. my last job was like that…..but fortunately everyone here is already chill so it was really just a matter of meeting some new peoples. which was a really good thing factoring all the fallen soldiers we lost due to layoffs. definitely a nice treat to unwind for a night downtown disney style.
making the world beautiful.
by josh on June 9th, 2009
*pukes*
i always laugh when you hear about these magazines being accused of photoshopping (or airbrushing as it’s usually wrongly called) images of people. just in the last few months it was danica patrick in sports illustrated….or that ghetto ho kim kardashian and her non-retouched photo getting out on some website.
hate to break it to the world….but EVERY photo that makes it to the public view…is touched up. i mean, assuming we aren’t talking about tabloids purposely posting nasty pictures of celebs or something. sometimes there isn’t a lot to do, but other times there’s a lot of work involved. here’s just one example i found when cleaning out some stuff….
i was happy with how it turned out. it at least looks real.
what irks me is how a lot of “fashion” and “glamour” photographers/retouchers butcher the hell out of some of their models. they just blur the crap outta their skin completely and call it a day. or worse, call it “pin-up art”. i dunno, maybe it has more to do with personal taste….but i find using today’s tools to go beyond realistic photographs is more of design work than photography.
quik vid.
by josh on April 23rd, 2009
kinda funny…one of our snowboarders just messing around.
bob’s the founder/owner/everything here. ppl seem to think everyone should just know that though.
water bottle thing.
by josh on March 19th, 2009
so we had a fundraiser at work the other day. sigg donated abuncha blank water bottles for ppl to make into an “art project”. then there was an auction and the money went to some hippie save the world something or another.
it was pretty fun though. as i mentioned, i’ve never really painted before….so it was cool to just mess around with that.
here’s my gem of a bottle:
apparently a couple ppl actually placed a bid on it, but i am not sure who the winner was. i think i’ll just convince myself that the hottest chick in this place got it….and she is now in love with me and my “art”. uh huh…
corporate blogs=sweet content.
by josh on March 1st, 2009
so….like a typical disgruntled ex-employee…..i ventured to land of pacsun.com this morning. just to see what my old company was up to.
….and oh man did i get some giggles. it just amazes me these asshats are still actually in business.
why? one example….is how their sweet community section is featuring a really kickass video about how to clean girls shoes. (video here)
why is this funny to me? they stopped carrying girls shoes over a year ago….dropping a few million dollars from the roxy shoes account alone. but good thing they are there to tell ya how to clean the shoes they don’t even sell!
….and that’s really my beef with these corporate fags trying to get into the whole web 2.0 realm. blogging, youtubing, etc…..they are clueless. they have no clue who their customer is, nor do they know how to feed them entertaining relevant content. i swear….half of this stuff is more just meant for the drones in the corporate offices to beat their meat to. meanwhile, they are paying over $150+K (if not more) in salary to the morons coming up with this complete garbage.
why does it bug me though? i suggested they do some kinda webisode-esque feature over 6 years ago….and no one listened. so in typical fashion….they are just now breaking into the realm as nothing but complete followers…..instead of actual trend setters. which is fine, if they actually knew within their corporate walls just how much of posers they really are. but they don’t.
it goes beyond this though. as a whole i think most corporate blogs lack any kinda real interest. they are using them as advertisement pitches, instead of selling product through worthwhile content. is it the writer’s faults? no….it’s the moron marketing big wig asshats that are pushing blogs/videos cause they heard it was the next big thing. all while never realizing you still need content your viewers are actually interested in. or even better….as in the example above…..content that is actually relevant to the fuckin’ product you are trying to sell.
*shakes head*
it makes me wonder if any of the ppl pulling these strings even have a grasp on internet media and social trends as a whole? cause as far as i can tell, it’s nothing but a resume laced with bullshit titles trying way too hard. sad really…..cause there is, and has been….so much potential there.
what do i know though. i am just an actual internet user/dork.
no more fridays off.
by josh on February 26th, 2009
tomorrow is my last friday off, and then it’s back to working 5 days a week. how am i gonna spend it? watching baseball and not doing a damn thing!
this week has been long for me. up to my ears in eyewear. which is fine….but it just take a while. so needless to say….i am sick of looking at them for today.
here’s a before and after example of how fabulous i make them look: -clickity-
i know…enthralling, huh?
my cave.
by josh on January 29th, 2009
just playing around a bit with this feature in photoshop that stitches together abuncha different photos to make one…..
this is actually like 9 different pictures.
so i used my cave at work as a subject to try this out with. turned out pretty cool.
behind the scenes….my job, sorta.
by josh on January 13th, 2009
michelle, the lovely photographer i work with posted this on her own blog….and i thought i’d steal it just to give you an idea of what goes on at my work.
it’s a couple years old, probably before i started there…..but it’s funny, cause i still have to work on pictures of this surfer chick all the time. to explain….basically what they are shooting here, is what i work on. they shoot the pics there….and then they get dumped off to us and we make them look all pretty before they go to print….or on the web….or in ads….or etc….
on what could be a sad note (who knows….)…..we were informed today that the president of quiksilver americas (yes, that would be huntington beach quiksilver) resigned. dunno what it means…..but it’s never a good thing to hear the head meatstick is leaving. so let’s hope i still have a job in the months to come. hahahah…..oh, fuck you economy!
tony hawk thinger…
by josh on December 8th, 2008
apparently they had a skate event on saturday here….with tony hawk and abuncha skaters from the 80’s. here’s a video from it….
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