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Stills is a new design-oriented image licensing platform built by creatives, for creatives
Needless to say, the photographs on Stills are a far cry from stock imagery. Shot by in-demand photographers (all of whom are given artist-friendly fee splits, well above the industry average) the roster currently includes big names such as Jake Wangner, Charly Savely and Nirav Patel, among others.
These photographers are well-known in the commercial industry and regularly work with major brands such as Samsung, The North Face, Apple, Leica, and many more. They also have established and successful personal practices, meaning that Stills members are getting access to image-makers with a finely tuned sense for powerful, evocative photography, and a keen understanding of the medium’s crucial role in storytelling.
Importantly, Stills ensures that its most in-demand photos have a limited number of uses, so they aren’t replicated across lots of different campaigns. For added exclusivity, there is also the option for users to put a market freeze on specific images that they want to reserve only for their projects.
Finally, the team understands the frustration that comes with scrolling through huge databases looking for the photos you want. As such, Stills allows its users to search for specific colours, moods, photographers and bodies of work, and then offers them an intuitive board to organise their findings into. The team will even search for images themselves, free of charge, to make sure users find the perfect photos for their project.
Stills is due to launch later this summer and, upon signing up to the email waitlist through its website, It’s Nice That readers will be guaranteed access to the platform.
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Visitors of all ages are invited to decorate linocut prints with artist, Eileen Jimenez. Participants will make prints using blocks designed by Eileen, featuring images of LGBTQIA+ community pride and…
Making your art, learning the business
Nearly two years after its launch, an art program at the Ki-Low-Na Friendship Society is guiding urban Indigenous Youth to expand their skills in both creativity and business.
The social enterprise called Original Born Art was created to promote local Indigenous artists and teach Youth about the ins-and-outs of entrepreneurship – which has included mentorship, educational workshops and hands-on work experience.
The youth in the program create merchandise such as t-shirts, posters and mugs utilizing the artists’ designs – then those items are sold online and in-person at KFS. Through the process, the Youth gain skills in areas such as product development and design.
Paige Janvier, who is Denesuline and from Bigstone Cree Nation, is a youth co-ordinator at KFS and is one of 10 part-time staffers and contractors working for Original Born Art through this summer.
Through the social enterprise, she’s helped produce mugs, sold items at vendor markets, honed her time management skills and more.
“It’s almost like being your own boss in a way, that creativeness that you can have,” said Janvier. “Coming here, you have space to do what you want. I can print out whatever I want, I can come in and help whenever I want – really being your own boss and having that creative responsibility.”
An aspiring graphic designer, Janvier said that Original Born Art has given her the opportunity to experiment with digital creative designing apps, and she is in the process of sketching her own design.
“It opened up a whole lot of possibilities that I wouldn’t have had beforehand,” she said of her time at the society.
Janvier recently helped print and apply a design created by local Ojibwe artist Sarah Jones to dozens of ceramic mugs, as Original Born Art rolls out their Pride month merchandise.
For their clothing, stickers and other products created for commemorative events such as Red Shirt Day and Orange Shirt Day, Original Born Art uses the original designs of local Indigenous artists, including Jones.
Kody Woodmass, the former strategic planning co-ordinator at the society, said that the social enterprise is always looking to promote the work of Indigenous Youth and other local artists.
Woodmass, who is Red River Metis, was one of the main architects behind the development of OBA.
“The opportunities for where this project can grow are anywhere,” said Woodmass. “It depends on what the Youth want.”
Not only are the artists paid for their work, but the funds raised through product and merchandise sales are redistributed back to the Ki-Low-Na Friendship Society, specifically their Cecemala Services Department.
The funds raised through the program help support youth workshops, cultural events and land-based programming.
“We wanted to create a way that people can go back out into the land that people used to. We would do gathering, traditional knowledge sharing where we would show people what are some different foraging opportunities, or what are these native plants in Kelowna. We were doing things like tool-making, hikes,” said Woodmass.
“It’s all about getting back to the land and understanding the beauty behind it.”
A number of local businesses have supported Original Born Art over the years by selling or showcasing their products, including Fireweeds Boutique, Okanagan Heritage Museum, Okanagan College and many more.
Woodmass said that the overwhelming community support is a reflection of people taking their first steps towards truth and reconciliation.
“They’re coming in, asking how to support and how they can be part of the solution,” he added. “I think that’s what it’s all about, is coming together, walking together and learning together.”
This Photographer Captured The Emotions Of Parents Welcoming Their Newborn Baby (32 Pics)
The arrival of a newborn is undoubtedly one of the most significant moments in a woman’s life. Even though it is the mother who goes through the physical process of childbirth, fathers often stand beside their women, supporting them, while trying to cope with an emotional rollercoaster of their own.
Kirstie Perez, who specializes in various fields of photography, is known for her unique and still niche photography genre, which is birth photography. Perez gets to spend time with women in labor, capturing the rawest emotions and reactions of parents-to-be during the first moments they meet their beloved child. The photographer skillfully documents this transformative phase as couples transition into parents.
The Bored Panda has previously featured Kirstie’s works in other posts, which you can see here or here.
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INPEX : 4U Challenge Lab Organizes Photography Contest for High School Students to Promote Regional Attractions
Public Relations Group, Corporate Communications Unit
Akasaka Biz Tower, 5-3-1 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-6332 JAPAN
June 21, 2023
INPEX 4U Challenge Lab Organizes Photography Contest for
High School Students to Promote Regional Attractions
Tokyo, Japan – INPEX CORPORATION(INPEX) announced today that its local community empowerment program INPEX 4U Challenge Lab (I4UCL) has organized a photography contest designed to promote the attractions of the areas and communities served by city gas companies to which INPEX supplies wholesale natural gas. The areas include Tokyo Metropolis and Chiba, Saitama, Gunma, Tochigi, Yamanashi, Nagano, Niigata, Yamagata, Akita and Toyama prefectures.
The photography contest targeting high school students opened at noon on June 20, 2023, and is co-organized by a group of city gas companies including Ashikaga Gas Co., Ltd., Enecle Co., Ltd., Otaki Gas Co., Ltd, Saitama Gas Co., Ltd., Tokyo Gas Yamanashi Co., Ltd., Nihonkai Gas Co., Ltd., Bushu Gas Co., Ltd., Honjo Gas Co., Ltd., Matsumoto Gas Co., Ltd., and Yoshida Gas Co., Ltd.
The contest aims to expand the number of non-residents involved in various ways with the local regions and communities as well as visitors to these areas as a means of sustainable revitalization to address the issue of depopulation among younger generations. The theme of the contest is based on high school students promoting the local regions and communities by taking and entering photographs depicting local food. In doing so, the students are encouraged to interact with each other, re-discover the attractions of their regions and deepen their affinity to their communities.
INPEX launched I4UCL in 2019to help enhance the corporate value and reputation of city gas companies in Japan to which it supplies natural gas by leveraging activities that support the needs of the local communities served by the companies. Since then, INPEX has partnered city gas companies to implement study sessions and service demonstrations starting with an open innovation event in the first year. This is the first instance in which INPEX organizes an I4UCL initiative jointly with multiple city gas companies.
INPEX will continue to utilize the I4UCL framework to support the needs and expectations of the regions and communities, and promote activities contributing to society with a focus on education and the development of the next generations of local citizens.
Public Relations Group, Corporate Communications Unit
Akasaka Biz Tower, 5-3-1 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-6332 JAPAN
About the photography contest
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Photographs depicting local food |
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Tochigi, Yamanashi, Nagano, Niigata, Yamagata, Akita and |
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Toyama prefectures) |
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High school students |
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Until 23:59 on August 31, 2023 |
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Best Award, City Gas Awards, INPEX 4U Challenge Lab |
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Award, Participation Awards |
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Late September 2023 |
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4u.challenge.lab@ml2.inpex.co.jp |
Media dedicated to the photography contest
Website: https://4u4cus.jp/
About INPEX
INPEX CORPORATION is Japan’s largest exploration and production (E&P) company, and is currently involved in projects across multiple continents, including the Ichthys LNG Project in Australia as Operator. By thoroughly making its oil and gas business cleaner while expanding its 5 net zero business areas, INPEX aims to provide a stable supply of diverse and clean energy sources including oil, natural gas, hydrogen and renewables as a pioneer in energy transformation.
For more information, visit https://www.inpex.co.jp/english/index.html.
Media Contact: INPEX Tokyo Office, Public Relations Group, Tel) +81-3-5572-0233
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La Jolla News Nuggets: Ex-Jack in the Box; restaurant grant; photography winner; more
Bishop’s School still seeking tenant for former Jack in the Box
Nearly a year after plans to rent out a former Jack in the Box property in La Jolla fell through, the building remains vacant, with no tenant in sight.
The Bishop’s School completed the purchase of the property at 564 Pearl St. for $5.5 million in September 2021, around the time the fast-food restaurant quietly closed. The site was intended to be leased out in the short term and later converted for student use that hadn’t yet been determined. The hope was for a tenant to open by the following summer.
In August last year, representatives of The Bishop’ School said a deal with a potential tenant fell through “late in the process.”
This month, the school issued a statement to the La Jolla Light indicating the building “remains for lease,” with no deadline to find a tenant before converting it for school use. There also was no timeline for next steps.
“If demolition is warranted at some point, we will follow the city of San Diego process for permitting and any work necessary,” according to the statement. “We prioritize the safety, health and wellness of our school community and greater community, and when we are ready to convert the property for school use at some time, the plans will go before community groups for review.”
In April, tarps covering the fences that surround the vacant building were vandalized during a rash of graffiti believed carried out by the same person at locations along Pearl Street and Fay Avenue. The tarps were replaced soon afterward.
Ambrogio by Acquerello receives $5,000 grant from Restaurants Care
Ambrogio by Acquerello co-founders Giacomo Pizzigoni, Andrea Burrone, Silvio Salmoiraghi and Paolo Tucci gather at the new restaurant in La Jolla.
(Bhadri Kubendran)
La Jolla’s new Ambrogio by Acquerello was one of 18 San Diego restaurants that recently received a $5,000 grant from the California Restaurant Foundation’s Restaurants Care Resilience Fund, a $2.1 million fund financed by California’s energy companies, including San Diego Gas & Electric.
The fund started in 2017 as a “safety net for food and beverage workers,” according to the organization, and was amplified during the COVID-19 pandemic. Grants can be used for kitchen equipment, technology upgrades, employee training/retention and “unforeseen hardship.”
Ambrogio by Acquerello, at 7556 Fay Ave., is led by Michelin Star chef Silvio Salmoiraghi and chef-partner Choi Cheolhyeok and offers modern Italian cuisine using traditional flavors of Milan with Pacific Asian influences.
La Jolla resident wins Best of Show in county fair photography exhibition
La Jolla resident and photographer Kim SignoretPaar won a Best of Show award at the San Diego County Fair for her photo “Walking in Hanoi.”
(Provided by Kim SignoretPaar)
La Jolla resident Kim SignoretPaar won the Best of Show award at this year’s San Diego County Fair Exhibition of Photography, which is on view at the fair in Del Mar through the Fourth of July.
The victory “has left me floating around,” she said. “I’m still amazed.”
The competition includes a wide variety of categories, from landscapes to sports to still life, according to the fair.
SignoretPaar’s winning photo, titled “Walking in Hanoi,” is a 40-by-20-inch black-and-white image depicting a traffic circle in Hanoi, Vietnam, near an area known for its street food and beer. The photo was taken during a trip across Asia in 2019.
“I stayed in Hanoi for two days by myself and did a street food tour in old Hanoi,” SignoretPaar said. “I took a few photos, but this one was shot down a street and I just loved it. It has so many people in it and shows the street and all the complexities of French architecture and what it looks like now. It looks old but it is new. This image needed to be big.”
SignoretPaar, a La Jollan since 2000, also won Best of Show at the fair’s Exhibition of Photography in 2014.
She got into photography in her youth with a “brownie camera” her father gave her, she said. Photography would go on to be part of her various careers. She now teaches phone photography.
She entered her first contest in 2012 and has been competing ever since. “Photography has really consumed me,” she said with a laugh.
Scripps Research receives $46 million in funding from NIH
The Scripps Research Translational Institute in La Jolla has received $46.8 million in renewed funding over a seven-year period from the National Institutes of Health’s National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences. As part of the nationwide Clinical and Translational Science Awards program, the funds will support the institute’s mission to transform human health research through technological innovations.
The institute, led by founder and director Dr. Eric Topol, combines genomic and digital technologies with cutting-edge artificial intelligence to transform personal health data into clinically useful knowledge.
“We’ve been very fortunate to be part of the CTSA consortium for the past 15 years,” said Topol, who also is a professor of molecular medicine and executive vice president at Scripps Research. “In that time, we’ve made tremendous strides in leveraging genomic, wearable sensor technologies and AI for the capture and interpretation of huge … data sets into actionable health information.”
The CTSA program consists of a national network of more than 60 “hubs” — biomedical research institutions and universities working together to advance translational science. The Scripps hub, led by the Translational Institute, includes Calibr (the drug development arm of Scripps Research) as well as long-standing partners Scripps Health and the Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine.
La Jolla Shores Permit Review Committee OKs two requests
The La Jolla Shores Permit Review Committee supported two requests at its June 15 meeting without opposition.
The first was a 72-month extension for coastal development and site development permits to demolish a 4,453-square-foot house and build a new 8,697-square-foot single-family home at 2326 Calle Chiquita.
The PRC first approved the project in 2017.
Applicant representative Lindsay King said the original permits expired during the COVID-19 pandemic, when paperwork delays occurred. The owners then placed the project on hold because “they were uncertain of how things would happen with construction,” King said.
The plans have undergone “minor changes,” King said, with no changes to height or setbacks.
“This is a very procedural thing as long as there are no substantive changes to the project,” PRC Chairman Andy Fotsch said.
Applicants show plans for a new home on Prestwick Drive to the La Jolla Shores Permit Review Committee.
(Elisabeth Frausto)
The other item was approval of coastal development and site development permits to demolish a two-story house and build a new two-story house at 8283 Prestwick Drive.
The design of the new house is based on “modern architecture and appeal that is already existing” in the neighborhood, according to applicant representative Abby Sanchez.
Planned setbacks for the house range from four to 85 feet. The height will reach 29 feet, 11 inches.
The house will total 8,166 square feet with a floor area ratio of 0.32, Sanchez said.
— Compiled by La Jolla Light staff ◆
