Photographer Jonathan Nafarrete

Cardboard Cameras by Kiel Johnson

Jonathan — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:57:52 +0000

Kiel Johnson is an American sculptor and painter that creates a lot of his work using cardboard. Among his works are a collection of cardboard cameras that look quite stunning. My favorite part is that the camera straps are actually created with cardboard as well. Next step would be to get these fully functioning. That would be a gallery I would go see.

Head over to Johnson’s website to see the entire collection of cardboard cameras.

Behind the Scenes of Stop Motion Music Video

Jonathan — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:53:04 +0000

Behind the Scenes of a Grammy Nominated Stop Motion Music Video

The stop motion music video for Oren Lavie‘s song “Her Morning Elegance” took the web by storm last year, amassing over ten million views on YouTube and receiving a Grammy nomination.

Here is the final video in case you might have missed it.

Her Morning Elegance
Directed by: Oren Lavie, Yuval & Merav Nathan
Featuring: Shir Shomron
Photography: Eyal Landesman
Color: Todd Iorio at Resolution
© 2009 A Quarter Past Wonderful

Sony Takes on the Flip with its New Bloggie Touch

Jonathan — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 01:22:09 +0000

Sony just announced a new video camera that’s quite a worthy challenger to the Flip Video. The Bloggie Touch replaces the original Bloggie video camera and boasts a much sleeker design (dropping the swiveling LCD), a 3-inch touchscreen, 4 to 8 GB of internal memory, 1080p HD video recording, and 12.8 megapixel photographs. Like the Flip, it’s designed for quick and easy photos and videos on the go, and can connect to computers via a built-in USB connector.

At first glance, it appears to be missing an audio in jack and a tripod screw mount? Either way, I think it is an amazing design and can’t wait to get my hands on one to play around with.

It’ll be available starting in October for $180 to $200 depending on how much space you need.

Latest Video from OC Foodie Fest

Jonathan — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 19:00:51 +0000

Latest video I shot at the OC Foodie Fest. Trying out new camera setup and still working on editing video.

OC Foodie Fest – August 28th, 2010
Honda Center
Orange County’s Food Truck Event

50 of America’s Favorite Food Trucks

Live Bands:
Anaheim-based folk/soul rock Dusty Rhodes and the River Band. Also, performing is The New Limb, Seedless, Denny White, Honeypie and The Relative Strangers. Pacific Rim Video Press

Dance Crews:
The 2auce Project, Team Breed of Boogiezone, Team Millenia and the much loved The Beat Freaks featured on MTV’s America’s Best Dance Crew (ABDC)

iPhone 4 Skinned to Look Like a Leica M9

Jonathan — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:52:12 +0000

Flickr user joey_joey_joey wanted to customize his iPhone 4 in a unique way, so he decided to make it look like a Leica M9. This is one of the neatest looking cell phones I’ve seen.

To make the stickers for the front and back, Joey took a stock photograph of an M9, and modified it in Photoshop to fit the dimensions of the iPhone 4.

Behind the Scenes of Annie Leibovitz Shoot

Jonathan — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 18:37:12 +0000

Behind the Scenes of Annie Leibovitz Shooting Sean Connery for Louis Vuitton

Not a bad look at behind the scenes. Sean Connery and Louis Vuitton, two faves in my book. Looks like she is shooting with a Canon 1D mark iii or mark iv.

My Latest Photos and Interview on LAist

Jonathan — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:06:51 +0000

Zach Behrens over at LAist put together a nice interview and gallery of my photos and video that I shot while at Comic-Con in San Diego, CA.

Check out the interview and additional photos: http://laist.com/2010/07/26/photos_the_girls_of_comic-con.php

Latest Video of Girls of Comic Con

Jonathan — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:03:52 +0000

Spent quite a few days at Comic-Con shooting stills and video. Decided to throw most of the footage I shot into a video for all the dudes on YouTube.

Latest Video from DiggNation Live Taping Comic-Con

Jonathan — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 18:19:09 +0000

Another video I put together from Comic-Con of the DiggNation Live Taping with Mike Relm. Mike’s an amazing guy and had a blast hanging out multiple nights during Comic-Con.

Fast Company’s Influence / Popularity Project

Jonathan — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 19:47:39 +0000

The latest measurement of influence online is apparently being undertaken by Fast Company with their latest Influence Project. I am always interested on new ways of calculating and determining influence online so I gave it a try. Immediately I realized there was a problem as did a good amount of others calling it a “popularity contest” or “PR for Fast Company”. The issue at hand shows all influence is measured by total link clicks on a unique url given to each user who signs up:

The scale of your influence, and therefore the size of your photo, is based on two measures.

1. The number of people who directly click on your unique URL link. This is the primary measure of your influence, pure and simple.

2. You will receive partial “credit” for subsequent clicks generated by those who register as a result of your URL. In other words, anyone who comes to the site through your link and registers for their own account will be spreading your influence while they spread theirs. That way, you get some benefit from influencing people who are influential themselves. We will give a diminishing, fractional credit (1/2, ¼, 1/8 etc ) for clicks generated up to six degrees away from your original link.

Yep, there you have it. I will check in periodically on this project and would love to see what it looks like when it is finally printed in an actual issue of Fast Company. Here is a bit from Fast Company on what the Influence Project is all about:

What the Influence Project aims to do is remove some of the mystery behind the inherent passivity of social network numbers. This experiment will show what happens when an individual takes an audience at rest and applies an unbalanced force–through suggestion, advice or direction–that converts it into an army of action. That’s power that can be quantified and lead to an understanding that can be applied to both the largest and smallest of networks. No doubt it’s profound to address a million followers and get 100,000 of them to respond. But what does it mean when you have one hundred friends on Facebook and 97 of them click through to a site on your recommendation?

The clicks and networking and connectivity (out to six degrees!) collected in this experiment will provide a compass for where real influence lies on the Internet. It’s something I’m sure every business is curious to know more about. I also think it’s a powerful bit of awareness for anyone who wants to know who in their network is fully engaged with them.

In case you want to help with this Fast Company project, you can click here.