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My Audio Journey 16 Oct 2012 | 10:53 am
Most of my friends who do stock footage also either work in the entertainment industry, or they do other projects such as short films and weddings. Typically, we remove the audio from our stock foota...
Some new charts 14 Oct 2012 | 08:23 am
If you’ve visited in the past week, you probably noticed that I added some new charts to the right sidebar where I have tracking data. The first chart labled “Agency Sales 2012″ represents the number...
The beat goes on… 5 Oct 2012 | 07:29 pm
October already… Wow, does time fly. Lot’s of changes in my life over the past few months. First, I’ve purchased a lot of new equipment, including a new camera. I’ll be posting reviews. I sold my T2...
The King is Dead! Long Live The King. 16 Aug 2012 | 12:48 am
I’m going through my financials for this year and there is a very disturbing trend… Sales on Pond5 are slowly dieing. My overall sales for this year are down from last year. Even worse, my August pa...
48 Hour Film Festival – Kansas City 1 Aug 2012 | 10:07 am
For the past 3 years I’ve been participating in the 48 Hour Film Festival. The closest is in Kansas City, MO which is a little over an hour’s drive from my home in Topeka, KS. Which means, I drive to...
Finally! Pond5 allows direct photo uploads. 28 Jul 2012 | 11:29 pm
It’s been over a year since Pond5 announced they were adding photos. They started out with importing millions of photos from 124rf.com in a partnership and promised that we’d “soon” be able to direct...
Adding over 1000 new video clips to Shutterstock 22 Jul 2012 | 11:14 am
So, I get a phone call out of the blue one day from an executive at Shutterstock. He asks if I have time to chat. And what a conversation it turns out to be. He was generally interested in my opinions...
Pond5 releases Adobe Premiere Plugin 21 Jul 2012 | 02:28 am
Pond5 finally did something this year… Still no updates on their web site, but they created a plugin for Adobe Premiere CS6 users that allows them to browse/search for stock footage from within their...
The Summer Slump Cometh! 12 Jul 2012 | 03:35 pm
Twelve days into July and I can tell that the summer slump has smacked Pond5 in the face. My sales are about average with last year, which was dismal. And I think the Euro crisis has really hit Clip...
Online File Sharing 27 Jun 2012 | 06:58 am
I shot close to 6,000 photos and 22 minutes of video footage last week during a 4-day music festival (plus an extra day shooting the set up) and at nearly 100 GB of data, the easiest way to share ever...
