Monkey Ask With Mark Pakulski

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• Posted by: Andrew Kamin
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• February 13, 2010
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It is a pleasure to release the first installment of my conversation with Mark Pakulski, Director of Art Buying at Olson Advertising. Mark and I go back several years now and I have always enjoyed collaborating with him. He brings a broad background of experience to every project he is a part of. I’m very fortunate to have been able to sit down with him as part of HMP’s Monkey Ask series.
http://www.vimeo.com/9409966

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Fair Use Explained

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• February 13, 2010
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National Public Radio’s Saturday Edition show broadcast a story examining the fine line between Fair Use and flat out copyright infringement.   The five minute report by Joel Rose can be heard here.

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Art & Copy – A Film By Doug Pray

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• November 2, 2009
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Art & Copy is a powerful new film about advertising and inspiration. The creative is directed by Doug Pray (SURFWISE, SCRATCH, HYPE!) and explores some of the most influential advertising creatives of our time such as George Lois, Mary Wells, Dan Wieden, Lee Clow and Hal Riney. 

“What’s different and perhaps surprising about this movie, is that it isn’t about bad advertising, that 98% which so often annoys and disrespects its audience. I didn’t want to make a doc that just trashes trashy advertising. Too easy, too obvious, and why bother? Instead, granted access to a handful of the greatest advertising minds of the last fifty years, I felt it could be a more powerful statement to focus the film only on those rare few who actually moved and inspired our culture with their work. And that higher standard made me want to make a film that reflected the same kind of disciplined artistic approach that my subjects used.” – Doug Pray

Art & Copy is currently viewing at the Oak Street Cinema in Minneapolis on Thursday, November 5th at 7pm. It will also be coming soon to the St. Anthony Main Theatre in Minneapolis although they do not specify when on their web page.

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Lightroom 3 Public Beta Available

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• October 22, 2009
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Lightroom Product Manager, Tom Hogarty has announced the availabilty of Lightroom 3 Beta over at Lightroom Journal. In a similar fashion to Lightroom 1 and 2, Adobe are providing a public preview of the application. In this case it’s much more like the original Beta preview, in that it’s less polished. Hence Adobe warn that it is not to be used as a production tool, but for testing and commenting only.

New features include: Improved Import, Watermarking, better Noise Reduction, Slideshow Video Export, Grain amongst others. Below are listed resources to learn more.

Terry White’s Tech Blog
http://terrywhite.com/techblog/archives/3747

Matt Kloskowski & the NAPP Lightroom 3 learning center
http://www.photoshopuser.com/lightroom3

Julieanne Kost on AdobeTV
http://tv.adobe.com/show/what-s-new-in-lightroom-3-beta/

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