CFMU

by | Oct 5, 2004 | Photography

I just finished my interview with Laura Hollick on CFMU. It actually went pretty well. She kept the conversation going and had lots of interesting questions that made me think. The 30 minutes felt like 10. Manyk asked if I had a recording of it, and I don’t. I...

Website content

by | Sep 26, 2004 | Photography

I should be working on my kevinthom.com website. The content there right now is, well, pathetic. I had made a rough plan for it one night at the Staircase while sitting and watching the drop in workshop. But I really need to get some details down. I had promised...

Sealed Art

by | Sep 22, 2004 | Photography

Ok so I finally settled on a framing place. It wasn’t the cheapest, but the frames were nice and I trusted the guy to do a good job. He seemed competent and was able to explain the pricing to me without making my head explode. Anyway, it cost about $980 after...

I’ve been framed!

by | Sep 21, 2004 | Photography

Ok I haven’t been framed yet. I’ve been trying to figure out this whole framing situation though. Did you know that framing is an extremely complicated thing? I thought it was just a matter of putting a rectangle of metal or wood around a piece of...

Good surprises

by | Sep 17, 2004 | Photography

I got in my car this afternoon to go pick up my big prints (20×30) from The Pixel Place. There was a voicemail message on my phone, which I had forgotten in there overnight. The message was from Laura Hollick, a reporter from View Magazine who also does a radio...

Early conclusions

by | Jul 15, 2004 | Photography

I’m only 19 pages into the Karsh memoirs (In Search of Greatness) and I can already see what made Karsh the great portraitist that he was. He came to Canada on New Year’s Day in 1925 at the age of 17. By that summer, he was working as an apprentice in his...