Note the first: Prints for sale
On consideration of some of the response I got in the Marketing Survey, I have found a contractor with whom I have entrusted my photos. Looks like they’ll do a good job of printing them. You can have them ship you prints ranging from card size to 12” by 18”. (That’s as large as RedBubble will go with images from my measly eight megapixel Canon, which inspires me with some confidence toward their attitude toward quality control. Of course, if someone has a ten megapixel or greater digital camera lying around unused they feel like lending me, we could go up to 16” by 24”.)
Prints are available in laminated, matted, canvas or framed form. I set my markup so that I get about a third of what you spend, which seems reasonable. I’d like to make some cash, sure, but I also don’t want to keep things out of reach of my more penurious readers. At this markup, cards are about five bucks and prints start at 21 or so.
And thanks to commenter Kay for the lead to RedBubble. Looks like an active, interesting community of artists there. I think we need to coax Carl to set up shop over there, don’t you?
Note the second: Autography
The Theriomorph is spearheading a new collaborative arts project, Autography. From her description:
Self portraiture can be uncomfortable.
It requires a level gaze directed inward with the goal of communicating something to others.
This can be a vulnerable thing: in trying to capture a transient moment or a larger life, a story is exposed.
This blog is about those stories; ambiguous, personal, and universal.
Instructions for participants can be found at the project blog.
Note the third: annoying promotional teaser
Be sure to watch this space for a potentially exciting Zeke-related announcement. Tell your friends.
Oh, and I’m slowly uploading photos that I think would print well, but if there’s something you’d like to see that’s not there, let me know.
Some of the older stuff is too low-res for anything but cards, and some of the images I’ve posted here are cropped small for web display and unusable for printing. But we’ll see what we can do.
That sounds cool, spyder.
And hooray for Chris prints.
And I hope CRN readers will submit photo/text self portraits to Autography.
zeke photos. card size is fine.
ditto for thumper. i mean, thistle.
creek photos. mt. diablo photos. pt. pinole. other places where you live, hike, meander, and meditate. and more desert, of course.
CC:
I would have bought a few cards just now (ravens, tortoises, and that sign at the corner of Ivanpah & Morning Star Mine Rds, an intersection I used to know well—my field study site is visible waaay down there in the Valley), but it wouldn’t let me use a credit card. Is there a minimum? Or PayPal (which I loathe) only? I couldn’t find any such information at the RedBubble site.
And hell yes re Carl!
No minimum, and though the shopping cart takes you to the PayPal screen, there is a link on the left side of that screen that says
“Don’t have a PayPal account?
Use your credit card or bank account (where available).”
and then if you click on “Continue” right next to that message, you can just use your credit card without signing into PayPal. Which I also loathe.
This is excellent. Glad I could help. (And: know how I found you? Just a couple of weeks ago, in an AskMetafilter question about where to read the most insightful feminist writing on blogs. Gotta love the webs.)
Done. That’s an unfortunate system—counterintuitive and misleading.
But my thank-you notes for xmas presents will be on Clarke(tm) cards this year!
To descend to photo-geekery… what camera have you got, because my Nikon (D2H) will print to 16x24, and I suspect I might be able to push it to 20x30.
That’s with a 4-MP sensor.
A lot of it has to do with the various maths of the mosaics, but that’s a whole ‘nother set of issues.
Terry; it’s a Canon Digital Rebel XTi, 8 megapixel flavor. RedBubble has what might seem draconian restrictions on file size: they simply won’t let you print images smaller than 10 megapixels in large format.
I know I’ve printed stuff at 8 by 10 I shot with my two megapixel point-and-shoot and it looked photo quality to me. But given that tons of my stuff was shot hand-held—a near necessity when shooting insects, in my travels—I’m fine with the size restrictions for now. Saves me from my bad habits.
Just got my cards—absolutely beautiful. RedBubble does nice work.
Interestingly, they were shipped from Australia.