This year’ crisis has been an inspiration for many artists, and this video is one to either love or hate, don’t know if this is save for work, but there are no nude people and nothing besides some blood. It reminds me of one of my favorite movies originated in Japan called Battle Royale. The whole sickness lies in the playing of deadly games to entertain the masses, especially when it involves teenagers. We are still far away from Running Man, The Gamer or Gladiator games on primetime TV, at least that’s what we can hope. Enough talking, enjoy the videos:

Metal on Metal “BASTARD” from The Glue Society on Vimeo.

and the Battle Royale trailer, which is probably not save for work:

As you are still reading … this is about the best present for your usual chritmas rejecting friend that relates to those two videos, especially the first one … christmas granades, where you can actually do something good, as parts of your purchase go to charity.

A few weeks ago I have been reading a post over about how photographers are very often only part-time employed as they have a very hard job, or rather have a hard time making money with it. This is only partly true, there are simply a lot of people who know how to use a camera, but know next to nothing about taking good, or respectively unique pictures. They are taking snapshots.

The woman writing this article lacks one quality. By telling us that it’s hard to find a job as a photographer she lacks one thing, taking great, and I mean great as in I would by this, pictures.
I can understand that it’s hard for her to find jobs photographing. I don’t want to sound offending or rude, but it’s annoying that everyone who owns a camera thinks of himself as a photographer. It takes a little bit more than that. And while it is rude to disrespect her works, it’s far more interesting that noone seems to care about quality when it comes to such a thing as design or photography.

At my job I have to fix so many pictures (”Make this look good” – A group shot where the background is sharp and no face.), there is one substitute for good photos, editing them for hours, you can fix a few flaws, but bad perspective and boring motives are not that easy to repair. Instead of telling people it is hard to find a job as a photographer, she would be better of reducing her mediocre portfolio (most pictures there are mediocre at best from a professional aspect) and only putting up good works. If that is too hard it would probably be better to simply start over and make a few better pictures(see darren rowes digital photography school). There are so many amazing pictures over at whatever stock site you find, it’s hard to compete against those guys if you are not shooting technically perfect pictures.

Everybody has to start somewhere, but it takes work and persitence to improve to a level where you can make money with it. As quality still matters, or you can depend on pictures taken by your relatives. Start taking unique pictures, stand out of the crowd.