Inspiring 55 min talk by Chase Jarvis in New York for Photoshelter. 5 core points: Hard Work, Passion, Personal Style, People & Network, Business, Unconventional, Give Back.
Came across this crazy, creative photographer via Strobist today. Cool stuff from what I can see. Martin Prihado is a Vancouver-based shooter, and in this one he’s squeezing a little end-of-day fun out of some lighting gear rental. Once again a reminder to just go out there and make it happen!
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Studying Photojournalism, you can not avoid the great and glorious such as the late Robert Capa, James Nachtwey or Timothy Allan. One Person however, that one could possibly overlook is the late photojournalist Mohamed Amin.
Amin, a Kenyan photojournalist was born in 1942 and first noted for his pictures and videotapes of the Ethopian Famine in 1984. Mohamed ‘Mo’ Amin first started on his photography path when he first purchased his first camera at the age of 11 years - a Kodak Box Brownie.
At the age of 19 he went professional, after ditching school, and started his first business as a professional photographer in the 1960’s in Dar Es Salaam
Amin, also contributed exclusive photos of the fall of Idi Amin and of Mengistu Haile Mariam, and covered various themes like East African Wildlife and the Uganda Railway. He photographed and documented the move to independence if Kenya and Tanzania and photographed the likes of Kenyatta and Nyerere.
I still remember with shock the TV screens on November 23rd 1996. It was on this day that Mohamed Amin boarded Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961, to travel to Nairobi after a business trip to Ethiopia. History tells us that hijackers stormed the cockpit of ET-AIZ, the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing B767-260ER, and forced the pilot, Leul Abate, to fly east over the Indian Ocean. ET-AIZ ran out of fuel and Abate ditched the aircraft off the coast of the Comoros Islands.
Amin died at age 53 as his body hit the airplane wall, causing his death.
In June 2006, Mo and Me (see Links below), a documentary film about Amin was premiered. It won Best International Documentary at the Los Angeles International Film Festival. Al Jazeera media company and Camerapix funded the film.
Mo Amin is the inspiration for the A24 news channel, a proposed independent pan-African 24-hour ‘African voice for Africa’ which aims to start broadcasting from Nairobi in 2008. His Son Salim Amin stepped into the journalistic shoes of his father continuing Mo’s legacy.
Mo & Me Series
- “Mo & Me” Episode One - Part 1 at YouTube
- “Mo & Me” Episode One - Part 2 at YouTube
- “Mo & Me” Episode Two - Part 1 at YouTube
- “Mo & Me” Episode Two - Part 2 at YouTube
- “Mo & Me” Episode Three - Part 1 at YouTube
- “Mo & Me” Episode Three - Part 2 at YouTube
- “Mo & Me” Episode Four - Part 1 at YouTube
- “Mo & Me” Episode Four - Part 2 at YouTube
- “Mo & Me” Episode Five - Part 1 at YouTube (Labeled as Part 2)
- “Mo & Me” Episode Five - Part 2 at YouTube (Labeled as Part 1)
- “Mo & Me” Episode Six - Part 1 at YouTube
- “Mo & Me” Episode Six - Part 2 at YouTube
- “Mo & Me” Episode Seven - Part 1 at YouTube (Labeled as Part 2)
- “Mo & Me” Episode Seven - Part 2 at YouTube (Labeled as Part 1)
- “Milestones on December 9, 1996 of Time - Announcement of deaths of Mohamed Amin and Brian Tetley
- Mohamed Amin Foundation
- Camerapix
(sourced from Wikipedia)
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The iPhone has finally landed in Australia and has been made available to the three big Telcoms in the Country. Telstra, Optus and Vodafone. While anticipation was high and the hype huge, customers need to do some serious number crunching to determine what the best deal is. I had a look at contracts for the 16GB version of the iPhone.
My summary tried to make sense of call-value by assuming a standard call is 5 minutes long. I also only looked at the 16GB iPhone pricing and the below $100 monthly fee 24months contracts.
Here is a summary:
Optus:
$19 Cap: $19 base fee + $26 iPhone fee (24months contract) = $45/month
It buys you: $50 worth of calls, at 94c/min + 35c connection fee, (which is $5.05 for a 5min call) = 9 5-min calls and 100mb data. Over the entire period of 2 years it sums up to $1080 (or $1272 for 12 months contract with $61 iPhone fee)
$49 Cap: $49 base fee +$12 iPhone fee (24months contract) = $61/month
It buys you: $300 worth of calls, at 80c/min + 35c connection fee, (which is $4.35 for a 5min call) = 68 5-min calls and 250mb data. Over the entire period of 2 years it sums up to $1464 (or $1152 for 12 months contract with $47 iPhone fee)
$59 Cap: $59 base fee +$7 iPhone fee (24months contract) = $66/month
It buys you: $350 worth of calls, at 80c/min + 35c connection fee, (which is $4.35 for a 5min call) = 80 5-min calls and 500mb data. Over the entire period of 2 years it sums up to $1584 (or $1212 for 12 months contract with $42 iPhone fee)
Optus is actually offering quite a good deal. The $59 cap seem to makes some sense, and $66 dollar monthly are payable. I would hesitate with the $49 dollar cap because calls might be cutting it a bit tight and It only has 250mb of data. The 12months option is interesting, they make the phone cheaper but then you need to fork out almost $100 a month…
Vodafone:
$69: $69 fee + $12.88 iPhone (or $309 to buy upfront) = $81.88/month
It buys you: $310 worth of talk, at 80c/min + 40c connection fee, (which is $4.40 for a 5min call) = 56 5-min calls and 250mb of data. Over the entire period of 2 years it sums up to $1965.12
$99: $99 fee + $9.13 iPhone (or $219 to buy upfront) = $108.13/month
It buys you: $600 worth of talk, at 80c/min + 40c connection fee, (which is $4.40 for a 5min call) = 136 5-min calls and 500mb of data. Over the entire period of 2 years it sums up to $2376.12
Vodafone is not cheap, but depending on usage etc they might be an ok option. The throw in a free 100 SMS and free 100 Vodafone to Vodafone minutes which might be an argument. Still - I can get much better talk-value out of a Vodafone $29 Pre-Pay maxi Cap for any other phone.
Telstra:
$30: $30 fee (divided into $25 calls and $5 data), at 92c/min + 27c connection fee, (which is 5.79 for a 5 min call) = 4 5-min calls and 5mb data. Over the entire period of 2 years it sums up to $1119
$40: $40 fee (divided into $35 calls and $5 data), at 74c/min + 27c connection fee, (which is 3.97 for a 5 min call) = 8 5-min calls and 5mb data. Over the entire period of 2 years it sums up to $1249
$60: $60 fee (divided into $50 calls and $10 data), at 28c/min + 27c connection fee, (which is 1.67 for a 5 min call) = 29 5-min calls and 10mb data. Over the entire period of 2 years it sums up to $1619
I was considering whether I should even waste my time posting Telstra rates here but for the sake of the exercise I did. They are a joke! Telstra also “offers” additional data starting at 5mb for $5 !! (hello?) up to 80mb for $29, 200mb for $59 and 1GB for $89. All of which are ridiculous. It seems to me Telstra actually does not have an interest in getting any iphone customers whatsoever. The 30-40 dollar plans are totally unpractical, and once the 4-29 calls a month are reached costs will be added an. Let’s not even talk about the poverish 5mb data. Forget Telstra for iPhones!
All in all, it is a bit disapointing, it seems that plans are inflated and provider try to cash in on the hype quite a bit. The limits on data were to be expected (since Australia only has 2 Internet mains which are Telstra controlled and overused.) Telstra’s offer though is an absolute joke. Maybe the idea is to wait until the first legally unlocked phones are available and stick with a simpler pre-pay cap (available only from Optus at the moment). I guess the big question is how much 3G usage one needs. For me Wi-Fi rocks, and what makes the iPhone so great is not really 3G, but apps and usability. Most of the time I am in Wi-Fi places, but then not being able to use the GPS app or check mails when on the road would be kinda dull as well.
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