Stunner Santa Poses for a Male Fashion Photo Shoot

by Michael Zhan

For its holiday campaign this year, the Yorkdale shopping mall in Toronto, Canada, created Fashion Santa. Instead of wearing his traditional red hat, coat, trousers, and boots, Santa posed for a photo shoot wearing festive outfits representing the latest trends in male fashion.

Like the Hipster Santa found in Portland, Oregon, Fashion Santa can be visited by kids this holiday season inside the shopping center.

And it’s all for a good cause, too: for every selfie with Santa posted to social media with the hashtag #YorkdaleFashionSanta, Yorkdale will donate $1 (and up to $10,000 total) to the Sick Kicks Foundation.

Yorkdale has also published a detailed breakdown of each of Santa’s looks found in these portraits.

(via Yorkdale via Quartz)

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Image credits: Photographs by Yorkdale 

Victor photography book by Hasselblad…

 

 The eagerly awaited Edition Three of Hasselblad’s much lauded VICTOR Photography Book is available this week and the accent is now even more firmly on the outstanding images that are being showcased.

Following its relaunch back in September 2012, Hasselblad’s book format publication VICTOR has gained plaudits from every quarter, due to its supremely high production values and the quality of the photographers who have been included. Issue Two continued the good work and further established the look, and now Issue Three is again going to be something special.

While the format remains the same this time round the mix of text and images has changed a little, with even more emphasis now being placed on the visuals and the scale at which pictures have been used. Otherwise the values that have quickly established VICTOR as a ‘must buy’ publication remain: exquisitely printed and hard bound, it’s more of a luxury book than a magazine, and the words, as before, are translated into a variety of languages, and so it’s accessible to everyone.

As with the previous two editions the line-up of photographers being featured is awesome: David Lynch, Matthias Koslik, Andy Rudak, Bernhard Edmaier, Alisha Goldstein, Laurent Segretier, Timothy Hogan, Derek Kendall, Klaus Thymann, John Robert Rowland, Morgan Fisher and Brad Harris. “We’re delighted to have pulled together such a celebrated line up of names,” says Paul Waterworth, Hasselblad’s Global Photographer Relations Manager. “It’s a tribute to how well respected the publication is that so many great photographers are prepared to contribute.”

While the overall look and feel of the publication is the same, and the price remains at a hugely competitive €20/GBP15/US$25 plus shipping costs, there has been a change in the way the magazine is distributed. Customers can still order VICTOR online at http://www.newsstand.co.uk to be shipped all over the world, but now all Hasselblad subsidiaries (UK, Germany, US, France and Japan) are also offering to supply the magazine directly.

More news and information about VICTOR magazine can be found online at
www.victorbyhasselblad.com and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/VICTORbyHasselblad

Digital Film Maker by Select Publishing.

A fantastic new magazine aimed towards film makers who use DSLR’s has launched..and I have to say it is BRILLIANT!…

                                                             

The magazine published by Select publishing who also produced the equally fantastic Digital Photography Enthusiast Magazine have again managed to come up trumps with this new title for aspiring and pro film-makers that use DSLR cameras.

It covers everything you need to know about this growing trend from FilmMaker News which gives the low-down of the latest developments from the world of digital film-making to how to set your camera for the fundementals of digital film making, competitions, interviews with leading film makers, equipment guides informing us of what we need and dont’ need to create fantastic movies, how to schedule shoots,editing techniques and so much more…

This really is the ultimate magazine for filmmakers and one I know that I will be subscribing to…you can by clicking the link below.

www.selectps.co.uk

Blurb announces a global partnership with Samsung for auto-creating stunning photo books and magazines.

Samsung GALAXY S 4 users can now instantly convert their digital photos into rich print memories that last a lifetime

Blurb, the global creative publishing platform, today announces its partnership with Samsung Electronics to power worldwide book and magazine print production and fulfillment within Story Album for Samsung GALAXY S 4, Samsung’s newly announced flagship smartphone. Users of Samsung GALAXY S 4 will be able to automatically create professional quality print photo books and magazines quickly and seamlessly from their camera phone images. 

 

“People love the convenience and immediacy of camera phone imagery, but they also prize the beauty and permanence of print media,” said Eileen Gittins, Blurb’s CEO and Founder. “As our lives become increasingly digital, people are genuinely appreciating the value of physical artifacts,” Gittins continued. “By combining the remarkable image quality that the GALAXY S 4 offers with the easy production of books and magazines that Blurb brings, everyone gets the best of digital and analog.”

Until now, there has not been a simple and elegant way to curate and design, and then order a book or magazine directly from the smartphone itself. Samsung and Blurb teamed up to solve this problem via the pre-installed Story Album and its auto-generated layouts that instantly convert into print-worthy publications.

“The Samsung GALAXY S 4 is equipped with the superb quality camera and unique, sophisticated features maximizing the usage of photography experiences,” said Chan-Woo Park, Vice President of Product Strategy Team at Samsung.  “We expect our customers will want to output their beautiful images into equally beautiful books and magazines. Our partnership with Blurb will provide the top-of-the-class experience for our customers.”

Blurb brings Samsung massive capacity and redundancy via its six print locations on three continents, support for the world’s major currencies and languages, and deep shipping and logistics expertise. Blurb is already a global company having delivered more than 6.5 million books to 70 countries to date, with half of its revenues currently generated outside the United States.
Like Blurb on Facebook, and follow on Twitter. For more information on how you can get started creating your own Blurb book or magazine, please visit http://www.blurb.com/.

About Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is a global leader in technology, opening new possibilities for people everywhere. Through relentless innovation and discovery, we are transforming the worlds of televisions, smartphones, personal computers, printers, cameras, home appliances, LTE systems, medical devices, semiconductors and LED solutions. We employ 236,000 people across 79 countries with annual sales exceeding KRW 201 trillion. To discover more, please visit www.samsung.com.

About Blurb®

Blurb® is a creative publishing and marketing platform that unleashes the creative genius inside everyone. Blurb’s platform makes it easy to design, publish, market and sell professional-quality books, using the Blurb Bookify™ online bookmaking tool, Blurb’s free, award-winning Blurb BookSmart® app or by using Blurb’s PDF to Book workflow. Blurb’s bookstore and online marketing tools enable customers to market and sell their books, and keep 100% of their profit. Blurb’s social and community features allow customers to create and share Blurb books among friends and colleagues with ease.

Blurb was founded by Eileen Gittins in 2005, and includes a team of design, Internet and media veterans who share a passion for helping people bring their stories to life. In 2010, Blurb shipped over 1.4 million books to 69 countries. In 2010, Blurb was ranked the fastest growing media company on the Inc. 500. Blurb is based in San Francisco with offices in London. For more info, visit www.blurb.com.