On the Photo Side

Nicolas Mithois is 28.

He starts photography by chance ( thanks Nat), using the streets of Paris as a playground.

Observation, a neverending game.

He likes the « Decisive Moment », urban landscapes, randomness…
-Exhibition on the topic of Reflection in Paris, La Fabrique, 2004.
-Pro/Amateur Exhibition at « l’Espace Beaurepaire », Paris, June 2005
http://www.parisphotographique.org/06-2005/espace-photos06-2005.html
- Exhibition at l’Espace Beaurepaire, Paris, November 2005 http://www.parisphotographique.org/s-election/s-election.html
- Prize winner of the SFR Young talents contest and exhibition at the Transphotographiques of Lille, May 2007.
- Finalist for the SFR Young talents/Photo Response contest on urbanity and exposure to the European House of Photography,
Paris, September 2007 http://photo.sfrjeunestalents.fr//reponse-photo/

More photographs: http://www.nicolasmithois.book.fr

On the Video Side

3Lézards is 3 associates and friends (and vice versa) from the South of France who film together.

Shorts, theatre, TV Shows… Altogether we have had our hands in everywhere, except for the Loto of course! Ben, Fred, and Alain are delighted to present to you their different and diverse works for your personal pleasure. If it doesn’t make you happy, we’ll do better next time!

http://www.3lezards.com

Eyeka’s Team wishes you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

2008 is a year full of promesses for young talents, we wish them all to be able to reveal themselves, hopefully through one of our Contests!

Thanks to all the photographers, directors, and filmmakers who brought us their work; and with it emotions, sensations and vibrations.

You have made us share your dreams, discoveries and passions, and we hope with all our hearts that the year to come can be as rich in discoveries and and creativity as 2007!

After a couple of months of exploitation, Eyeka is up for a major update of its website.

During the next 2 weeks, the website will evolve, one step at a time, in order to become a marketplace dedicated to selling photos and videos. We are going to officially open the sales on Eyeka!

Eyeka’s e-commerce version will be online with an innovating sales system. At first, your contents will be downloadable according to a scale of fixed prices; In addition, you will get paid in proportion with the streaming time your contents get broadcasted when chosen in our commercial partners’ Web and Mobile TVs ( MMTV) through the Eyeka player.

Be assured that we will keep you informed through the blog and newsletter…and our boîtes mails are wide open to answer any questions.

It is now time for you to verify that you have the right key words on your photos and videos ( in order to be found through the search engine) and that they are all placed in the right categories.                                               

Keep your contents coming!

The Prize list of the 48 Hours Film Project is well matched to what our young prodigees have shot.

Between tears and laugher, emotions and actions, suspense and tenderness, all the genres and all the styles were represented during this challenge.

The selection of winners were not just a simple formality for the jurys, in front of those 70 talent-filled films, the choice was more than difficult!

And now the list of the Paris 2007 Edition of the 48 Hours Film Project:

Best film:Mes Maux pour le dire – par Cinéma entre Amis

Best director:Cut-Cut par Les Lezards – Benjamin Carniaux

Best scenario:Grandir – par RCUT

Best actress:Vacances Capitale – par Yop Productions – Coralie André

Best actor:Cut-Cut – par Les Lezards – Romain Vissol

Best photo:Mes Maux pour le dire – par Cinéma entre Amis – David Merlin-Dufey

Best cut:Version(s) – par Thymélé – Anthony Barthélémy

Best sound:Desperate Children – par Gimmick – FX Ruette

Best music:Mes Maux pour le dire – par Cinéma entre Amis – Jim Grandcamp

Best use of imposed character:A côté de la Route – par Pirkestef

Best use of imposed line of dialogue:Divague à l’Ame – par Hey Number 2 !

Best use of imposed accessories:Lionel est cash – par Time Bomb

Public’s Choice:A Mort Amor – par Froggy Freaks

Eyeka’s Choice: Mes Maux pour le dire – par Cinéma entre Amis

For a night of Shorts, here’s 8 films to enjoy!

I have always seen my surroundings with cameras. My great grandfather held a photography trade in Vence, my grandfather and my mother also did a lot of black and white.
Autodidact, I seriously started photography in black and white and in color in 1997 during my biology studies. At first I was especially focused on landscapes and abstract.

Later on I undertook works on the current musics in overprinting since 1997 ( no digital enhancement, overprintings carried out in slides during the shooting) which I still continue today.

Currently I am interested in the man, his condition and those we forget. I find myself a lot more in documentaries, working on the ground, rather than in the studio.

I consider esthetism with great importance !
These precise moments where the “painting” seems still for eternity are unique moments to which I savour the existence.
I have always wanted to keep traces, souvenirs.
I do not seek to limit myself and work on all the themes that touch me:
Landscape, portraits, concerts, dance et shows in general, macrography, abstract, travels, textures, glances, wastelands, movements… make up my universe. It is my way of progressing.
My goal being to carry out documentaries for magazines and agencies.

http://marici.free.fr

Events :

. Next exhibition: During 2008 in the Kernotart gallery in the 15th district, on the industrial wasteland theme in concordance with the book “La Mauvaise Herbe Urbaine”

. Documentary on the Children of the streets of Kathmandu, Népal 2007.

. 1st prize at the international photography contest 2007 (ICA) Lucie Awards in the Still life category (www.photoawards.com)

. 2nd place – Merit of Excellence – Black & White Spider Awards 2007 contest, Still Life category

.Photography exhibition of the “Lumieres Rock” concert at Objectif Bastille, Paris, December 2006 to January 2007

. “My India” exhibition at the VISA Off, during the photo-documentary “Visa pour l’image 2006 festival, Perpignan

Books:

Ils sont le Conseil général de l’Eure (les métiers du Département in black and white, square format)
La Mauvaise Herbe Urbaine (Graffitis and work on wastelands: paintings, textures, details, plans…)

In the making:

. An order place from the Conseil général de Seine-Maritime to put forward the interiors of the Castle of Clères for a photographic work ( exhibition from july 2008 to january 2009 in the parc)

Visit his page on Eyeka.

Thanx to all for your participation to our Call for submissions on the Nuits Blanches, many have participated and your work was of great quality! for the video section and

The winners of our contest Nuit Blache 2007 are Tam for the video section and Edougier for his very creative and original photo series.

Tam has followed the Nuit Blanche form 23H to 06H and films precious moments of this exceptionnal parisian night and has submitted two version, one with and one without bonus.

Edougier’s 10 dyptic photos series named “Passages Nocturnes” - he links two superb images to create an instant story. An original nightly meeting that you cannot miss.

Here’s the winning photos and video:

Les photos

Les vidéos

As you may surely have noticed, Eyeka has evolved into a Marketplace which enables selling your contents on-line. Evolution of service means obviously evolution of the contract. Eyeka always had as a goal to promote and sell our photos and videos, we now have the tools that go with it J.

The website’s evolution enables you to choose between the contents you want to sell and those that you would like to protect (invisible on the website = not for sale ).

That way you can configure all your contents at once in “ My preferences” or configure each photo and video by going to “Upload” and clicking next to your photo/video, on “ Modify information”.

In other new features, we also find selling price scales, linked to different licenses depending on the intended uses, that way we can now guarantee a selling price and a pay that goes with it. Eyeka’s money is the credit and one credit equals 0.4€.

As we have to guarantee to our buyers who use the Web or Mobile TV features the possibility to operate the photos and videos they buy on the website, your contents are still available 6 months after the closing of your account. During this period, you obviously continue to be paid and your contents are not available in new TVs or available for download.

90% of the authors we have recently questioned have a drive to win money in selling their creations. We are proud to be sharing with you this new step for Eyeka and we will of course continue to improve our website.

We are always at your disposal, so don’t hesitate to send us a mail and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible.

1/ What is Eyeka?

It’s a video-and-photo website dedicated to quality original works.
Eyeka selects and edits these works and distributes them. In short, Eyeka acts as an agent for creators.

2/ What makes Eyeka different from YouTube or Flickr?

Eyeka is not a hosting service and accepts only works on which authors hold intellectual property rights.

Beyond communal capabilities such as sharing and blogging pictures and videos, Eyeka offers much more.

3/ What’s unique about Eyeka?

Eyeka is commited to authorship, first by pledging to respect authors’ rights.

Second, by helping authors distribute their works and thus get royalties.

4/ Whom does Eyeka want to reach?

All creators, be they amateurs or professionals, wannabe poets or recognized artists!

5/ What advantages for authors?

Not only can you gain recognition but also an opportunity to be syndicated and make money from royalties.

6/ Are there any success stories yet?

Yes. As we speak, Alex Chan is filming a series assigned by Eyeka and sold to 20minutes.fr and AB-TV Productions. World of Electors is broadcast from April 16 to May 7 on channel NT1 and 20minutes.fr

Judging by the detailed comments posted by Gilles, it seems that some of the site’s functionalities are not really obvious to many of you. Here is a detailed answer which I hope will be helpful.

Uploading your images

When using the Upload function, you can actually upload as many photos and/or videos as you wish: each time you fill-in the field and click on “browse”, a new line with an empty field appears underneath.
There’s no limitation but the more files you upload at once, the longer the upload. Can be a bit frustrating if there is a connection “hiccup” during the upload… ?
We also provide a Photo folder upload which allows you to transmit a whole series of pictures without having to enter them one by one.

Organizing your images

To organize your collections you have two options :
- before upload : on the Upload page, choose the collection where you want to integrate your new images
- after upload : on the My collections page, the first icon: All my media lists all your uploaded media, allows you to select any of them and drag-n-drop them in any collection.

Showing and publishing images

Showing and publishing your images is quite simple:

All pictures and videos are moderated before publication in order to check their quality and originality. Once moderated, works can be viewed on the site.

To blog one of your collections, all you have to do is:

1. go to My collections page
2. choose a collection
3. in the lower box where you see stamp-sized pix, click on Blog me
4. a preview appears: beneath the player you’ll find a code/link to copy and paste into your blog

You can also create a lightbox including your and other people’s images and blog it :

1. on the My collection page, go to the bottom of the page (lightbox tab)
2. click on the New button and name your lightbox
3. drag-n-drop in the grey area the pix and/or videos you selected
4. click on My lightboxes (upper-left corner)
5. select the lightbox you created
6. in the lower box where you see stamp-sized pix, click on Blog me
7. a preview appears: beneath the player you’ll find a code/link to copy and paste into your blog

So, you may ask: what’s the difference between a Collection and a Lightbox?
A Collection allows you to edit your OWN work while in a Lightbox you can put any media from the site.

Did you find these tips useful? Don’t hesitate to let us know.

Great news! We have a new and improved Home Page: We give greater emphasis to Promising Authors and better access for Image Buyers who can go straight to the information they need.

Several new RSS feeds allow you to have instant access to your favourite sections: new pix and videos, best rated, etc…

Learn more on Eyeka’s "feeds page"

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