Photojojo
By Kathy Ishizuka -- School Library Journal, 6/1/2007
Taking pictures in the digital age is easy—too easy. The result? About a gazillion or so photos lying about—on CDs, DVDs, external hard drives, or—admittedly, in my sorry case—strewn across the desktop. Online photo services like Flickr are great for sharing, but I’d actually like to do stuff with my pictures. Enter Photojojo.
Launched just over a year ago by Amit Gupta, founder of The Daily Jolt, a college online network, Photojojo is a self-described “kick-ass photography newsletter,” serving up tips for taking better pictures, enhancing photo sharing, and best of all, in my opinion, creating all manner of DIY photo projects.
Issued just twice a week in a clean, single-column format, with inspiring images, the free newsletter is something of a breath of fresh air in your inbox. And with summer here, you might be inclined to try out a project or two. How about printing your child’s photo on a cupcake or digitally rotoscoping your face à la the film A Scanner Darkly? Perhaps you’d like to see what you’d look like in 20 years. Well, maybe not every idea is a good one.
