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| Not Normal Judges. Contest Runs July 9 - August 6, 2008 | View Entries | Rules and Regulations |
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Guy Kawasaki Founding partner and entrepreneur-in-residence, Garage Technology Ventures Guy is a founding partner and entrepreneur-in-residence at Garage Technology Ventures, a seed-stage and early-stage venture capital fund. He is also the co-founder of Alltop.com, an “online magazine rack” of popular topics on the Web. Be sure to visit his grand and growing compilation of photography sites at http://photography.alltop.com/. Previously, he was an Apple Fellow at Apple Computer. A frequent guest lecturer and former Forbes columnist, Guy is the author of eight popular business books including The Art of the Start, Rules for Revolutionaries, How to Drive Your Competition Crazy, Selling the Dream and The Macintosh Way. Guy has a B.A. from Stanford University and an MBA from UCLA, as well as an honorary doctorate from Babson College. |
“Not normal: I’m from Hawaii
and love hockey. I play five to six times a week. And I suck at it. Anyone can love something they’re good at.” |
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Maki Kawakita Maki Kawakita Photography Maki creates outlandish imagery for clients such as Levis Stauss & Co., MTV, Smirnoff and Hysteric Glamour. She works in New Your City, Japan, Tasmania -- just about anywhere. In 2007 Commerical Photography named her to its list of top 100 photographers in Japan. The artist of “Kabuki Pop,” Kawakita deciphers her photography genre as what happens when traditional Japanese art collides with Western pop culture to form a rich stew of styles and themes, a cultural collision -- sort of like seaweed topped pizza. She loves Tokyo and uses her frequent trips there for inspiration. She shoots straight and uses an Olympus. www.makiphoto.com |
Kapukipop, Makirama,
Geishas fallen down? |
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Bert Monroy Artist, author, lecturer After discovering the Macintosh 128 in 1984, Bert embarked on a new digital career embracing the computer as an artistic medium. His work has been seen in every major trade publication for the computer industry. He co-authored The Official Adobe Photoshop Handbook, the first book on Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop: A Visual Guide to the Mac, Photoshop 4 (published only in Japan) and Photoshop Channel CHOPS. In 2000 he released his first solo effort, Bert Monroy: Photorealistic Techniques with Photoshop and Illustrator, followed by Photoshop Studio with Bert Monroy and Commercial Photoshop with Bert Monroy. In 2008, Photoshop Studio with Bert Monroy: Digital Painting was published by longtime publishing partner New Riders. A regular on Tech TV back in the day, he now hosts Pixel Perfect with Bert Monroy, a weekly Photoshop podcast for Revision3.com. Bert consults with and trains corporate clients including Pixar and Disney Animation, and counts film credits from projects with Industrial Light & Magic, Pacific Data Images and R/Greenberg Associates. This renegade is a member of the Photoshop World Dream Team, and in 2004 was inducted into the Photoshop Hall of Fame. Born and raised in New York City, Bert spent his first 20 career years in the advertising industry as an art director and creative director for various agencies, as well as his own. He currently lives with his wife in Berkeley, California. www.bertmonroy.com |
Bert is our Renegade 'not normal, not a photographer' judge; he sees himself as a hyper-realist artist who loves to paint using Photoshop, sans an image base, combined with the medium of light. |
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Brad Miskell
Founder and chief instigator, DogtownInk.com As founder and chief instigator of DogTown Ink, a satire news, counterculture coverage and awesome indy guide to Venice, California, Brad was quite averse to being a Renegade judge – fearing that his identity and persona may take on the wrong (color) cast. Launched in 2008, DogTown Ink add newness and content mayhem on a daily platter unless he’s out on holiday. Just because it isn’t true doesn’t mean he won’t print it; he welcomes nearly any and all to tangle the lines of news, features, photography and zodiac predictions by sending submissions to him at thebrad@dogtownink.com. Prior to his eco-verdigris tendencies, Brad was creator and host of Yahoo News Underground, a most original idea where he and buddy (and fellow Renegade) Didrik Johnck were actually given paychecks to videotape the play-by-play of krumping, gay rodeo and the custom car culture mash-up of Japanese cool, AKA drifting, among other things. Did he graduate? Not sure. He does not live with Bert’s wife in Berkeley. www.dogtownink.com |
Brad is not normal because where he comes from they wear chartreuse capes and have magenta skin, not the other way around. For further verification of not-normalness, visit www.dogtownink.com |
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Kristin Reimer
Subculture and wedding photographer, Photomuse Photography When not camouflaged and shooting shooters on the Airsoft paintball fields, Kristin may be herding (and photographing) cats in Egypt, nabbing shots of hot rod artists, swimming beneath the waves with her Nikon in search of moray eels to cuddle with, or on land waiting for the perfect glimmer to cross her bridal client’s face. Kristin enjoys variety in her photography work and travels the globe in search of interesting people and places – acknowledging a soft spot for subculture’s underbelly. She’s an award-winning member of the Wedding Photojournalist Association (WPJA), Artistic Guild of Wedding Photography (AGWP) and the International Society of Professional Wedding Photographers (ISPWP). She has a BFA photography from Pratt Institute, has been a professional belly dancer for 15 years and lives with a deaf cat who howls all day. www.photomuse.com |
A sword wielding judge – take that all you other photo contests! Better yet, this Renegade has been invited to embed with Filforce: a team of grown men who pretend to be combateers on the weekend. |
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707.254.8538, info@renegade-pr.com Napa, California 94558 |