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Guerrilla v. Gorilla

For a while I’ve been promising opportunities to help me promote my new site. While the tacky web links and buttons are on their way, I thought I’d share the more guerrilla methods of spreading the word first.

If you are the proud owner of an establishment with a public-facing surface that already has graffiti on it and you feel like one more piece can’t hurt and feel like promoting my site, I have shared below the DIY stencil featured in the series with Marc Charbs.

Stencil Example | © Steven Moran

Stencil Download (699 KB)

I’ve also started to give hundreds of stickers to completely random people for them to decorate as they see fit. Feel free to ask me for one the next time you see me.

Branding wouldn’t be complete without some more mainstream methods of spreading the word, so I designed and had produced a stamp and some business cards.

I will periodically share images of peculiar places where I find my branding around the city. Please continue to share my link via Facebook and Twitter to help promote the site. Oddly enough, the majority of my patrons are from America and the United Kingdom, Canadians only account for 15% of my site’s traffic. Let’s pick it up!

Gorilla: the largest of the anthropoid apes, terrestrial and vegetarian, of western equatorial Africa and the Kivu highlands.

Guerrilla: a member of a band of irregular soldiers that uses guerrilla warfare, harassing the enemy by surprise raids, sabotaging communication and supply lines, etc.

Guerrilla Marketing: any of a number of unconventional methods of marketing with minimal resources for maximum results; any marketing campaign that uses non-mainstream tactics and locations.

- Steven

Reminder: Be legal, I don’t want anyone arrested attempting to promote my site.

Posted 22 October 2011 | Comments (1) | |

#OccupyToronto

Occupy Toronto officially started today.

If you’d like to better understand the global occupation movement, I found this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQzq_WbH4E0) of Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges on CBC to be quite informative and comprehensive.

I went out this morning to capture the start of the movement, my photos are below.

- Steven

Posted 15 October 2011 | Comments (3) | |

Cellar Door or Serendipity? I side with language experts and choose the latter.

The title of this post is in reference to linguists believing that cellar door is the most euphonious phrase in the English language and the general public disagreeing and voting that serendipity is nicer-sounding.

Today I went out with Marc Charbs to shoot a photo set that I’ve chosen to call Pugilist. Below are a few of the shots from the shoot – I hope you enjoy.

I haven’t forgotten about my promise of providing guerrilla marketing opportunities, those will come with the next post.

Happy Thanksgiving Day, Canadian visitors.

- Steven

Posted 10 October 2011 | Comments (2) | |

The Oxford comma is absurdly important.

I am very pleased to present the first part of the Lost Cuban Photos series. As the series’ title suggests, the following is a collection of photos that I had completely misplaced and then recently found and edited.

Thank you for your continued patronage, and stay tuned for some new site features (while maintaining complete minimalism, of course) and some viral / guerrilla marketing opportunities!

- Steven

P.S. To illustrate the importance of the Oxford comma (the title of this post) I present the following two sentences to you:

We invited the strippers, JFK, and Stalin. (With)
We invited the strippers, JFK and Stalin. (Without)

Posted 30 September 2011 | Comments (4) | |

Napoleon Bonaparte was 5’6.377953″.

I want to thank you for your continued patronage and welcome the new visitors that Google and Facebook have been driving to the site. I really am dedicated to the success and continued development and evolution of this site and these site-views are inspiring.

I implemented a new feature that warns Internet Explorer users that their browser may not render everything correctly. If you’ve noticed this, it’s time to get a new browser.

Below are two time-lapse videos that I made this spring / summer. They’ve just been added to my YouTube channel and I thought they ought to be shared here as well. Fair warning: they were experiments. Enjoy.

- Steven

Posted 22 September 2011 | Comments (1) | |

The ampersand was once the 27th letter of the alphabet.

Firstly, a big thank you for all of the support for the launch of my new site. It’s appreciated and helpful. When you like my page by clicking the Facebook like button at the bottom of my posts, you suggest the page to Digg, you like my actual Facebook page, etc., you’re contributing to the success of my site in more ways than you might realise.

Now then, in the interest of making this site dynamic and worth revisiting, I’ve made a covenant with myself that I will update it with new content on a weekly basis. On that note, enjoy some new and old Steven photographs:

Posted 18 September 2011 | Comments (1) | |

Start of something new.

Thank you for visiting stevenMORAN.com.

I have decided to take my personal portfolio / creative outlet in a new direction – rather than the typical portfolio site (as StevenMoranPhotography.com was an example of) I’ve decided to make a quasi-interactive blog-esque portfolio to which I can post photos and design work as I create it or when I feel inspired to do so. This new Web site and domain name also allow me to broaden my creativity to more mediums than simply photography.

I hope you enjoy the site, I had a fun time coding like crazy to make it look this plain (if you can believe it.)

Please enjoy some portraits I’ve decided to share below, and check back soon for future updates and more of my work.

- Steven

*Note: Against my personal tastes, due to the size of the portrait-oriented photos and design pieces on this site, I have been forced to insert a watermark. Please don’t judge me too harshly for it.