Stephen Boyle
a technologist & photographer
Fuzzytek is a pseudonym I branded myself with the virtual world of 1989. This brand I assume often. My roots are in technology and I am creative.
We all have the aptitude to be ... creators. Aren't we when we embrace our divine abilities?
fuzzytek2@gmail.com
313.626.8525
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RATES
This is a partial list of rates for services offered. Please email info@fuzzytek.com with a request for quote to meet your needs, or you can call 248-632-6156. From time to time I run specials through my Facebook page for those following it.
| Rate | Description |
|---|---|
| $150 | Talent Headshots, about 45 minutes with 2 retouched photos and disk of all photos taken, plus online gallery and listing on talent listing on directory website. |
| $150 | Family portraits in studio, about an hour with up to 4 family members. |
| $75 | Graphic design of 2 sided flyer / poster / OR CD cover, provided all artwork is available at 300 DPI resolution or better. Included is 15 minute photo session for additional images or retouching service. One or more promotional models available upon request, with adequate compensation. Please send a RFQ with your content to work with and I will reply with a quote. Larger graphic design jobs such as calendars, program booklets, and catalogs are welcome. |
| $15 per 15 minutes | Consulting on talent coaching, event planning, website development, technical troubleshooting, advertising strategies, and other business matters. Clients on retainer will have a lower established rate. |
| Additional Services | |
| $25 | Travel to location more than 5 minutes from studio, and less than 25 miles. Additional distance is at 1.5 times cost of fuel. |
| $10 per 15 minutes | Retouching of photos and images. Unless your package includes retouching please understand my aim is to shoot quality images and provide you a stream of photos to work from. I am NOT a rapid fire photographer. I compose each photo frame in the viewfinder as I shoot. |
OFFICE
My workplace and living place is in the city of Detroit.
Address: 7500 Oakland St, Detroit MI 48211
Email: info@fuzzytek.com
Phone: 1-248-632-6156
Defend Our Freedom - Why SOPA, PIPA, ACTA, and other bills are a bad idea
Opinions by Stephen Boyle…
I can’t tell you how much I respect TED videos for the level of intelligent discourse they provide. They are usually very well thought through and researched. This video is exceptional in its level of giving you insight to DMCA, ACTA, SOPA, PIPA and other copyright oriented legislation in the US and abroad.
Freedom of information versus protection of content has become a huge conflict. It is an open war between the people and corporate entities. Has society advanced so far as to govern the people within it that it can assume they have no ethical or morale responsibility? Governance over freedom is being financed and the laws are becoming stricter all the time. These are the days when the people are rising up in protest. We are not intentional thieves. The cost of doing business has escalated far too high.
Corporate financed legislation and courts are deadly to the people being governed. It removes small and medium size business from competing due to police-state mentality. Start up businesses have to dodge through a maze of restricting concerns that often compromise the premise they were formed to serve.
Some of us work in jobs that fuel this system - when will you find your actions at work don’t honor your life on the street and enslave your friends and family? Honorable work in society today is grossly underpaid.
The fight is on and the people need to adopt the police-state mentality with our law-makers that they will enact laws that provide for the freedom of the people. Courts need to see the people often have insufficient funding to be properly heard. Legislators, judges, and government-related agency workers need to know they are not above the law of the people - immunity to due process of law is a bad thing to see. It enforces police-state behavior enabling the elite to control the public.
The common person on the street is viewed as a criminal, guilty until proven innocent. When you “wear your number” responsibly they quiet the sound of sirens intent on muting your voice. This is bondage of the public and commitment into slavery. Do as you are told and everything will be OK… for whom?
Video: Defend our freedom to share (or why SOPA is a bad idea) (by TEDtalksDirector)
Today is the day the future of big budget Black filmmaking hangs in the balance. According to George Lucas at least. After spending about 555 million adjusted for inflation dollars to make his 6 installments of Star Wars, Lucas has now vowed to abandon half a billion budgets forever…
There are generations that have passed with some knowing only about hustle. Who is being honored if you can’t stand tall and proud without someone covering your back?
Trust and respect are things that are learned behaviors. In a rabid society they appear as weakness. This is a sickness we must overcome to regain being HUMANE HUMANS.
Governance is needed for those with weak or questionable ethics & morals.
There have been complaints of bad smells in the Midtown area of Detroit. If the air in downtown/ midtown Detroit area smells horrible please call the MDEQ inspector Rem Pinga at (586) 753-3744 or (313) 456-4712 and complain, as it may be coming from the incinerator.
Additional information is needed when you smell or see odors, smoke, etc.
- Date & time
- The location - your home address, a street location, friend’s address
- Describe odor/pollution in detail, for example:
- Smell: Like “rotten eggs”, “rotting garbage”, “sweet”, “sour”, “acid”, etc.
- Smoke: Color, thick, thin, rising in air, coming down toward ground, etc.
- Duration: Minutes or hours the smell or smoke lasts. Health effects: eyes burn, causes coughing, choking, headache, nausea, prompted urgent care, etc.
- Wind Direction: The direction the wind comes from, e.g. SW, SE (see map at right to determine direction).
- Report Information:
- Record the number you called to complain,
- date and time of the call,
- and the name of the person who took your report.
State “answering machine” if you left a recorded message.- If you talked to a person, record their response, e.g. “Someone will check,” “No one is available to check,” call referred to another number, etc.
For Additional information contact: Brad van Guilder, (bradvg@ecocenter.org)
The power to invoke change is within your grasp. All you have to do is follow the instructions.
With last week’s Iowa Caucuses in the United States, we’re starting the long haul to November’s election day where we’ll be inundated by hundreds of advertisements and speeches filled with all kinds of promises.
Reminder - pickup food on Monday at Vanguard CDC
Need to have filled out the form (on the Vanguard CDC site) to have food waiting for you. Put it on your calendar as a recurring event before the 2nd Wednesday to visit the site and fill out the form.
Then another reminder on 3rd Mondays to pickup the food.
The program also visits 2nd Ebenezer the first Monday of each month.
Citizens United vs FEC (Federal Election Commission) - establishing CORPORATE PERSONHOOD
5 members of the Supreme Court chose to allow corporations to spend as much as they would like on getting politicians elected. This ruling on January 21, 2010 opened “Corporate Personhood” by stating that it was a violation of the freedom of speech for corporations to be required to report campaign spending to the Federal Election Commission.
There are HUGE problems when corporations are given the same rights as people, the FEC has been keeping track of campaign contributions. Corporations now have free reign to ensure the politicians that will give them bailouts get elected by contribution massive amounts of money into their campaign funds.
If 85% of US citizens feel corporations have too much power, how is it that they were given even MORE?
We have a Supreme Court that needs to be reviewed through the checks and balances of our 3 tier government. But Congress gets elected through the funds they get for campaigning - they aren’t going to kill the golden goose! How about the Executive branch?
IF CORPORATIONS ARE PEOPLE THERE ARE SOME THAT SHOULD BE SERVING TIME IN FEDERAL PRISON. Atrocities committed by this personhood have defrauded the general public, and this is one reason why OCCUPY WALL STREET is demanding justice be served for criminal activities that are evident.
So how do you jail a corporate person? Did the Supreme Court Justices that supprted understand 1st Ammendment Rights are for PEOPLE, not corporations. They obviously didn’t think it through… how about the other 9 in the Bill of Rights? Are they going to be drafted during times of war? Money is driving the choices of the world beyond the concerns of people. Money is NOT greater than People! Money is a tool used by people and has been misconstrued greatly. The skill of the person wielding the tool enables great things to be done - so if you misuse the tool you don’t get to stand behind it and point saying “IT DID THE MISTAKE”. People control tools and know when they are working or not. Each Supreme Court Justice is at cause for this rather than the collected entity of the Supreme Court. You don’t get to step away from your choice and declare yourself absolved from your work.
Move To Amend, DEMOCRACY IS FOR PEOPLE and Occupy the Courts have a major protest nationwide planned for Friday January 20, 2012. Everyone is invited to participate in protesting Corporate Personhood and working on the proposal to Amend the 28th Amendment to ensure “artificial people” (i.e. corporations and LLCs) don’t have the same rights as real live people.
Video credit: There is a fantastic collection of informative videos on the Story of Stuff website. [Link for this video]
Occupy Lifestyle
Warning: Depending on your workplace… this may not be suitable for display. Lots of F-bombs - enjoy!
I would love to get the original image of this from “Lisa in PA”. This was found through Hootsuite post to Twitter.
Thanks to Maggie, one of my Occupy friends, website for this poster has been located.
Last year Maurice Mitchell had an amazing idea, to do 100 shows that benefit Haiti all in a completely DIY fashion. The Sparrow Project was excited to join him in that ultimately successful adventure. Along the way we met film makers Phillip Knowlton and Huguens Jean who had just finished their feature length documentary chronicling two brothers who travel back to Haiti after the earthquake to pay respects to their grandfather. Their film, LIFT UP will soon be available digitally through their website — http://liftupmovie.com
WHERE GOOD IDEAS COME FROM by Steven Johnson (by RiverheadBooks)
The percolation of a bunch of hunches and mass mind meld is a very interesting thing to see form into real breakthroughs.
Bicyclists bringing groceries home from Eastern Market along the greenway of the Dequindre Cut - a non-motorized path that stretches a mile from Gratiot to Jefferson and ends at the Detroit Riverfront.