Monday, March 2, 2009
One Year of Zephyr-Files
Wow, on this day one year ago, I started blogging again. Today is my first anniversary and I couldn't have guessed when I started that it would be so much fun! Met great people through this blog, learned to be leader on some days and a lazy follower on other days, spent a lot of time searching for the best on the web and added the rest as well. Yeah, me like!
In the last 12 months I did 1625 posts, I had 385.783 visits with last month being the busiest with 81.303 that month. Busiest day was 02/07/2009 with 7207 visitors that day. Normal days have around 1200 visits.
Still I am not a guy of figures. The comments are what counts for me. The funny comments, the helpfull comments, the sarcastic comments, I love them all! And I only used up about 45% of my space here on Blogger, so let's add another year to it!
So feast your eyes on these twelve collections filled with all the pictures I posted over the year.
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Mr. Ward Snapshots
Tony Ward created a mini-site filled with never before seen pictures of his career which lasts for over 25 years now. Private pics, shots with photographers, some really great shots with Madonna and some behind the scenes polaroids. Have a look at his great collection!
True Story: Madonna Kicked in Position
Photographer Mario Testino got physical to create the iconic image of Madonna on her Ray Of Light record cover; he kicked her into position. The celebrity snapper worked with Madonna to come up with an image for her now famous 1998 album cover sleeve. But the photo shoot wasn't an easy one, with Testino having to physically tackle the notoriously tough singer to convince her to keep posing.
He says, "At 2pm she said, 'OK, I'm tired. We're done.' And I said, 'But I don't have the pictures yet.' She said, 'You're working for me and I say we're done.' I said, 'No, we carry on.' "The picture she used on the cover came after that. She didn't intimidate me, you see. I thought, I have to push my luck here, so I started kicking her like this, with my foot. She was like, 'Hey, what are you doing?' And I was, like, move here, move here,' and suddenly this created an intimacy. When these people come across someone who treats them as an equal, it puts them at ease."
Source: Contact Music
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