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Out of the hundreds or quite possibly thousands of photo submissions, my photo above of Ismilda and Nick from the Fifth & Brannan lookbook I produced made it to the top 25 finalists under Fashion & Beauty.

The People's Choice voting ends today so I'd love for you to take 5 seconds to vote! Just click the star rating [5 of course], register, and you're good to go! :)

http://www.digitalphotopro.com/5th-annual-emerging-pro/fashion-and-beauty/fin...

A great music video with the song produced by friends J-Ricz and Chris Dacoron of ROCKUS Music!

Here's the link to their official photoshoot as well if you missed it:
http://blog.jcasasphotography.com/photoshoot-j-ricz-chris-of-rockus-music-produ

How meta is this?? A Kickstarter project about Kickstarters. 

My homie JJ Casas (the photographer responsible for my neoKato shot on my website) has launched “You Kickstarted Me,” a very fresh project where he hunts down past Kickstarter successes and extracts information about what made their campaigns work out for them. For those of you who are planning a fundraising campaign, this is behind-the-scenes GOLD!!! For everyone else, it’s an excellent chance to witness JJ’s fantastic photography chops.

More about YOU KICKSTARTED ME here.

Much thanks to Adriel Luis (http://drzzl.com) for blogging about my project You Kickstarted Me. #YKM

January 13, 2012
[FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE]

YOU KICKSTARTED ME
A Project on Successful Kickstarter Entrepreneurs

We’ve all had a friend or met an acquaintance who’s spilled the beans on an awesome idea - whether it was a business idea, an art project, a film, or a social endeavor - and too many times the story ends the same way... “if only I had the money to start it.” Well, Kickstarter has created a place for these entrepreneurs of diverse backgrounds, interests, and industries to not only present their ideas to the world but also provide a place to obtain funding. With a user-friendly platform for crowd funding, Kickstarter has made funding exciting and accessible to the general public.

However, Kickstarter is not without its own challenges, and Kickstarter users soon come to realize that even with a great platform, awesome idea, and creative pitch, getting pledges is not easy and success not guaranteed.

JJ Casas, a San Francisco Bay Area based photographer, soon became a master of Kickstarter’s motto “fund and follow”. You Kickstarted Me was born soon after when he found himself wanting to see a collection of those who “made it.”

You Kickstarted Me is a documentary-like project profiling entrepreneurs who came out triumphant--fully funded or more than fully funded. The record of their respective projects and photos of these memorable entrepreneurs will be paired with insightful, sometimes quirky, and always interesting interviews. Each of these beautifully composed profiles will be published in book form and accompanied by a video of the interviews.

To date Alex Andon of Jellyfish Art, Peter Dering of Capture Camera Clip, and Dave Jackson of Coffee Joulies, who all have been funded well over $100,000 in less than 60 days, are featured in You Kickstarted Me. Not so ironically, You Kickstarted Me is a Kickstarter campaign, in an effort to raise money to travel and capture other successful Kickstarters located outside of California, including The Glif and Pen Type-A in New York and Cineskates and Kammok in Texas.

You Kickstarted Me goes live on Kickstarter.com from January 13, 2012 through February 26, 2012.

For more information please visit http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jjasef/you-kickstarted-me

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Contact: Christina Lee
Tel: 408-834-0401
E-mail: ykm@jcasasphotography.com