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Atlanta based editorial music photographer, Zack Arias. |
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Thu , June 25th, 2009
I’m currently in San Francisco where I will be giving a presentation to the mighty fine group of individuals that have brought Twitter to all of us! I’m going to be talking about the importance of social media in my life and how it has helped the photography industry build community. Both virtual and real. Twitter is a key to my marketing plans over the next year but beyond that, it keeps me in touch with so many people that I would normally fall out of touch with due to time or distance. Not to mention how many new friends I have thanks to social networking. So… They say that we are connected to everyone on this planet by 6 degrees of separation. I want to test this by putting a call out to the 4,700+ followers on Twitter and 4,300+ friends on FaceBook surely there is a way for me to be able to photograph two prolific twitter account holders. 1 – I want to shoot a portrait of Coldplay. 2 – I want to hang out for a day and shoot Diddy. I’m locked in Diddy! DM me! What does this mean? Someone out there knows someone who knows someone who can connect me to Coldplay or to Diddy. I want to shoot portraits and I will travel for this project at my own expense. If Tom reads this and forwards it to Sally who knows Jeff in NYC who can connect Tom over to Bill who can get back to me with a time and place I could go and photograph Coldplay then this project can work. I’m still working on my list of folks on Twitter who I want to photograph but I’ll start simple. Will you help me out with this? Retweet my tweets? Let’s test six degrees. My expectations for this project is it will be a complete bust… But I just have to try it. Who knows who you know? Off to Twitter HQ! Cheers, 49 Responses to “Let’s Test 6 Degrees :: Calling Coldplay & Diddy.”Leave a Reply |
great idea and I wish you all the best that you will get the shot – unfortunately I can’t be of any help here, Cheers, Birgit
Zack – ya good idea – I saw them live but don’t know them – I did pics of Billy Idol live – well I would come to assist you if get it! – Me a Strobist at heart – good luck
I give it 10 days and you’ll have your ticket, location and time all set up for Coldplay. Sadly, I’m soo unconnected I don’t even know my neighbours
I think it’s hilarious that getting with Coldplay and Diddy is your attempt to “start simple”.
Cool idea, and I hope it pays off. Consider yourself retweeted
I want to photography Coldplay and Diddy too, if you get the gig, can you bring me along?
Good luck Zack – this is a very interesting experiment and I am looking forward to seeing what the outcome is…
And if it does happen, I can’t wait to see the results!
Bold Idea! And I believe in it! While you’re following is still comparatively small in relation to the world’s population, perhaps it will multiply through the RT’s…
If 20% of your followers RT and another 20% of their followers RT and so forth you would reach 40’000’000 folks by the fourth incarnation of the original RT.
That’s some serious leveraging power.
This could be big!
Love your start-up ambition! That’s the way to do it!
I don’t get it, what’s in it for the people who help connect you?
@ Tyler: The proof that each one of us has a powerful tool at his fingertips!
nice Zack…unfortunately I don’t have connections to either, but can’t wait to see how this works out!
Great Idea. Keep us posted.
Consider this re-tweeted. Hope this helps
Phil
what if i know a guy who knows a guy whose cousin’s wife’s ex looks like Diddy? Does that work?
I’m reaching out to the people I know in Diddy’s camp.
Such a cool idea, hope it works for you, bet the images would rock.
Mart.
I see this totally working for you Zach!!!
Please don’t shoot Diddy!
Either of these two would be silly to turn down a shoot with you.
This is nuts! But sooooooooo looking forward to the results!
Yeah, let’s see how it goes!
Yo Zach, I love your blog, you can photograph me an my hoes anytime. Call 01 023 546 589571 anytime and ask for me. I’ll be waitin, Dids
From Zack – Ha! Thanks!
My cousin calls Diddy, does it help?
What a great way to test a theory. I do hope you get to shoot CP & Diddy !
Cant wait to see the results.
My sister is a professional musician – currently touring with Moby but friends with all sorts of people who may be your path in… I’ll see what I can do!
Zack, if this works can you hook me up with Marisa Miller for a shoot?
Shoot some Alice Cooper instead. Imagine how you would light that monster.
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OK, I have a call out to a DJ buddy in KC who seems to know everyone in the biz. Long Shot I guess…
Sorry, Zack. I can’t help you out here. But if anyone has a connection with Monica Bellucci, I think my wife might give me permission to photograph her. I’m even willing to push the separation test to 12 degrees.
I truly hope you get to do this. I am hopin for ya brother!
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I put in my 2 cents for you. We’ll see if it leads anywhere.
Im tellin you Zack, you could be closer to makin that happen than you realize! Im sure it will go down! Good luck! If it does happens, you have to add it to your presentation when you make it to LA in Sept! Hahaha!
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From a monetary point of view (cool for you) but I can’t see prof anything to someone else,
BTW I find shooting unknow people more interesting and challenging. Taking pictures of famous is like taking pictures of a Ferraries.
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Good luck with the 6 degrees. I am interested to see were this will go. I also love the idea of making a list of people you want to shoot. I think you are at the level as a photographer where you are famous (at least to us photogeeks that follow you) but are on the verge and have the connections to be doing more big-time shoots ie diddy and coldplay. Good luck with this. We all know its not the quality of creativity and photographs that are holding you back. Its the connections and marketing! Take care dude. You are the number one photographer I look up to and learn from on a regualar basis. Take care.
Kurt Stenberg
Stenberg Photography
http://www.stenbergphotography.blogspot.com
Wow, you’re a genious! I hope it works out. Congrats on the birth of your son.
I think we’re all excited to see if this works
My old partner in crime shoots Diddy’s video’s all around the world.
I emailed him the link to your post.
I can also give you his contact info – not Diddy’s but certainly my old friend’s. I just don’t want to publish it here. Though he may appreciate the publicity, he may not like the potential flood of spam.
Good luck!
My old partner in crime shoots Diddy’s videos all around the world. Not music videos. Promotional/Lifestyle stuff.
I emailed him the link to your post.
I can also give you his contact info – not Diddy’s but certainly my old friend’s. I just don’t want to publish it here. Though he may appreciate the publicity, he may not like the potential flood of spam.
Good luck!
Hi Zack, I’m a photographer here in the UK. I photograph a few music acts here and one of the pr’s I regularly work for is Coldplay’s UK rep. I don’t want to leave his name here as it is too public, however drop me a line at my email address and I will hook you up! By the way I have added your site to my blog http://kenmckay.blogspot.com as a link, a return link would be cool.
Hope to talk soon
Ken
I see you want to do a portrait of Coldplay, cool idea!
I can’t help you out with the connections but I do have a set of photos I sneakily snapped at their concert, check it out if you like
http://www.flickr.com/photos/muffinquek/sets/72157615766016025/
Hey
I just did a shoot with a band called The Domino State who’s Guitarist is the brother of Johnny Buckland the Guitarist in Coldplay. If you find Matt Forder (the lead singer) in my facebook friends that’s You to Me to Matt to Tim to Johnny to their Manager and you got your 6 degrees… simple… Good luck. Saul http://www.myspace.com/saulspace
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great idea zack, we can all learn from this – retweats no problem.:)
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Wei Long, great set! Don’t look like sneeky snaps to me!