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It doesn't matter where you started!
2009-12-23 by Yanick Dery Studio , under canada, pages, video
Todd and James' story is the Canadian version of the Amercian dream.
Like many parents, Todd’s parents believe that one of the best gifts parents can give to their children is an opportunity to ‘get a better education’, which often means sending their children away to study abroad. Hence, Todd came to Quebec at the age of 15.
He was welcomed by the harsh Canadian winter and not knowing either French or English well. James, Todd’s brother, joined Todd two years later.
In 1998, at the ages of 24 and 22, Todd and James walked into the management building of the Windsor Station, signed their first lease for an office, and opened THconsulting Inc, short for Todd Hsu Consulting. Ten more years later, the company, with no more than 10 employees, is often weighted against giants such as Bell Canada, in the field of information technology consulting. Their motto back at that time was, ‘No need for contract, no need for price negotiations, if you have a problem, we are here’.
The dedication, as well as passion and care (not to mention the sweat and sleep deprivations) finally paid off as businesses started to call them for consultations, and even other consulting firms called them when they couldn’t solve their customers’ problems. At a recent international business gathering, THConsulting and Bell were the only two companies that were invited from the province of Quebec.
We are very happy to have them in The Photo Art Book.
If you are interested in Todd and James' company, the TH Consulting website can be seen here.
Like many parents, Todd’s parents believe that one of the best gifts parents can give to their children is an opportunity to ‘get a better education’, which often means sending their children away to study abroad. Hence, Todd came to Quebec at the age of 15.
He was welcomed by the harsh Canadian winter and not knowing either French or English well. James, Todd’s brother, joined Todd two years later.
In 1998, at the ages of 24 and 22, Todd and James walked into the management building of the Windsor Station, signed their first lease for an office, and opened THconsulting Inc, short for Todd Hsu Consulting. Ten more years later, the company, with no more than 10 employees, is often weighted against giants such as Bell Canada, in the field of information technology consulting. Their motto back at that time was, ‘No need for contract, no need for price negotiations, if you have a problem, we are here’.
The dedication, as well as passion and care (not to mention the sweat and sleep deprivations) finally paid off as businesses started to call them for consultations, and even other consulting firms called them when they couldn’t solve their customers’ problems. At a recent international business gathering, THConsulting and Bell were the only two companies that were invited from the province of Quebec.
We are very happy to have them in The Photo Art Book.
If you are interested in Todd and James' company, the TH Consulting website can be seen here.
Another scouting day - Todd and James
2009-12-15 by Matt , under canada, preproduction
Yesterday, we scouted another location for the next picture in our book. It will feature two brothers (Todd and James Hsu) that made it BIG in the business. Their story reads like a book of success and knowing that they build up everything they have now from scratch, we will incorporate that into the picture. The meeting and the scout yesterday went great, we found a great location (a small server room) and are ready to shoot our next page on Monday!
To know more about Todd and James, take a look at their website www.thconsulting.com.
To know more about Todd and James, take a look at their website www.thconsulting.com.
New Look
2009-12-10 by Yanick Dery Studio , under canada, diary
The 360 Book project just got a face-lift. We got enough constructive feedback from our passionate readers to be able to improve some elements of the concept and fine tune what we didn't have the time to fix before. So here's a quick glance: First, we are drifting away from calling this whole operation a ''project'', and won't describe it as such anymore. Our book used to be a project, and it was one from the day we started to think about it... some two and a half years ago. However, now we can really talk about it as The Photo Art Book. We feel that all the planning is now more concrete so we felt the need to present it to you as a live adventure and not just a vague dream. There is no need to call this a project anymore, as it is way more than that, it has become our daily art.
Also, we fixed our tagline to "The Faces of generosity" as of now. This is describing our philosophy for the book way better. After all, all of our donators have a successful life story to offer. And it is our mission to convey that story in our art and share it with others, as those people deserve to have it shouted out into the world!
Also, we fixed our tagline to "The Faces of generosity" as of now. This is describing our philosophy for the book way better. After all, all of our donators have a successful life story to offer. And it is our mission to convey that story in our art and share it with others, as those people deserve to have it shouted out into the world!
Page 269: Julie for Sainte-Justine
2009-12-01 by Matt , under canada, pages, video
Two days ago, on Sunday, we shot another page for this project, namely page 269 and we're happy that everything went great and the shot turned our really good. We have been scouting for a location all throughout last week, and then we finally found one. The tricky part was that we wanted to paint the place and then after that leave it like that - so we ended up using a industrial building that is going to be renovated soon. They did not care about the paint that we would use there.
So, after reading about the 360° book project in the Clin d'Oeil magazine, Julie contacted us to get a page in the book for herself. She was passionate about being in an art book itself, but when she found out that 75% of the money spent on a page are directly donated to a Foundation of her choice, she fell in love with the idea. After answering the questionaire we sent her and a couple phone calls, we all agreed that it was the way to go to literally have her in a painting. Check out the scouting images for our inspiration.
Andrew brought in a gorgeous wedding gown, and Fang Fang did a great job on the makeup, so we were all set and ready. While they got ready doing hair and makeup, Yanick and I left the studio to paint the place. The general idea was to set up the camera, and then paint a white rectangle, so that it looks like a perfect rectangle in the picture. That meant that we had to paint in strange angles (as you can see in the behind the scenes pictures and video) to make the perspective match the cameras point of view. Check out the video, and the final image to see what we everything looks like:
So, after reading about the 360° book project in the Clin d'Oeil magazine, Julie contacted us to get a page in the book for herself. She was passionate about being in an art book itself, but when she found out that 75% of the money spent on a page are directly donated to a Foundation of her choice, she fell in love with the idea. After answering the questionaire we sent her and a couple phone calls, we all agreed that it was the way to go to literally have her in a painting. Check out the scouting images for our inspiration.
Andrew brought in a gorgeous wedding gown, and Fang Fang did a great job on the makeup, so we were all set and ready. While they got ready doing hair and makeup, Yanick and I left the studio to paint the place. The general idea was to set up the camera, and then paint a white rectangle, so that it looks like a perfect rectangle in the picture. That meant that we had to paint in strange angles (as you can see in the behind the scenes pictures and video) to make the perspective match the cameras point of view. Check out the video, and the final image to see what we everything looks like:
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