What's up everybody? Ted Forbes here. Welcome back to the art of photography. In this video I want to do some updates to our contrast side project and if you're not familiar with what this is

Contrast is a side project that I'm going to do that I envision as being more of a magazine

type of content. I love producing videos and we do a lot of that here and there's

certain things if you're doing portfolios or if you're doing some kind of

written interviews that don't fit as well into the format

here is they might into a different kind of format.

And so contrast is a little bit of an experiment of a side project that I'm thinking of as being

an online magazine.

And I've done several shows on this now

and if you want to go see the others and some of the past updates I'll put a link in the

show notes so you two can check that out but anyway it's been exciting and one of the

things I've been thinking through the last couple weeks is whether or not if this is going to be an online magazine if it could also be maybe a quarterly print magazine and I've been round and round with this and some of you guys have left comments and left wonderful suggestions on here and I want to give thanks especially to my friend John Mason in Atlanta as well as Dave Bias who I got some really good constructive inspiration and some possibilities from those two guys.

And you know, the problem is this, when you do a print publication, all of us as photographers

would really like to see a nicely done print publication and I want to do that

But there are a couple things that are scaring me off number one a lot of people have suggested why don't you try kickstarter for something like this

And Kickstarter gets a little bit complicated. You don't

start a business on Kickstarter. You can finance a project or a product on Kickstarter. So if we

financed the first issue, let's say, or maybe we financed the first issue, let's say,

or maybe we financed the first four issues

or something like that, you're left with, one, a crowdfunded thing.

A lot of people also view Kickstarter

as being like a store, and it's not really a store.

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