I want to consume less and create more...

It made my day when I got an email from photographer Clay Enos that said simply: I dig your mantra.

I'm Travis Jon Allison. I'm a photographer from Southern Ontario, Canada and making art has always been my passion. Getting to be a photographer was one of my goals since I first borrowed my mom's Pentax Spotmatic camera and took it with me to camp for the weekend.

I thank you and my clients who have allowed me to share that passion and keep creating. It makes me very happy.

This blog is all part of my creating bug. I use it to keep a record of what's going on with me so that my clients can get to know me better and so my friends and family can keep up with what is going on in our world. One part photo album, one part journal and all me. Thanks for reading!

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6 Million People

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6 Million People is a project I support whole-heartedly.

The United Nations General Assembly reaffirms that ‘the Holocaust, which resulted in the murder of one third of the Jewish people along with countless members of other minorities, will forever be a warning to all people of the dangers of hatred, bigotry, racism and prejudice.”

Please help us remember the holocaust dutifully and respectfully by adding your photos– of you, your loved ones and others– to our pool. Add as many photos as you want, but please submit no more than 1 picture of any person, so that in the end we will have close to 6 million pictures of people, with a different person the subject of each picture. It’s going to take a long time to add up to 6 million pictures—that’s 200,000 Flickr pages with 30 images each—but our goal is 6 years or less. When we complete the project, it will be a memorial to those who died, and will provide us a with a way to visualize all those people. Thank you for helping and supporting us in our goal.

Last night I uploaded portraits of 98 people. It got me a spot on their blog but the real reason I point this out is that I would like to challenge everyone of you. Post more people than me. Please. As of putting up this post there are pictures of 60,217 photos

You can join the 6 Million People group on Flickr [click here].

Mix CD - allergy season

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It’s fun to welcome Plinko into our CD Mixters group this month. She’s joining David in putting out her mixes in June & December.

Our CD Mixters group is 12 people who each put out a mix CD 6 months apart. So Ra & I are March & September, Plinko & David are June/December, others are Jan./July, etc. This means that every month we each get two mix CDs in our mailbox. It is pretty great. I’ve been doing with two of the guys in the group for about 8 years now. My “Mixus” CD shelf has more than 100 CDs in it.

A couple of things of note from my allergy season disk:

  • Mike Evin is from Hali and he’s awesome. He’s got some great tunes on his Music page that you can download for free. Definitely grab “We Should Dance“. It’s amazing.
  • We first heard Mike when he opened for Craig Cardiff at the Bomber at U. Waterloo. Craig is another performer that we LOVE. He’s played at camp for the staff at camp a couple of times and he’s always a hit. If you click through to his page you can hear “When People Go”. You can also see a typical picture of Craig. I’ve taken hundred’s of pictures of him in performances and i think I have a half dozen of him with his eyes open.
  • “Everyone’s a Hero” by Nathan Fillion. Yes, that (and that, and that) Canadian Nathan Fillion. Dr. Horrible’s Sing-A-Long Blog was an amazing summer internet-only show put on by the folks who gave us Buffy and Firefly. It’s not available on the ‘net right now… maybe if you search the bittorrent sites… but it is coming out on DVD. It will likely be in the video stores soon. I have never seen a better musical about a super villain. Ever.
  • K’naan - I wish somebody had told me about this CD when it dropped. It is my favourite kind of hip hop - purposeful, heavy beats, socially conscious, and with really creative instrumentation. K’naan (Myspace with his music) moved to Canada from Somolia in the early nineties and he’s got a world of experience that not many others can match. When I can find it I think that African based hip hop has something that moves me every time.

I’m just sayin’…

Attention Sarah Palin

(on Bearded Jon’s Flickr)

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Adam Kimmel presents: Claremont HD from adam kimmel on Vimeo.
I won’t want to ride it… maybe with snow… maybe not.
But I would have loved to shoot it!

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