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Happy National Unicorn Day! | Utah Wedding Photographer

Mitch — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 10:33:38 +0000

As I’m sure everyone is well aware, yesterday was National Unicorn Day – a magical celebration of Joy, Joyfulness & Joyousness (and Joy)! Oh rapture!

Every year at this time, we at ZumaPhoto fill our hearts with a rainbow of fruit-flavored, glittery happiness and love. This year, led by our own little Alpha-Corn, Angela, the ladies of ZumaPhoto went all out with happy-hilarious-head-horns, chirpy-cheerful-cupcakes, and perky-playful-pizza-pie!

All in all, it was a mirthful festival of all things blissful, blithe and gay! And an impressively elaborate excuse to avoid work for an hour.

From all of us at ZumaPhoto, here’s wishing you a tweeful unicorn day full of sunshine, pixie-dust, and MAGIC!

Next year, come join us on March 23rd!

‘Ad-horned’ with the very special unicorn horns fashioned by Angela, we kicked off the celebration in Shutterbooth’s photo booth.
We were truly a Glory of Unicorns on that day, I can tell you.

Here you can see the entire glory in the full glory of stop-motion gloriositude.
GLORIOUS!

Finally, Logan got creative with her iPhone in Self-portrait with Quinn.

Oh joy.

Holiday Music 2010 | Zen’s Christmas Toybox Stream

Mitch — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 04:42:41 +0000

It’s BAA-ACK!

As featured on Arcade Fire’s News page!
(seriously – we’re about halfway down under ‘Technology’. LOL!)

ZumaPhoto’s tradition of streaming Christmas/Holiday music continues for 2010!
More songs! More merriment! 13% MORE MIRTH!

(Works for iPhones/iPods/iPads too! Read on to play!)

Many ways to play:

Flash-enabled browsers:

Just click the play button in the player below.

Configuration Error!

Also, there is a pop-out version of the player above left (the one that looks like a play button) for those of you who would like to close this page but keep listening.

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iTunes/WinAmp/Windows Media Player:

Just click the appropriate icon in the upper right left, above
(just above the embedded player).

Great for pushing to AirPlay devices, Roku, etc.

[Note: depending on your system configuration, rather than opening the stream
automatically in your player you may instead download a 'listen.m3u' file.
Just drag that to the player of your choice to start the delicious tunes....mmm...
The file is available here should you have any problems.]

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iDevices (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch):

Just click this link and it will load up in Quicktime!

http://xmas.zumaphoto.com

(or you can enter the URL into Safari manually)

TIP: If you have the new iOS 4.2 update try using it with AirPlay to push the deliciousness to your good speakers!

Enjoy!

And as always, if you have suggestions or request to add to the playlist, drop us an email at zenbox@zumaphoto.com or just leave it in the comments section.

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Marisa & Mickey’s NEW ‘Save the Date’ Video

Mitch — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 23:14:26 +0000

Remember Marisa & Mickey’s stop-motion ‘save the date’ video that we did for them back in September?

Well…plans have changed.

So we did a NEW version of the video to bring it up to date.

So yeah I had to do a bit more work on it.

But on the upside, guess who’s going to BERMUDA?!??!

Marisa & Mickey’s ‘Save The Date’ Video

Mitch — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 19:57:21 +0000

Occasionally we’ll have a client ask for something different. Something out of the box.

Marisa & Mickey had seen a few stop-motion videos used as ‘Save the Date’ notes floating around the web and asked if we could do that for them. Now I havn’t played with stop-motion since high school (I seem to remember it involved a lot of dismembered clay people), but I’m not one to avoid a challenge.

Someone (probably a thief) once said that good artists borrow while great artists steal – so, M & M took some ideas they found out there, added a few touches of their own and asked us to make it happen.

Please to enjoy!

Want us to do one of these for you?!

Well…ok…but just because its you.

UPDATE: Mickey & Marisa’s plans have CHANGED,
so we did a new version of the video!

Holiday Music from ZumaPhoto to You | ZumaPhoto

Mitch — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:23:11 +0000

When I was a child my father had a 4+ hour reel-to-reel mix of Christmas music that he would bring out every December and that labor of love became an integral part of my holiday memories. About 5 years ago I began to gather all of the songs on my father’s original collection and have been adding my own selections to that core group ever since. Today we have nearly 1200 songs in nearly every genre and period, including timeless classics, contemporary updates, irreverent satire, and the just plain strange…. ZumaPhoto would like to share it with you as our way of saying thanks, and of course Happy Holidays!

This is a tradition that I wish to pass on to my own children, and so I have named the stream after my son Zen. So far, he isn’t really showing what I consider to be appropriate appreciation, but then he’s not yet 2.

And so without further ado, we offer for your listening pleasure Zen’s Christmas Toybox.

Click on the link above or the widget below and a javascript player will pop up (pop-up blockers may mess with this, so be aware). After an annoying 30-second ad you’ll be connected to the stream and should have hours of uninterrupted tune pleasure.
We’re always on the lookout for new, cool, and especially unusual things to add to the collection, so if you have a suggestion, please drop us a note at toybox@zumaphoto.com

In addition to the default pop-up javascript player, there are other options for listening:

Live365 iPhone App
It works surprisingly well! Just search for it in the App Store. Once loaded, look for ‘Zen’s Christmas Toybox’ in the station search.

iTunes
Especially useful for streaming to your main speakers using Airtunes!
Just download this playlist and drag the resulting file onto your iTunes dock icon and it will be added to your music listings! May also work with WinAmp and WMP.

RealPlayer/WinAmp/Windows Media Player
You will need to set up a free account with Live365 in order to set this as your default player under the Listen Settings preferences. Also, try the iTunes playlist file listed above.

Xbox360
As far as I can tell, Requires Windows Media Center – once set up use the connector to stream to your Xbox 360.

Carrier Pigeon
Not really recommended as the sound quality is degraded, but its doable. They also tend to get easily distracted, caught in windmills, and are prone to migrating in the winter. Keep plenty of seed on-hand if you want them to keep coming back.