Kuster
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Watts of Love – Philippines Disaster Relief With Kevin Kuster
Our wonderful columnist Kevin Kuster (previously Senior Photo Editor for Playboy magazine) is working with the non-profit @watts_of_love. They distributed 1000 solar LED lights to Ilin Island last February to the poorest of the poor and the effects were life changing. Ilin Island has never had any electricity, running water or medical assistance. The 35,000 islanders have been all but forgotten and struggle to survive every day. They have just received word that much of the Ilin island and its neighboring islands have been crushed by typhoon #hayian and #yolanda. Although they don’t have all details yet, we do know that almost every bamboo hut on Ilin has been completely…
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How New Media is helping Humanitarian Orgs to Change Lives
An inspirational story of Light and Love, told through Social Media Amsterdam, NL & Illinois, USA We’re delighted to publish this article which include our wonderful Columnist Kevin Kuster – don’t miss this… Watts of Love, a non-profit org, partnered with startup PastBook to publish an online ebook of their recent humanitarian trip to the Philippines, delivering 1,000 solar lights to remote impoverished communities living without access to electricity. The ebook binds Instagram photos and text into an emotive story, which reads stronger as a whole over single images. This innovative method demonstrates how non-profit organisations can use new media to communicate their story and change the world. Landing…
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Kuster – ‘Old School Editing’ – By Kevin Kuster
We’re really excited to publish the first in a series of five specialist ‘old school’ posts by our Columnist and former Playboy Photo Editor Kevin Kuster, to his Column ‘Kuster‘. I can really relate to Kevin’s article, many years ago I worked at a paparazzi photo agency in London and spent a good deal of my time crouched over a light table with an oversized Nikon loupe, over to you Kevin (foreword by Joanne Carter)… Image © Kevin Kuster Image © Thom King – @say_cheez (Instagram). 20×24 Polaroids © David Levinthal ‘I am not one to dwell on the “good old days” of photography. I have completely embraced digital…
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Kuster – ALTexpo on Vimeo
Kevin Kuster is a wonderful Columnist for theappwhisperer.com, a professional photographer and employed at Playboy Magazine for 18 years where he served as the Senior Photography Editor and Managing Content Producer for Playboy Digital. As well as writing for us, Kevin is also a photographer, producer, Chief Editor at the #JJ community (@joshjohnson on Instagram) and a partner at Creator Gallery. We caught wind of Kevin’s latest interest earlier this week and with his kind permission we are republishing the details and video here. This is not strictly a ‘Column’ article, but there are plenty of those in the pipeline. Kuster teamed up with @AltHotels and Instagram, via JJ Community…
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Kuster – D Day – June 6th 1944 – By Kevin Kuster
We’re delighted to publish Kevin Kuster’s latest article for his Kuster Column with us. This time Kevin discusses a very poignant moment in history and having visited these very beaches in France myself and the nearby graveyards too, I know only too well how important it is to remember this day and those that gave their lives. Although, at the moment, I don’t have the book that Kevin described below, I do have this one, and it’s very much cherished. Over to you Kevin… (foreword by Joanne Carter). D Day. June 6th 1944. “If your pictures aren’t good enough, you are NOT close enough.” –Robert Capa. ‘On this…
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Kuster – Constant Change Of Life – By Kevin Kuster
We’re delighted to publish Kevin Kuster’s latest article for his Kuster Column with us. This time Kevin discusses the constant changes of life in relation to mobile photography, of course. Don’t miss this, you’re all in for quite a treat. Over to you Kevin… (foreword by Joanne Carter). ‘The greek philosopher Heraclitus (c.535 BC – 475 BC) said “The only constant in life is CHANGE”. ©Robert Jahns @nois7 Although this man of great intelligence and wisdom spoke these profound words thousands of years ago, why have we as a society not embraced them? Specifically, why have we not embraced this idea of change within the…
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Kuster – Naked In Brazil!
We’re so pleased to welcome our awesome Columnist, Kevin Kuster back home to theappwhisperer h.q., from his adventures in Brazil, he had a fantastic naked experience when he discovered he left one or two things behind … but we’ll let him tell you all about that. Over to you Kevin… (foreword by Joanne Carter) ‘I just spent the past several days speaking at a photography conference in Brazil and was naked the entire time’. © Kevin Kuster – He dropped from the sky Now, before you lose your lunch with the vision of me teaching naked, let me explain. I wasn’t physically naked, but I must admit it…
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Kuster’s Last Stand – ‘Ordinary To Extraordinary’
Recently, due to a few changes in my life and not wanting my son to deal with the inner-city school system, I’ve moved back to the western suburbs of Chicago to the neighborhood where I grew up. While I’m happy for my son, I must admit I find my surroundings very clean, convenient and peaceful. The only problem is that when you add all these adjectives together they add up to only one word…BORING! © Kevin Kuster – ‘BUS STOP’ (Photograph take at school bus parking lot) Although I love living in the suburbs, creatively I feel like I am drowning in a sea of just plain vanilla.…
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Kevin Kuster Joins The App Whisperer As A New Columnist
We’re delighted to welcome Kevin Kuster as one of our new Columnists to theappwhisperer.com. Kevin is a professional photographer and was the Senior Photography Editor for Playboy Magazine and Managing Content Producer for Playboy Digital for 18 years. Currently, Kevin is producer, Chief Editor at the #JJ community (@joshjohnson on Instagram) and a partner at Creator Gallery. Kevin’s column will be entitled ‘Kusters Last Stand’, found under ‘Kuster’ on our homepage and will be focused on mobile photography and will be light, fun and informative, with lots of great images, of course. We recently welcomed Richard Gray, Misho Baranovic, Dan Marcolina and Keith Tharp as Columnists to theappwhisperer and we…
