04: Zeitgeist 2010 – 2011

Hello,

It is that time of the year again — where we mark the beginning of another year we have been alive. At the same time celebrate in memory the previous year. Today is the birth year: 4th year running and gunning for the 5th.

*okay, I suck at these type of announcements so amma get on with the stats and speak of other things that are not numbers related, yé?

Inside:

• 11272 photographs
• 198 rockstars aka 'graphers aka magicians aka okay, I'll stop.
• 76270 comments
• 41008 love shown

Tags for this period (2010 — 2011)

south africa, ifonografi, cape town, johannesburg, b&w, bww, africa, jozi, light, sunset, clouds, travelling man, roadtrip, portrait, night, gauteng, theme, southern africa, love, newtown, street, sky, water, sun, lights, trees, barcelona, reflection, home, 5d, film, experiment, western cape, spain, urban decay, township, people, pilanesberg game reserve, soweto, lomo, road trip, alexandra, dof, city bowl, red, sweden, outdoors, self

Cameras (ordered by use)

1. Canon EOS 450D
2. Nikon D100
3. Nokia N95
4. Fujifilm Finepix S5800 S800
5. Caplio GX100
6. Nikon D80
7. Kodak Z730
8. Fujifilm Finepix S5700 S700;
9. Nikon D70
10. Nikon D3000

Traffic Stats (google analytics)

• Visits: 192,554 (65, 650)
• Unique Visitors: 76,259 (19,689)
• Page Impressions/Views: 1,396,730 (524, 042)
• Hits: 3,856,339
• Bandwidth: 31.13GB

Most Activity:

• September, 2010.
• Thursdays;
• 8am — 5pm (peak at 12pm);

Time spent on the site:

• average – 11 minutes and 31 seconds;
• 66.9% – less than 30 seconds;
• 9% –an hour or more;
• 6.9% – 30 minutes to an hour;

How do we get here:

• Direct: 28%;
• Refering sites: 36%
  • facebook;
  • twitter;
  • google;
  • dreamfoundry (Diaan!);
  • 8916 (Karabo!)
  • CL
  • Lucid Salad Dreams (Neil!)
• Search: 19%
  • amakrwala
  • pictures
  • zulu wedding
  • sibongile makhaya
  • umakoti
  • marapyane
  • photography
  • sonia sedibe
  • bongiwe walaza
  • moon

Where do we come from — a picture is a thousand words — almost everywhere incl. Libya, Tunisia and Egypt.

Browsers

1. Firefox
2. Internet Explorer (what? IE6 still used?)
3. Chrome
4. Safari
5. Opera Mini
6. Opera
7. RockMelt
8. Sasumg
9. Konqueror
10. HTC

Mobile Devices (3.78% of total site traffic)

1. BlackBerry
2. iPhone
3. SymbianOS
4. Android
5. iPad
6. iPod (touch?)
7. Windows Mobile
8. Nokia
9. Samsung
10. Danger Hiptop (huh? what are this?)

Yeah, that should do it — but like I said earlier this year, the kicker for the past year was and still is:

75th Exhibition — at .38 Special in Cape Town. Mad respect to Shy_1 (Greer) and Sam Buk for putting it together and mad love to all the 'graphers that showed love and everybody else that rocked up; spread the word.

So, what else is there? Well a tiny little setback — here are the things that never panned out:

1. An exhibition starting today
2. 75th Book
3. 75th Studio

But, from each setback we learn from it — these things didn't happen not because we didn't want them to, but, because like any skill there is a lot crafting required. To master that craft, time and resources have to be allocated.  Time, is something I and everybody else who wanted to get these things done didn't have in abundance, but like that song/line/limerick:

… one day is one day — they will become a reality. Mad love and respect to Matt and Daz for helping out.

To add to that — I (or should that be 2LMN) am focused on generating cash/capital that will support the growth of new ideas quicker.  I am in the early stages but I have faith in a few months we have the capital (read: investment) to execute and realise these ideas.

With that, I'll stop here — this is way too long. I started at midnight and now it's 1.45am.

and like clockwork and always:

'graphers rock on! respect!

1ove, growth.