Luka Smuk
1.) What is your name and where in the WWW (Whole Wide World) do you live?
Luka: My name is Luka Smuk and I’m from Europe-Croatia, a small place called Bedekovčina.
2.) What do you do for a living, what pays the bills? And what is the thing you do when you are not doing the thing that pays the bills?
Luka: For living I shoot weddings and parties, its not big money for starting out on my own, but it’s okay for now. In future I will like to work for a newspaper or on maybe a TV station as a photographer. When I’m not working I’m fooling around with my friends, and in most of my free time I’m playing with my camera.
3.) How much of what you do, personally or professionally, gets done at the work space featured?
Luka: All the work I do is on my iMac, editing photos in Photoshop, iPhoto and Aperture. I just love my 24” screen because the color and size of photos is amazing. For personal life, and fun, I use my old PowerBook G4, its okay for browsing on the web and chatting with my friends .
4.) Typically, what time of the day do you normally find yourself at this desk, and for how long? Night owl, early bird?
Luka: Hmmm…. I’m a mix of night owl and early bird because I usually get up really early and go to sleep very late. 60 to 70% of my day I’m on my Mac because these days I’m pretty busy.
5.) How much of what gets done at your desk is for work, how much is it to scratch your own creative itch?
Luka: Pretty much everything I do on my iMac is for work. Maybe some small things like editing video for friends and family is done in iMovie or Final Cut Pro, but the rest of the stuff I work on is for work.
6.) What are the essentials that can be found on your desk more times than not? How about those items just out of reach or out of sight? If it’s not on top of your desk what are the things you most often grab out of a top draw or cabinet?
Luka: You can find lots of SD memory cards, my iPhone, iPod Shuffle, my PowerBook G4, some papers, and always a hot cup of coffee on my desk. ;) Sometimes my workspace is a really big mess, sometimes, because I have so much work to do, I can’t do anything else, but in my free time its clean like the photos you see here.
7.) What beverage/food/snack can one usually find at your desk, and why?
Luka: On my desk you can find some chocolate or other sweets, but drinks like coffee and juice you can find in the corner of on my window ledge, which acts as a makeshift shelf when I am at my desk.
8.) Do you have any reasoning or anecdotes that lend some insight into why your desk is setup the way it is, or the thinking behind certain item(s)? How about the things around your desks? Decoration, wall art, figurines, statues, etc? Any particular reason behind those?
Luka: My work space is same as the rest of my room, everything is wood, orange or another bright color. I’ve got an Ansel Adam’s “Think Different” Apple poster, and another AC/DC poster from their “No Bull” tour, as well as some of my own photos which I shot awhile back.
9.) How much of what you do, or aspire to do, influences your desk setup, tangibly and intangibly.
Luka: I just love my Mac and my setup is influenced by an Apple “way to work” - clean, open-minded, creative and simple.
10.) Are you a Mac or are you a PC? What machine(s) are setup and used at your desk? If you are a little bit of both tell us why. How about any other tech gear that can be found at your desk or in your home?
Luka: Pure Mac finally!! Windows is out of the game for me as I was on a PC for almost 10 years, filled with painful error messages and other headaches. No thanks, never again! :) I’m just to happy with my iMac and PowerBook G4, its like in heaven!
11.) What’s the one piece of gear you could not live without?
Luka: I would have to say both my iPhone and iPod Shuffle.
12.) What piece of gear cannot be found on your desk, but you wish it could be?
Luka: A 15” Macbook Pro.
13.) Software; what do you use more often than not. What helps you get the job done? And what do you not use, but hope one day to incorporate in your workflow?
Luka: I use iPhoto, Photoshop, Aperture (quite a bit), Safari, iTunes, and occasionally iMovie or Final Cut Pro for video editing. Also Adium for chating.
14.) If you could change one thing about your desk, or the room it is currently in, what would that be?
Luka: I would like to get a new and bigger desk, some shelves, and maybe even a LCD TV on the wall. That would be nice.
15.) Workspace Breakdown; Think of as many things as possible that comprise the setup of your office or workspace, anything from the paint color on the walls to the floor mat your chair rolls on, and list them out. Who makes your desk, how about the cabinet next to your desk, your lamp, the overhead light fixture? Anything and everything you can see in the pictures shown, give as much color and background on these items as time and memory permits.
Luka:
- 2009 iMac 3.06 Ghz,4GB RAM, 1TB HD, Mac OSX 10.5 Leopard
- Razer Deathadder Mouse
- iPod Touch 8 GB 2nd Gen
- iPhone 3G 16GB
- iPod Shuffle 1 GB
- PowerBook G4 1.5 PPC, 1GB RAM, 80 GB HD
- Iomega 360 GB External HD
- Nikon D60, D80 & D90
- Lens - 18-55 2x ,18-105 2x.55-200
- Workspace from IKEA, I think….
- Black leather chair from random furniture store, cost about 100 euro.
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