March 2011
53 posts
When Will Apple Cave And Accept Flash? Maybe When...
Apple has sold more than 160 million iOS devices and there are no screaming, angry hordes of users breaking down the doors at 1 Infinite Loop demanding Flash on their devices. via techcrunch.com LOL. I love the point about not getting to sites that don’t come up in Flash… Yeah - try looking up graphic designers and photographers… that’ll get you a big ol’...
February 2011
43 posts
Chris Hedges: Huffington’s Plunder - Huffington,...
Any business owner who uses largely unpaid labor, with a handful of underpaid, nonunion employees, to build a company that is sold for a few hundred million dollars, no matter how he or she is introduced to you on the television screen, is not a liberal or a progressive. via truthdig.com This is a wonderful takedown of the idiocy that was the Huffington post sale. You should read it all. ...
Art World Photography Versus Commercial World...
There’s more crap coming out of the art world than there is coming out of the commercial one. via aphotoeditor.com — Andrew Ptak … from the comments in the APE article. And yeah, I think he may have a point. Or three. Posted via email from Now This is Cool… | Comment »
A Photo Editor - Why We Love Bad Photography: This...
There’s plenty online dedicated to clichés, hopefully more people seize the opportunity to make more bridges. via aphotoeditor.com “If it requires more effort to consume, many will not bother with it. Think about a story crammed with words you don’t recognize.” Yeah. So terribly true. Posted via email from Now This is Cool… | Comment »
Karin Calvo-Goller Doesn'
I’m tempted to remark on the wisdom in general of taking human rights lessons from professors steeped in European and United Nations law, but I’m more interesting in a shorter question: What can Karin Calvo-Goller possibly be thinking? Already, a search of her name on Google yields in third place an entry linking “Calvo-Goller” to the phrase “an idiot and a fascist jerk”, thusly: Given that...
If you think that the photography industry is...
Equally unsurprising, no one is buying full albums any more: via businessinsider.com Posted via email from Now This is Cool… | Comment »
Thinking that right about now is the time for a...
My friend, Tim Smith at Canon USA, said recently “NO camera is better than its user. via pixsylated.com I wonder if Jake thinks a new guitar would make him a better player too… Naw. I don’t think so. Guitars don’t make great guitar players, guitar players make great guitar players. Posted via email from Now This is Cool… | Comment »
Eben Moglen Is Reshaping Internet With a Freedom...
It is not hard, when everybody is just in one big database controlled by Mr. Zuckerberg, to decapitate a revolution by sending an order to Mr. Zuckerberg that he cannot afford to refuse,” Mr. Moglen said. via nytimes.com Posted via email from Now This is Cool… | Comment »
Portraits From a Job-Starved City - Rockford, Ill....
Few American cities have suffered as acutely as Rockford, Ill., where unemployment reached nearly 16 percent last summer. via nytimes.com Interesting use of audio as well as compelling portraits. BTW, Soth has a set of images named “the last days of W”. I guess we’ll call these “O at two… and counting”… Or something… Ya know… ...
Jobless aid claims up more than expected... So...
The rise was much larger than economists had expected. via msnbc.msn.com These ‘experts’ get it wrong month after month… just google it. It is either unexpected, or surprisingly, or unforseen… To have a group of people who are categorically wrong month after month seems to be a terrible indictment of their profession. To keep going to them for predictions and advice...
iPad + Shuttersnitch: How one Photography...
Rather than squint and try and see the details on the camera’s lcd, they can zoom in on the iPad and request us to make changes. via upaa.org And keeping the customer, and clients, happy is job one for a photographer. Posted via email from Now This is Cool… | Comment »
"…It’s not what you want, it’s what the lion...
When I look back at this stuff, I really wonder how it all got done… via robertwrightphoto.com Great story, Robert. Good shot too. Posted via email from Now This is Cool… | Comment »
Do You Have an Evil Plans? You Should, You Know....
It has never been easier to make a great living doing what you love. But to make it happen, first you need an EVIL PLAN. via amazon.com Get out your super double secret journals and begin making your plan to dominate the world (the one you live in) as soon as possible… they’re watching, you know… just waiting to pounce on your dreams and suffocate your future. But with a...
Kirk Tuck: Street Shooting with abandon. The joy...
When I go out for my walks I’m drawn to scenes that show what it’s like to be human. via visualsciencelab.blogspot.com Posted via email from Now This is Cool… | Comment »
Which Major Magazine Is Ending Print-Only...
Sports Illustrated is quitting the business of selling print-only subscriptions. via outsidethebeltway.com Posted via email from Now This is Cool… | Comment »
Blog: The Pyramid - A great review of Clarion Call...
And that you know he will nail it because he’s super focused on this style, and his book reflects this. via blog.allklier.com Yep… that one line says so much. Confidence is earned, and shown and built in to so much of what we have to do as photographers. Posted via email from Now This is Cool… | Comment »
Stealing Photos? Now This is Bulls**t. | At CJ's...
G’head and blame the gallery, blame the collective, blame the attendant who let the guy take a leak, blame whomever. The point is that I’m blaming the perpetrator and you should too. Stealing is bad, stealing one of a kind art is worse, and that the thief is amongst us… Now–after several days and a $25,000 reward–Lee’s Polaroid is still missing. The gallery is facing the prospect of going...
"Discover From Insider Experts the Secrets to...
Clarion Call 2011 “Discover From Insider Experts the Secrets to Thriving as a Photographer in our free teleseminar.” It’s ON now. Still time to register for free. Posted via email from Now This is Cool… | Comment »
Stuart Spighali told those inner voices of doubt...
I sold nine prints. Nine. And I got invited to show at a local gallery. via sabrinahenry.com Stop listening to the naysayers. They do NOT have your best interests at heart. People who do support you when you want to break out and do something a little out of the box. Or totally away from the box… or take a boxcutter and carve the box into something totally different. Something totally...
Project "52" : Why the Assignments are Not All...
(Project 52 is an ongoing set of real world assignments for photographers who want to grow beyond the ordinary, and work toward the real world of commercial photography. It is not a glamour site, nor will we be treating every shot like something from a major award winning art director to appear in the most prestigious magazine in the world. One should ALWAYS do one’s best. And to continue...
Project "52" : Why the Assignments are Not All...
(Project 52 is an ongoing set of real world assignments for photographers who want to grow beyond the ordinary, and work toward the real world of commercial photography. It is not a glamour site, nor will we be treating every shot like something from a major award winning art director to appear in the most prestigious magazine in the world. One should ALWAYS do one’s best. And to continue...
Jan Klier on why he has made a significant...
First lets clarify the name – I think if you move beyond the still image, you really need to embrace motion, not video. via blog.allklier.com Posted via email from Now This is Cool… | Comment »
So cookie cutter solutions don't work? You...
On the first visit, right after shaking your hand, she unrolls plans for a house. “Here are some sketches… via sethgodin.typepad.com Posted via email from Now This is Cool… | Comment »
A wonderful, and tragically true statement in the...
Being unremarkable is painful and depressing and that alone should be enough to work to create and to be something more via lighting-essentials.com Yes, Trudy… it is. “… leading lives of quiet desperation…” I mean… that actually sounds less tragic than it is, and it sounds so terribly tragic. Posted via email from Now This is...
"Isn't it amazing how photography has advanced...
Isn’t it amazing how photography has advanced without improving? via theonlinephotographer.typepad.com Quote by Charles Sheeler. I saw this on Kirk’s blog this morning. It is too amazing not to share here as well. I have been pondering and thinking about this for so many years. Not only the craft itself, but my work as well. It is so easy to make a photograph… and so goddam...
9 Productivity Tips for Writers, Designers,... →
6. Ditch your TV. I hear screams at this suggestion but hear me out! Four years ago, the TV was banished from our house and since then I have written four books, started a business and now…
9 Productivity Tips for Writers, Designers,...
6. Ditch your TV. I hear screams at this suggestion but hear me out! Four years ago, the TV was banished from our house and since then I have written four books, started a business and now have a Top 10 Blog for Writers! (as well as a day job and home life). TV is a time suck, the programs you want to watch are padded with adverts and you end up watching other shows just because they’re on. I...
Still Life with One Light in the Studio: “LIVE” on... →
This article is a look at the creation of a simple still life with one light in the studio. See it after the jump.
At this point I want to remind everyone of the incredible…
The Decline of Male Space | The Art of Manliness:... →
Alright. So you might be thinking, “What’s the big deal? Isn’t it a good thing we’ve gotten past this archaic gender segregated stuff?” Yes… and no. Don’t get me wrong. I’m all in favor of…
The Decline of Male Space | The Art of Manliness:...
Alright. So you might be thinking, “What’s the big deal? Isn’t it a good thing we’ve gotten past this archaic gender segregated stuff?” Yes… and no. Don’t get me wrong. I’m all in favor of the progress we’ve made, but again, the pendulum has arguably swung too far to the other extreme, leaving men without their own space. We often underestimate the effects our surroundings have on our psyche....
Every website - even Photographers websites -...
Letʼs begin with the harsh truth. If an organization does not believe that it will generate some form of a return on an investment (financial or otherwise), then it should not have a website. In other words, if the website doesn’t pay its way, then we have not done our jobs properly. Despite what we might think, our primary aim is to fulfill the business objectives set out by our clients....
Paper is dead; long live the news... →
Fourth, paper is dead. Moribund. Lifeless. Electronic delivery can provide color, motion, sound, interactivity. via dailycaller.com
Well, yeah… there is that.
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Paper is dead; long live the news...
Fourth, paper is dead. Moribund. Lifeless. Electronic delivery can provide color, motion, sound, interactivity. via dailycaller.com Well, yeah… there is that. Posted via email from Now This is Cool… | Comment »
Something changed today. "The Daily" is the first... →
The Daily is the first “paid content” for a news source online that is totally created FOR online reading - specifically for the iPad for now - Android and ‘Readers” coming very soon.
It is full…
Something changed today. "The Daily" is the first...
The Daily is the first “paid content” for a news source online that is totally created FOR online reading - specifically for the iPad for now - Android and ‘Readers” coming very soon. It is full of lovely, gorgeous photographs. That is good news for photographers… of all genres. Much more interesting than Time, Newsweek, or USNWR… all tired, slow, terrible...
People learn things differently: Some listen, some...
Recently a forum questioning whether a photographer should buy learning DVD’s started going toward the “don’t waste your money, shoot more pics” direction and I found that to be terrible terrible advice. Not that taking photographs will not increase one’s ability to simply ‘make photographs, but taking photographs ‘correctly’ may increase ones...
Why Your Excuses Won't Fly: Photographer or Writer... →
12 years ago, I made a conscious choice to allow my fears rental space in my life. They didn’t bust down the door and take control of me. I let them. I handed them the key, opened the door…
Why Your Excuses Won't Fly: Photographer or Writer...
12 years ago, I made a conscious choice to allow my fears rental space in my life. They didn’t bust down the door and take control of me. I let them. I handed them the key, opened the door and said, “Come on in, boys! Drinks are on the house!” via menwithpens.ca The most destructive talent we have is the talent to become afraid of things that won’t hurt us. Most fears are irrational and...
A study in how to never ever market your work......
It was a beautiful day in La Jolla this past Monday. The clouds had blown away and the blue sky, warm sun was absolutely perfect. People were out walking, jogging, and generally soaking up some of the most incredible weather anywhere. While not as crazy busy as a Sunday in the summertime, there were still a lot of people and parking was scarce. The young woman began setting up her T-Shirt stand...
Project 52, Assignment #5 Photograph ‘The... →
Weather has been a big part of the news this week… and next. Actually, the weather is big news everywhere… so run with it.
Assignment:
Weather has played a significant role…
"Single Source" Solutions are never a good idea.... →
Currently, Lake Mead provides 90 percent of the region’s fresh water through two intake pipelines. As the drought continues, water levels threaten to fall below the intake levels, potentially…
"Single Source" Solutions are never a good idea....
Currently, Lake Mead provides 90 percent of the region’s fresh water through two intake pipelines. As the drought continues, water levels threaten to fall below the intake levels, potentially cutting off water supplies to millions of residents. The current water elevation of 10,090 is dangerously close to Intake No. 1 at 10,050 feet. via popularmechanics.com Nope. This would make me...
Lone Nepali Soldier Defends Potential Rape Victim...
Bishnu kept his peace while the gang snatched cell phones, jewelry and cash from other riders. But then, the thugs grabbed the 18 year-old girl sitting next to him and forcefully stripped her naked. Before the bandits could rape the poor girl in front of her helpless parents, Bishnu decided he had enough. via logiccool.com A real man? Yep. A hero? Definitely. Role model? Absolutely Rare...
