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How can you teach instinct? Or nerve?

A Photo Editor — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:32:10 +0000

The whole arc of my collecting has to do with the development of my own sense of self esteem so your question is right on the money, and I think the answer is no, it cannot be taught. But you can aspire to it and find your own way.

– Bill Hunt

via Conscientious Extended

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Internships and Labor Law

A Photo Editor — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:49:07 +0000

I think the government wants to make sure that people—particularly young people—are not exploited. We don’t want people to be “volunteering” their labor in a way that profits an employer. It’s an easy avenue to exploitation, even easier where there’s a suggestion that you’ll get a job at the end of it. A second policy is not to have free labor—what used to be slave labor—replacing paid and tax-paying adult labor. Without these laws, a studio owner could decide to replace a paid studio manager with a few unpaid interns, and we don’t want that: having someone drawing unemployment, or worse yet going on welfare, when he or she is willing to work.

– New York attorney Alan Koral

via PDN.

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Digital Lift-Off

A Photo Editor — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:49:44 +0000

Of the $368 billion marketers plan to spend this year, 32.5% will go toward digital; 30.3% to print.

via, Forbes.com.

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Study Shows Magazine Editors Have No Clue What Makes The Web Different

A Photo Editor — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:44:33 +0000

Most editors said their website and their print magazine shared a common mission. 16 per cent of respondents said their Web site’s mission involved community-building with readers. Interestingly, only 5 per cent mentioned new or unique content as integral to the site’s mission, with 96 per cent reporting the primary use of content from the print magazine online.

via Online Journalism Blog.

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they don’t even know what they want, and they’re not even willing to pay for it

A Photo Editor — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:45:06 +0000

People want everything now, they wanted it two days ago, and they don’t even know what they want, and they’re not even willing to pay for it, that’s what’s happening more often than not!

So I came to the conclusion, middle of last year, I said, “you know what, I’m done chasing, I’m done panicking, I’m moving to a place that’s right for me and my community, for people that understand my work, and I want to inspire people to get out and freakin go see what’s out there.”

Danny Zapalac, via Too Much Chocolate.

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Our Industry Talks A Lot About Ideas.

A Photo Editor — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:45:51 +0000

But at the same time, we have allowed the emphasis, the value, and the fundamental business model of our industry today, to shift away from ideas and to focus predominantly on execution.

A lot of lip service is paid to the value of ideas, but agencies are often primarily regarded as executioners and, in that regard, purely as suppliers. In the future, suppliers will be valued less and less and squeezed more and more. It is idea generators who will be most valued – because “ideaspeople” create the greatest value, across every industry sector, not just our own.

via scott goodson’s writings .

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What matters to me is to find the quality in the subject that makes it extraordinary or unique

A Photo Editor — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:35:59 +0000

You know, I will often say, “I like this image.” And Indrani will say, “Well, what is it that you like about it?” And my answer will be, “Well, I just like it.” That’s an egotistical perspective, and she points out that it really doesn’t matter what you yourself like. It’s important to analyze who you’re trying to reach with the image.

via PopPhoto.com.

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Publishers Need To Put A Premium On Content

A Photo Editor — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:03:06 +0000

Now, I ask you—the publisher—whether you’re devoting enough corporate energy, resources and financial backing to your editorial staff in order to actually produce an indispensable editorial package? If the answer is yes, then why are you charging so little for such a valuable product? Ask the Economist how it feels about its edit and its worth. Why do you think it can charge a premium and you can’t? What makes it so special? You guessed it—its edit is worth that price, or so the reader believes, and that is all  that matters.

The answer to the publishing industry’s woes is to provide something worth paying for. For far too long we have been lured with the easy money and wicked ways of our advertising mistress. Well, in the past few years we got dumped. And it hurts. But I say we pick ourselves up out of the gutter and find our self-worth once again. Stop firing the editors and writers, and start paying for the production of excellence. There is no other choice.

via Publishing Executive.

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The photographs are blurry, skewed, badly printed and in terrible condition

A Photo Editor — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:41:59 +0000

“If you want to be famous, you must do something more badly than anybody in the entire world.”

via Miroslav Tichy – NYTimes.com.

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Time Is Running Out on Legacy Media Brands

A Photo Editor — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:39:45 +0000

Old media, even highly focused old media, simply cannot keep up. Look at almost any vertical and the story is the same: There are huge discrepancies between offline reach and online visitors. Too often the legacy publisher continues to think about the brand’s Web site as an extension of the base product and therefore something smaller in reach and ambition than the mother ship.

via AdWeek..

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Do you know what is the most valuable asset you possess?

A Photo Editor — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:45:51 +0000

It’s your creativity. It’s what sets you apart from every other photographer; it’s the distinguishing value that is added to any great image you create. Without it, you could be replaced by a machine.

Ironically, this extremely valuable asset can’t be covered against loss by an insurance policy.It’s up to you–and only you–to take precautions that you don’t lose your creativity.

Read the rest on Strictly Business.

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Stock Photographers find other ways to survive

A Photo Editor — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:03:16 +0000

A number I recently heard someone throw out as the amount a photographer can expect to make on a picture in a major stock photography company’s collection is, $10.

via Greg Ceo Blog.

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Time Warner’s Bewkes: perform or hit the road

A Photo Editor — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:04:27 +0000

Of course, he stressed, he expects the publishing division to show earnings growth and make significant progress in its digital transformation. Long story short, Bewkes will hold on to Time Inc. — or any other asset — “if it fits Time Warner.”

But what if Time Inc. doesn’t meet his objectives?

“If they can’t,” he said with a shrug, “they’re better candidates for private ownerships.”

via Jon Friedman’s Media Web – MarketWatch.

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Cuban Rails Against Google and News Aggregators

A Photo Editor — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:28:35 +0000

“Show some balls”

“There’s absolutely no reason for you guys to be indexed on Google News … if they don’t pay you,”

Mark Cuban addressing publishers at a New York OnMedia event.

via MediaPost Publications.

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News Corporation on ‘cusp of digital dynasty’

A Photo Editor — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:18:31 +0000

“Excuse the immodesty but News Corporation’s pre-eminence as a content creator comes as the debate over the primacy of content is over,” he said, referring to his campaign to get consumers to pay for online news and entertainment. “Content is not just king. It is the emperor of all things electronic. We are on the cusp of a digital dynasty in which our company and our shareholders will profit greatly.”

via The Australian.

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Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances

A Photo Editor — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:07:49 +0000

“…not too far in the future blogs are going to drive new work to photogs more than websites – which are starting to look quite static and inert compared to the dynamism and fluidity of blogs.”

via whats the jackanory ?.

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iPad therefore iWant? Probably. Why? iDunno

A Photo Editor — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:08:16 +0000

Some people are complaining because it doesn’t have a camera in it. Spoiled techno-babies, all of them. Just because something is technically possible, it doesn’t mean it has to be done. It’s technically possible to build an egg whisk that makes phonecalls, an MP3 player that dispenses capers or a car with a bread windscreen. Humankind will continue to prosper in their absence. Not everything needs a 15-megapixel lens stuck on the back, like a little glass anus. Give these ingrates a camera and they’d whine that it didn’t have a second camera built into it. What are you taking photographs of anyway? Your camera collection?

via The Guardian. thx marie-anne.

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this is not the salvation that most publishing companies have been looking for

A Photo Editor — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:54:50 +0000

…because nothing can save publishing as it’s been operating for the past several decades. The iPad does nothing to change the brutal mandate that has been pushing publishers to change for these many years; if anything it compounds the imperative.

via Subtraction.com.

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Fashion mags post March win

A Photo Editor — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:33:53 +0000

The recovery is underway for the nation’s fashion magazines, which many consider a bellwether for the rest of the consumer magazine industry.

via NYPost.com.

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Condé Nast’s Culture Shift

A Photo Editor — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:52:01 +0000

Editors also are tasked with coming up with new revenue ideas, in another culture shift for Condé Nast, said another source, adding, “At this company, editors spend money.”

via MediaWeek.

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why it’s so important to get it right when you can

A Photo Editor — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:03:34 +0000

“This is also why poor photography, published poorly is so damaging. People are only going to look so many times. Once their quota on the subject is filled, they’ll stop looking. This past week has shown me very few memorable images. I’m afraid as photographers we’ve missed our window to make a lasting impact on our viewers with Haiti.”

via Mostly True.

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‘Mad Men’ Haven’t Changed Much Since The 1960s

A Photo Editor — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:22:28 +0000

“…if an anthropologist wanted to come back and see what discrimination [was] like in 1970, you’ve got it right here in the ad industry.”

via NPR.

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Failing Like a Buggy Whip Maker? Better Check Your Simile

A Photo Editor — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:48:38 +0000

There were 13,000 businesses in the wagon and carriage industry in 1890, Mr. Kinney said. A company survived not by conceiving of itself as being in the “personal transportation” business, but by commanding technological expertise relevant to the automobile, he said. “The people who made the most successful transition were not the carriage makers, but the carriage parts makers,” he said, some of whom are still in business.

via Digital Domain – NYTimes.com.

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Inside the Minds of Bill Stockland and Maureen Martel

A Photo Editor — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:03:51 +0000

“…we are very clear: We’re not the muse. We don’t want to be. They have to come with a muse or their own inspiration. They have to do personal work. Personal projects, editorial outside of the advertising arena so that we can take that work and package it and bring it to our communities.”

via Resolve

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sexy women, sexy vampires and sexy lighting

A Photo Editor — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:52:40 +0000

…it’s crucial that young talents understand that photography is about more than sexy women, sexy vampires and sexy lighting. A photographer needs time to develop their voice and vision- listening, learning and shooting is the best way to get there.

via HeatherMortonArt buyer.

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Abort Now – Become A Truck Driver!

A Photo Editor — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:20:37 +0000

My primary objectives right now are to breath and survive. I’m at that point, 3 years in, when most sane people get out. It’s the true test, are you crazy enough to go forward when a brontosaurus-sized neon sign is flashing “ABORT NOW – BECOME A TRUCK DRIVER!” As photographer, Keith Carter, says, “You have to learn to embrace a life of uncertainty.”So I gotta breathe in. Stay the course. Surviving the photo industry is one part vision, one part business and all heart.

via Photo Coleslaw.

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Google is “F-ing with the magic”

A Photo Editor — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:00:26 +0000

Mel went on to explain that back when he was the CEO of CBS, advertising had no accountability – no return on investment.

“You buy a commercial in the Super Bowl… and you had no idea if it worked! You had no idea if you sold product… if it did any good,” Karmazin said. “I loved that model.”

“And then here comes Google. They screwed it up!” added Karmazin, semi-jokingly.

Mel Karmazin on Charlie Rose via- Orbitcast.

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A Gift Waiting at Every Corner: Notes from a Life in Photography

A Photo Editor — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:20:03 +0000

I am both humbled and hopeful when I think of the number of times all over the world that I have seen people define themselves not by their possessions or wealth, but by the grace, courage, and profound decency in their gestures and behavior.

– Peter Turnley via The Online Photographer

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how to make a living playing music

A Photo Editor — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:43:43 +0000

“determine if you are actually called to be a musician. if you aren’t called, all the gyrations in the world, won’t make it work. if you are called, no matter what you do, it’s going to work. this determination will solve most of the problems you are going to encounter.”

via Ol’ Danny Barnes.

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Irving Penn – He Got Beneath the Surface of People — and Things

A Photo Editor — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:03:07 +0000

Brodovitch, impressed with Penn’s eye for graphics, hired Penn as an unpaid assistant.

via NYTimes.com.

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