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Every Dumbass With A Camera

via – make art not war.

the sec­ret of being a suc­cess­ful car­too­nist

“Con­ti­nuity,” he said. “Anyone can draw a good car­toon… ONCE. But not ever­yone can draw a good car­toon, every day, day-in-day-out. It’s something you have to work VERY HARD at for many years before you even get close…”
– Hugh Dodd
via Gapingvoid.

do they really need to worry about the customer experience?

There are some customer-focused older companies out there, but they’re rare. The traditional mode of business for the past 100 years has been customer-hostile, and it’s really tough for a company to “turn the aircraft carrier around” to work in a different way. It will happen, though, and when it does, you’ll see: an older [...]

For Only $5 Per Month, You Can Help…

The Onion Sunday Magazine
via (Notes on) Politics, Theory & Photography.

Condé closes Gourmet and others

Condé Nast plans to announce this morning that it will close Gourmet magazine, a magazine of almost biblical status in the food world; it has been published since December 1940.
In addition to Gourmet… it will also close Cookie, Modern Bride, and Elegant Bride.
via Media Decoder Blog – NYTimes.com.

E-blasts are out, and direct mail is back in

Well, that’s how the panelists first explained their take on the efficacy of email marketing. They eventually acknowledged that they all still send out e-blasts, but they weren’t very enthusiastic about them as a marketing tool. Everyone talked about how art buyers and creatives spend half their day just deleting emails from their inbox without [...]

The history of a great deal of twentieth century art could be told as a history of theft

Armand Bartos Fine Art’s latest show is focused on celebrating that history of the rip-off, showing art works next to the pieces from which artists brazenly stole their ideas.
via ARTINFO.com.

Here is how I define success

A successful artist is a person who is able to create something that manifests their truth…a perception that they feel they need to bring to the world. A successful creative person is someone who continues to create no matter what happens. I respect many artists. They are not all extremely successful in the art market, [...]

I am really ambivalent about theory, I think it is important to learn to think, to express yourself…

Teaching is about creating awareness, there is an analogy with Buddhism and meditation and really doing art is about trying to understand life.
–Peter Bialobrzeski
via A Photo Student.

How to Compete

It’s a dodgy game to compete on price. It’s always a race to the bottom. It’s never fun to compete by name-calling or bragging over your competitors. Instead, really earn it with us by competing in ways that will empower both you and us.
via How to Compete.

Nothing Is More Common Than Unsuccessful People With Talent

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.– Calvin Coolidge
via swissmiss

Hiroshi Sugimoto Shout Out at U2 Concert

…when was the last time the biggest rock star on the planet interrupted one of his signature songs in a stadium full of screaming people to give a shout out to a fine art photographer? There can’t be any equivalent moment in the entire history of photography.
via DLK COLLECTION.

The Paparazzi Laser Shield

The boat’s most unusual feature is perhaps the anti-paparazzi “shield”:
Infrared lasers detect the electronic light sensors in nearby cameras, known as charge-coupled devices. When the system detects such a device, it fires a focused beam of light at the camera, disrupting its ability to record a digital image.
via Times Online .

Justice Department urges court to reject Google book deal

In a highly anticipated announcement, Justice Department attorneys cited “class action, copyright, and antitrust” concerns in asking U.S. District Court Judge Denny Chin in New York to reject the currently constructed class action settlement between Google and the Authors Guild, which had sued them.
via CNN.com.

Lynsey Addario Awarded 2009 MacArthur Fellow

The award is $500,000 in “no strings attached” support over the next five years.

via MacArthur Foundation

Art Speak Generator

I’m troubled by how the internal dynamic of the biomorphic forms verges on codifying the accessibility of the work.
…never again feel at a loss for pithy commentary or savvy “insights.” (here). Thx Mark.

The Lessons of Lindsay… continued

A Post Magazine editor encouraged Mendelsohn to pursue the story after reviewing his photos of Ess. But the atmosphere apparently soured after Weymouth told Mendelsohn at a birthday brunch in her honor that this was not the sort of piece that she favored for the magazine. Weymouth has been telling editors that there have been [...]

10 Photography Pet Peeves We’d Throw Down a Black Hole

HDR needs to go the way of the animated gif and blinking HTML text.
via Wired.com.