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  Dear Young Photo Assistant, here’s your health care

  The Health Care Reform Bill that just passed the House of Representatives would ALLOW YOU TO STAY ON YOUR PARENTS HEALTH INSURANCE UNTIL YOU ARE 27! Am I yelling this, yes I am. This is great news for photographers and assistants.

  via Greg Ceo Blog.

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  nothing has fundamentally changed

  People have two eyes, ears and one mouth, ten fingers and two feet. What different? The methods they use to express themselves and the calls on their attention. I urge you to run the other way if someone tries to tell you 'people like free stuff' is news. Did we not know this? Is this a shock? Surprising? Has this recently changed in some way?

  via PR, Public Relations & communications news and features.

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  And here’s the dirty secret: it was easy

  “Muhammad Ali made a hero out of every single journalist,” Leifer said. “Whether you were a writer, a photographer, a television commentator, you got to cover Ali and your boss thought you were a genius. The genius was really Ali.” Jordan was an equally photogenic subject for Iooss. “It was like traveling with a Biblical character with Michael because everyone in the world, at his peak, wanted to be with Michael and meet him in shake his hand,” Iooss said. “And he had everything, you know, for a photographer. It was like photographing a male model. I always compared him to Elle MacPherson” whom Iooss has also photographed for the S.I. swimsuit issue.

  via Lens Blog - NYTimes.com.

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  the internet isn't killing anything

  If someone offers to give you half of a record company, take it. They may be shrinking, but they're still big.

  russell davies via kottke.org.

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  Newspapers aren't doing as badly as you think

  By the way, you can still make money publishing newspapers—even in a period when advertising has plummeted. Check out Gannett's third-quarter earnings report. Its newspapers pulled in more than $100 million of operating income on revenues of $1.04 billion. In the first three quarters of 2009, advertising revenues were off 31.6 percent, but circulation revenues were off less than 5 percent, even though many of Gannett's flagship papers lost subscribers.

  via Daniel Gross - Slate Magazine.

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  Todd Ruthven, AD, JWT Detroit, on automobile advertising

  CGI has definitely found its place in advertising but has not and WILL NOT replace actual photography. I believe that nothing can replace the spontaneity and “happy accidents” that can occur while actually shooting something.

  [...] When you make something too perfect you run the risk of making it look fake. Using CGI requires the creative person to actually create flaws in the image. Therefore making it look believable.

  via Greg Ceo Blog.

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  An Interview with Gerhard Steidl

  In the past, I had to take my own humble photography to printers, and I was always shocked to see that the printers ruined the images. Originally, I wanted to simply see my own photos printed well, instead of being angry about bad reproductions all the time - for which I then also had to pay.

  via Conscientious.

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  Googled: The End of the World as We Know It

  [Brin] has an innocent faith in the Internet and inadequate knowledge about how books are published.

  Ken Auletta, via  I Want Media talking about his new book on Google.

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  The bigger the company, the bigger the blunder

  This is why your company needs an experienced marketer on staff. Real marketing directors have an understanding of intellectual property laws. Photographs, fonts, illustrations, and other design elements found online are not free for you to use, especially for commercial purposes.

  via Brand's Anatomy.

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  Interview: Damon Winter

  So many of the photos look so similar and every time you press the shutter you’re thinking that this photo ever so slightly improves on the last image. And the next improves the last. And you never really know when they’ll stop improving. At some point you get the photo of the day – the photo you’re happy with.

  via Too Much Chocolate.