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.
“It is a fascinating fact is that if you go online and visit 200 web pages in one day – which is a simple task when you could email, blogs, youtube etc – you’ll see on average 490,000 words; War & Peace was only 460,000 words.”
A very respected journalist once told me, “I’m always telling students, if you want to be a journalist, for God’s sake don’t be a Journalism Major. Study something else, like The Classics or Architecture. That means when you start looking for work, you’ll be bringing something to the table besides ‘Shop Talk’.”
via Gapingvoid.
“If you won’t pay to see someone else’s work, why do you expect people to pay to see your work?” ”How do you expect to make a living as a photojournalist?” ”Who is your audience?”
via Greg Ceo Blog.
More sophisticated ways of measuring usership and engagement will change focus from mass audience, Plotz believes, and that will make journalism better. Raw numbers create “pressure to produce one kind of story” that will draw hits. New metrics of engagement and behavior offer a “tremendous opportunity for Web journalism to escape the traffic” trap. He believes that will liberate Slate to “make a magazine that recognizes those dedicated readers.”
No one surveying the changes the internet is bringing to the newspaper business is saying “My God, who will tell me about Big 12 football! Where will I find a recipe for spicy chicken wings!”
via Clay Shirky.
“You’ve got to have something to say. It could be conceptual, or you can try to save the world as a photojournalist. But you can’t just be a technician. Everybody’s a technician. You’ve got to have an idea.”
via PDN.
While emailers sounded like a good idea several years ago, they are now little better then spam. Most of the work I get is not appropriate to any need I might possibly have, and lots of it just isn’t good at all. Plus, if the image isn’t displaying in my email window and fast, I’m on to the next one. On the other hand, when I receive a printed promo, at the very least, I look at the image(s). I also notice your attention to detail in your paper and design choice. Most often, email promos feel templated and generic, hence the agency opt-outs.
We must resist academia as artists. We really must. When Matisse was near death a young man visited him and as he turned to leave Matisse said, “Remember one thing: guard your naiveté. Some day young man, that’s going to be all you’ve got. And now I’m packing my bags for the next world.”
–Robert Bergman
via The Brooklyn Rail.
via – make art not war.
“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.
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 company “gets religion,” gradually becomes customer-centric, and then grows to dominate its competitors like never before in its history.
via Good Experience.
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.
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 reading them because they are overwhelmed. A print piece that shows up in their stack of snail mail, on the other hand, at least guarantees that the recipient will see the image and the name.
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.
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, or in the art status structure. Some are, and some aren’t. Some of the ones I respect have been overlooked. But I still consider them to be successful, because they have succeeded to give the world their vision, even though the world does not always acknowledge their worth…In other words, I define a successful career as much more than just external validation.
— Jan Harrison
via Black Sheep Pen.
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.
