Media owners around the world are scratching their heads, asking why magazines and newspapers aren’t selling anymore. Why? Because you’ve downgraded the experience. When you are competing against digital, which can zoom in and animate? then your print experience needs to be tactile and exciting and, for magazines, a bit collectable.”
— Tyler Brûlé
via The Independent. Thx Myles
David Turnley Photography Workshops is announcing two scholarship opportunities for the New York workshop being held from August 23 – 29th, 2009. The scholarships will cover the full tuition cost for the workshop, a value of $1550. Winners will be only responsible for a $200 guest speaker fee.
Applicants should send a link to an on-line portfolio or examples of work and a brief paragraph describing their background to workshops@davidcturnley.com. Please do not send images as attachments.
Information about the workshop can be found (here).
Panera has been bucking conventional industry wisdom during the downturn by eschewing discounts and instead targeting customers who can still afford to shell out an average of about $8.50 for lunch.
The St. Louis-based chain of 1,400 cafes says it has been able to persuade customers to pay premiums because it has been improving the quality of its food.
via WSJ.com. thx Terry.
Do not believe there is a “secret”. There is none. That’s the secret.
via The Bohemian.
Robert Michael Murray, the developer of emerging technology platforms for Georgetown University, the 2000 Democratic National Convention and a former tech liaison for multiple TV series, will be in charge of leveraging NG content throughout the new and emerging social media platforms.
via MinOnline.
Photographers of all types listen up ! It is time to STOP hoarding all your “secret” information and START to share it ! I am very upset and disappointed in many photographers today because they think they are Gods gift to photography and that the technique and information they have is exclusive to them only. They think that they are the ones who invented the god dam light bulb and I am TIRED AND FED UP with that kind of thinking.
Check it on Jason Christopher’s Blog. Thx Wesley
There are no guarantees that if you work hard enough, or are talented enough, that you will be successful, be able to support yourself, or importantly, make a meaningful contribution to others. But in the meantime, if you are an artist, the art just comes – weather you like it or not- because you can’t stop it.
Newspaper advertising sales are likely to bottom out after four straight years of decline in 2009, but they aren’t headed back to where they used to be, according to a new projection from Borrell Associates.
“Yes, the home-page story about the Hudson crash might get more clicks than some uniquely incisive analysis of the economy. But it also makes the home page more of a commodity and less of a brand. Paradoxical but true: It’s possible to post stories that make people who come to a web site more likely to click, yet may make them less likely to come back to the site, and certainly less likely to pay for it.”
“I’m 92 years old, and I’ve survived a lot of crises in photojournalism,” he said. “I find the present situation depressing, but I’m crazy enough to be hopeful. There have never been more images out there, and we need more help in sorting out all the information.”
John G. Morris, a former photo editor via NYTimes.com.
We’re building a service to help people make their own newspapers.
I’ve become increasingly nihilistic about photography… photography was much more interesting 50 plus years ago, and now there is just this overabundance of photography. It’s like saying “What type of art do you do?” “Oh, I do Twitter.”
— Alec Soth
via Too Muck Chocolate.
It is not the first time that I say print is not dying, just the folks who owns it are committing suicide. I firmly believe that our salvation is going to be in ensuring that each and every product, we media people produce, must be necessary and sufficient.
via Mr. Magazine.
“… Participants are encouraged to be honest about work they find boring and hateful, especially if curators consider it stimulating and interesting. “
“This past Monday saw the launch of National Art Hate Week in England, the brainchild of painter Billy Childish and two collaborators. The idea, he says, is to give the U.K.’s art institutions “a necessary kicking” by calling for the public to stage a silent revolt and visit a local gallery, take a closer, more honest look at what’s being shown, and then actively hate it.”
via artinfo.com.
Patricia Caulfield, the photographer whose work was used as the basis of Warhol’s flower prints sued in November 1966 and settled for cash and artwork.
via Rich Nolo’s Patent, Copyright & Trademark Blog and Photo Attorney.
“I have always considered being crazy as important to a photographer as being curious.”
— Dirck Halstead
I’m so used to flying wherever to shoot whoever and I say stand wherever for however long etc. This has been a huge growth experience for me as a shooter. My grip has become too damn tight in many ways and the tour makes me go “velvet glove”.
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