31 Oct
Jim Dow will speak and show work at PhotoAlliance on the 11th (next Friday). American Studies seems to be the project to look at, and it’s strangely fragmentary – full of color and black & white, architectural interiors and details of graffiti. I prefer the latter, but I’m looking forward to seeing what selection of images he decides to show.
26 Oct
PhotoQ interviewed 9 photographers about the future of the business of photography in the age of decreasing prices and the digital boom, and put together a feature on Vimeo called Facing the Future.
“People will always want stories. People will always want storytellers. And today people want visual storytellers more than ever.” – Ed Kashi
“Frankly, if things hadn’t've changed, then I would’ve been worried, because there’s only so long you can live and do the same thing over and over again. What I find is that the last few years have given us freedom.” – Donald Weber
The interview with Peter Van Agtmael, is also excellent.
20 Oct
I saw this photo by Julia Schiller on Google+ but she only has a black and white version on her website. Which is better?
18 Oct
1.
The art of any art is the art of obsession. This is not something that people in general tend to understand. They encourage you to be well-rounded, which bemuses me in a society that tends to reward the specialists – the obsessives – those who decided to excel at one thing instead of becoming good at a hundred or competent at a thousand.
2.
Fiction may not provide you with the same kind of information as non-fiction, but information is not always knowledge, and knowledge is not always wisdom. Fiction – the best fiction – is wise, and makes you just a little bit wiser, and you can take that wisdom and apply it across all the different parts of your life.
- Justine Musk
I finally got around to watching PressPausePlay. It deals mostly about music and film, but you can see how it really applies to all media. First off, this Shirky quote is right on. Why would we ever urge anyone to pass up the chance to actively create to be passive consumers? If we discourage and [...]
Whereas Kodak has so far failed to adapt adequately, Fujifilm has transformed itself into a solidly profitable business, with a market capitalisation, even after a rough year, of some $12.6 billion to Kodak’s $220m. Why did these two firms fare so differently? Both saw change coming. Larry Matteson, a former Kodak executive who now teaches [...]
If you haven’t seen this interview, block out an hour and a half to see it now. I transcribed (and lightly edited) a great deal of it, because it was great (not the least because Chase Jarvis references one of my favorite Errol Morris films, Fast, Cheap and Out of Control). Originally I was just [...]
What is economic growth for, anyway? It’s for expanding our choices and making life better. Is it really so surprising that, as we grow wealthier as a society, more and more of our young people, when the amazing resources of the modern university are put at their disposal, choose to use them learning something satisfying [...]
Arturo Soto There are probably more than 10,000 articles about how unwise and un-blog-attractive it is to apologize for not posting frequently enough to your blog. (“Don’t keep hamsters if you can’t remember to feed them”?) It is the blog version of saying, “I’ve really let myself go.” Supposing that I have, it seems that [...]
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