In the mail
19 Oct
A couple of things came in the mail this month… the second one in exchange for this flag picture.
Tag Archives: Blake Andrews
whip out your Trends
9 Oct
Who can solve the remaining 5 items in Blake Andrews‘s photographic Google Trends quiz? The patterns are so distinct that they should be easy for someone who’s been following the industry for a long time…
- What occurs biennially in the first few months of the year, the last one being in 2008?
- What was a one-off event that happened smack in the middle of 2007? (“Jen Bekman” is a similar spike, but comes later that year)
- What do people show sustained interest in over the years, but less so during Xmas time? (“snapshot” is very close, but no dice)
- What have people shown increasing interest in over the years and makes a good Xmas present? (CF cards has a similar pattern)
- What do people have a sustained interest in that wanes during summer and Xmas?
If nothing else, check out his blog, which is fast becoming one of my favorites.
UPDATE: The answers have been released. (#6 was snapshot after all!)
MEMORY
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What people really want: film vs digital, longform vs shortform
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 [...]
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Chris Jordan on fear, inspiration and living fully
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 [...]
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Subsidizing art, subsidizing yourself
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 [...]
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down with artspeak! (or, don’t let yourself go)
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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the byline
This is what Hans Rosling says of global development in the documentary I linked to earlier. I want to dig a little deeper into this issue. I’d say that most of the photo world has done a fairly terrible job of making this point. All the images of development are somehow read as “look at [...]
