New Book to Devour...

I am looking forward to my Amazon delivery... also orderd "Blog" by Hewitt. Great reading coming up.

About the Book Going Visual - Using Images to Enhance Productivity, Decisionmaking and Profits by Bob Goldstein and Alexis Gerard: "The book is based on real-world success stories of businesses, large and small, that are using imaging technology to turbo-charge their business communications. Each company had a unique Going Visual strategy and we asked them: How did the idea of come about? What was your process of implementing it? What benefits did you get? What obstacles did you find? What do have planned for the future?"

Seth Nails One of the Problems with Non-Web Thinking

It is so true. One of the most difficult challenges traditional businesses, or even modern, but with traditional baggage, businesses face is understanding that online is different. Photographers who have been doing business in the traditional ways for years find that they now have to rethink the whole enchilada. We constantly have to educate and re-educate our clients to the new realities. I will post a case study this week where a traditional client we have has worked very hard to re-invent his online business.

Seth's Blog: "Online you don't have 1 retail store. You have 50,000 retail stores.
And you know what the customer is looking for BEFORE they walk in!"

It's Here.. at Least Close

Looks like a winner. But it is out of my range. Can covet from afar though.

www.hardwarezone.com® :: Articles - Coolest Hardware, Hottest Reviews: "Nikon's Top Dog Arrives

In February 2001, Nikon introduced to the world the D1X – a six-megapixel, three FPS, nine-frame buffer digital SLR. For the next three and a half years or so, it has remained the top professional body in Nikon’s DSLR offerings. Even when the competition released DSLRs that brought the megapixel-count past the single digit threshold, Nikon remains unmoved. Sure, in late November 2002, Nikon offered a memory module upgrade for the D1X to increase image-buffering performances (from nine JPEG Large images to 21 and six NEF images to 14), but shooting speed remained the same. Rumors of a D1X successor have been floating ever since 2002, but nothing ever materialized."

Copyright Confusion?

Visit iStock photo for a good overview of copyright. 

I Just Received this Email

You know... somebody actually sends this crap out as an email to try to get me to click on a link and buy something. Can you imagine the level of stupidity that someone would have to reach to do this.

Spam at least used to make sense. Now we get this kind of crap nearly every day.

Unfortunately, I guess it must work.

"Our latest sight displays that it takes usual of just 3.8
crapulences to make a katzenjammer. But our pills helps you elude hangovers and waken feeling magnificent from caput to belly and everyplace else."

Speaking on Stock

I have been invited to speak on a panel about stock issues and the great many challenges that stock shooters face. I will present my views on personal stock, overcoming inactivity, creating new markets, royalty free cash flow and more. I could end up convincing folks of my views, or they could tear me limb from limb... I will keep you informed.

March 3rd Panel/Meeting:
“The Power of Stock”

We’re starting the year out with a panel discussion on the subject of STOCK photography … with the focus being on the current trends in style and marketing, and what you, the individual photographer, can do to enter this diverse direction in photography.

The panelists for the evening are from all over our great state … with Landscape & Fine Art photographer Tom Bean from Flagstaff … Travel & Leisure photographer Kerrick James from Phoenix … Advertising/People/Lifestyle photographer Edward McCain from Tucson … Advertising/Portrait/Corporate photographer Jeff Noble from Phoenix … and Designer/Photographer/Developer Don Giannatti from Phoenix.

The evening will begin with refreshments from 5:30 to 6:30. The panel discussion will begin immediately thereafter. The location is:

Noble Studios, Inc.
1425 N. First Street, #101
Phoenix, AZ 85004
(602) 440-4900
The location is just south of McDowell Rd., on First Street, in downtown Phoenix

Please encourage any, and all of your colleagues – students and/or professionals -- from all disciplines, to attend this very important meeting. We’d love to see groups from Flagstaff and Tucson have a presence as well.

Please R.S.V.P. us at jeff@noblestock.com to confirm your presence.

"I just flipped it over and made a copy...

... that makes it a new piece." No, this isn't a direct quote from any real person, it just seems so prevalent these days. Let's get this straight.
1. You cannot rip off my work.
2. You cannot change my work to make it yours (see #1 above)
3. Making a new work from my work doesn't make it your work. (see #1 above)
4. Giving me credit for the work you stole to make your new work does not give you a free pass. (see #1 above)
5. Calling it 'sampling", "influenced by", or any other bullshit term does not make it yours or give you the right to take it. (see #1 above)

Good lord, professors should know this stuff. You wonder if this guy ever dinged a student for 'plagiarising' some writing for a class assignment.

What about not taking my intellectual property without my permission is so damn hard to understand. And why do we continuously turn away from this... Confront the bastards and make them stop.


Rant over... back to work.

CBS4 Denver: 'Original' Churchill Art Piece Creates Controversy: "Churchill made the serigraph in question in 1981 and called it 'Winter Attack.' He printed 150 copies and sold one of them to Duke Prentup for about $100.

'I have enjoyed them ever since, immensely,' Prentup said. 'They're, obviously, up in my house.'

But last month came a stunning revelation. As Prentup flipped through a book of illustrations by renowned artist Thomas E. Mails, he found an artwork of striking similarity."

Good News for Mac Users

At least those of you with Blogs. This software allows you to instantly publish images from your iPhoto albums to your blog. PC users have had the advantage on getting images into their blogs with many solutions. This is nice to see for the Mac. And the price seems about right as well. Check it out.
Hat Tip: Seth)

[ daikini software ]: "Photon exports photos from your iPhoto photo library directly to your weblog. No muss. No fuss."

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Tom Peters can Rock Your Day...

His first installment of "100 ways to..." is up. It is Free. It is worth reading. It is available now. If you want to win, you will download it and read it and read it again and send it to your friends. 50 ideas that will put you ahead of those that will not go there or read it or do any of the things he is suggesting. If you get what I am saying, then -- rant over.
Cheers....

ChangeThis :: 100 Ways to Help You Succeed/Make Money, Part 1: "Tom Peters Tom's back! In this first installment, you'll find 50 short, wonderfully sweet nuggets of advice that you will love, love, love. "

If you have ever written a Functional Spec...

... you may find this little article very interesting. I have always created little screens and flows - visitor experiences - to help our clients understand the purpose of the interface and to put a 'timeline' to the functionality. Specs, while I have always thought them necessary, too often lead to a simple project becoming a huge, overly specced project.

Getting Real, Step 1: No Functional Spec (Signal vs. Noise): "Getting Real is all about starting from the user interface and customer experience and then building out. Visual design first, programming second. The more traditional process is starting from the abstract (documentation, diagrams, charts, etc.), coding a skeleton app, and then homing in on the real by finishing it up with an interface. We think that's backwards."

Dean Collins: RIP

Dean Collins: "Dean Collins passed away at his home in San Diego on February 2, 2005. He was 51 years old. Dean is known worldwide for his lifetime of photographic education tours, seminars, video education and computer based instruction. His vision for a new generation of professionals in the world of imaging arts was predicated upon making the highest quality education available in the most easily accessible forms. With his company Software Cinema he ventured into new efficient ways of delivering high quality training worldwide."

Michael McDonough's Top Ten Things They Never Taught Me in Design School

Over at Design Observer. Well done.

Design Observer: writings about design & culture: Michael McDonough�s Top Ten Things They Never Taught Me in Design School:

"1. Talent is one-third of the success equation.
Talent is important in any profession, but it is no guarantee of success. Hard work and luck are equally important. Hard work means self-discipline and sacrifice. Luck means, among other things, access to power, whether it is social contacts or money or timing. In fact, if you are not very talented, you can still succeed by emphasizing the other two. If you think I am wrong, just look around."

You just gotta see this

Have dinner with Marc... a very clever and inventive young man.

Marc Horowitz

Reading this Book...

Lots to digest here, but a really sobering look at how IP rights and over-reaching lawyers can put a definte crimp on creativity, entrepreneurialsim and speech. You may find this book troubling, enlightening or somewhere in between, but it will make you think.

Amazon.com: Books: Brand Name Bullies : The Quest to Own and Control Culture: "Imagine if today's far-reaching laws on copyright and trademark were sent back in time to the days of William Shakespeare. On the opening day of Romeo and Juliet, the heirs of first-century Roman poet Ovid would surely have filed the case of Estate of Ovid v. William Shakespeare, alleging that the Bard had made unauthorized use of Ovid's Metamorphoses, which is also based on two lovers from warring families. The legal conflict would have scared off theaters, and the play would have dropped into obscurity. It might seem ridiculous, but David Bollier, author of Brand Name Bullies, says this scenario is common under today's copyright and trademark law, which he calls 'replete with tales of the bizarre and hilarious.'"

One Dimensional Site Design

Design for Who?

A friend of mine sent me a link to a web design / hosting service set up for photographers. He knows that we have a similar product and wanted to let me know about this service.

I visited the site (no names, email me and I will let you know) and found it to be one of those "designy flash thingy" sites with Flash 'templates'. I was not impressed, explanation coming.

The deal is - you pick your template and then fill in the info and images in the portfolio. Now, the content management looks great, and I believe it to be very important. However, that is the end of the functionality. There are no meta tags, no page name management, no way to have the SE's find the site, no room for growth and expansion of the site.

In short, it is one dimensional design. "Hey it looks good, we're done." What? That makes no sense to me at all. Design should be multi-dimensional.

Websites should have many goals:
1. Satisfy the visitor. What would the visitor to the site be looking for? How can we make it easier for the visitor to find what they are looking for.
2. Help the site owner develop more business. How can the site do that effectively? How can the site actually bring in more customers?
3. Increase the photographers visibility. How does the site attract visitors? Can the site do that 'on its own' so to speak? How will the site utilize existing technology to further reach out to prospective clients?
4. Look good, while being functional and informative. Does the design help or hinder the navigation or content availability? Does it work FOR the visitor or against them?

The site design company only addresses #4. That is way too short of a list to count as the reason to build a site. If it looks good and the photog still has to spend marketing dollars just to increase traffic (because the site is incapable of drawing visitors on its own) then what is the benefit? Sure, a handful of photogs can legitimately claim that they do not need to be found by search engines, but most do not have that luxury.

When looking to get a design for your website, make sure the web designer or firm understands ALL of the reasons you want a web site. And hope that they bring even more reasons / solutions to the table.

Sure it should look good, great - even cool. But it should also work for you on the other levels mentioned above. Or, hey, it's just an online place to put photos... and Flickr does that already for free.

Flickr - Image Blog

cactus_3
Originally uploaded by Wizwow.

Testing the Flickr blogging tool. Very interesting take on the photoblog. Flickr's unique 'community' model seems unlike any other that I am aware of. Categorize, edit, group with other contributors, tag the images with keywords, share images and, of course, blog postings.

The image was taken on 8x10, TMax and scanned in.

Interview with DanYaccarino, Illustrator

...over at Core77 there is a lot to see and read. Grab a cup of tea and pull up a laptop.

Core77 ~ *Industrial Design Supersite*: "After Nickelodeon decided to option Oswald and pay for a pilot, I was thrust into a position of being the creative leader in charge of a whole team of very talented people at an animation studio in Burbank. Needless to say, I had a lot to learn. I was not accustomed to any of this, but I wanted to see my idea get on the air so I watched and absorbed it all."

Short Article about Flickr

...over at Design Observer.

Design Observer: writings about design & culture: My Friend Flickr: "These days, my skepticism about the current state of photography is mostly relegated to cameras which, despite being so captivatingly small, remain annoyingly enigmatic. Yet while I mourn the lack of a proper viewfinder on anything digital (a line in the sand, as far as I am concerned, that is tantamount to the end of civilization as we know it) I am equally taken with the idea of an image-driven community in which notions of territorial inequality are unheard of."

Dreamweaver Extension Heaven...

Use Dreamweaver? Love extensions? Here is a simple directory page with links, links and more links. Enjoy.

Dreamweaver Resources, Extensions

Good Advice on Promoting your Blog here

I signed up for Blog Explosion and while I was there I saw this site and read a few good posts there...
His list on getting "buzz" about your blog caught my attention. I am vacillating between bumper stickers and having "It's What I Do" tattoed on my forehead... hmmmmmm.

The Online Internet Coach: "Create a controversy around your blog or it's topic. Distribute bumper stickers or other merchandise with your blog's URL and tagline. Write a press release about something newsworthy and tie it in with your blog topic."

Spin Me has advice for Musicians that works well for photogs too

Speaking with a photographer this week, she mentioned that she was trying to promote herself to a particular agency in town. I asked her what she was doing to get them interested in her and she told me that she was sending postcards every two months and had been doing that for about 4 years. And that with no success... not even one call.

I tried to explain that at this point she wasn't even getting seen. Her postcards were not even being noticed. They were expected and ignored. She needs to do something totally different, maybe even outrageous to get noticed. She had nothing of that, preferring to go merrily on with a failed campaign because it "felt right" to her.

Oh. I thought marketing was about getting the other guy to feel "right" about you.

spinme.com: Slow-Cooked Success: "If you do what everyone else does and expect a better result, you'll be the first in line to kick yourself in the butt later on. Instead, focus on the small things you can do differently every day to move yourself forward. It may take a little longer than you want right now, but your gains will be real, and you won't endure the shock of a crash when your real, perfect audience is there to support you."

How Long Since You Visited Fred Miranda's Site?

Lots of great images to view as well as this very cool feature. Thousands of reviews and such of equipment, cards, lenses etc... Take a look, and make sure you have some time to stay and peruse.

fredmiranda.com: Specialized in digital cameras, photoshop actions, and digital darkroom: "On the FM Reviews page, there are almost 3,000 reviews already posted and we hope with your help to add even more. This is a great resource for sharing photography gear information. Let us know what you think about the gear that you are using by posting your review. You can post your review on many topics and brands of lenses, bodies and accessories, etc."

The D200... Hmmmmm, not sure about this

I do like the lines and the, uh, somewhat retro look to it. Heck, I even have a few of these lying around (yeah, shoulda sold em when they were worth something). I just dont know what the winder is for? ;)

Austin Country Limits: Fool Me Once

If You Like Jazz...

...like I like jazz. I haven't heard a straight ahead group like this for quite a while. The vibes are fresh, phrasing is hip, the drummer is, well, tasty and the Hammond guy, wow... This is jazz the way I like it. In the groove, deeply. Wonderful long downloads to give you just a taste.

Recordings - New Groove Blues: "Steve Yeager's third release as a leader combines the rarely recorded combination of Vibes and Hammond B-3 Organ. These instruments together provide a texture that is unique and instantly appealing. A fresh sound in today's scene."

AZ PHOTOBOOK is up... you should take a look and join

AZPhotoBook.com, the best directory of commercial photographers in Arizona and the Southwest. Advertising, Editorial, Corporate, Architecture, Fashion, Portrait, Fine Art, Studio and Location.: "The AZPhotobook.com site is the best directory of photographic talent in the Southwest. Featuring photographers in Arizona, the site has search capabilities as well as portfolios from a wide range of photographic specialties. Thanks for spending a few moments with us."

Entry Level Digital Just Got More Affordable...

Rob Galbraith DPI: Canon unveils Digital Rebel XT: "Canon today has unveiled the Digital Rebel XT, a 3 fps, 7.96 million image pixel entry-level digital SLR.
The new model, which is better-specified than the original Digital Rebel in practically every respect, is clearly designed to be both more full-featured and a more worthy competitor to the Nikon D70."

Strange Attractor is an Interesting Blog

Check it out and you will find lots to read.

Strange Attractor: "In Strange Attractor, Suw picks out patterns from the apparent chaos that is the blogosphere. She explores business blogging as well as adjacent territories such as social technologies, writing and storytelling, e-learning, digital rights and journalism."

Photographs are for Sharing... New Product

Not sure of the Pro application of this product, but the fun factor for families and friends looks fairly high. It may also be a way for professional photogs to move medium res files to clients without FTP. I have signed up for the free demo, so I will keep you apprised.
(hat tip: Steve D)

Photoleap: "Photoleap is the easy new way to send and receive digital photographs. It works exactly like email - start a new message, add email addresses, a subject and a message. Then add your photos, and click send. That's it: you don't need to resize your photos, you don't need to worry about your email bouncing back or crashing if you send too many."

Visit Pamela Littky's site

A no-nonsense site with great photos. Home page and portfolios. Nice.
Unfortunately the site has a Google ranking of 0, poor meta tags and cannot even be found when you type in her name. Her name, for goodness sake. If being hidden on the web was the goal of this site, give the designer an 'AttaBoy'. If, however, the photographer would like to be found on the net, the choice of style over substance and useability is just wrong.

Pamela Littky Photography

American 'Idle'

My wife and kids are following the American Idol TV show and last nite they had me sit and watch it with them. I was amazed at both the pitifully poor performances of people that should have known better, and also at some surprising voices with character.

At the end of the show they had to tell a room full of contestants that they hadn't made it, and would be leaving the show. And the reason that they were leaving, according to the dropped contestants, was that the judges were jerks or that the other contestants had manipulated the system. Pure bullshit.

They were eliminated because they weren't good enough. Plain and simple. They hadn't worked hard enough or practiced enough or honed their skills well enough. They expected it to come to them through a contest. Fame, success, riches... all were owed to them just because they showed up. There may have been a few gracious losers, but the producers didn't show us any. We saw spiteful, hateful, vulgar people who had little talent and had worked little to get there.

Every morning I watch a group of ice skaters no older than 13 work on the ice. They are up at 4am and they go to the cold ice and fall and fall and fall - and get up and do it again and again. They don't expect to just 'show up.' They expect to work hard to achieve their goals. And get up early. And fall.

"American Idolitis" is a sad commentary on our culture of hyped fame. So many people think that they don't have to work for their excellence that it would have been refreshing to see some of these 'contestants' actually be grateful that their small amount of talent had taken them that far.

What they need to do now is get up early. Take voice lessons. Sing with a group. Sing with a choir. Hone their skills. Work at it. Learn to play an instrument. Like those 12 year old girls who fall on the ice over and over again. Hell, do they think that Nora Jones just showed up one day at the studio and that was it? If they do, they are even more foolish than they looked screaming the off-key melodies in front of bored celebrities.

Success doesn't become your right if you just 'show up'. If you think it does, it's time for you to go home.

Seth Makes the Point

Seth's Blog: "More than a hundred years ago, Kaiser Wilhelm wanted to get rid of his enemies in the German government. He noticed that they were all over 65. So he decreed that this was the official retirement age, and it still is."

Yep.

Self Portraits Made Interesting

iStockphoto.com : Articles - How to Play Well With Yourself (and Not Go Blind): "To some, perhaps, the idea of the self-portrait is selfish: 'Look at me! I want you to see me! It's all about me, Me, ME!', and for a few it probably is, but for many, like myself, we're actually quite shy and introverted people. So why on earth would we want to splash pictures of our mugs all over the place? Good question, actually. I must look into that sometime."

Suited for Blogging?

Recetntly I was speaking to a bunch of photographers and designers about blogs and the power of online communication. After the talk a few of them emailed me to tell me that they thought that blogs were cool for some, but that they didn't see how they could do a blog on what they do.

Englishcut is a blog by a tailor. He makes suits. Expensive ones. That is a niche, and he has opened up lines of coummunication with those who are interested in $3K suits.

Don't tell me anymore that a photographer or designer can't blog. And BTW, visit his extensive blog to find out what you need to do to order your next custom tailored suit.

English Cut: "Ideally your new tailor should be recommended to you . But if not, you�ve probably been persuaded by good PR in the magazines. Alternatively, you may just be making a leap of faith. Which ever route you�ve taken, the process should go something like this:"

Update:
See how this blog came about and the imagination / planning that is going into it.
Gaping void tells the story. (hat tip to Seth)

Update on Sensor Cleaning

We got our order from Visible Dust. I am reporting that the product performs exactly as described. My sensor was so bad that it looked like the craters of the moon on any shot I did at about 5.6 and lower.

We took out the tools, read the directions and started.

1. Using Chamber clean, I wiped down the entire chamber with the sterilized cotton swab things.

2. I cleaned the sensor with Sensor Clean, using one wet swab and drying it with one dry swab.

3. Brushed the Sensor Brushes over the sensor twice, blowing them off with canned air between passes.

Put the 100mm lens on and took a snap of a white wall at f16.

Totally clear. Totally.

Visible Dust has my full endorsement. Fantastic product.
Visit them and get the whole works.


Visible Dust

Seth Lays Out a Plan

"4. Desire to be three steps ahead. One step is easy. One step isn't enough. If you're only one step ahead, you'll get creamed before you launch. Two steps is tempting. Two steps means that everyone understands what you're up to when you pitch them. Two steps means that you can get funded in no time. Two steps is a problem. It's a problem because the smart guys are three steps ahead. They're the groundbreakers and the pathfinders. They're the ones inventing the next generation. It's harder to sell, harder to build and harder to get your mother-in-law to understand, but that's what's worth building."

Read this whole post... Very well stated. Absolutely.

Seth's Blog: So, what will it take to succeed?

Noise Reducer

We are trying this out. Will keep you posted, but so far results are very good.

DIGITAL GEM Professional Photoshop Plugin: "DIGITAL GEM Professional Plug-In adds new features and functionality to the award-winning DIGITAL GEM Plug-in to give users more control and better results for reducing distracting noise and grain in their 8-bit or 16-bit digital images."

Not actually a Point and Shoot Solution

Wired News: Photographer Seeks Resolution: "Weighing more than 100 pounds, Flint's camera captures images at 4 gigapixels -- a resolution high enough to photograph four football fields and capture every single blade of grass. When printed at maximum resolution, the images are as big as billboards, but render the finest detail."

Ossie Davis RIP

I have always liked and respected this fantastic actor. He was a true hero for the Civil Rights movement and a class act. La Shawn Barber has a ton of links about Mr. Davis.

La Shawn Barber's Corner

Seth Understands why Amazon Did It...

Seth is right on with his view that the point to Amazon's new shipping program is a customer retention program, not a shipping discount.

Ways to make it work for you could be:

Photographer tells his client base that for a flat fee of $2000 they will receive an additional 2 hours of photoshop on every project for a quarter, year... whatever. Then when they think of hiring another photog they will think twice because you have already got them.

Designers could come up with a fixed fee that would let the client get a logo presentation on any of the next six projects...

There are many ways to rope, err... , let your client buy into a great discount. Think of them. Contact me and we will think of them together.

Seth's Blog: "Imagine a new chain of cafes that offers a coffee club. For a flat fee, you get all the wifi and lattes you can handle. With the markup on both, the owner does great, and people would feel terrible every time they strayed."

You Gotta See This

HubbleSite - Light Continues to Echo Three Years After Stellar Outburst - Image - 2/3/2005: "The Hubble Space Telescope's latest image of the star V838 Monocerotis (V838 Mon) reveals dramatic changes in the illumination of surrounding dusty cloud structures. The effect, called a light echo, has been unveiling never-before-seen dust patterns ever since the star suddenly brightened for several weeks in early 2002."

When Intellectual Property Lawyers Lose Sight of the Prize

... and start flailing at every little thing out there. My sense is that they are simply booking them billable hours... Shonuff... Fools. Putting their targets on model kits for design royalties should be laughable, but alas, it is stupid and inane and will put no revenue in the hands of their clients, but lots of dollars in their bank accounts. Shakespeare had it right.

Lawyers Lay Waste to Military Models Industry: "These royalty demands grew out of the idea that corporations should maximize �intellectual property� income. Models of a companys products are considered the intellectual property of the owner of a vehicle design. "

Flickr! Just May be on to Something

They have a constantly growing and very powerful feature set. From hosting images, to blog posting tools and a complete photoblog app, Flickr is growing fast and this could develop into something akin to iStockPhoto. Only here, you set the search parameters as well as the pricing of your images.

I hope some of you take a look at this feature as a way of creating more visibility.

Welcome to Flickr!

Sure Hope None of Mine are on this list...

Good read. Do it now.

Web Pages That Suck presents the biggest web design mistakes in 2004 learn usability and good Web design by looking at bad Web design: "Some mistakes aren't actually design mistakes in the classical sense -- ugly graphics, bad navigation, etc. -- but serious big picture problems like our Number One Mistake of the Year: "

Good Information : Ugly site

You may want to bookmark this page and read it more than once.

So you want to be a consultant...?: "I've been a consultant of one form or another since 1985 when I started my old company, V-Systems, with a friend from college, and actually did bits and pieces of consulting as early as 1982. I have been asked often about the business, and I decided to write this up. "

Choose pictures based on their predominant color

Now this you have to see. Wonder what other things the folks at Flickr are working on.

Color Fields Color Picker

Nice site

and totally CSS, not flash. BTW, there is a nice interview with John at iStockPhoto.com. Go here and read it.

Update: Another site for John.

This is nice. A totally flash site and an html site that cross relate.

john rees

via Cameron Moll...

A very nice tutorial on making something look older and worn. Photoshop users will love this...

That Wicked Worn Look ~ The Series ~ Authentic Boredom: "Introducing �That Wicked Worn Look,� a four-part series of how-to�s and savvy conversation, arriving at your very own browser starting this Wednesday morning."

Now this is a good way to get involved

Check it out

"The type design community is reaching out to tsunami disaster areas in Asia. If you're interested in volunteering your design efforts, get involved with Building Letters or with FontAid III..."

{ Typophile } typography / design / theory / forums / fonts / graphic / books / free / downloads

Take a look at this very interesting site

Here we have flash and html mixed well with a definite style presented. Gutsy site, and it represents the style of work that the group is pursuing. Visitors to the site get a strong message on what the company does and how they do it.

Universal Everything

Are you Aware of this?

There are a lot of folks out there demanding that copyright protection be lifted for specific artists and uses. If you are'nt aware of these folks and their agenda, you should be.

Kaliber10000 :. Issues (Issue Description): "Have you ever thought about the concept: Many artists today want to
have freedom of expression, but once they create their own art piece,
they don't want others to copy it?"

Fred Miranda reviews the Nikon D2X

... and it's a CMOS Sensor. Hmmmmm....

fredmiranda.com: Specialized in digital cameras, photoshop actions, and digital darkroom: "Nikon announced the new D2X professional digital SLR camera. Designed as a truly versatile workhorse camera for many professional disciplines, the D2X blends for the first time the high levels of resolution commercial clients demand with superb image quality, color consistency and class-leading speed."