Is Fashion Tied to Art, or Art to Fashion? Does what one wears control our aesthetic, or is it derived from it?

Might certain less popular musical styles be less popular because they have no parallel in the appearance-obsessed world, specifically in the garments we see every day on the people we share the planet with, as well as what we wear ourselves? While there are clearly outfits that connote punk rock, heavy-metal, hop-hop, or country-western, there is no adequate analog for so-called post-classical music or even contemporary jazz. What items of clothing would you associate with integral serialism, total free improvisation, microtonality, indeterminacy? Minimalism caught on in popular culture more than most score-based music of the past half century. Might that be because minimalism can translate into a clothing style—monochrome or hypnotically patterned?

via newmusicbox.org

Interesting post on music and fashion.

Change out music for photography, and there may be something there.

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Why Startups Need to Blog (and what to talk about …) - Yeah, like I said... talk to your customers - NOT your competition.

I often get the question from people, “I’d like to blog, but I don’t really know what to talk about?” Or “I’m a new entrepreneur, why would I offer advice on how to run a startup?”

You wouldn’t. You shouldn’t.

via techcrunch.com

You wouldn't. You shouldn't.

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If you don't think this recession has anything to do with photography, you are asleep. This is strikingly scary.

A Massachusetts employment organization has canceled its annual job fair because not enough companies have come forward to offer jobs.

via boston.com

They had it last year.

And I keep reading that the recession is over.

Really.

Where?

No jobs means less purchasing means less advertising means less jobs for photographers (and means less disposable income for direct consumer photography as well).

We'll get back to the jobs picture once the basketball thing plays out though... eh, America?

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Why Sales Is Still Missing From Social CRM: Hey, photographers... read this. Understanding WHAT social media is and is not

While marketing and customer service have jumped on the social CRM bandwagon, the sales profession has mostly been watching from the sidelines, wondering what to do and how to do it.

via mashable.com

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It's the nature of the artist to want to create. Whether for monetary value or the purest reward of creation.

it's worth pointing out that one respect in which music is most definitely political is that it is a form of labor that lots of people are willing to do for free.

via newmusicbox.org

Whether in music or art or photography. The joy is in the creation and celebration of the art. If we don't do it for money, we do it for love.

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Whether music or art or photography... much 'behind the scenes' politics can help/diminish the success

Perhaps the reason contemporary art retains its hold on the public is because there is no popular alternative.

via newmusicbox.org

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4 Times Journalists Held in Libya Faced Brutality - NYTimes.com - Freed now. Read the whole thing.

Shoot them,” a tall soldier said calmly in Arabic.

via nytimes.com

offered without comment...

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20 Minute Plan: Productivity made simple, or at least presented in a way to turn mountains into bite-size chunks. Interesting.

First, Get an Egg Timer

via chrisbrogan.com

Yep.

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Federal Jobs | Uncle Sam shelling out big bucks for government jobs, GOP says time to cut | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment

The Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs needs someone to run the Facebook page for the Dept. of the Interior and they’ll pay up to $115,000 a year.

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That was quick: Four lines of code is all it takes for The New York Times’ paywall to come tumbling down - the $50M Firewall... LOL

The New York Times paywall is costing the newspaper $40-$50 million to design and construct, Bloomberg has reported.

And it can be defeated through four lines of Javascript.

via niemanlab.org

This is the real reason mainstream journalism is in trouble.

They employ stupid people.

That anyone was able to talk someone into a $50 Million Dollar Firewall that can be breached with - with - javascript?

OMG... that isn't just laughably stupid, it should be investigated as criminally stupid.

Seriously, NYT... you had your day. Go away now.

Please.... LOL LOL LOL

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The Chronicle of Higher Education: Crowdsourcing "immoral"? Well... maybe, but it sure as hell is stupid.

In many cases, companies have persuaded people to complete simple tasks for no pay at all, instead offering recognition within the volunteer community or points in the guise of a game. Mr. Zittrain called it "a wonderful Tom Sawyer syndrome.

via chronicle.com

A very dark look at the current state of the digital world.

Personally I loathe 'crowdsourcing' and that crap, it is terribly lame and one of the more stupid models of business I can think of.

I believe that the immoral thing may be a bit much... no one 'forces' the participants.

My favorite graph:
"Fees paid for crowdsourced tasks are usually so meager that they could not possibly earn participants a living wage, Mr. Zittrain argued. He is familiar with one group drawn to the services: poor graduate students seeking spending money."

Yes. Turn your marketing message over to a college student looking for beer money.

Sure. What could go wrong.

As for the thought that crowdsourcing could actually make someone some money... ask Arianna Huffington and you may find a different point of view than mine.

But then, she is a greedy moron, and I am only blogger.

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Sure. Absolutely. I am thoroughly convinced that a 'self audit' to find a 'mistake' will be fine for even, you know, the little people.

But she stressed that she was not trying to evade taxes and that the failure to register the plane in Missouri was a "mistake.

via politico.com

Geeez....

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So who exactly are these "experts" who are constantly surprised by what most of us see around us every day?

Sales of previously owned U.S. homes fell unexpectedly sharply in February and prices touched their lowest level in nearly nine years, implying a housing market recovery was still a long off.

via cnbc.com

After a while it gets comical.

"Unexpectedly" is the buzzword of these so called experts.

When most of us who are actually conscious see it all around us. "For Sale" signs that are nearly decayed from months/years of standing. Extreme difficulty in getting approved from banks. Homes in disrepair from those who exited under less than good circumstances.

And these clowns find it "unexpected"?

Maybe we should, you know, stop asking them to analyze anything. Every damn month it is the same "surprising" or "unexpected" occurence in stuff that we who live here KNOW.

Idiots. Credentialed, but not educated, idiots.

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ELIZABETH AVEDON: ARNOLD NEWMAN: 93rd BirthDay

"Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it's own; if it doesn't, the thing collapses." – Arnold Newman

via elizabethavedon.blogspot.com

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Watch Joni Sternbach shoot 8x10 on the beach: Her surfer shots are simply amazing.

What a wonderful little video. Joni Sternbach is one of my most favorite photographers.

I want one of her surfer shots sooooo bad. Someday.

 

See more of her work at www.jonisternbach.com

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Some Things Just Present Themselves as, Well, Interesting. And Sometimes Irony is Deeply Troubling

Eight years apart, to the day. The result: a teaching moment!

MARCH 19, 2011

OBAMA: ‘Today we are part of a broad coalition. We are answering the calls of a threatened people. And we are acting in the interests of the United States and the world’… (full statement from USA Today.)

MARCH 19, 2003
BUSH: ‘American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger’…  (full statement from On Line News Hour (pbs)).

via austinbay.net

No comment. Just pure amazement in the cosmos. Maybe it's because of the "Super Moon"...

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Joe Morello, one of the great jazz drummers of all time, dies at 82. Take 5, Joe.

"He played everything from weddings to military marches before eventually taking up with The Dave Brubeck Quartet in 1955, initially for a two-month tour.

That turned into a collaboration lasting more than 12 years, during which Morello proved his ability to handle the difficult meters favored by Brubeck.

Those included "Take Five," a composition in 5/4 which became one of the most successful singles in jazz music, according to the New York Times.

The piece, alongside tracks including "Kathy's Waltz" and "Strange Meadow Lark," featured on Brubeck's most famous album "Time Out" released in 1959."

From Reuters.

 

Take the "A" Train

We will miss you, Joe.

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Channel One Suite: Buddy Rich and the Band at the Hague. Watch and have a blast!!!

Channel One Suite in Three Parts:

Part One

Part Two:

Part Three

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PhotoBlog - Last known photo of missing New York Times photographers

As reported on Wednesday, four journalists covering the fighting in Libya for The New York Times are missing. The Times says it's holding out hope that the team is alive and in the custody of the Libyan government.

via photoblog.msnbc.msn.com

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"Keep Shooting, My Friends" - great information from the Best Photographer in the World!

RETV presents the "Greatest Photographer in the World" from RETV from Resource Magazine on Vimeo.

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How To Be A Social Media Jerk | Six Pixels of Separation: heh... some good info that all too many already know, LOL

Cover your face? Imagine speaking to someone but they kept their identity unknown. How awkward would that be? Show your face... post a real (and recent) photo of yourself.

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These look like pretty nice photogrpahers portfolios: Lovegrove in the UK.

We have a range of portfolio sizes available, each size can be either in a landscape or portrait orientation. The choices from the smallest to the largest are: 10 x 8 inches, A4 (210mm x 297mm), 11 x 14 inches, A3 (297mm x 420mm), 12 x 18 inches (The Lovegrove recommended size) and finally A3-plus (13 x 19 inches). Portfolio sizes relate to the size of the inner sleeves and therefore the maximum size of prints they can hold. The actual size of the portfolio including leather cover will be slightly bigger.

via lovegroveconsulting.com

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What is so funny about photography anyway? (Interesting and enlightening article...

In Chip’s words, “This is the irony of humour….it reveals truth.

via fotoflock.com

I love Chip Simons work... heh.

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Kirk Tuck: "Coercing people to work for free and then calling it "crowdsourcing" doesn't make it moral or ethical or profitable."

This is not a question of being unable to compete on talent.  It is a moral question of who should benefit from true value.  There is an intrinsic value in all we do.

via visualsciencelab.blogspot.com

I hate "crowdsourcing" bullshit as much as I hate micro-stock. Kirk rants on well here, so I recommend you simply read the whole thing.

Crowdsourcing is also called "Spec" - and I am a member of the NO SPEC club.

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Flickr Burning As Yahoo Fiddles: Head Of Service Walks Away: Flickr on the ropes? Will Photography Survive?

Following the leak of the “sunsetting” of Delicious, talk quickly moved to Flickr: what would happen there? Everyone was worried, but Yahoo publicly stated that they were very much backing the service.

via techcrunch.com

Yeah. I bet it will.

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Are You Working in the "Dead Zone" - like photography, journalism or web design? Good... read this.

Great music wasn't created by the first people to grab an electric guitar or a synthesizer. Great snowboarding moves didn't come from the guy who invented the snowboard...

via sethgodin.typepad.com

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Dear Customer, Should I Be Doing This?

If you’re like me, you ask yourself this way too often.

via permissiontosuck.net

If you are passionate and crazy about what you do... then, yes.

If not... well. Sorry.

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How I bewitched lothario photographer David Bailey, by model ex-wife Marie Helvin

But please, by Mary, Jesus and all the saints, don't sleep with him. I'm telling you, my dear - keep your knickers on. If you do, you'd be the first and probably the last. Good luck now, angel.

via dailymail.co.uk

Well, we all know how that worked out.

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Satellite Photos - Japan Before and After Tsunami - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com

Satellite Photos of Japan, Before and After the Quake and Tsunami

via nytimes.com

Incredible tragedy seen in its totality from the sky.

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Herman Leonard Photography, LLC (just don't try it without html5 support on your browser.

This version of Firefox does not support HTML5.
Please use any of the modern web browsers listed below.

via hermanleonard.com

Jumping the gun a little are we.

Telling folks to go get another browser is kinda, you know, sucky.

But I did and the site is very nice.

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A Wired World In Its Own Mirror: Photojournalism by the participants is the new paradigm. Techcnology changes the game in the world of news photography.

People feel the same natural thrill at capturing an extraordinary event and posting it online as photojournalists must have once  felt when they found themselves on the scene at some momentous occasion.

via pajamasmedia.com

We are seeing this more and more. I have three small video cameras... and I use them all the time. I don't think any citizen should be without a personal video camera.

PJ's will still dominate the long form journalistic story, but there will be pushback there as well. And the amateurs with cameras, video and a Mac will be changing the world from within- as a participant... not from the edges as an observer.

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Quotes from Books I am Reading: #1 (photographer Bruce Barnbaum on Creativity)

"I believe that creativity is a product of intelligence. I don't believe that creative work can be produced by fools, dullards, or mediocre people, except in the rarest of accidents. Creativity is a product of desire, thought, experience, experimentation and inner conviction. Taken together, these five qualities imply intelligence and commitment."

- Bruce Barnbaum
"The Art of Photography"
An Approach to Personal Expression

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Unique Sentences You Will Read ONLY Once In Your Life: Thanks, Susannah

I am sitting in the lobby of an ad agency, watching a group of men attempt to maneuver a six-foot-tall egg onto a dolly.

via blogs.forbes.com

Read the whole thing. She is a good writer...

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How To Obtain Photo & Video Location Permits | Chase Jarvis Blog

When do you need a permit?
If you are just walking around with your camera and shooting casually, you generally don’t need a permit. You will, however, need a permit if you are shooing on public property OR if your shooting will impact others and/or the environment. The threshold varies from location to location, but generally, ask yourself these questions:

• Is this a commercial shoot?
• Will your filming disturb traffic or pedestrians?
• Will you need to use tripods, dollys, wires, a generator or other equipment on sidewalks or streets?
• Are you using the public space in a special/different way than it is intended?

via blog.chasejarvis.com

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Lighting Essentials - a Place for Photographers. Having a Roadmap for Your Career can save wasted time on dead ends...

Some say that motivation can be achieved by visualizing your outcome. I would add that sheer terror can also motivate one. Trust me.

via lighting-essentials.com

My take on making sure we are going somewhere, and not just 'anywhere'.

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Robed, bewigged judge rugby-tackles prisoner who was running away - but not really - sorta...

Reid, who denies he was trying to flee court, had already pulled off a similar escape from a London court two years earlier.

via news.yahoo.com

I am sure that some prominent defense barrister will take the case claiming that the prisoner was just needing to get outside for a moment to decide how to confess... and then sue the judge for prohibiting the freedom of a prisoner in holding... Heh.

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Al Dente: Grown-Up Grilled Cheese: I Love Grilled Cheese Sandwiches

3. A grilled cheese sandwich made with super-thick slices of bread is "nearly always doomed". Go for standard slices.

via aldenteblog.com

Mmmmm....

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Bill shooting Bri.

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Wireframing a site for a consultant in the studio.

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The Visual Science Lab / Kirk Tuck: I am NOT an architectural photographer but sometimes.......

I try never to fool myself that just pointed a camera at something makes it art.  Or that snapping the shutter makes me an artist.

via visualsciencelab.blogspot.com

always fun to read Kirk's blog.

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I’m Still Waiting for Artistic Brilliance from Web 2.Open Sources – You Got Anything? : Nothing to report here. Back to you

Musicians pass half finished ProTool files via the web, saving gas money and travel time, but is that really helping improve virtuosity?

via permissiontosuck.net

No.

It isn't.

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10 Minute Film School with Robert Rodriguez | Chase Jarvis Blog

Too many creative people don’t wanna learn how to be technical, so what happens? They become dependent on technical people.  Become technical.  You can learn that. If you’re creative and technical, you’re unstoppable.

via blog.chasejarvis.com

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Charlie Sheen vs Muamar Gaddafi: Can You Guess Who Said What? LOL - Harder than you think...

Two men dominate the media landscape as they lash out against passionate detractors who would overthrow them: Charlie Sheen and Muamar Gaddafi.

via baltimoresun.com

Yessir... ignorance knows no bounds with these two.

Take the quiz... go ahead, you know you want to.

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"Last Weeks Roses" Dead Flower Series.

I am thinking about offering these images as a portfolio set for purchase.

Possibly 6x9 on 8x10 stock or 7x10.5 on 11x14 stock.

The whole group, signed and numbered.

Or maybe I won't - crazy busy. I printed them and will frame them for the den.

People like them.

But, people like Martin Sheen too.

Just sayin'... heh.

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Copyrighting Couture: An Examination of Fashion Design Protection and Why the DPPA and IDPPPA are a Step Towards the Solution to Counterfeit Chic

Unfortunately, intellectual property law’s current status makes it very difficult for designers to find relief for their pirated designs.

via papers.ssrn.com

by Sara Ellis.

This will be a very interesting situation to keep an eye on. Especially if one is working in the IP industry.

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ELIZABETH AVEDON: MIKAEL KENNEDY: Passport To Trespass (Beautiful Photography for Inspiration)

Photograph (c) Mikael Kennedy /All Rights Reserved

Photograph (c) Mikael Kennedy /All Rights Reserved

Loading my SX70 and duffel with some of the last remaining packs of the film in the world I set out to gather as many portraits of the folks I had photographed over the years using this unique film before it disappeared forever...

via elizabethavedon.blogspot.com

Just elegant work. See the post for more images.

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Camera prettifies subjects, even adds "makeup" - Yahoo! Asia News: Add Billing and Collections and I am so there...

So we came up with the idea so our clients can fix parts they don't like about their faces after they've taken the picture.

via asia.news.yahoo.com

LOL

Thanks to @iancaradoc

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Camera prettifies subjects, even adds "makeup": As soon as they add billing and collections to the damn things, I'm gettin' one...

According to data we've acquired, around 50 percent of our digital camera clients are not satisfied with the way their faces look in a photograph," she said.

via asia.news.yahoo.com

LOL.

Thanks to John Groseclose for the tip.

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How to Get Downsized - Susannah Breslin: (Great post at Forbes on being out of work... and using SM to make a difference

As it turns out, I am very good at channeling the inner-thoughts of an inanimate object. Or at least this particular one.

via blogs.forbes.com

Interesting. Very interesting.

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Alex Ross: Morton Feldman, Composer, on possibilities and acceptance

Earlier in my life there seemed to be unlimited possibilities, but my mind was closed. Now, years later and with an open mind, possibilities no longer interest me.

via therestisnoise.com

Photography is much like that as well.

By the way, I am a big fan of Feldman's work. "Rothko Chapel" being hauntingly beautiful and a favorite.

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Them Wacky TSA Folks: Bringing people together for nearly 9 years now...

F—K you!” the man barked back, though the comment was bleeped out by WMUR.

via nhjournal.com

I am so looking forward to more of this...

;-)

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Portfolio Interview with Claudia Monaco: (Wonderful insight from a professional photographer rep))

There will always be great value in printed portfolios until the day we no longer have print. The quality of a portfolio, what a portfolio is, has changed. The better you are, the more attention you pay to detail, has become more important over time. The choice of paper, how the paper falls in a portfolio, all of these things add value to the portfolio. We use a very thin paper, so that the pages in the portfolio fall like the pages in a magazine. For a while everyone was showing prints without acetate and it was beautiful, fresh and new. There are double sided pages that fold or you’d print on both sides of the paper. I got really tired of that because it was impossible to change things around with any kind of speed, and the name of the game here is speed. You have to be able to do things as quickly as possible. So we reintroduced acetate pages back into our portfolios. The turn around time for new work can be as little as one day. I have to say I feel much better about our books now.

via lookhereblog.com

Being able to change it up is very very important.

And if someone doesn't hire you because you have plastic sleeves...? Well, fuck that idiot... who the hell would want to work with a prima-donna asswipe that can't see the images as what they are because they are in 'plastic sleeves"...

WAAAAAAAHHHHHH...

Creative? My ass.

If the work is good, it will be seen.

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Obama administration joins critics of U.S. nonprofit group that oversees Internet: (Well, that'll work out well)

The California nonprofit organization that operates the Internet's levers has always been a target for such global heavies as Russia and China that prefer the United Nations to be in charge of the Web. But these days, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is fending off attacks from a seemingly unlikely source: the Obama administration.

via washingtonpost.com

The government (no matter who is in charge) usually fuck up anything they touch. And let's all listen to the Syrian guy wanting fairness and liberty for the internet...

Yeah. Them Syrians... always looking out for the liberty.

Givemeabreak!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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