I just finished reading an article about an exchange between a teenager and a theatrical composer over the composer’s unwillingness to provide his work for free. The teenager argues that the composer should provide his sheet music for free to young artists so that they have strong music to perform for their own use. She [...]

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Exposure Compensation wrote a short post about what he sees as the direction that commercial photography will be taking in the near future. The writer picks out Alexx Henry who works in a strange space between photography and video.   I’ve heard it called motion graphics when I’ve worked in advertising in the past. This is [...]

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New York Times columnist Sonia Zjawinski has suffered the swift and sure wrath of the internet by suggesting that photo sharing website Flickr could be used for interior decorating.  In her initial column, she suggested that you could easily search for thematic photographs on flickr, download the photos that you felt best met your decorating [...]

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Last night Mrs. Obama was in NYC for the ballet and for the reopening of the MET’s American wing which I have missed rather sorely in my time of unemployment.   She paid the usual lipservice to the arts using a phrase we’ve all heard 1000 times before, that arts “define who we are as a [...]

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As a web developer I’ve been keenly following what has been termed #amazonfail using twitter parlance.  After giving it some thought I feel its instructive to talk about what happened as it directly affects photographers who use digital media. The core issue behind Amazon Fail is that a large number of items in the amazon.com [...]

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Saturday marked two events on Wall Street.  One was the March On Wall Street and the other was World Pillow Fight Day. I’m somewhat sorry that after shooting the political event I didn’t stick around for the cultural one.  It was a brutally windy day and my cheap $10 East German coat wasn’t up to [...]

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Street Art blog Wooster Collective posted some brief thoughts on galleries cutting prices on the work of the artists they represent. There are a number of interesting responses on their facebook profile but what this brought to mind was those damn tulips that always get dragged out of the 17th century every time a commodity [...]

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New Rochelle is featured in a NY Times article as helping its local landowners solve an issue of empty commercial real estate by using state business improvement district funds to create studio space for working artists.   The program is administered through the NY Main Street program which has provided funds for 130 communities in NY [...]

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The New York Times has a video opinion piece on the ethics of retouching of photographs.    The piece is focused on the use of retouching of models rather than for journalistic photos which is an entirely different topic which deserves its own space. As you most likely know the images which appear in most magazines [...]

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Today a coworker was showing me some financial charts and he brought up a company that trades in gold to show me how the price of gold had been relatively stable for a long time before spiking dramatically since 2006.   Monday I had gone to Calumet where I was surprised to see that Ilford RC [...]

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