YouTube - Harlan Ellison -- Pay the Writer
Oh man, thanks Nathan!
YouTube - Harlan Ellison -- Pay the Writer
Oh man, thanks Nathan!
Why He Will Not Read Your Fucking Script – Deadline.com
You are not owed a read from a professional, even if you think you have an in, and even if you think it's not a huge imposition. It's not your choice to make. This needs to be clear--when you ask a professional for their take on your material, you're not just asking them to take an hour or two out of their life, you're asking them to give you--gratis--the acquired knowledge, insight, and skill of years of work. It is no different than asking your friend the house painter to paint your living room during his off hours.There's a great story about Pablo Picasso. Some guy told Picasso he'd pay him to draw a picture on a napkin. Picasso whipped out a pen and banged out a sketch, handed it to the guy, and said, "One million dollars, please."
"A million dollars?" the guy exclaimed. "That only took you thirty seconds!"
"Yes," said Picasso. "But it took me fifty years to learn how to draw that in thirty seconds."
yes, oh yes.
The nature of temptation - The Boston Globe
Indeed, recent work has suggested that the very act of seeing oneself as a good person can make it harder to avoid doing immoral things. In part it’s a matter of rationalization, and the better a person we think we are, the better we are at rationalizing. In part it stems from the oddly perishable nature of human self-control, and the way that, like a muscle, it tires after extended use. But also in operation, the researchers suggest, is a sort of moral “set point”: an innate human sense that there is such a thing as too much moral behavior. And when we stray too far from the mean in either direction - even if it’s toward saintliness - we revert, sometimes spectacularly.
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: the Ars Technica review - Ars Technica
This was a risky strategy for Apple. After the rapid-fire updates of 10.1, 10.2, and 10.3 followed by the riot of new features and APIs in 10.4 and 10.5, could Apple really get away with calling a "time out?" I imagine Bertrand was really sweating this announcement up on the stage at WWDC in front of a live audience of Mac developers. Their reaction? Spontaneous applause. There were even a few hoots and whistles.Many of these same developers applauded the "150+ new features" in Tiger and the "300 new features" in Leopard at past WWDCs. Now they were applauding zero new features for Snow Leopard? What explains this?
It probably helps to know that the "0 New Features" slide came at the end of an hour-long presentation detailing the major new APIs and technologies in Snow Leopard. It was also quickly followed by a back-pedaling ("well, there is one new feature...") slide describing the addition of Microsoft Exchange support. In isolation, "no new features" may seem to imply stagnation. In context, however, it served as a developer-friendly affirmation.
If you have the time this will sum up a lot of what is going on with the new OS X update, Snow Leopard. It's all about the back end and making things more stable. My take on the new upgrade?
Don't.
As always, wait till the first patch a month or two down the road before installing this on any workplace based machine. So far I have seem reports of it not working well with Xrite color monitors (Eye One Match), Wacom preferences, Quicken and others. Any Pref Pane app that is 32 bit will cause some problems as well.
Sadly, the pissing match with Adobe continues as Apple blames Adobe and Adobe blames Apple for the problems. People are reporting CS4 is unusable with Snow Leopard which I find amusing as CS4 is unusable in 10.5.8 anyways. The Open GL GPU bugs really rear their heads in Snow Leopard and I imagine the old Carbon Photoshop just hates everything about 64 bit and Cocoa (Yes, I just simplified the hell out of this fight. Not dipping my toes into that flame war thankyouverymuch.)
So this update is all about the back end and unseen revisions to how the OS actually works. It makes the programming for the Mac all the easier and programs work faster, provided they are programmed to take advantage of these new changes. Grand Central Dispatch (GCD) is the key to this if you want to read up. So the real benefits to Snow Leopard will start to show when programs start updating to take advantage of the changes (Possibly with "Snow Leopard Only" programs coming down the pipe feeding into the Mac "upgrade every two years or die" product cycle they are so fond of now a days).
Snide aside, could be a interesting update down the road especially if Adobe plays nice for once. But as I said before, wait on any updates to your work stations.
Maybe if I get some free time later in the week I'll do a post on how Adobe is the new Quark itching for some company to make a functioning Photoshop clone and clean their clock with it. Does anyone under 25 even know what Quark is? Under 30?
I am currently neck deep in many work projects and hoping to surface for air in a week or two. Lot's of stuff coming in back to back that are all complicated to say the least. I am ambitiously planing to have some sanity left as well.
A guy can hope can't he?
click opera - Mister narrative of the decade
Design Just as hemlines follow the economy, so design follows geopolitics. If the confident 90s could give us a computer that "comes in colours" (the iMac, which echoed the optimism of the 60s and was sold with a 60s soundtrack), the 00s returned us to self-effacing "I'm not really here" products embarrassed by their environmental footprint, getting the job done and playing it safe.
I agree with most of the points in here. There "end of decade' lists and articles are starting already and it's just Aug. What will be happening in the fall?In my opinion the past ten years have been one long political nightmare with a economic cold sweat wake up in the middle of the night as someone rattles the door knob. I wonder how this has effected the kids growing up in this time..... hmm...
A client of mine got 6 Honorable mentions and a third place at The International Photography Awards for 2009. On a side note, why yes, we did do the retouching. Thanks for asking!
LOL!
I have a long list of questions or conversations that are warning signs of bad times to come with a client / job. One of my favorites is when someone asks for layerd PSD files. A- It happens early on, usually before the job is even in house. So I can end the relationship before it begins. So headaches are avoided.
B- It shows right off the bat that this person is not a professional and has no idea how the business works. So they will drive you crazy as you have to explain industry standards over and over.
C- So you want 50-60 files done at 50 megs. Those layered files would be 500-800 megs each. The sheer size of it makes it way more expensive / impratical to transport.
D- If it's that important to you to tweak out the files when we are done. There is no reason you can not tweak out a flattened tiff.
Other things I love:
Low rez jpgs to high rez tiffs.
Composite source materials that do not match lighting or angle.
Proprietary RAW file formats. I'm looking at you Sinar.
I could continue but then I would have to go back to bed and cry into my pillow for a few hours.
Now, I gotta get back to work. Thank you for your time.
More than 70,000 advertising professionals have lost their jobs in this “Great Recession.” Lemonade is about what happens when people who were once paid to be creative in advertising are forced to be creative with their own lives.
I know many, so so many people who can relate to this. I honestly know more un-employed people now then I have ever known. And we are talking about the living in the bars right out of college days as well. People always had some kind of job. Scary stuff going on out there.
I stenciled the door of an electrical block in south London and recently someone sawed it off and sold it at a famous auction house for £24,000, but in that same week Islington council power sprayed off eight of my new stencils on one road. What I’m finding is art is worth whatever someone is willing to pay for it, or willing to pay to not have to look at it...The art world is the biggest joke going. It’s a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak. And modern art is a disgrace – never have so many people used so much stuff and taken so long to say so little. Still, the plus side is it’s probably the easiest business in the world to walk into with no talent and make a few bucks.
I think this is the first interview I have read with him and he sounds quite down to earth thank god.
A very brutal historical documentation on The Oregon Trail. Amazing illustrations and very in-depth.
Lament for a Dying Field - Photojournalism - NYTimes.com
“The business model is not working today,” she said. “So without some changes, it won’t work tomorrow.”“The problem is that news photography is finished,” Ms. Riant said. “Gamma wants to go back to magazines and newsmagazines. We will stop covering daily news events to more deeply cover issues.”
The print world is changing dramatically, possibly dying, but something will come out of all of this. Crisis breeds opportunity. The first person to figure it all out will do very well.
Robb Long Imaging: My work on Project Runway Season 6
Here you can see a shot I did for Robb Long who is now running a blog as well. 3 part composite with a background swap if I remember correctly....