April 2010
56 posts
“What is success? To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent...”
– RALPH WALDO EMERSON (via abeshafi) (via rahmin) (via kareem)
Somedays I believe this, living it so strong that it’s a part of me; somedays I just find it hard to convince myself that I believe this. I’m not sure what today is.
March 2010
34 posts
Stanley! →
A snippet from the Stella! / Stanley! shouting contest at the Tennessee Williams / New Orleans Literary Festival.
Cassie Saurage, Stanley! on Youtube.
One of my latest discoveries of the unending string of “they do what” discoveries in New Orleans, the Stella/Stanley shouting contest at the Tennessee Williams / New Orleans Literary Festival.:
Each entrant competes by calling “Stella!” (or...
Remixed: How Photographers can Create New Business... →
Shawn Bueche (@bentvisual) remixed a post of mine about the photography business, using a video to present the same essential content in a different format, medium and communication style.
If you want to read the post Five Lessons: How Photographers can Create New Business Models first, feel free, but I’m betting you’ll watch the remixed video first:
Photography Business Remixed from Shawn...
Repose, Jackson Square, New Orleans, Louisiana →
Getting back into the swing.
Repose, Jackson Square, New Orleans, LA
Bringing the camera back out. Taking a walk. Looking up, around, here, there and everywhere. Shaking things up. And taking a rest. Exploring can take a lot of energy. But the odd thing: the more you explore, the more you look, the more you give … the more you see, the more you get. Life’s odd like that. Odd, but great.
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The deluge of the amateur photographer, redux. →
Retracing an old discussion about the impact of the deluge of the amateur, linking together yesterday’s fair take by the NY Times with a post of mine from September 2007.
Yesterday in the NY Times, For Photographers, the Image of a Shrinking Path by Stephanie Clifford:
Mr. Eich and Ms. Pruitt illustrate the huge shake-up in photography during the last decade. Amateurs, happy to accept small...
“I discovered something early on in terms of how product development works, and...”
– Music and merch. Bands over-think design. Fans want big loud logos. (via rickyv)
I think this is true of a lot of creative products. While those creating them want artistry, the people buying them purely want function - and that may well be social function, in which case simple indicators often...
WatchMan in the Box on Vimeo (by electrocinema)
SXSW Ablaze →
Pinging @David, a quick list of bands I liked from SXSW Music 2010.
Harlem, SXSW Music, Austin, Texas
Highlights? Bands I liked: Fool’s Gold, Surfer Blood, Miike Snow, Black Joe…
Opportunity, New Orleans, Louisiana →
Opportunity, out in the haze. You may not be able to see it, but it’s there.
Opportunity, New Orleans, Louisiana
Reblogged from NOLAlicious.
The View from the Front (from two talks in Austin... →
A short recap from two talks I gave this month in Austin during SXSW 2010.
Last year I wrote a detailed thank you to the people that made SXSW 2009 great; but this year, it’s just not possible….
Music, Technology, Art, Economy: The economics... →
nicolasgabard:
2. “Everyone is a prosumer of something.” What does that mean? For the purposes of this discussion, it means that the top consumers of any Thing typically produce a lot of social media banter (“information”) about said Thing. It means that everyone (and I do mean 100% of everyone) has something they are REALLY passionate about. If you agree that in the very near future everyone...
“Be a Story”, Part 2 of an interview with Ellen... →
Part two of an interview with Ellen Boughn about photography and emerging business models for creative content.
Part one of a two-part interview with Ellen Boughn was about photography,…
Allen Murabayashi and Taylor Davidson talk about... →
After our SXSW core conversation “Everyone can be a *Professional* Photographer”, Allen Murabayashi (CEO of Photoshelter) and I did short video about using Twitter for small business with Aaron…
Everyone can be a Professional Photographer (SXSW... →
Below are the slides for the SXSW Core Conversation I’ll be co-leading with @Photoshelter CEO Allen Murabayashi entitled “Everyone can be a Professional Photographer” on Sunday March 14th at 5…
“Creating Context for your Content” at... →
Feedback and thoughts greatly appreciated: below are the slides for a talk I’ll be giving at @Photoshelter’s Austin Photo Seminar “Thriving in Uncertain Photographic Times” in Austin on March…
Enlightened, Algiers Point, New Orleans, Louisiana →
From a spontaneous jaunt over to Algiers Point, catching the ferry back to the city with a fabulous early evening glow of the New Orleans skyline over the Mississippi River.
Enlightened,…
SXSW 2010 (One week away!) →
SXSW 2010 is a week away, but my mind’s already there. Here’s why.
SXSW last year was a fishbowl, an immersive experience that has continued to influence my life today: I met a ton of great…
Announcing: Photography Business Strategy and... →
Announcing I’m open for business, consulting to individual photographers and photography-services companies, focusing on business strategies, marketing, websites and social media, helping people…
Marketing through Experiences →
Creating rich, immersive and scalable experiences is the biggest opportunity in marketing today, and “experience artists” are going to play a large, rich role in marketing going forward.
The…
VisionMongers: Making a Life and a Living in... →
A belated review of David duChemin’s book VisionMongers: Making a Life and a Living in Photography.
VisionMongers: Making a Life and a Living in Photography
Note: I received a copy…
“Leadership in some ways is built on learning to be comfortable with not knowing,...”
– via On the Uncertainty of Life | Leveraging Ideas
Instead of focusing on the image, focus on... →
The biggest creative and business opportunities for photographers is not the image, but everything around the image. In other words, the opportunity is in context, not content.
In October 2008, as…