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?
Working day is done.
Yay!
OK, I am so sick of this I am going to start posting these for the hell of it. Photoshop hangs for about 4 minutes after each crash anyways so I have to find something to do.
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.
The challenger single hop red fresh from lauralwood brew pub equals epic awesomeness! If you have the means, I highly suggest you partake of this delicious beverage. Now please pass the gray poupon...
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.
So this is what I am working like today. That's just a smart object too...
Styling new swing at the new crib!
