The Dream Cafe folks, with whom I’ve been collaborating on an exploration of the effect of new technologies on storytelling, have a blog series on 21st Century Business Models for Artists that is quite edifying to read.
These essays form the bulk of what has been keeping me too busy to produce my own blog material, [...]
For the last several months I’ve been working with Continuous Labs on their not-exactly-secret CC project. I’m working as a consulting artist and translator on the Mediator twitter project. I’ve really enjoyed working with the M2I guys (that’s Mesh 2 Internet, a translation protocol) and look forward to sharing more of our work as it [...]
If you are a musician, member of a band, or good friends with a band, please give me their contact info.
Specifically, I am looking for bands/musicians who:
- maintain a mailing list of over 50 people
- have released at least one album
- regularly* record music
- regularly* perform live shows
Please reply even if you think I already [...]
An attendee from GenCon, where I set up a last-minute booth to sell my photos, suggested that I check out Worth 1000, a daily photography contest website. They also have daily contests for 3D rendering (for some reason labeled “Photoshop”), Illustration, graphic design, and writing.
Unfortunately, the site doesn’t allow image merging or collaging, so it [...]
Leslie Burns Dell’Acqua, of Burns Auto Parts, is an internationally known creative marketing consultant who specializes in working with commercial photographers. During the ASMP’s Strictly Business 2 tour, she gave a presentation on Seven Steps to an Effective (and doable) Marketing Plan.
Step One is to create what she calls a Vision Marketing Statement, which is [...]
I added an old Surreal Self Portrait that somehow never made it on to the site, as well as a new City Spirit photo (the Spirit of Milwaukee).
I’m having some severe issues with the newly implemented watermarking system. In order for it to work with the ecommerce plugins, I have to set all the albums [...]
Episode 18 of Paul Giguere’s excellent podcast, Thoughts on Photography, does a great job of summarizing the primary points to consider when writing an Artist Statement or a Project Statement. Even better, he concisely explains the difference between the two.
I’ve been listening to Paul’s podcasts practically since the first episode, having discovered him through the [...]
After reading M. Yu’s post on The Idea of Erotic Art, Art, Expression and Creativity, including the excellent reference to another blog entry from the Little Red Day Spa, I find myself once again coming back to the notion of duality in western culture, and it’s impact on erotic art.
Still can’t figure out what to do about the reflection that should be there. Does anyone besides me even notice?
That’s right, only a single year after I visited my good friends at Moonhowler Productions, I finally put the photos from the trip up.
Hong Kong 2006
Also, two new Emphasis Mine photos:
and
The Emphasis Mine photos are new pieces from an old shoot with Jayda (Chapter 5), whom I sorely miss this holiday season.