Long Time, no see? [Oxygo Gym]
This is as much time commercial advertisement assumes the reader will spend looking at the ad before moving to the next page … unless the image and the accompanying statement grabs their curiosity from the gut. Only then, perhaps, the viewer will recall the ad 15 minutes after seeing [...]
“I think you want to learn about art because you had an experience of some sort - a totally non-redemptive but vaguely exciting experience, like brushing up against a girl with big boobs in the subway” - Dave Hickey.
[sorry for posting this sexist quote, no bad intent from my part - Miguel]
Perhaps the most [...]
This is for readers in the USA. Via 40 Watt I found the petition for a bipartisan bill (Support the Arts by Co-Sponsoring S. 548 or H.R.1524) that will simply allow artists to take a fair-market value deduction for works given to and retained by nonprofit institutions. It is important enough that I want to [...]
This article, “The terrible toll of art anxiety“, published online at the International Herald Tribune [via arts journal] highlights the many fears people experience when considering to buy art.
The anxiety to buy things when people don’t understand what they mean, what they represent or they don’t comprehend their price … even if they can afford [...]
The appetite for contemporary art is so great that it seems buyers don’t need to see the art work anymore. Just login into the internet, or get a sample JPEG by e-mail and get ready to open the wallet and pay many thousands before someone else gets your piece. Quite intriguing and very telling of [...]
I like to share with you a new application that is an interesting option to display your photography online creating electronic photobooks. The name is ISSUU, and it is a web based application that allows the display of pdf files at any website (help on making pdf files) in a format that most resembles a [...]
I am now in the process of moving this blog from Wordpress.com to a hosted service that uses wordpress software. The names are similar but it is a different set-up as you may well know.Nothing will change from your end, the domain website remains the same [exposurecompensation.com], and the permalinks are identical, so anything that [...]
Blogs, discussion forums, and bulletin boards are very popular in China. They’re heavily filtered by keyword blocks. Blogs’ service providers do not let posts with certain words be published, and blogs are also censored manually [via CNN]
My fellow blogger and photographer Doug Stockdale, is having a hard time accessing blogs while traveling in China. Here [...]
Open for applications to any photographers that need access to funds to support a photographic objective. The grants will be between $1000-$5000 and the proposals should be sent between Jan 12th to Feb 11th, 2008. The grants and proposals cover a broad range of uses for the money. If you need money to push a [...]
2007 has been the first full year for Exposure Compensation.
For me this blog has become a mechanism to connect with you and share my passion for the art and craft of photography. You, as the reader, provide the real meaning and value of this blog and for that I convey my sincere appreciation.
I have multiple [...]
