Software To Replace Photographers [The Ones That Deserve It]
Photographer Mark Meyers just wrote up a nice enough story aimed at driving awareness fear in professional photographers … fear about the future of their career, their well-being, their jobs. Depicted in that article this image at left, which was completely generated by the author of the post using an emerging 3d modeling software...
Business Day Thursday: Where’s The Beef? Don’t Believe Everything You Read!
Good Morning Everybody, It was a great day yesterday as we headed to Radio City Music Hall and watched my daughter, Elizabeth, graduate from the Lubin School of Business of Pace University. She graduated just .05 points away from Suma Cum Laude ...
Possible FTC Probe May Delay Closure of Instagram/Facebook Deal by Up to a Year
Those of you who were hoping that all of the Facebook/Instagram acquisition talk would end may not get a respite as soon as we thought. Although the original acquisition papers from Facebook stated that they would try to close the deal in Q2, a rumored Federal Trade Commission (FTC) competition probe may delay that closure...
Learning from Startups Helps You Run YOUR Creative Business [SXSW Advise This Panel with Chase Jarvis, Tim Ferriss, Gary Vaynerchuk, Tony Conrad and J.R. Johnson]
As we artists continue to be forced to become entrepreneurs in our own right (see this episode of #cjLIVE with Zoe Keating), all things entrepreneurial are of interest to me… How can we channel our creative stuff into thinking into light, fast and hardcore focus like most startups are forced to think. The correlation is...
Business Day Thursday: The Angels Are In The Details
Good Afternoon Everybody, Things have been pretty calm around here this week even though our plane leaves for New York City in just the next few days. The fact that we just returned from Texas School means that the equipment bags are mostly packed and...
Who Shot It Better? Breastfeeding from TIME & Babytalk
There are few things more polarizing than politics, gay marriage and breastfeeding. So in a week where Obama publicly supported gay marriage, we might as well look at breastfeeding, too, with two magazine covers from TIME and Babytalk. Amazing portraitist, Martin Schoeller, shot TIME‘s May 21, 20-12 cover, which is already causing shockwaves through the...
Why Instagram is Terrible for Photographers, and Why You Should Use It
Although everyone has an opinion on Facebook’s purchase of Instagram for $1b, I think we can all agree: Instagram is terrible for photographers. (gotcha) Why? Let’s count the ways. Why Instagram is Terrible for Photographers… The rights grab Let’s look at the Terms of Use: …By displaying or publishing (“posting”) any Content on or...
Kodak Reports 27% Drop in Revenue in First Quarter, $366 Million Net Loss
They say that when it rains it pours, and nowhere is that more evident than with the troubled, once-great photography company Kodak. After filing for bankruptcy, narrowing its focus to printers, and selling the Kodak Gallery for pennys on the dollar, we sort of hoped the company would start to see some rays of sunshine...
Business Day Thursday: Don’t Give Your Business Cards Out At Weddings!
Hey Everybody, Its Business day Thursday so let's get right to it. Business Day Thursday: Don't Give Your Business Cards Out At Weddings! Okay, you must think I'm crazy making a statement like that. But, it's been my philosophy for as many years as ...
Artist as Entrepreneur: Making Art + A Living with Zoe Keating on #cjLIVE – Wed May 2nd
Now more than ever before, we artists are entrepreneurs. Born from opportunity or necessity or both, we have become the CEO’s of ourselves. We create our art and our brand, and then–regardless of whether we’re commercial- or fine-artists, or both–we share, market, strategize, license, sell, distribute, invest, manage, and collect on that art ourselves. For...
Twitter Wanted to Buy Instagram but Facebook Beat It to the Punch
Facebook may have been the victor in the race to acquire Instagram, but it wasn’t the only runner. The New York Times writes that Twitter had been interested in snatching up the service in the months leading up to the $1 billion buyout. Mr. Systrom may have lost one connection in the deal: Mr. Dorsey...
