Friday, 13 November 2009

a couple of stonkingly great photography and social media blog posts

an extract from “Getting paid to give things away” by Jonathan Worth (@Jdubbyah on Twitter)

Up to now, I'd always always thought "Networking" to be a hollow and crap term, which summed up what vacuous Trustafarian Socialites did and whose sole motivation was personal gain in a fashionably fair-weather world of parasitic exploitation.

“I've never understood it as a variable sifting through, of all the friends, colleagues and acquaintances one had come across, to find those who, at that particular moment you have the most in common with. I don't now think there's anything sinister in this practice as I did before. It's just great.”

http://jonathan-worth.blogspot.com/2009/10/getting-paid-to-give-things-away.html

And a bit from “In The New Media World, Photographers who Embrace Change Will Succeed” by Wayne Ford

“Working in the business, it’s easy to get despondent about all this — because change is hard. But once you move beyond denial to acceptance, it can also be energizing. We are entering an era in which the photographer and art director can explore many more creative opportunities and visual solutions, no longer limited to just print or television.

“Not all of our explorations will end in success. Like Edison, we may fail 10,000 times for every victory. But there is a thrill in the challenge.”

http://rising.blackstar.com/visual-creativity.html

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