Visual Journalism

November 11, 2010

Mocking Time

I shouldn’t do things like this, but … if you’re going to use the tag line, “We are a digital media and communications group” and then talk about your “expertise,” maybe–maybe–you should, I don’t know, not have an image of a 22 year old film camera there? (Yeah, feeling a little snarky this morning.)

Categories Thoughts & Theory

November 11, 2010

Setting Your Pricing to Get Your Target Audience

Free is good, right? I mean, I’ll poke around the Apple App store looking for free tools that help me be more productive. I’ll even pay a couple of bucks if something is really slick, really helpful. But that’s it. Go above three, maybe five, bucks and I hesitate. Is it really worth it? I’m pretty price sensitive … but...

Categories Business & Industry

November 10, 2010

“You Get What You Pay For”

So true … “Why would I need backup equipment?” I did laugh out loud at that. And I’m thinking watching these things is better than almost everything on television these days … excepting Top Gear.

Categories Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Tech Talk

November 9, 2010

Great Photos, Made Simple

I am a geek. You know it, my boss knows it. We all know it, right? We all know that I am more than happy to go wandering down the tech path, pontificating about pixels and bokeh ad nauseum. In the end, I hope, all my meanderings lead back to the same thing–that it’s the story that matters, not the...

Categories Tech Talk

November 9, 2010

Washington Post iPad App Ad

(Worst headline ever up there? Maybe …) The Washington Post has turned to their legends to produce a little promo video for their new iPad application. (Thanks to Conrad Fink for the lede.)

Categories Business & Industry/Journalism/Tech Talk

November 8, 2010

50 Years Ago … Kennedy on the Campaign Trail

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s presidential election, Life.com has put together a gallery of more than 30 previously unpublished images from the campaign trail. (In fairness, I wish they’d publish a similar gallery of Richard Nixon’s campaign as his may have been the last of its kind.) Looking at the access–of both the press and the...

Categories Good Work/Journalism/Photojournalism

November 8, 2010

Linotype: The Film

Have you ever watched Helvetica–the movie about the typeface? If you haven’t, you should as it is really, really good. In a similar vein, for the pure graphics junkie, comes Linotype: The Film. “How does the Linotype fit in with new technology?” “It doesn’t.” “Linotype: The Film” Teaser from Linotype: The Film on Vimeo.

Categories Graphic Design/Tech Talk

November 7, 2010

Personal Project, Socially Relevant

The New York Times‘ Lens blog has a piece up on a project done by editorial and advertising photographer Timothy Archibald and his son, Elijah. Elijah is autistic and his father was struggling to deal with that, so he turned to what he knew best–images–to tell their story, to share their world. The blog entry is fascinating in how Archibald...

Categories Good Work/Photojournalism

November 7, 2010

Are the Legal Settlements Bigger in Texas, Too?

Time will tell, I suppose, for photographer David K. Langford as he sues the State of Texas for using one of his images on state inspection stickers. According to that story in the San Antonio Express News, the state has printed 4.5 million stickers with the stolen image on it and has declined to settle the suit. “If they’d called...

Categories Ethics & Legal

November 4, 2010

Paper, Pixels and iPads: Rethinking Magazines

We have a speaker coming in on Tuesday, November 9, at 12:30 who I really want to see – and so should you. Rebecca Burns, the director of digital strategy for Emmis Publishing, will be discussing apps, ads, iPhones, blogging, webpages and Zinio. Why do we care about Emmis Publishing? They own Atlanta Magazine and Texas Monthly, along with a...

Categories Advice & Learning/Journalism/Tech Talk