Image recognition – that is – the automated determination of the visual contents of an image parsed into text, is the holy grail of search. Back in July, we wrote about it (Image Recognition and the Future, 7/2/08) and several very interesting advances – and for you bleeding-edge readers out there, a behind the scenes … Read more
I’m not trying to mirror this great article – Ask Sports Shooter: Assisting by Jordan Murph, over at SportsShooter, but it got me to thinking. We use A LOT of assistants. So many, that we have former assistants running the office, managing all our post production, and as our special projects manager. When we travel, … Read more
Daryl Lang over at PDNPulse – Breaking News: CosmoGirl To Fold – reports of the demise of CosmoGirl. Good Riddance I say. Several years ago, I was speaking with a photographer who shared with me the response they got from a photo editor there, when they inquired to him about an image they wanted to … Read more
“A proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.”~John Keats(1795-1821)PoetIndeed. “Nothing ventured, nothing gained.”Enter Silicon Alley Insiders’ piece – Sorry, Startups: Party’s Over (10/9/08) which demonstrates the need to lower your burn-rate the “equivalent to ‘raising an internal round’ through cost reductions to buy you more time until you need to … Read more
If you’re tired of Corporate America running your news media outlet – get over it! when you take that buyout (and far more than needed to took the recent rounds at the NJ Star Ledger, they needed 200 (more than a quarter) and they got 330 applications to take the buyout, which is roughly one … Read more
In what can only be described as a tool to incur repetative breaches of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA), Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO) yesterday produced a tool that will purposefully strip out textual metadata, which includes copyright management information, ownership information, captions, and so forth, from images.CNET reports (Yahoo web tool speeds up image shrinking, 10/6/08) … Read more
Do you need to upgrade? Perhaps, perhaps not. The cover at right was created by Bob Staake. Now, the remarkable thing is that Staake used Photoshop 3, running on OS 9. Yes friends, a 14 year-old application, and an ancient OS. Why? (Continued after the Jump)I submit that he was trying to make a point, … Read more
We, as do many businesses, rely on the receipt of paperwork via the US Postal Service. Some call it snail mail, and sometimes it is, in fact, slow. Other times, it’s lightning fast – a thank you note dropped into the post office box down the street from my house not only arrives at it’s … Read more
One thing that will likely live forever, somewhere on Google’s servers, or on the Wayback Machine, is what you write. More importantly, though, is what other people might write about you.Here’s a case in point – photographer Steven E. Frischling, who writes the popular blog “Flying With Fish“, markets himself as a corporate and editorial … Read more
In an e-mail announcement to the membership this morning, APA Executive Director Constance Evans (LinkedIn: Profile) announced she is stepping down as the Executive Director of the Advertising Photographers of America ” to devote full-time to my work as a professional artist – in short, to fulfill a life-long dream.”Evans, who’s career spans over 30 … Read more
