Just heard about Sentenc.es – A Disciplined Way To Deal With Email. Not sure if I have that in me, but it is certainly an interesting idea.

The gist is, you make the pledge to yourself, and then include the link to the appropriate subdomain in your sig file, so people will know and not get mad at you.

About-Face‘s stated mission is to arm “women and girls with tools to understand and resist harmful media messages that affect their self-esteem and body image,” has sprung up. The site features a “Gallery of Offenders” as well as a “Gallery of Winners” to highlight who the site’s editors feel are the advertising industry’s best and worst in regards to improving and harming the image of the modern woman. Site visitors can also contribute money to help offset its operating costs as well as expand programs designed to educate young women on beauty and self-image.

(Descriptive text copied from a Yahoo article by Brett Michael Dykes)

The Dream Cafe folks, with whom I’ve been collaborating on an exploration of the effect of new technologies on storytelling, have a blog series on 21st Century Business Models for Artists that is quite edifying to read.

These essays form the bulk of what has been keeping me too busy to produce my own blog material, and as those guys are writers and I’m focused on visual art these days, the articles are much more coherent than any attempt I could make to explain the same things.

For the last several months I’ve been working with Continuous Labs on their not-exactly-secret CC project. I’m working as a consulting artist and translator on the Mediator twitter project. I’ve really enjoyed working with the M2I guys (that’s Mesh 2 Internet, a translation protocol) and look forward to sharing more of our work as it goes live here on Tellus. Er, Earth.

It’s still sort of odd to make that distinction.

If you’re a twitter person, you can check out the twitterfeed for the Port Outreach Mediators. It’s sort of typical of Continuous Labs, and most of their clients from what I’ve seen, for somebody like the Mediators to bubble up to the top of the project list. It’s the guys who care right f’ing now that get their stuff done. I bet there’s a lesson in that.

Thankfully, the M2I wordpress plugin isn’t my baby at all, since I heard they just came discovered a basic paradigm barrier. But you can check out the Port Outreach Tourism site in the meantime.

An attendee from GenCon, where I set up a last-minute booth to sell my photos, suggested that I check out Worth 1000, a daily photography contest website. They also have daily contests for 3D rendering (for some reason labeled “Photoshop”), Illustration, graphic design, and writing.

Unfortunately, the site doesn’t allow image merging or collaging, so it doesn’t have a strong appeal to me right now. While the advanced photo contests allow for a wide range of image manipulation skills, and their copyright usage rules seem reasonable, the entries I’ve seen for the non-photo contests seem fairly slipshod. Many of the photos are very impressive, but are almost wholly tabletop photography, given the nature of the contests. Still, for those who need that extra push to practice their art-making skills.

Certainly, I’m now thinking about buying some cheap tabletop lighting equipment suggested to me by Daniel Aubry and taking a crack at these, just for the sake of motivation and tabletop work.

PhotoWalkthrough.com – Free video tutorial podcast covering digital photography post processing using adobe photoshop cs2.

John Arnold shares a fascinating perspective on digital imaging, and has a lovely British accent to boot. Sadly, I don’t have a video-enabled iPod, so I can’t watch these unless I’m on my home tower, which I try to avoid as much as possible.
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I’ve become a podcast fanatic.

In Episode 12 of Focus Ring, there is a really interesting conversation about the McNugget-style layout of image sharing sites like Flickr and Deviant Art: namely, every image is presented to you as a thumbnail before you can find the larger version.

On a site which hosts thousands, if not millions of images, then there’s a very real possibility that your images will primarily be seen at resolutions under 100×100. If it does not strike a person’s interest in that size, they will most likely not click for the bigger version (which is still pretty damn small, as my preferred print size is twice the size of my already-large monitor).

Anyone who has created images will instantly understand the implications of this: there’s simply no way for such a small image to properly express the same sort of nuanced subtlety that a larger image can. The only way to grab anyone’s attention, the metaphor runs, is to wear a low-cut blouse. In other words, if your thumbnails aren’t provocative and alluring, then no one is going to look deeper at the larger scope. Extremely intricate work simply can’t compete on this minor scale.

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Two particular resources which I keep reminding myself to check out more thoroughly are the oft-discussed Inkjet Mall and Inkjet Art websites (unrelated) which offer a wide variety of papers, inks, and related material.

Inkjet Mall, for example, offers workshops, DVDs and books on high-end digital printing, as well as very reasonably priced Custom Printer Profiling. Just print out their targets according to the directions, and mail the results to them; they’ll email you the customized profiles for your printer/paper combo. Having just profiled my own printer in Verser’s Fashion Photography course, I can tell you from first hand experience just how valuable a custom profile is. My home prints went from completely unusable to better than the Epson 4800s at school, which use the profiles from the various companies.

Let me repeat that. A custom-profiled $400 all-in-one printer/scanner/fax will yield better photos than a $2500 printer using the profiles downloaded from the web.

Inkjet Art offers customized paper sample packages that have been thoughtfully categorized by the feel of the end visual product. Instead of buying a variety of sampler packs based on the company who produces each, I can buy the InkjetArt Canvas Sampler or compare all their Luster papers with one, reasonably priced order. Of particular interest to me is #11, Dual Sided Photo sampler. I’ve been hunting those puppies down with keen appeal lately. They also offer a wide variety of canvas photo papers.

ThinkGeek :: Pirate vs Ninja Batteries

Each battery looks like a regular AA battery, but sometimes looks can be deceiving. For the Ninja vs Pirate Batteries are packed with Ninja Stealth Power or Pirate Plunder Power goodness. Are we claiming these batteries last longer than normal AA batteries? No, but they look about a bajillion times cooler.

I have nothing further to add to this.

Podcasting goodness from CAR, forwarded to me a while ago. This is a fairly clunky copy/paste from the email, which contained many broken links. Hopefully, I’ve managed to successfully edit those dead links out without any html errors.

Creative Chicago Expo Podcasts are now online! How do I find affordable live/work space? …Build my audience? …Teach? …Start a non-profit? …Finance a creative business? …Meet collaborators? Visit chicagoartistsresource.org to listen to workshops and speakers from the 2007 Creative Chicago Expo, a free, one-day event for your space, housing, business and community concerns:   Conversations on Creativity Martin Atkins (Invisible Records) + Rob Ray (Deadtech) Jim Lasko (Redmoon Theater)  +  Katrina Markoff (Vosges Haut-Chocolat) Nick Cave (Visual Artist) + Jennifer Reeder (Video Artist) Creative Chicago Expo Workshops Convenient Truths: Practical Energy Efficiency Do I own that? Protecting your intellectual property Everything you always wanted to know about Insurance Financing a “for profit” creative business Finding and purchasing live / work / presenting space  Forming a non-profit organization Funding and financing a non-profit How to end the credit blues: Re-building your financial health Legalities of home ownership, commercial and live/work space Moving from rental to ownership: How can I get a mortgage? So you want to work in schools… What is a Business Plan? Any other questions or comments?  Please contact Laura Tan at 312-742-2779 or at laura.tan@cityofchicago.org.