Category Archives: annoyances

the vendor-client relationship

yeah... I'm on a bit of theme here this week... I am fielding some inquiries for weddings that are in a word - disheartening. As an artist it's always tough to hear people devalue your efforts or dismiss what you do as art. It's even tougher to hear that yours is not really a skilled profession. ...

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the credit crisis explained, and explained well!

if you have been shaking your head, like me, and wondering exactly how the mainly US based financial crisis happened, watch this... The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo. made a ...

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29 Percent of Internet Users Admit Purchasing from Spam (???!!!???)

OK... we all hate spam. It costs us all a lot of time, money and effort to fight and control. My non-techy friends and family always ask me why the spammers do it... surely they reason, people aren't stupid enough to fall for these schemes??? oh yes they are... What do sex, drugs and software have in common? They ...

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soooo… this misconception started long ago

the marketing angle was the same then as it is now... "any school-boy or girl can make good pictures..." arrgghhh... This ad is from 100 years and I see it as ambiguous & misleading now as it was then. I suppose if you define what ...

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on stereotypes

this image is offered to contrast "the difference between man and woman" (it should be sub-titled: "the power of Photoshop to distort reality") at first glance, it's perhaps funny, cute and just a joke. The kind you find all over. But it is a stereotype. ...

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