I read a great quote from Mario Batali (but suddenly can’t find it) about what makes a professional chef.
He says the difference between an amazing amateur chef and a professional chef is the ability to make that perfect meal 100 times in a row.
That applies to photography too.
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A Photo Folio
Buying a new website?
My new company, APhotoFolio.com builds portfolio websites for photographers. Have a look (here). Photo Blogs
Visions of China Photo Blog Now LiveSee it (here).
Spread the word. The more photographers that are paid to produce work online the better, IMHO.
Planet Magazine, Global Travel Photo ContestInteresting trend happening where magazines are holding contests to dole out assignments. At least everyone gets a fair shake instead of some photo ed handing out assignments to their friends ;).
The Grand Prize winner will receive a round-the-world ticket with a 10-page portfolio assignment covering your trip.
Enter (here).
iPhone WebsitesThis very simple application allows you to build an iPhone website for your portfolio: SmallFolio.com
It's a nifty solution and even though I work with the guys who made it I had nothing to do with it. Dang.
Sacramento Bee Has A Photo BlogHERE. Hot new trend I want to see explode.
Free Magazines OnlineMygazines (here) looks to become a place where consumers can scan and share their favorite magazines, although it looks like there's some professional scanning going on there. This would be so great if the magazine publishers had actually come up with it but sadly it will probably take this kind of content stealing for publishers to wake up and smell the coffee. There was a fashion magazine scan site (here) that I used to look at once an awhile but it looks like they've had their content removed. Is this starting to sound like the recording industry?
Via PDN Pulse.
The Agonizingly Slow Pace of Change" ...Young journalists are less willing to stay at newspapers because the papers are so slow to change their culture.
Newspapers have a history as top-down organizations where senior management huddles in conference rooms to decide what everyone else will do. Innovative ideas usually die on the vine or in bureaucratic red tape. And that's frustrating for young folks who want to be change agents at newspapers and make a difference."
Read about it on MediaShift (here).
The Curious Economics of Contemporary ArtA new book published in the UK and out here in September:
"The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art" (Palgrave Macmillan, 272 pages, $24.95)
"Willem de Kooning once said of the famed art dealer Leo Castelli: "You could give him two beer cans and he could sell them."Read more (here). Via, Gallery Hopper.
MagCloud TestedJonathan Saunders got after it and has a magazine available on MagCloud for anyone that wants to see how the printing looks (here).
The Prix Pictet AwardThe short list for the new $100,000 (!) Prix Pictet Award has been announced (here).
The Prix Pictet is a major new global prize in photography that focuses on perhaps the greatest single issue of the twenty-first century: sustainability.
Intern for Chris BuckIf you want to see how someone perfectly balances the editorial and commercial worlds of photography and you're majoring in a photo program in the final or next to final year then send Chris a resume and cover letter (chris(at)chrisbuck.com) because this is an incredible opportunity for aspiring photographers and photo editors to get their feet wet in this business.
The rest of the details are in the comments.
UPDATE: Position Filled
