I heard this over a year ago while waiting in line at Green Apple Books; it’s like the kind of music you’d hear in one of those retro-futuristic homes from the 70′s with woodgrain everything.
Client: We like the design, but could you make the blues all the same.
Me: It’s the same blue through out the design.
Client: It looks like different blues.
Me: That’s because colors are perceived differently dependent on neighboring colors.
Client: That’s stupid.
More at Clients From Hell.
William Gibson’s new novel, Zero History, will be out on September 7th, 2010. Since March 31st, he’s been answering questions on his blog and there are a lot of insightful answers to his methodology and internal processes. Part one and part two.
Q: Which novels did you enjoy writing most?
A: Writing novels is a painful and anxiety-ridden process, for me. There are *moments* of enjoyment. I very much enjoy the state of having written.Q: Least?
A: They’re all equally if differently painful, and each one seems, at some point, to me, to be not only a very bad novel, but the worst novel ever written. That crisis, I’ve learned, indicates that I’ll be finished soon, and that the worst is over. But knowing that doesn’t seem to decrease that devastating and absolute conviction of utter failure.
Even the greats suffer from self-doubt.
I entered sacred ground last Saturday, April 3rd, 2010. Here are photographs of (nearly) every dish and course served over a three and a half hour period of overindulgence.
SF Weekly interviews Daniel Bowien of Mission Street Food and Mission Street Burger.
Favorite off-night spots?
Sebo, Popeyes. [Bowien told us he's been on the hunt for great fried chicken lately.]
You can’t beat the Tuesday 99¢ special at Popeyes. Part two of the interview here.
I’m late on the #fakedrake lyrics but they’re pretty funny. Nil Doctrine has his top ten #fakedrake lyrics.
The NY Times takes a small shot at what’s been going on with the evolution of digital photography technology and its impact on the industry. Sites like Flickr have been a massive source for Getty since they opened up their users’ images for licensing; photographers, assistants, and digital technicians alike are finding it more difficult to maintain the same day rates; costs are still soaring (and the pay rates still haven’t increased for shit in decades — unless you count the paltry online royalties that get tacked on to the day rate nowadays); and there’s a bunch of artists out there (me) hungry for some work but don’t have (m)any opportunities.
That is because amateurs are largely happy to be paid anything for their photos. “People that don’t have to make a living from photography and do it as a hobby don’t feel the need to charge a reasonable rate,” Mr. Eich said.
When you have such affordable digital technology, why would anyone pay a working photographer their day rate when you can just bust out your 15-megapixel dSLR camera and do it yourself? I’ve been trying to figure that out since I finished school and it remains to be seen if any of my attempts at an alternative business model will prove any success.
Always floatin’ to the top. Life vest.
Thanks for the photo, Adrienne.