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A great presentation of Malcom Gladwell at the AIGA Business and Design conference
on his theory that you have to invest at least 10.000 hours in whatever you want to
be a master in. Very interesting talk and something worth listening to.

http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/video-gain-2008-gladwell

From Americans for the Arts

The arts are essential to the health and vitality of our communities. They enhance community development; spur urban renewal; attract new businesses; draw tourism dollars; and create an environment that attracts skilled, educated workers and builds a robust 21st century workforce. As Congress considers the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan, urge them to include the arts and culture so that they can continue to help revitalize America’s economy.

The website makes it very easy to write a letter to your representative. Just select the text blocks you’d
like to include. This is important. Get your voice out!

Seems today’s video posting day.

Thanks to David Paul Larson for posting these. Watch them all:

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Just stumbled across this one (thanks Jonathan). And it’s good. Very famous failures who proved
that if you do what you love and keep on pressing, you can succeed.
Keep on doing what you love and you’ll be successful and happy after all. Isn’t this why
you want to be an artist in the first place?

New work about Parkour/ Freerunning.

The new book from photography consultant (and soon lawyer) Leslie Burns-Dell’Acqua who writes
the Super Premium Blog has written a book which I would consider a must read if you’re serious
about your photography career. You can get the PDF version and print version on LuLu.com and
via Amazon (print only).

Soooooooooo .. it was a productive day today. Here are some images from the shoot
with the guys at TexasParkour. What a group of fun people. Looking forward to the
next one. And don’t try this at home (or in the city or wherever). You might hurt
yourself. I know I would :).

.. and much better. Boy that was fast. Webserver down in the morning, new website
with different service provider up before midnight and everything looks much better.
Kudos to aphotofolio.com for the super fast turnaround. The man himself took care
of things and it was a breeze to setup the new site. So again as a learning:

Don’t chimp on your most important marketing tool! EVAR!

So this morning when I got into my office I saw this one little email that told me
that the server my website is hosted on was offline and needed to be moved because
of an hardware issue. So my site was down (again) and this was it with this hoster.
So I had to rig something up that people still see something when they go to my URL
and also make the blog work again. It’s in a very temporary stage but I can happily
report that email is working again, you’ll see something when you go to the website
and also the blog link kinda works. Not sure about Feedburner yet.

In the meantime I’m working on a replacement with Rob Haggart’s new venture aphotofolio.com.
Here’s the learning from that: If you’re a photographer, do exactly that. Take photos
and spend time taking better photos. Do NOT waste time building your own website which
you then host with an unreliable cheap hoster! Lesson learned, thank you very much.

It’ll cost more in the end than doing it right from the beginning.