Don’t Frack Up My Neighborhood

Can you believe this fracking guy? I sent the following letter to the folks that want to destroy my local environment (by “fracking” the shale in an around Pittsburgh): Please don’t drill. You’ll ruin my water, my air, my life. Are the lives of millions of people really worth the money that you’re after? There [...]

Pole Position

Grocery stores place impulse buys at the register or check-out area because they know that when you’re standing in line you might just grab one of these items, they also place things on the ends of isles that they want to sell (for a variety of reasons). I’m not revealing the secrets of the universe [...]

A Word From Our Sponsor (disguised as a blog post)

I just have to share this with you all. I have a google alert set up with “need, photography, Pittsburgh” and I don’t normally get a lot of good results for that but sometimes it does provide leads so I keep it active. The other thing that happens occasionally is that it brings back interesting results like [...]

The Decade in review

This is the oldest photo of myself that I have easy access to, it’s from 2006 and was shot by Marcy Echoltz at the Art Institute. This was taken in maybe Jan. or Feb. so it was close to mid-decade (give or take a year). Why was I looking for old portraits of myself and [...]

Usefulness

I had to share this – I was reading through my rss feeds and saw a post on a site called fastcashphoto.com which is a site that I check often for the job listings they compile and also occasionally for the questions that people post. I’m a firm believer that there are no stupid questions – just [...]

Light

I’ve been talking to more and more people over the past several months about lighting. Lighting in relation to displaying and creating art. Between the work that I’m doing with my business partner Dave (Schmutzco.com), the residency he is in (Distillery 4), and the folks that I am teaching photography to or talking to about [...]

Growing Pains

I’ve been meaning to write this for a few weeks now but I’m just getting around to it. I had the chance to look at the work of some photography students at the Art Institute and tell them what I liked, didn’t like, and ways to improve on their work. It was a lot of [...]

More Wisdom from the Web

As I’ve done before – I’m passing along another great article from a blog that I read every time they update named Freelance Switch. If you are a freelancer, or any kind of business owner you should be reading this blog. If you hire freelancers you REALLY should be reading this blog to find the [...]

The Eyes Of The World

Newsflash: Human beings are a visual species. We, as a species, rely on vision as our primary sense. The fact that you are reading this right now is evidence of just how visual we are. Further evidence is the fact that audio browsers and technologies that make the Internet easier to use for blind persons [...]

Feeling Flushed?

With the economy in the toilet how do you make sure your business . . . survives? If you are already swirling it may be too late, but if you’re sitting on the edge of the bowl there is no need to panic, but there is certainly a need for a change in scenery. Studies [...]