Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/08/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Quoth the Tina Manley : > At 09:51 PM 8/24/2009, you wrote: > >Brainstorming this topic > >would be very helpful > >to many on this list > > > >certainly would be for me. > > > >ideas? Ran across this about an hour ago; I can't see any real personal use for it myself but it may be something of an indicator of the future. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/25/technology/start-ups/25kick.html My initial response to Doug's comment was that perhaps fluff and sports and celeb may be all that the advertisers and, by extension, the publishers, are willing to pay for, but perhaps it's not all the *readers* are willing to pay for. There are dozens of artists, and at least a handful of journalists, who are supporting themselves by subscriptions, donations, etc. from websites. I don't know how well the model works for general reportage, but reporters/writers/photojournalists with a well-formed and thoughtful view of the world might well be able to find a way of marketing themselves directly to their audiences. It seems likely that one of the sine qua non elements will be demonstrable specialist expertise supporting that individual (or collective but harmonious) voice. Much of what I'm seeing speaks to this being an age of niche marketing; the days of a journalist or a news outlet trying to be all things to all people may be ebbing. I'll admit that I'm not wild about spending more time selling my work than DOING it. That may be the world we're moving into, however. > I agree that multimedia is probably the future, but I'm not so sure > that it's a great thing. I never like any multimedia productions > until I saw Maisie Crow's and she helped convince me of the > possibilities. I am too old to change my ways and take up video. I agree. I think. For me it's mostly that I just don't LIKE video, in general. Except that I'm also thinking I'm too old NOT to be learning as many new things as I can, just to keep myself moving and growing. It's that "use it or lose it" thing. Otherwise I'm going to be where I am or falling behind for a very long time, and that's already boring. > I also think we need to slow everything down. I get a lot more out > of looking at one still photo and absorbing it, than having hundreds > fly > > by me set to rocking music of some kind. When I run across those > > productions on the internet, I skip over them. I get a lot more out > of > one good still photograph that I can fall into than I do from any > > multimedia production. That's just me, though, and I'm an old fogie. Yeah, but you're not alone. Or wrong. http://shrunk.net/4e643495 Damn those Chinese "interesting" curses anyway. -- R. Clayton McKee http://www.rcmckee.com Photojournalist rcmckee at rcmckee.com P O Box 571900 voice/fax 713/783-3502 Houston, TX 77257-1900 cell phone # on request