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A good month. No, a very good month

Posted in Reading, Thinking on April 27, 2010 |

The gift box (2010) Ron Diorio
The gift box (2010) Ron Diorio

I have been moving so fast recently I hadn’t noticed the piling on some good things and thought it was worth a moment to mention them before I head to London to end the month.

Here is the list (in no particular order).

+Which MBA? our online ranking tool was short listed for a AOPUK award in the Innovation Category.

+”Comin’ around again” was (finally) published.

+”A season of wants” screened at “Manipulated Image 12″ in Santa Fe.

+A great family and a great family vacation at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas.

We launched our “Conversation Cloud” product and it received positive external press.

+”Comin’ around again” was accepted into a major museum collection

+A solo exhibition in support of the book opens in Philadelphia

+We have moved to great new offices on Third Avenue

+I have made more new work in the first three weeks of April 2010 than I had the last six months

+Oh and of course, the NJ Devlis were eliminated from the Stanley Cup playoffs.

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What Flickr does better than Facebook

Posted in Reading, Thinking, tagged , , , on April 25, 2010 |

Lots of talk about Facebook changes this week and how they they are expanding both as platform and destination.

I am an unabashed fan of Flickr for lots of reasons, however there are few aspects of Flickr which I think make it the most forward looking of social/sharing sites.

1. I control the copyright levels of my own work/contributions at the media object level.

2. “Interestingness” is meant as a way of distinguishing the value of an individual work rather than an individual. So reputation management is set at the media object level.

3. Interestingness can be used against any set of media objects to rank and sort.

4. You can’t sort users by interestingness only media objects – it is for discovering the best contributions.

5. I can publish to other parts of Flickr (groups/threads) and maintain my own copyright.

6. Everything: media objects and comments have permalinks.

7. Tagging, groups, sets, galleries and rss feeds allow for a much more rich organization than a “news feed”

I think media sites can help their users be more responsible and create bodies of work on their sites that add value across the whole value chain. Flickr’s approach should be examined as a way of leveraging the full value of the IP reader/users contribute to the social web.

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“Comin’ around again” exhibition opens in Philadelphia

Posted in Images, Making, Reading, tagged on April 23, 2010 |

Peter Hay Halpert Fine Art has just opened a new exhibition of selected prints from my last two series “Around here” and “Hometown” in Philadelphia. The exhibition is in honour of the publication my new limited edition artist book, “Comin’ around again”. Hours are by appointment.

Ron Diorio Book cover

You can find more info about the book at www.phhfineart.com

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Pixar’s Ed Catmull CEO talks to “The Economist” on the Creative Company

Posted in Reading, Thinking on April 21, 2010 |

I was on a panel yesterday at DrupalCon and referenced a video by Randy Nelson of Pixar University on the need to reduce the need for “translators” between engineers and artists at Pixar. I think that this may be one of the best talks on the creative collaboration I have seen. His enthusiasm is infectious. That video can be found here: Learning and Working in the Collaborative Age Randy Nelson .

Today this showed up on my RSS feed. Both clips are worth watching.

Good artists understand to work within constraints.

Disclaimer: I work for The Economist

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Out in the street

Posted in Reading, Thinking, Uncategorized, tagged , , , on April 18, 2010 |

The Guardian has an article on “street photography”: Why street photography is facing a moment of truth

From the article:

We live in an age of anxieties, both big and small, real and imagined.

Today, photography – and street photography in particular – is a contested sphere in which all our collective anxieties converge: terrorism, paedophilia, intrusion, surveillance. We insist on the right to privacy and, simultaneously, snap anything and everyone we see and everything we do – in public and in private – on mobile phones and digital cameras.

Slugger

Art shouldn’t need to be safe, taking risks should be part of what we are trying reach. For my own practice, I consider the challenge as part of the process. Confront the anxieties and work through it.

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