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 [...]
Archive for April, 2010
A good month. No, a very good month
Posted in Reading, Thinking on April 27, 2010 | Comments Off
What Flickr does better than Facebook
Posted in Reading, Thinking, tagged Facebook. copyright, Flickr, Privacy, reputation management on April 25, 2010 | Comments Off
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 [...]
“Comin’ around again” exhibition opens in Philadelphia
Posted in Images, Making, Reading, tagged "comin' around again" Peter Hay Halpert" on April 23, 2010 | Comments Off
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. You can find more info about the book at [...]
Pixar’s Ed Catmull CEO talks to “The Economist” on the Creative Company
Posted in Reading, Thinking on April 21, 2010 | Comments Off
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. [...]
Out in the street
Posted in Reading, Thinking, Uncategorized, tagged art, contemporary art, street photography, terrorism on April 18, 2010 | Comments Off
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, [...]
