Emory & Steve, first podcast

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Emory wasn't able to make the call for this week's podcast, but very fortunately, another writer friend, Mary Serendipitously, Mary Burns skyped in from British Columbia with questions directly related to what I expected to be talking with Emory about. So, with her permission, I recorded our conversation for this week's podcast. Emory Holmes II and I will record a call on another day. Do to my nervous clumsiness, I didn't get the first part of our conversation recorded. With apologies, we start in the middle. We lost most of what we covered about eBook publishing, we'll pick that up next time, but what we have here covers a few points about using social media for building audience. There's enough here to move the conversation along in this effort to inform and inspire traditional artists and writers wanting to publish in digital media and use social media to find their supportive community. I had sent Mary the links below which I recommend for gaining both an overview of eBook publishing and specific resources for deciding how to enter that activity: http://www.gutenberg.org/w/index.php?title=Michael_S._Hart http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_publishing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebooks http://reviews.cnet.com/how-to-self-publish-an-e-book http://www.squidoo.com/howtomakeanEbook http://www.idealog.com/blog/what-smaller-publishers-agents-and-authors-need-t... http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/E-book_stores http://www.lulu.com/publish/ebooks/?cid=nav_ebks http://changethis.com/ Put this link in your podcatcher or feed reader: http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheRealSteveHarlow Subscribe to this audio feed in iTunes: itpc://feeds.feedburner.com/TheRealSteveHarlow Please post your links to information you've found useful and state your comments and questions in the comments section below.

Katy Haswell - ITN World News

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In 1996, while we were still in San Francisco, I regularly watched ITN World News:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITN_World_News
and fell "in love" with Katy Haswell - Regular Presenter, 1996-1998.

I made some collages with photo copied shots of her off the TV.
Here I put two of them together in new scans.

Where is pretty Katy now?
She needs a Wikipedia article:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katy_Haswell

Katy's update

Clic Gallery's Delta Hunter - Jim & Karla Murray Upcoming Event

 

At the opening of STORE FRONT by JAMES AND KARLA MURRAY, Delta Hunter of CLIC GALLERY, announces an upcoming special event with the photographer / authors and art critic, Max Kozloff.

STORE FRONT will run from July 15 to August 30, 2009
Clic Gallery
255 Centre Street
New York NY 10012
Tuesday to Saturday 11 am - 7 pm
Sunday 12 pm - 6 pm

Patch pano: No Photography at the Met's Francis Bacon show.

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A while back, I realized that my painter heros, painters whose work guided and encouraged me, could be thought of as a Saint Francis Trinity: Francis Bacon; Sam Francis; The San Francisco School (Bay Area Figurative) - Park, Diebenkorn, Bischoff. Sam Francis because he knew how to leave paint alone. Francis Bacon, because he knew how to mess it up. San Francisco School because they know what a painting is. So here I am, painting with photo data, thinking of my inspiration and my guides, at Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective of work by one of my three legs. A guard came up to me as I framed a shot, "No photography!" I took the shot, wishing I could take a shot of her, a nice, handsome, middle-aged lady with straight, shoulder length, blond-gray hair and thin, straight lips. A stupid concept, banning photography at a visual art event. I don't argue, much, it's not the guard's policy. It's endemic to all media presenters. The notion that wide-spread photo echos, ghosts of the real work, can devalue the original art. She tells me I can get postcards and posters, books and video of the work in the gift shop. "They're much better, trust me." No. I don't. She doesn't know that I view artshows thru the shots I take and the compositions I make from them. That I am enjoying the exhibition, savoring it, by bringing small parts of it into my art. Like sketching from the masters, I'm learning and extending the traditions, honoring the achievements of those artists who came before. Of the 60 or so people who see this composition here on Flicrk in the first day, at least 20 will be encountering Francis Bacon's images for the first time. 10 of them will be intrigued and seek out his work. Over the first year, 1000+ viewers will see this compo, 166.666 of them will become new fans of his work, they'll tell their friends. The owners of Bacon's paintings and the Museum are advantaged by my photography at this "No Photography" event. They don't have to thank me, I'm glad to do it. But, they need to get their heads out of each other's asses and realise that, these days, photographing is how we see. Sharing shots of sights is how the culture knows there are sights to be seen. They need to think about it for a minute and stop putting up "No Photography" signs at visual art shows. They are as useless and counter-productive as "No Tweeting" signs at a blogger convention.