I’ve been taking classes at SCORE and trying to spend more time on the business side of my business. Among the many interesting things on the SCORE website, I found this list of advice for Startups in 13 Sentences.

Originally published at Amul Kumar Photography. Please leave any comments there.

( Read more... )

I’m currently working on a piece that will be called Diogenes 2: The Search for Love. I photographed the male model today, and am now reviewing the photos from the shoot.

As a result, I spent my afternoon saying things like, “Look over there! Is that love? Yeah, look at it closely. It could be Love, but it looks kind of grimy. Sorta wilted. Forlorn ( Read more... )

Added to the website:


( Read more... )

Greetings from Continuous Labs, Mother’s premiere Mesh-to-Internet (M2I) translation specialists. We want to offer a special welcome to our new subscribers who have joined since we published our free fiction preview in honor of Tellurian New Years.

* Continuous Coast fiction preview!

For those of you who still have not seen it, visit:
http://www. ( Read more... )

The Dream Cafe folks, with whom I’ve been collaborating on an exploration of the effect of new technologies on storytelling, have a blog series on 21st Century Business Models for Artists that is quite edifying to read.

These essays form the bulk of what has been keeping me too busy to produce my own blog material, and as those guys are writers and ( Read more... )

For the last several months I’ve been working with Continuous Labs on their not-exactly-secret CC project. I’m working as a consulting artist and translator on the Mediator twitter project. I’ve really enjoyed working with the M2I guys (that’s Mesh 2 Internet, a translation protocol) and look forward to sharing more of our work as it goes live here ( Read more... )

If you are a musician, member of a band, or good friends with a band, please give me their contact info.

Specifically, I am looking for bands/musicians who:
- maintain a mailing list of over 50 people
- have released at least one album
- regularly* record music
- regularly* perform live shows

Please reply even if you think I already know how to ( Read more... )

An attendee from GenCon, where I set up a last-minute booth to sell my photos, suggested that I check out Worth 1000, a daily photography contest website. They also have daily contests for 3D rendering (for some reason labeled “Photoshop”), Illustration, graphic design, and writing.

Unfortunately, the site doesn’t allow image merging or collaging, ( Read more... )

Leslie Burns Dell’Acqua, of Burns Auto Parts, is an internationally known creative marketing consultant who specializes in working with commercial photographers. During the ASMP’s Strictly Business 2 tour, she gave a presentation on Seven Steps to an Effective (and doable) Marketing Plan.

Step One is to create what she calls a Vision Marketing ( Read more... )