Personism (10 unread)

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  Etsy.com peddles a false feminist fantasy. [del.icio.us]

  Posted: 11-June-2009, 2:04am CEST by unbeige

  The problem is that on Etsy, as in much of life, the promise is a fantasy. There?s little evidence that most sellers on the site make much money. This, I suspect, explains the absence of men. They are immune to the allure of this fantasy. They have evaluated the site on purely economic terms and found it wanting.
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  Cool, Cool Water - The Morning News [del.icio.us]

  Posted: 7-July-2009, 12:21am CEST by unbeige

  As French photographer Christian Chaize says below, ?Almost all of us have at least one personal history with a beach.? His series ?Praia Piquinia,? on view at Jen Bekman Gallery through July 11, 2009, is a charming portrait of a small patch of sand as it changes from day to day. The beach is what we make it, Chaize suggests below, and is never the same.
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  The Death of Macho - By Reihan Salam | Foreign Policy [del.icio.us]

  Posted: 12-July-2009, 7:38am CEST by unbeige

  The great shift of power from males to females is likely to be dramatically accelerated by the economic crisis, as more people realize that the aggressive, risk-seeking behavior that has enabled men to entrench their power?the cult of macho?has now proven destructive and unsustainable in a globalized world.
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  BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | The slow death of handwriting [del.icio.us]

  Posted: 8-September-2009, 1:22am CEST by unbeige

  Christmas cards, shopping lists and what else? The occasions in which we write by hand are fewer and fewer.... So is the ancient art of handwriting dying out? A century from now, our handwriting may only be legible to experts. For some, that is already the case. But writer Kitty Burns Florey says the art of handwriting is declining so fast that ordinary, joined-up script may become as hard to read as a medieval manuscript. "When your great-great-grandchildren find that letter of yours in the attic, they'll have to take it to a specialist, an old guy at the library who would decipher the strange symbols for them," says Ms Florey, author of the newly-published Script and Scribble: The Rise and Fall of Handwriting.
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  Art for Investment's Sake - Executive Style - Portfolio.com [del.icio.us]

  Posted: 8-September-2009, 4:40am CEST by unbeige

  "The unforgiving recession has pummeled stock and bond markets, but an unconventional investment has Victor Cordell smiling. On a recent San Francisco morning, Cordell read aloud a letter from The Collectors Fund, a Kansas City-based investment fund that buys mostly 20th century American art. He joined in October. For the year that ended in June, the value of the fund?s holdings rose 10 percent a unit, based on multiple appraisals, following a 20 percent increase the prior year."
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  Illustrator Keeps Artistic Vision Despite Eye Injury : NPR [del.icio.us]

  Posted: 9-September-2009, 7:43am CEST by unbeige

  "Hours can go by, she says, as she draws the long, smooth lines that capture the nature of a leaf or a branch. After nearly four decades on the job, Tangerini is still trying to get it just right... Every drawing is that attempt to reach perfection," says Tangerini, who is also the curator of the Smithsonian's 5 million plant drawings. "The attempt to really make that one line that you say, 'That's exactly the way I wanted to make that line.'"
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  The F STOP » Professional Photographers Discuss Their Craft » Article Archive » Movin? On Up [del.icio.us]

  Posted: 9-September-2009, 8:05am CEST by unbeige

  The process by which an artist?s work finds its way into a commercial gallery is often long and circumvented. Stein was gracious, politely tenacious, and smart. Professional relationships can often be analogous to marriage, and after three years of ?dating,? I was certain that I liked Stein as a person. This was someone with whom I would enjoy working on a day-to-day basis; someone whom I could trust; and someone who clearly has a bright future, so that after one successful show I will not be left in the lurch with no further compelling work to promote. ? Brian Clamp on Ms. Amy Stein.
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  Google to reincarnate digital books as paperbacks - AOL Money & Finance [del.icio.us]

  Posted: 17-September-2009, 5:56pm CEST by unbeige

  "As part of a deal announced Thursday, Google is opening up part of its index to the maker of a high-speed publishing machine that can manufacture a paperback-bound book of about 300 pages in under five minutes. The new service is an acknowledgment by the Internet search leader that not everyone wants their books served up on a computer or an electronic reader like those made by Amazon.com Inc. and Sony Inc. The "Espresso Book Machine" has been around for several years already ..."
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  Jonathan Melber: A Remix Manifesto for Our New Copyright Czar [del.icio.us]

  Posted: 20-October-2009, 3:14am CEST by unbeige

  Featuring a guest appearance (via comments) by a suit from the RIAA.
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  20x200's 20% More Ridiculous Sale is back! [del.icio.us]

  Posted: 30-January-2010, 4:33pm CET by unbeige

  The sitewide 20% sale only happens but twice a year! Collectors who enter the code RIDONK at checkout get 20% off their order.