http://thoughts.joeryder.com Joe's thoughts on small business, marketing, politics, society, art and the web. Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:21:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en VSAA Alumni Network ready to help you reconnect! MySpace, Facebook, LiveJournal and other social networking sites have been a good source of communication when VSAA students graduate. It's natural to add friends from school and keep in touch on those sites. But what if we want to do more? What if ... http://thoughts.joeryder.com/2008/06/27/alumni-network-now-open/ Ken Rigney, local Northwest artist and a fellow graduate of the Vancouver School of Arts and Academics, is on display at the Lage Oswego Festival of the Arts from June 20th to June 22nd. The festival runs from 10 am to 9 pm over the weekend. His?pieces will include three ... http://thoughts.joeryder.com/2008/06/18/ken-rigney-lake-oswego-festival-of-arts-june-20-22/ I am trying to get all my services and blogs, from MySpace to AllegedGenius.com, channeled through this site as a repository. Unfortunately, my server host decided to instigate a quota for upload file totals, or at least that's the error I got, so it will be a little while until ... http://thoughts.joeryder.com/2008/06/18/updates-pending-stupid-server-errors/ So sad is the failure we've seen to get a feasible solution to the need for an alumni association for the Vancouver School of Arts and Academics. So far, we have created nothing more than events, unsponsored and left to the organization tactics of chance-happenings to fulfill their production. I do ... http://thoughts.joeryder.com/2008/06/16/discussing-the-future-of-art-school-alumni/ Robert Genn wrote a list of ten commandments for the professional artist not sure how to price him-or-herself when selling prints. Robert Genn's Ten Commandments of Art Pricing Thou shalt start out cheap. Thou shalt publish thy prices. Thou shalt raise thy prices regularly and a little. Thou shalt not lower thy prices. Thou shalt not ... http://thoughts.joeryder.com/2008/03/23/review-the-ten-commandments-of-art-pricing/ Carry the weight of the world Originally uploaded by K weav Had to post this set by Katy in Portland. I would say, for her age, she is an excellent photographer. I think she limits herself a lot, though. She has lots ... http://thoughts.joeryder.com/2008/03/15/flickr-review-march-15-continued/ Shapefinder #5 Originally uploaded by allegedgenius This is actually my new flickr account. I just wanted everyone to know it's there. The pic here is a series called "Shapefinder", where I show how one would find figures in seemingly random shapes or ... http://thoughts.joeryder.com/2008/03/15/flickr-review-mar-15th-2008/ station panarama tiny size Originally uploaded by Inthehat WARNING: Shameless plug for a friend follows! inthehat, aka Matt, a friend of mine from high school, is an aspiring photographer that has a great view on how a camera and photo should be interpreted: an extension of the dynamic vision of the human eye. ... http://thoughts.joeryder.com/2008/03/12/flickr-review-march-12th-2007/ DORIAN LIGHT TEST Originally uploaded by KOUMAKO Koumako is a terribly talented artist who has a plethora of content on Flickr. He has no profile info, but judging by the mapping option on Flickr it looks like he/she resides in France. This is a great example of how astonishingly realistic the tools ... http://thoughts.joeryder.com/2008/03/08/flickr-review-mar-8-2008/ Silversafe frontman Johnny Davidson announced to fans in the band's emailed newsletter this week that he would resume his solo career. Davidson, who has followed in the footsteps of the Goo Goo Dolls frontman and adopted to go by "Jon" as a soloist, has showcased his solo skills in live sessions for Silversafe, taking over ... http://thoughts.joeryder.com/2008/02/29/johnny-davidson-to-resume-solo-career/