While lots of people have some of the images included in the poster… nobody has them all. I sent this one to uber-fan Ann (who took some of the non-Sheryl pix in the group). Then you just send the image off to a print site and you have a nice poster to hang on your wall. I liked the randomness Posterino provided. I didn’t spend a lot of time arranging image. If you don’t like the result, you shuffle. With Posterino, you decide the size and layout of the poster… pick the group of photos you want to use… and hit go. With enough time and patience (and Photoshop), you could create this montage one image at at time. I’ve collected a bunch over the years, almost all taken by others. The solution is simple: Compose a “best of” poster every couple of months and pin it on the wall in your hall.”įor my first poster I decided to use images of Sheryl Crow. “We shoot a lot of marvelous pictures, bury them deep down in the file system of our computers and most of them never see the light of day again. For those that missed the earlier post, from the Posterino website: I started playing with Posterino a couple of weeks ago and finally got around to creating my first poster. Posted in Journalism | Tagged iPhone, social media, YouTube Mobile Media I think the long-term success of our news networks –of everyone’s news networks– will depend on understanding and implementing these ideas. The last few days playing with the iPhone, Twitter, Posterous and YouTube make his last point really hop off the page. It means working with the mobile phone and digital camera and social media-enabled public and not against them. It means, to my earlier point, using all the multimedia tools available and all the smart multimedia journalists to provide a package so much stronger than any one individual strand. It means truly exploiting real expertise. That means understanding what really can be exclusive and what really is insightful. “We in the traditional media … must concentrate our efforts on defining and developing that which really adds value. Olympics Committee Press Commission (June 23, 2009). Mindy McAdams (Teaching Online Journalism) points us to a speech by David Schlesinger, editor-in-chief for Reuters News, to the Intl. Posted in Books | Tagged Hugh MacLeod, Quotable Exploiting expertise If you are successful, it’ll never come from the direction you predicted.The size of the endeavor doesn’t matter as much as how meaningful it becomes to you.Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom.The best way to get approval is to not need it.They never hit at a convenient time, nor do they last long. You have to find a way of working that makes it dead easy to take full advantage of your inspired moments. If you’re arranging your life in such a way that you need to make a lot of fuss between feeling the (creative) itch and getting to work, you’re putting the cart before the horse.Selling out is harder than it looks (It’s hard to sell out if nobody has bought in).The only people who can change the world are the people who want to.The more bullshit you will have to swallow. The more you need the money, the more people will tell you what to do. Art suffers the moment other people start paying for it.Like the best jobs in the world, it just kinda sorta happened.Companies that squelch creativity can no longer compete with companies that champion creativity.Doing anything worthwhile takes forever.It was so liberating to be doing something that didn’t have to have some sort of commercial angle, for a change.The sovereignty you have over your work will inspire far more people than the actual content ever will.That is why good ideas are always initially resisted. Good ideas alter the power balance in relationships.The more original your idea is, the less good advice other people will be able to give you.But Hugh MacLeod’s little blog-to-book ( Ignore Everybody – And 39 Other Keys to Creativity) has some useful insights. Telling someone how to be creative is like explaining how to wiggle your ears.
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