It’s not that difficult to write a blog, for example, that repeatedly shows up on Digg or Reddit. The thing is, this audience is fickle and they don’t often convert into paying customers or long-term fans. It’s not that difficult to be haute couture, to be fashionable, cutting edge or fickle. What’s difficult is figuring out how to make it pay.

While testing out a trial version of the Silver Efex Pro plugin for Aperture, I decided to throw in an old photo and see what happened.

I’m really pleased with how it came out. So much so that I just may make a print.

However, you must be careful when approaching “two moleksine” people. If you’re in one of those coffee shops and you see someone with two notebooks, if the oldest one isn’t full and stained with coffee cup marks on the cover, and covered with a sticker from a brothel in Uzbekistan, then you’re probably looking at a poser. Steer clear! Order your redeye, move to the side of the room, find a Robert Ludlum novel, settle into the comfy chair and start mubling softly about the meta narrative of the Jason Bourne saga. You will be left alone.

*snicker*

Starting Friday evening, this photo will be hanging as part of the second series of photographs selected to be in the ”Portraits of Raleigh” exhibit at the Raleigh City Museum.

This was taken in 2005 on the old Fayetteville Street Mall (now a street) just outside of the Raleigh City Museum. 

To the ABC advertisers, Mr. Kimmel said, “Every year we lie to you and every year you come back for more. You don’t need an upfront. You need therapy. We completely lie to you, and then you pass those lies onto your clients.”

Funny and true, but some (including the New York Times’ Dave Itzkoff) think Kimmel is out of a job because of the stunt. In a jab at the failing newspaper industry, commenter Brian puts it best:

I’m sure his monologue went over fine. People in the TV business don’t take themselves nearly as seriously as you newspaper people do. Probably because we get paid a lot more.

Ouch.

From my photo set of the The Bain Project, a public opening of a former water treatment plant.