Let’s say you wanted to go into the print-on-demand book business. You want to get started on the cheap, so you rent some time on an hp Indigo, cobble together some kind of fulfillment service, and start taking orders. To make customer support less of an issue, you go after a market where your customers… [Read More]
Publish your work
Ever thought about doing a book? Sure you have. Maybe you even looked into the economics of it, and realized that, in order to pay for all the setup charges, you needed to have a press run of at least 1000 copies. Two thousand turns out to be in the sweet spot. You figured out… [Read More]
Art & Craft
Two friends and I went on a photo trip a few months ago. We went to the Owens Valley to make landscapes. None of us is an accomplished landscape photographer. Our motivation was to have a good time together doing something we like to do. Still, we were serious about it. We scouted locations during… [Read More]
Controversy
We had a little of what passes for controversy on this blog last month. Two whole comments! A couple of other people (you know who you are) said that they’d post something, but so far have not followed through. I did run into Hunter shortly after he posted his “you ignorant slut” comment. I asked… [Read More]
Creating inside the box
Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Amazon, said in a recent Business Week interview, “I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do.” Replace “innovation” with “creativity” (I’m not sure I can tell you the difference, but “innovation” is not a word that resonates as well with artists) and “frugality” with darn near any constraint,… [Read More]
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