This video was shared with me earlier today. I think every photographer has heard these negotiating tactics, unfortunately many photographers give in. I have to ask - WHEN have you ever walked into a restaurant and negotiated a price for your meal? Oh, and I think I heard this one last week, “We want you to show us how you did it so we can go ahead and do it inhouse next time.” Yea, ummm. No.
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Continue Reading...It’s no secret, I fly AirTran as much as I possibly can. There’s two main reasons:
1) When I’m traveling, I want it to be as fast and easy as possible and don’t want to deal with NYC crowds at the airport (whereever I may be). AirTran’s terminals usually aren’t as crowded as Jet Blue and the other” discount carriers”, and;
2) I can’t stand small seats, crying babies and waiting in line to get on the plane. I almost always fly business class and would never charge a client for my “luxuries” (hence the discount carrier). Upgrading to Business Class with AirTran is cheap and almost always available. I buy a discount coach ticket, get to the airport an extra half hour early and, for $30 - $50, I’ve got myself a business class ticket.
My biggest complaint about flying (and I do it often) was that I’m totally out of touch. Well, now that will no longer be the case. AirTran announced today that they will be offering WiFi service on ALL AirTran flights by Summer 2009. It’s not free, but at least it’s being offered and for us busy bodies can continue to truly work.
The Pricing:
Flights under 3 hours = $9.95
Flights over 3 hours = $12.95
Handheld Devices: $7.95 regardless of flight length.
Their marketing department even created a special website for it, www.everyflight.com, where you can win a seat on every flight for a year.
I’ve always liked AirTran. I don’t need the fancy TV’s of JetBlue, I always liked Song much better anyway. I just need to have nice comfortable seats, friendly flight attendants and INTERNET. I’m sold!
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Continue Reading...Without any explanation at about 4:30PM last Friday, My floor-mate, documentary and fine art photographer Michel Delsol, walked into my studio and said, “come on, we’re going on a date.”
“Where are we going?”, I asked, “I’ve got some work to do.” I had just walked in from a long day full of meetings.
“I’m not telling, you’ll find out.”
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Continue Reading...Popular Mac Enthusiast and Rumors website, MacRumors.com reported today AT&T is in the process of doubling its standard 3G wireless network bandwidth from 3.6Mbps download to 7.2Mbps. They report (with sources such as Telephony Online) that this is a stepping stone while they upgrade their entire network to a new HSPA+ technology which could allow up to 21Mbps download. That’s a larger pipe that most corporate office internet connections.
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As I mentioned back in early December, I have two images in this years Photography Annual (including the cover). The annual also includes imagery by Fabien Baron, Henry Leutwyler, Sheila Metzner, Hugh Kretschmer, Craig Cutler, Phil Marco, Paul Elledge, Elliott Erwitt and Parish Kohanim, among others.
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