“Let’s face it sometimes it’s not about you; it’s about who you know. Relationships are important to artists and it’s never too soon to start developing them.”
Tag: 06.20.14
What Do The Colorblind See When They Look At Colorful Art?
“Walking around the Making Colours exhibition, I was dazzled by the ultramarine blues and daffodil yellows. But was that a big patch of green in Degas’s La Coiffure? The sign said it was red, but my eyes said something different.”
How Amazon Has Amazon By The…
“It is precisely because Hachette has been so successful in selling its ebooks through Amazon that it can’t afford to walk away from the retailer. By allowing Amazon to put a lock on its products whose key only Amazon possessed, Hachette has allowed Amazon to utterly usurp its relationship with its customers.”
Seattle Bookstore Hand-Delivers Rowling Books While Amazon Blocks Hachette Book
“Third Place Books hand-delivered copies of The Silkworm yesterday around the Seattle metro area to 20 customers. (Dozens of other customers pre-ordered from Third Place and chose to pick up the books in the stores.)”
Michael Bloomberg: Cities Can Solve Societies’ Problems Better Than Countries Can
“Virtually all of society’s problems are problems that both originate in the cities and are being solved there.”
Gerry Goffin, 75, Lyricist For (And Ex-Husband Of) Carole King
Among the hit songs the pair wrote together in the late 1960s were “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman”, “Take Good Care of My Baby”, “Up on the Roof”, and “Will You Love Me Tomorrow?”