Archive for October, 2009
Celebrities houses… at NIGHT!
Sunday, October 11th, 2009
If you’ve watched The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air enough times, you probably remember the episode that the title comes from. If not, Will Smith’s character, in a bid to impress his fiancee, shows he can be a powerful writer by taking pictures of what celebrities do at night. He unknowingly sells his pictures and story to a tabloid, which takes particular interest in Jay Leno pouring coffee down a manhole. The tabloid instead claimed Leno was pouring oil, and sued Will for the damages.
Tags: career, identity, individual, personal brand, reflection, sitcoms
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What an agency should be and why they struggle
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
My professional career in the web (i.e. work other than freelancing that I can put on paper) started at the beginning of 2007. By this time I was 20 years old and it was a little easier to work in the web industry with the entry level position I had. It gave me the opportunity I needed to grow, yet out of the 5 people I worked with, I was paid the least, and I wasn’t the last hired.
By December 2007, however, I quit my job going from the lowest paid person to the highest paid out of all the hourly employees I knew at my last company, even beating out some managers. But I walked into another agency with the same problems, and, when it came down to it, may have been higher paying, but still struggled with the same issue that made the last agency so frugal. These agencies, and subsequent agencies I’ve either been considered or worked freelance at, suffer from the nature of their business model.
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Tags: agency, business, creative, development, processes, web
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San Antonio vs. Austin: My $0.02
Saturday, October 3rd, 2009
Note: This is pretty long, so I encourage skimming.
I admit I have a love for seeing cities develop. Urban planning and development is definitely a “lame” hobby of mine and I could read about freeways and such forever. It’s one of the reasons I try to be so involved in my community.
In Houston, though I didn’t really see it, there was an apparent rivalry with Dallas. Austin was sometimes acknowledged, San Antonio generally ignored but respected. Here, San Antonio and Austin are developing a sort of rivalry that hinges from mutual respect to flat-out disgust. Since most opinions I see are way too unilateral or soaked with vitriol, or they overlook potential concerns for Black Americans, I’d try to put a most objective analysis.
That said, I’m obviously biased to liking and preferring San Antonio. There are a few reasons for this which I’ll probably get into later. I had always considered a move to Austin while I was living in Houston, but that never panned out for reasons I’ll touch on later. (more…)
Tags: austin, city rivalry, comparisons, jobs, san antonio, texas, urban development
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