Monthly Archives: August 2008

Everything Beautiful Is Hard

By Jens Haas | Published: August 26, 2008
Much has been written lately on self-publishing photo books. This has become a thriving business for both community websites and on demand print vendors in recent years. Still, if you look into the online forums of these places (e.g., Lulu, Blurb, etc.), chances are you’ll be reminded of a controlled experiment: How much intense suffering [...]
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Your Website Sucks

By Jens Haas | Published: August 21, 2008
You may have read Avisualsociety’s funny analysis of photographer websites already, here. What seems even funnier is when corporate sites make similar mistakes: Processor hungry Flash movies on the home page (2002 anyone?), “under construction” stickers (hello, it takes less than an hour to set up a decent RSS feed, and just in case you [...]
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What Can We Do About Bullshit?

By Jens Haas | Published: August 18, 2008
This is what I like so much about people from academia: While they do the same stupid things that everybody else does, they do them on a higher level. Harry Frankfurt, Princeton emeritus and leading figure in analytical philosophy, wrote an essay a couple of years back that has become cult: “On Bullshit.” Watch a [...]
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