Friends, if at all possible, please help me head down to the Gulf Coast to record what's happening with the current environmental disaster. Click above to check out the project.
THANKS!
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
news
Iceland prime minister Johanna Sigurdardottir marries her partner as gay marriage legalized.
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Cold War embers continue to smolder... In Ordinary Lives, U.S. Sees the Work of Russian Agents and Invisible Ink!
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Cold War embers continue to smolder... In Ordinary Lives, U.S. Sees the Work of Russian Agents and Invisible Ink!
FUNDRAISING FOR "ON THE BEACH"... Hold up, coming July 1
I believe it's very important to document the disaster happening in the gulf and I'm about to start with my fundraising. I'll post the link as soon as it's live.
About to start fundraising for "On The Beach," going to LA, AL and FL to document where people are waiting for oil landfall, as well as documenting places where the oil has made landfall already. The finished project will be a small self-published book of approximately 30 photographs.
BP's Photo Blockade of the Gulf Oil Spill
BP's Photo Blockade of the Gulf Oil Spill
Monday, June 28, 2010
Photo Credit for Zoe Strauss Portrait in American Photo
There is a missing photo credit for the photo of me, it should be credited to "Bobby"
Portrait of Zoe Strauss by Bobby
Portrait of Bobby by Zoe Strauss
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Portrait of Bobby after a fight over cigarettes
I've been feeling a little out of sorts with the end of 95, overwhelmed with things I've put off and not use to not having a structure in place for work. That's of course what I'm working on now, the structure for "Cognate," which won't be called "Cognate" when the final structure is in effect.
I went out and shot today, to keep in shape for my upcoming projects, and I met Greg, a sweet kid with a pacemaker. Thank G-d I did because I needed it and I needed to talk to someone, a stranger, to help find my way a little bit. Greg is living in a house I've visited before but I've never met him before... I know Linda, who asked me twice if my wife wasn't worried about my going into stranger's homes. Where does the apostrophe go there? Before or after the s? Stranger's or strangers'?
I'm excited to move on, new equipment, new format, new structure. I have no idea how I'm going to make this new project happen, but I'll be damned if I don't blow it out of the water like I'm Helen of Bikini. I think I need a few more months before I can get the basis structure down. I'm certain I'm on the right track though.
Of the books I'm certain of, the two I want to work on RIGHT NOW are "To This Year In Jerusalem" and "San Andreas Fault Life." I'm DYING to make these books, and all the ancillary pieces that go with them. I'm certain I'm done with 95.
Here's to Greg, thanks for your time and your thoughts.
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Friday, June 25, 2010
"Instead of trying to sleep I try to fathom the mystery of this suburb at dawn. Why do these splendid houses look so defeated at this hour of the day? Other houses, say a 'dobe house in New Mexico or an old frame house in Feliciana, look much the same day or night. But these new houses look haunted."
From The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
From The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
For I-95 I used:
"never odd or even," "star comedy by democrats" and "are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era?"
as phrases to help me with the structure of the project.
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Now I'm working on Latin as something to help structure the book project. As of rIght now the working title for the project is "Cognate," which I'm fairly sure won't be the umbrella title for the project, but it will help with the structuring.
For Cognate:
e pluribus unum - From many, one
ex unus, plures- out of one , many more
unus quod idem eadem idem- one and the same
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mare liberum et clausum - An open and closed sea
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ab hinc - From here on
a priori - From what comes before
ibidem - In the same place
ad vitam paramus - We are preparing for life
ad vitam - For life
quae vide - See these things
inter spem et metum - Between hope and fear
inter nos - Between ourselves
de rervm natvra/ rerum natura - On the nature of things
in rervm natvra/ rerum natura - In the nature of things
fons et origo - The source and origin
fortitudine vincimus - By endurance we conquer
inter alios - amongst other people
nos es messiahs- we are the harvest
in esse - In existence
in saecvla saecvlorvm - For ages of ages forever
in statu quo - In the same state
in transitu - In passing, on the way
in vacuo - In a vacuum or empty space
commoror terra- inhabited land
panton, alicubi- everything, everywhere
sic passim - Thus everywhere
inter nos - Between ourselves
inter spem et metum - Between hope and fear
locus in quo - The place in which something happens
manus in mano - Hand in hand
spiritus lenis et spiritus asper- rough breathing and smooth breathing
res ipsa loquitur -- the thing speaks for itself
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curriculum vitae - The course of one's life
inter vivos- between the living
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"Omnia mutantur, nihil interit" - Everything changes, nothing perishes
"Certum est, quia impossibile" - It is certain, because it is impossible
"never odd or even," "star comedy by democrats" and "are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era?"
as phrases to help me with the structure of the project.
----
Now I'm working on Latin as something to help structure the book project. As of rIght now the working title for the project is "Cognate," which I'm fairly sure won't be the umbrella title for the project, but it will help with the structuring.
For Cognate:
e pluribus unum - From many, one
ex unus, plures- out of one , many more
unus quod idem eadem idem- one and the same
----
mare liberum et clausum - An open and closed sea
----
ab hinc - From here on
a priori - From what comes before
ibidem - In the same place
ad vitam paramus - We are preparing for life
ad vitam - For life
quae vide - See these things
inter spem et metum - Between hope and fear
inter nos - Between ourselves
de rervm natvra/ rerum natura - On the nature of things
in rervm natvra/ rerum natura - In the nature of things
fons et origo - The source and origin
fortitudine vincimus - By endurance we conquer
inter alios - amongst other people
nos es messiahs- we are the harvest
in esse - In existence
in saecvla saecvlorvm - For ages of ages forever
in statu quo - In the same state
in transitu - In passing, on the way
in vacuo - In a vacuum or empty space
commoror terra- inhabited land
panton, alicubi- everything, everywhere
sic passim - Thus everywhere
inter nos - Between ourselves
inter spem et metum - Between hope and fear
locus in quo - The place in which something happens
manus in mano - Hand in hand
spiritus lenis et spiritus asper- rough breathing and smooth breathing
res ipsa loquitur -- the thing speaks for itself
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curriculum vitae - The course of one's life
inter vivos- between the living
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"Omnia mutantur, nihil interit" - Everything changes, nothing perishes
"Certum est, quia impossibile" - It is certain, because it is impossible
Monday, June 21, 2010
network
cognate
conflux
assembly
convergent
connect
nucleus
complex
influx
a mari usque ad mare
relation
related
Invicta
marrow
overlap
totality
aggregate
essence
mortal
human
earthly
corporal
essence
juncture
complete
alive
totality
alpha and omega
entirety
telluric
Unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno
terrene
temporal
aggregate
Structure of ordinary matter
Phases of ordinary matter
e pluribus unum
life
panoptic
mercury
temporal
anima
Nec Temere, Nec Timide
sulum , panton , usquequaque
fiat lux
c'est la vie
cognate
conflux
assembly
convergent
connect
nucleus
complex
influx
a mari usque ad mare
relation
related
Invicta
marrow
overlap
totality
aggregate
essence
mortal
human
earthly
corporal
essence
juncture
complete
alive
totality
alpha and omega
entirety
telluric
Unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno
terrene
temporal
aggregate
Structure of ordinary matter
Phases of ordinary matter
e pluribus unum
life
panoptic
mercury
temporal
anima
Nec Temere, Nec Timide
sulum , panton , usquequaque
fiat lux
c'est la vie
Sunday, June 20, 2010
Saturday, June 19, 2010
June 19, 1953 : Rosenbergs Executed
On this day in 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were convicted of conspiring to pass U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviets, are executed at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, New York. Both refused to admit any wrongdoing and proclaimed their innocence right up to the time of their deaths, by the electric chair. The Rosenbergs were the first U.S. citizens to be convicted and executed for espionage during peacetime and their case remains controversial to this day.
Julius Rosenberg was an engineer for the U.S. Army Signal Corps who was born in New York on May 12, 1918. His wife, born Ethel Greenglass, also in New York, on September 28, 1915, worked as a secretary. The couple met as members of the Young Communist League, married in 1939 and had two sons. Julius Rosenberg was arrested on suspicion of espionage on June 17, 1950, and accused of heading a spy ring that passed top-secret information concerning the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. Ethel was arrested two months later. The Rosenbergs were implicated by David Greenglass, Ethel's younger brother and a former army sergeant and machinist at Los Alamos, the secret atomic bomb lab in New Mexico. Greenglass, who himself had confessed to providing nuclear secrets to the Soviets through an intermediary, testified against his sister and brother-in-law in court. He later served 10 years in prison.
The Rosenbergs vigorously protested their innocence, but after a brief trial that began on March 6, 1951, and attracted much media attention, the couple was convicted. On April 5, 1951, a judge sentenced them to death and the pair was taken to Sing Sing to await execution.
During the next two years, the couple became the subject of both national and international debate. Some people believed that the Rosenbergs were the victims of a surge of hysterical anti-communist feeling in the United States, and protested that the death sentence handed down was cruel and unusual punishment. Many Americans, however, believed that the Rosenbergs had been dealt with justly. They agreed with President Dwight D. Eisenhower when he issued a statement declining to invoke executive clemency for the pair. He stated, "I can only say that, by immeasurably increasing the chances of atomic war, the Rosenbergs may have condemned to death tens of millions of innocent people all over the world. The execution of two human beings is a grave matter. But even graver is the thought of the millions of dead whose deaths may be directly attributable to what these spies have done."
From History.com
Julius Rosenberg was an engineer for the U.S. Army Signal Corps who was born in New York on May 12, 1918. His wife, born Ethel Greenglass, also in New York, on September 28, 1915, worked as a secretary. The couple met as members of the Young Communist League, married in 1939 and had two sons. Julius Rosenberg was arrested on suspicion of espionage on June 17, 1950, and accused of heading a spy ring that passed top-secret information concerning the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. Ethel was arrested two months later. The Rosenbergs were implicated by David Greenglass, Ethel's younger brother and a former army sergeant and machinist at Los Alamos, the secret atomic bomb lab in New Mexico. Greenglass, who himself had confessed to providing nuclear secrets to the Soviets through an intermediary, testified against his sister and brother-in-law in court. He later served 10 years in prison.
The Rosenbergs vigorously protested their innocence, but after a brief trial that began on March 6, 1951, and attracted much media attention, the couple was convicted. On April 5, 1951, a judge sentenced them to death and the pair was taken to Sing Sing to await execution.
During the next two years, the couple became the subject of both national and international debate. Some people believed that the Rosenbergs were the victims of a surge of hysterical anti-communist feeling in the United States, and protested that the death sentence handed down was cruel and unusual punishment. Many Americans, however, believed that the Rosenbergs had been dealt with justly. They agreed with President Dwight D. Eisenhower when he issued a statement declining to invoke executive clemency for the pair. He stated, "I can only say that, by immeasurably increasing the chances of atomic war, the Rosenbergs may have condemned to death tens of millions of innocent people all over the world. The execution of two human beings is a grave matter. But even graver is the thought of the millions of dead whose deaths may be directly attributable to what these spies have done."
From History.com
Thursday, June 17, 2010
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME, SEPTA?
The SEPTA board is expected next week to approve a historic $5 million deal to rename Pattison Avenue station to the AT&T station.
Seriously, is this a joke? Please tell me I'm an all-day sucker and this is a prank.
Seriously, is this a joke? Please tell me I'm an all-day sucker and this is a prank.
Zoe Strauss Bio
Writing a bio blows. Here's my new one...
Zoe Strauss, born 1970, is an installation artist and photographer living and working in Philadelphia, PA. Strauss recently completed “Under I-95,” a 10 year long project that culminated in an installation of photographs under interstate 95 in South Philadelphia. She has exhibited in the 2006 Whitney Biennial, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Philadelphia ICA and had two solo shows at Bruce Silverstein Gallery. In 2005, Ms. Strauss was awarded a Pew Fellowship in the Arts and in 2007 she was awarded a USA Gund Fellowship. Her first monograph, America, was published in 2008.
Ms. Strauss is the Executive Director of the Philadelphia Public Art Project.
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Here's the bio I'd like,
Zoe Strauss is a lesbian anarchist from Philadelphia, PA.
Zoe Strauss, born 1970, is an installation artist and photographer living and working in Philadelphia, PA. Strauss recently completed “Under I-95,” a 10 year long project that culminated in an installation of photographs under interstate 95 in South Philadelphia. She has exhibited in the 2006 Whitney Biennial, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Philadelphia ICA and had two solo shows at Bruce Silverstein Gallery. In 2005, Ms. Strauss was awarded a Pew Fellowship in the Arts and in 2007 she was awarded a USA Gund Fellowship. Her first monograph, America, was published in 2008.
Ms. Strauss is the Executive Director of the Philadelphia Public Art Project.
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Here's the bio I'd like,
Zoe Strauss is a lesbian anarchist from Philadelphia, PA.
Jerusalem: Ultra-Orthodox Jews Staged Mass Demonstrations To Protest Integration of a Religious Girls' School
"It was one of the largest protests in Jerusalem's history, and a stark reminder of the ultra-Orthodox minority's refusal to accept the authority of the state"
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Monday, June 14, 2010
alloyed
or
cognate
Both get at what I'm thinking about, but I'm disturbed by the inclusion of "debased or sub par" in almost all of the definitions of alloyed.
And with cognate... I'm thinking of the linguistic definition "descended from the same language or form" but I'm not sold on the word. I'm looking for a more common word but don't know if I'll be able to find one with meanings about relations and origin.
or
cognate
Both get at what I'm thinking about, but I'm disturbed by the inclusion of "debased or sub par" in almost all of the definitions of alloyed.
And with cognate... I'm thinking of the linguistic definition "descended from the same language or form" but I'm not sold on the word. I'm looking for a more common word but don't know if I'll be able to find one with meanings about relations and origin.
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Friday, June 11, 2010
carbon
Vitalism
doublet
homonym
synonym
polyseme
polysemy
anagram
elements
metonym
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cognate
The term cognate is usually reserved for two or more words in different languages that share a common ancestor as English father, Latin Pater, Greek pater, Spanish and Italian padre, French pere, and German Vater.
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Humanism
Elysian Fields
Earthly Realms
Vitalism
doublet
homonym
synonym
polyseme
polysemy
anagram
elements
metonym
----
cognate
The term cognate is usually reserved for two or more words in different languages that share a common ancestor as English father, Latin Pater, Greek pater, Spanish and Italian padre, French pere, and German Vater.
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Humanism
Elysian Fields
Earthly Realms
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Only About 100000 More Words To Consider
These are at the top of the list...
homonym
polyseme
polysemy
anagram
doublet
metonym
cognate
sememes
Sememe
"There are five types of sememes: two denotational and three connotational, with connotational occurring only in phrase units (they do not reflect the denotation)
Denotational 1: Primary denotation, for example "head" (body);
Denotational 2: Secondary denotation by resemblance with other denotation: "head" (ship);
Connotational 1: High position, as the role or function of "head" in the operation of the human body;
Connotational 2: Emotive, e.g., meaning in "honey";
Connotational 3: Evaluative, e.g., meaning in "sneak" – move silently and secretly for a bad purpose"
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and these are up there too...
amalgam
atlas
anthem
alloyed
---
and these are helping to figure out what needs to happen...
present
resolve
vitalism
relative
connect
carbon
element
academy
address
agendas
agentry
alchemy
algebra
aliases
alumnus
anatomy
archons
atlases
avenues
battery
bedrock
between
bookend
boombox
nature
nucleus
marrow
essence
elysian
I've just begun working through "B," 24 more letters to go after that.
Sorry friends, you're getting no explanation stream of consciousness posts for the next few weeks.
homonym
polyseme
polysemy
anagram
doublet
metonym
cognate
sememes
Sememe
"There are five types of sememes: two denotational and three connotational, with connotational occurring only in phrase units (they do not reflect the denotation)
Denotational 1: Primary denotation, for example "head" (body);
Denotational 2: Secondary denotation by resemblance with other denotation: "head" (ship);
Connotational 1: High position, as the role or function of "head" in the operation of the human body;
Connotational 2: Emotive, e.g., meaning in "honey";
Connotational 3: Evaluative, e.g., meaning in "sneak" – move silently and secretly for a bad purpose"
---
and these are up there too...
amalgam
atlas
anthem
alloyed
---
and these are helping to figure out what needs to happen...
present
resolve
vitalism
relative
connect
carbon
element
academy
address
agendas
agentry
alchemy
algebra
aliases
alumnus
anatomy
archons
atlases
avenues
battery
bedrock
between
bookend
boombox
nature
nucleus
marrow
essence
elysian
I've just begun working through "B," 24 more letters to go after that.
Sorry friends, you're getting no explanation stream of consciousness posts for the next few weeks.
Wednesday, June 09, 2010
Tuesday, June 08, 2010
2 Articles and a Book by Nicholas Carr
The Web Shatters Focus, Rewires Brains
Is Google Making Us Stupid?
What the Internet is doing to our brains
The Shallows
By Nicholas Carr
thanks to Manny, and Jim, for sending these my way.
Is Google Making Us Stupid?
What the Internet is doing to our brains
The Shallows
By Nicholas Carr
thanks to Manny, and Jim, for sending these my way.
Monday, June 07, 2010
Sunday, June 06, 2010
Working on a new structure for the next couple of years. I'm planning to keep the blog until 2012, when there will be a show about I-95. It seems right to keep up a sort of transparency through the process of the exhibition planning, but I'm thinking that I'm going to archive this and start a new one.
I though that I'd like to shoot this week, but I was kind of thinking, "what for?" It's a little aimless to me. I'll play it by ear.
I though that I'd like to shoot this week, but I was kind of thinking, "what for?" It's a little aimless to me. I'll play it by ear.
Syntopicon: Popular Philosophy
Angel
Animal
Aristocracy
Art
Astronomy
Beauty
Being
Cause
Chance
Change
Citizen
Constitution
Courage
Custom and Convention
Definition
Democracy
Desire
Dialectic
Duty
Education
Element
Emotion
Eternity
Evolution
Experience
Family
Fate
Form
God
Good and Evil
Government
Habit
Happiness
History
Honor
Hypothesis
Idea
Immortality
Induction
Infinity
Judgment
Justice
Knowledge
Labor
Language
Law
Liberty
Life and Death
Logic
Love
Man
Mathematics
Matter
Mechanics
Medicine
Memory and Imagination
Metaphysics
Mind
Monarchy
Nature
Necessity and Contingency
Oligarchy
One and Many
Opinion
Opposition
Philosophy
Physics
Pleasure and Pain
Poetry
Principle
Progress
Prophecy
Prudence
Punishment
Quality
Quantity
Reasoning
Relation
Religion
Revolution
Rhetoric
Same and Other
Science
Sense
Sign and Symbol
Sin
Slavery
Soul
Space
State
Temperance
Theology
Time
Truth
Tyranny
Universal and Particular
Virtue and Vice
War and Peace
Wealth
Will
Wisdom
World
----
Truth-Goodness-Beauty-Liberty-Equality-Justice
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"Philosophy is Everybody's Business"
Center For The Study Of The Great Ideas
Animal
Aristocracy
Art
Astronomy
Beauty
Being
Cause
Chance
Change
Citizen
Constitution
Courage
Custom and Convention
Definition
Democracy
Desire
Dialectic
Duty
Education
Element
Emotion
Eternity
Evolution
Experience
Family
Fate
Form
God
Good and Evil
Government
Habit
Happiness
History
Honor
Hypothesis
Idea
Immortality
Induction
Infinity
Judgment
Justice
Knowledge
Labor
Language
Law
Liberty
Life and Death
Logic
Love
Man
Mathematics
Matter
Mechanics
Medicine
Memory and Imagination
Metaphysics
Mind
Monarchy
Nature
Necessity and Contingency
Oligarchy
One and Many
Opinion
Opposition
Philosophy
Physics
Pleasure and Pain
Poetry
Principle
Progress
Prophecy
Prudence
Punishment
Quality
Quantity
Reasoning
Relation
Religion
Revolution
Rhetoric
Same and Other
Science
Sense
Sign and Symbol
Sin
Slavery
Soul
Space
State
Temperance
Theology
Time
Truth
Tyranny
Universal and Particular
Virtue and Vice
War and Peace
Wealth
Will
Wisdom
World
----
Truth-Goodness-Beauty-Liberty-Equality-Justice
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"Philosophy is Everybody's Business"
Center For The Study Of The Great Ideas
Friday, June 04, 2010
Jerusalem headaches for iPhone users
"It turns out that Yahoo, who runs the app with information gathered by Weather.com, suddenly changed its reporting. Now if you want the weather for Jerusalem, you have two choices – East Jerusalem and West Jerusalem. On the Yahoo weather page East Jerusalem’s weather is in Palestinian Occupied Territories >West Bank >Jerusalem and West Jerusalem’s weather is in Weather >Israel >Yerushalayim >Jerusalem."
from Jewlicious
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"It turns out that Yahoo, who runs the app with information gathered by Weather.com, suddenly changed its reporting. Now if you want the weather for Jerusalem, you have two choices – East Jerusalem and West Jerusalem. On the Yahoo weather page East Jerusalem’s weather is in Palestinian Occupied Territories >West Bank >Jerusalem and West Jerusalem’s weather is in Weather >Israel >Yerushalayim >Jerusalem."
from Jewlicious
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"Through the Lens of Zoe Strauss" from Ted Passon on Vimeo.
Thanks to Ted, Dave and Scott for making this movie!
And a shout to West Philly High Hybrid X Team who got some money from this project.
Thursday, June 03, 2010
Wednesday, June 02, 2010
Battle Royale at the Riverview
Ted Passon make a 5 minute documentatry about me and it's screening at the Riverview before Ironman... and it's free! It's got something to do with Ford because the documentary required me and the film crew to drive around in a Ford.
A total highlight was when this awesome group of people just came up and got in the movie and told us two acronyms for Ford: Found On Road Dead and Fix Or Repair Daily.
Another high point was at Broad and Tasker when some guy who I'd never seen before when into his house and brought out a book, "Philadelphia Gentlemen" which he told me to return whenever. I have no idea who this guy is. And to return the book I have to ring all the apt doorbells because I don't know his apartment number.
Tuesday, June 01, 2010
FULL WEBSITE OVERHAUL
I'm looking to completely redo my website. Can someone help me? I'm not looking for super fancy, but I am looking for consolidation of blog and "static" website. Sometime in the next few months.
Please email me at info (at) zoestrauss (dot) com
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I'd like to pay something like this...
"Webdesigner: ”That’ll cost $200.”
ZS: ”Could we give you half and pay the rest in alcohol? We make some ourselves!”
Webdesigner: ”Uhh, no, that’s okay. I, uhh, don’t really drink. Money will be fine.”
From Clients From Hell, a collection of anonymously contributed client horror stories from designers.
Also, I might say this...
"I talked to God for a couple hours last night, and he agreed that I shouldn’t have to pay you."
Please email me at info (at) zoestrauss (dot) com
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I'd like to pay something like this...
"Webdesigner: ”That’ll cost $200.”
ZS: ”Could we give you half and pay the rest in alcohol? We make some ourselves!”
Webdesigner: ”Uhh, no, that’s okay. I, uhh, don’t really drink. Money will be fine.”
From Clients From Hell, a collection of anonymously contributed client horror stories from designers.
Also, I might say this...
"I talked to God for a couple hours last night, and he agreed that I shouldn’t have to pay you."
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