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Seth's Blog: Hardly worth the effort

"Laying out the design of a page or a flyer so it looks like a pro did it takes about ten times as much work as merely using the template Microsoft builds in for free, and the message is almost the same...

Except it's not. Of course not. The message is not the same."

From Seth Godin's always insightful blog.  I have found this to be true for everything I've done, from finite element modeling to film color correction.  What people respond to is love in the work, and to love something is to love the details.  Read the full post here.

50,000 Films Is a Very Good Thing

"A study of classical performance attendance by the Knight Foundation gives interesting insight. In an analysis of audiences for classical music, they found the greatest predictor of attendance at such venues wasn’t ticket prices, education or income level, but whether someone had ever learned to play an instrument. If you have musical training, you feel a more intimate connection to the music and you search out many types of music, including classical, to explore its history and its niches.

I believe that likewise, in film, we now have legions of young people who have learned to shoot, edit and make a film. The industry tends to dismiss these as amateurs and complain about the torrential flood of their films, but we might just have the perfect generation -- one that feels a visceral connection to film and wants to explore it more."

This is from a great post by Brian Newman on TheWrap.com.  You can read the full article here.