Weborials

Every time I read through one of these articles I've written in the last few weeks some glaring mistake jumps up and bites me. No editor. A general problem on the web. Someone should start an editorial society for weborialists. I know there's no word like that, but after going through a thesaurus for synonyms for article, weborial was the best I could come up with.

Here are some of those synonyms for article:

beat, blurb, column, commentary, composition, discourse, editorial, essay, exposition, feature, item, paper, piece, scoop, spread, story, theme, think piece, treatise, write-up

- Hey mac, I cover the Photo beat for the Daily Gotham. Whaddya do?

- I write weborials for the Gotham Blogger.

- Huh?

- Yeah. I'm a weborialist. One of the first ones. You should try it.

- Yeah? Well what the hell is a weborialist?

- You write articles, reviews, opinions - but you work on the web so they call it weborials. It's great 'cause no one checks your spelling or anything.

- You're kiddin' me.

- Nope.

- Weborialist, huh? Maybe I'll give it a try.

- Definitely. The competing word right now is itorial - but it's hard to say.

Back to Shooting

I have about seven prints to mat - and I've done all the tinkering with the site that I'm going to do for a while - and then - gasp - I'm going to starting shooting again. It's true that I don't really like this season much. I didn't get half the stuff done that I was supposed to: didn't send cards out; didn't get calendars made; didn't get any books published; didn't do much shooting; but like a kid who's got his new pencils for the new school term - I'm ready again to start anew and begin the usual backsliding.

What I did do is figure out how to sell more prints than last year and how to pick up a little extra money with ads and whatnot.

My only new year's resolution is to get a freakin' photography book published - even if I have to rob the local bank to do it. But no Lulu.com for me. At least that's been ruled out. I think I'm going to take a trip to China and meet with the local printers who work in the shadow of the great wall. Or maybe visit Milan where they do some mighty-fine printing.

Oh - but one thing I am going to do - I'm going to send a small Bronx photograph - to everyone I know who was born in the Bronx. No profit in that - just the act of giving. So, if you once in lived in the Bronx - and I know you - I'm going to get something to you for the holidays.