Aindreas Gallagher
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[Matt Callac] “editors wearing sweat bands gearing up for awesome one on one editing competitions.”
you never did that?
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[Matt Callac] “Take this for example. I’m an accountant. I’m not a professional, so YOU might call me an amateur accountant, but I would not agree with that as a terminology because to me the term amateur means someone who is making a living as an accountant,”
I swapped out the ever pleasant skateboarding for accountancy.
For those who pay their bills with it, who have trained competitively for years to gain full proficiency at it, accountancy is their profession.
For those who pay their bills with it, who have trained competitively for years to gain full proficiency at it, editing is their profession.
nonbody noodles with accountancy for fun, people noodle with photography, sport, music, media, we’re all naturally drawn to them – it doesn’t mean they are not professions.
editing is a profession.
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actually lets not forget david lawrence – i’m pretty keenly awaiting his next brain dump.
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[Matt Callac] ”
All words do have a meaning. The meaning the user (of the words) has often is not the same as the meaning the receiver (listener/reader) has for those very same words.”ah gimme a break. A professional is a professional and an amateur is an amateur. there are amateur actors, golfers, tennis players, photographers – I’m three of those four things myself, but for people who are amateur at many things, they will tend to be professional at one thing – the thing that puts bread on their table. I can design in the round, I can still do print design layout in a pinch, I can kern type and prep artwork for print, I can assemble a seasons graphics package for the autumn schedule overhaul, I can knock out pretty good motion design, I can write a good promo script and I can edit – primarily shortform, but I’m working at it. I consider myself professionally competent in these areas.
All this balls about notions of professionalism being old fashioned in this wave of the future baby now, is driving me right up the walls.
It’s total, total bull.
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there are exceptions – simon ubsdell for instance – he says a pretty wide variety of sane things.
For myself, I could bottle the froth coming out of my mouth.
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oh would you ever stop – the word professional has meaning.
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[kim krause] “photoshop never killed the photographic industry.”
you will also note that it never turned into a dayglo brain damaged version of itself overnight either, where layers became story picture holes, and when you moved a layer all the other layers moved around like morons, or when you put one layer on top of another layer photoshop X auto linked them, unless you turned the layer above into a looking glass side window pane, then it animated growing a new window out the side of the layers tab, but it wasn’t layers anymore remember, they are a story picture holes and there’s really only one story picture hole, so there’s no longer any numbering system for the layers, and sadly you cant send files to any print house now, or indeed to any of the people you used to send your material to in the printing ecosystem, but adobe are pretty sure that someone is going to figure out how photoshop X should do that, but it isn’t going to be adobe because they’re no longer bothered with any of that as of midnight the night before when they decided they couldn’t be bothered at all with any of that boring stuff – that would also explain why they killed indesign, illustrator and dreamweaver because they weren’t important going forward – maybe important for you – but not important for adobe, because what adobe really secretly loves to do is kill software the way people drown cats in rivers in bags with stones.
the comparison to photoshop is not apt.
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[Chris Kenny] ” evidence of poor UI designed on Apple’s part.”
that’s precisely what it is.
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[Chris Kenny] ”
Because it can’t contain or be contained by other events. It’s not a generic hierarchical container for data, the way a folder is. It’s a flat collection of data organized using metadata and saved queries.”where are we, on the deck of the starship enterprise? Why are we talking balls about this thing like as if it was a next gen warpcore? It’s a lump of software cobbled together by the itunes team. Who wouldn’t presumably know editing from a hole in the ground. (he said so blasé)
I don’t like it myself. And I am past having orgasms about relational databases.
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