Spent the day uploading images to
Fine Arts America. Pounding away at key words, meta tags and the like, editing, correcting, re-sizing and generally have a grand day at the keyboard.

The scary part is that thousands of images are uploaded every day to this one site...

I am also (this is an aside of sorts) not linking this blog to any of the cute, quaint or techie blogs out there - when I do link it will be to sites that in my extremely unhumble opinion have some real substance (no cute cats!).

Anyhoo - the link to Fine Arts America is - http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/robert-ullmann.html -
anyone out there?

Which brings me to the point of this particular round of gibbering and babbling: how the cost and ease of reproduction brings down the prices of printed and recorded matter.

The Xerox machine, the cassette deck (once Dolby noise reduction was available) and the VCR made it possible to copy printed work, music and film fairly easily. However, when sound or video recordings were copied, it had to happen in real time unless you had a large hi-speed duplicating deck in which case you were probably doing some kind of pirating.

Enter the digital age, almost anything can be rendered as digital file which can be reproduced an infinite number of times with no loss of information and sped around the world in seconds.

The two above factors ruined sections of our arts economy, and the next blow came in the form of obsolescence. Most digital gear over a year old just won't have any resale value.

On the other hand, this has led to an explosion of work. To which I are adding.