Terms and Conditions Agreement for Freelancers

12 June 2008

The article on writing up a comprehensive Terms and Conditions agreement was just published recently [on FreelanceSwitch.com]. It details the conditions that need to be established before launching into a project with a new client to avoid nasty surprises.

No Surprise: Marijuana Isn't Harmless

6 February 2008

Marijuana has consistently been shown to pose little if no health threat, has not been found responsible for a rise in the levels of crime or as a gateway to more dangerous narcotics and whose side effects are laughably easy to dismiss as curious and for the most part innocuous.

Some Critics Just Don’t Get ‘Cloverfield’

23 January 2008

Cloverfield is not a movie made in that traditional vein. It’s concept movie-making. The idea is that a home video is retrieved by the government from the site of a horrific incident and we are in on the screening as voyeurs of that video as though holding the camcorder in our hands.

Marking Time By Decades Died in 2000

21 December 2007

Love eighties music? Do you reflect on the laissez-faire attitude of the swinging seventies or pine for the golden era of Hollywood movies back in the forties? Seems that marking social and cultural change by referring to a particular decade has come to an end.

Is Photography Dead?

3 December 2007

New imaging technology puts photographic integrity in a precarious position as tools like Photoshop allow the average user to manipulate images to the point of bringing into question the authenticity of what is being portrayed. Can we trust what we see in a photo these days? The answer? Of course.