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Interior architecture & design and garden & landscape designers Wixon Gibbs' full site has launched. They were lovely to work with. Their site is very elegant, much like their work.

Wixon Gibbs

Steve Jobs Thoughts on Flash

'Sixth, the most important reason ... We cannot be at the mercy of a third party deciding if and when they will make our enhancements available to our developers ... Adobe just adopted it fully (Cocoa) two weeks ago when they shipped CS5. Adobe was the last major third party developer to fully adopt Mac OS X ...'.

But hey, it's OK for us all to be at the mercy of Apple right?

My colleague, Martin, said he had read recent reflections on political campaigning that stated 'if you're explaining you're losing'. I come from the school that imagines politics is actually about explaining, so this depresses me, until I think about Steve Jobs explaining his decision and posting pages about which websites you can actually see on the iPad.

Whilst I think tablets will be incredibly important devices in our future, I hope the iPad is an iFad, because if not, we're all going to be beholden to Apple and have to pay the 40% Apple tax on all things digital (ads, apps, magazines, music ...).

Julie Grahame is a photo industry veteran of 20 years and my wife. An ex-owner of Retna, the independent image licensing company, and a current representative of The Estate of Yousuf Karsh, she knows a thing or two about images. We collaborated on aCurator after working with ZOOZOOM. It's getting a great response.

aCurator

markkatzman.com is featured in this month's SlideshowPro Top Ten websites. Thank you SlideshowPro for making a great product and for featuring bigflannel's work.

In October of last year, tedmorrison.com was featured in the same top ten list.

Reading Gawker this morning I noticed a post about emailing Steve Jobs, which was handy, because right now, that is exactly what I want to do.

So I did, and have copied it below (and will post any response):

Hi Steve

I am a long time Apple user and fan. I am also a long-time Adobe user and fan. My web design and development work has been recognized with Webby awards and other accolades.

Regards Flash, how can you partner with ATT and call Flash buggy? ATT are one of the worst cell providers there is. 75% of my calls in NYC are dropped. Flash is a useful web plugin (not perfect admittedly) that is optional. Users can choose to install it or not. Why am I forced to use ATT and yet don't have the option to use Flash on an iPhone or iPad?

You look silly right now and the attack on Flash looks like that, an attack, a format war, an iPad and iPhone revenue stream issue. I am forced to use ATT, I have no option, and they are terrible. Users can choose to use Flash or not, and although not perfect, it is an extremely useful technology for certain purposes.

You are simply wrong and I hope you either willingly change this silly position or are forced to do so for some reason.

Regards
Mike Hartley

Julie (aCurator) and I met with Mark Katzman yesterday. It was an opportunity to catch up after launching his new site, www.markkatzman.com, and the blog on which he and Julie are collaborating markkazman.com/blog. I really enjoy working with Mark. He collects photogravures, he inspires with his passion, he educates drawing on his vast knowledge, and he is an accomplished artist, creative and business man.

The photogravure opposite was printed by Stieglitz for Camera Work, from a sketch by Rodin, brought to the USA by Steichen after his travels to Europe. It was gift from Mark. Thank you.

I'm a Yorkshire man. This past summer I visited Yorkshire Sculpture Park where my brother once studied Drama and my Dad let me know a replica of a sheep pen by Andy Goldsworthy, although skilled, was not art. I like Andy's work and have visited it at the Storm King Art Center. But back to Antony Gormley, his figures were dotted around YSP and now one is on my roof here at 1123 Broadway, NYC as part of the Event Horizon exhibition. Nice.

Mark Katzman is an advertising and lifestyle photographer: you'll recognize his beautiful work for Jack Daniel's. He is also a gifted and skilled practitioner of his craft, recognized by TED, Harvard and The Library of Congress. See more of this at The Art of the Photogravure. More importantly for me, he was great to work with. This is a photo of Austin, a deaf and blind boy. I think it speaks to Mark's ability to make a connection with his subject, whomever that is.

Mark Katzman

I love Eric's work. I have a print of his already. I am looking forward to his first solo exhibition, a half remembered season, at hous projects. The opening is March 18, 6-10pm.

Congratulations Leland! Three images from his series of portraits of Neo-Burlesque performers won bronze awards in the 2009 International Aperture Awards Competition. Dottie Lux is featured here, in her words:

"Writing is all about words; burlesque very often has no words. So I'm figuring out how to write without words . . . burlesque is art on a dime."

Leland Bobbé's Neo-Burlesque Performers