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CoTweet™ – How business does Twitter

By Ari Salomon | Published: February 24, 2010

If there is more than one person tweeting for your company you might want to consider using this new software that adds many features to a company’s twitter-based branding efforts:

Multiple Accounts and Multiple Users

Manage up to five Twitter accounts through a single CoTweet login. Invite colleagues to join your accounts to work as a team representing your company on the front-line of your Twitter presence. Add your personal Twitter account and manage all your updating through one interface.

via CoTweet™ – How business does Twitter.

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Five Steps to Quirky Success

By Ari Salomon | Published: February 19, 2010

I would add to this summary that quirky is not the place for complex electronics. i have seen some submissions that are clearly more complex that what they want to produce. they say anything that can be sold for under $150 is fair game but i think there should be more guidelines for what they are looking for. And I’d like to see a site that has a similar community-based approach but to larger projects – know of anything like that?

Five Tips for Quirky Success:

1) Find a good problem to solve: People don’t buy products, they buy solutions.

2) Do your homework: Google is you first step.

3) Keep it Simple:The best ideas are the ones that are so simple that they are elegant.

4) Carefully craft your pitch: Picture = 1K words and a good video is priceless. as long as its under 2 minutes.

5) Make it like a bikini…

via Five Steps to Quirky Success « Invention Addict.

Exhibition: SFMoMA Windows

By Ari Salomon | Published: February 10, 2010

Ari Salomon and Andy Vogt
SFMoMA Minna & Natoma Street Windows
February 13 – June 26, 2010
(Maps: Minna, Natoma or Streetview: Minna, Natoma)

I have transformed 2 giant windows on Minna St. into lightboxes for a couple photos that are 8 feet tall. And on Natoma St. I have 3 lightboxes in smaller sizes mixed in with Andy’s installation.

UPDATES:

Here’s the SF Examiner review about this show and my other work: http://tinyurl.com/y9acp5n
Some photos of the installation are included at the bottom of this ArtBusiness.com review
One of my Motion Studies images was recently published online at Gizmodo Motion Gallery 2

Our blurb about the installation:
In this collaborative art installation by photographer Ari Salomon and sculptor Andy Vogt, each artist relies on a systematic process to create large-scale abstract artworks. Salomon experiments with found-lighting situations to reveal hints of what is all around us but hidden by the limits of perception. Vogt transforms found-wood lath strips into architectural and geological constructions, and these new structural meditations examine how time and materials intersect with our perception of place. Both artists explore the concept of building abstractions of reality in order to bring another kind of reality into focus.

Reception: Sat., February 20, 4-7pm
Dress warm – you will have to be outdoors to see our work and enjoy our free TCHO chocolate! Japanese organic snacks for sample and purchase by Pachamana Catering. Thanks also to DPi Printing and Central Services.

Where:
On view 24/7 in the street-level window displays down the alleyways on either side of the museum (on the SFMOMA parking garage behind the main building). The Minna Street Windows are directly across the alley from Catherine Clark and Baer Ridgeway galleries (who will be having opening receptions at the same time). Learn more: http://www.sfmoma.org

Photos: my 5 photos that are part of the installation

Photos: Day and night documentation as well as reception

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Ari’s Photos: CAMFED Fundraiser Auction

By Ari Salomon | Published: February 3, 2010

San Francisco Art Show Fundraiser…

This isn’t my image but I do have a panoramic image in this great fundraiser later this month. Here’s the details…

Join us February 27th at Space Gallery for art, cocktails, and live music to help us raise money for the non-profit, Camfed. Art donations from talented, local San Francisco artists will be auctioned off from 8-10pm and 100% of the sales will go directly to Camfed.

The goal of the organization is to empower girls in Africa by using a community-based, holistic approach to long-term education, small business training, and HIV prevention. Since 1993, Camfed has improved the educational opportunities for 645,400 children, provided scholarships for 39,330 girls to go to high school, trained 2,677 teacher mentors and helped 609 young women go to college.

via CAMFED FUNDRAISER SF: Overview.

Posted in Fine Art Photography, San Francisco Art | 1 Comment

BBC News – Google phases out support for IE6

By Ari Salomon | Published: January 30, 2010

Google has begun to phase out support for Internet Explorer 6, the browser identified as the weak link in a cyber attack on the search engine.

via BBC News – Google phases out support for IE6.

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The Grid System

By Ari Salomon | Published: January 26, 2010

A great list of resources for designing clean sites.

“ The grid system is an aid, not a guarantee. It permits a number of possible uses and each designer can look for a solution appropriate to his personal style. But one must learn how to use the grid…”

via The Grid System.

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Ari’s Photo Published on Gizmodo

By Ari Salomon | Published: January 26, 2010

This week I was published on the Gizmodo blog. This is one of my new Motion Studies images. I might use this as one of the images I show at my upcoming SFMOMA exhibition. I’m sure visitors to that blog pay more attention to apple tablet rumors than to my photo but that’s ok because I do too…

Motion Study #0458 (Emporium)

Often exposed at night, these are all found lighting situations printed with minimal digital manipulations. I take many exposures, experimenting with subtleties and dramas, hunting for how a certain flick of the wrist divulges new information or drawing out an exposure to intensify a scene.

via Motion Gallery 2 – Gizmodo.

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New on-demand copy-editing service from wordy.com

By Ari Salomon | Published: January 24, 2010

I have lots of ESL (English as a Second Language) clients and family who might find this service really helpful. i have not used it yet but it seems very well organized and the interface is slick. and with wordpress plugins it’s all integrated into your blog publishing workflow:

Wordy gets it…It’s on-demand copy-editing, and it’s ultra slick. No hassles, no clutter, no crap. I took it for a test-run on a chapter from a book another friend of mine is writing, and the experience couldn’t have been better. If for nothing else, you should check it out just to marvel at the elegance of how they’ve set up the site and how clear their process and goal is.

Particularly interesting to some of us, is that they’re working specifically on a WordPress plugin, which should make it even easier to use.

via Binary Bonsai.

Posted in Product Reviews, WordPress | 2 Comments

San Francisco Microclimates

By Ari Salomon | Published: January 23, 2010

San Francisco Microclimates image.

Not sure where this came fmor originally but i wanto invite my upcoming DrupalConSF friends to check it out — spend some time away from downtown and visit the sunny mission!

via Projectionist: A tumblelog.

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Conceptual art on ebay: A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter (2009) – Caleb Larsen

By Ari Salomon | Published: January 23, 2010

ebay a tool Conceptual art on ebay: A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter (2009) Caleb Larsen

creative conceptual art…

(“the Artwork”) which consists of a black box that places itself for sale on the auction website “eBay” (the “Auction Venue”) every seven (7) days. The Artwork consists of the combination of the black box or cube, the electronics contained therein, and the concept that such a physical object “sells itself” every week.

via A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter (2009) – Caleb Larsen – eBay (item 190367275705 end time Jan-28-10 14:39:47 PST).

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