Category Archives: Random Thoughts

Anything goes…

from Canada, with love

Last night I had some late night fun manufacturing several color swatches to have ready for delivery when the need arises. I must confess that manufacturing physical products is a whole different ball game as opposed to dealing with bits and bytes only, like I got accostumed to in the past several years while losely [...]

is the microstock business unsustainable?

Like thousands of other iStockPhoto contributors, on September 7 I was made aware of the shocking news of how that particular microstock agency will pay their contributors (funny adjective, since we are talking about the group responsible for the core part of the business) starting January 2011. If you don’t know [...]

Parenting Is A Virtue

I took these pictures four or so years ago of some unknown father and son having a philosophical discussion about what seemed to be what the correct way to cross the street is. As you can tell, I kept my distance, but even so, their bodies moved to a tune which I [...]

Microstock Awkwardness

If you have the stomach, I have the joke! Or the daily misadventures of the microstock world…
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Three months after making the "Peacock Vanity" seamless pattern available for personal projects for free on Vecteezy.com, I have accumulated over 27 thousand downloads. From this contingent, 5 people [...]

Olive Et Gourmando

Although extremely cold, especially for a South American type like myself, last weekend I summoned the courage and went for a long walk in Montreal’s Old Port area.
The Old Port (or Port Vieux) is one

of several scenic locations in the city, largely sought by visitors but also a place for the [...]

Aggregator Or Content Creator?

Not too long ago we used to think about "aggregators" in the world wide web context as RSS feeds, a tool to make it easier to stay current on what’s going on at our preferred websites. In a certain way, that is what the term is still known for. With time, the [...]