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RE: Grade Inflation

If you got A's in two studio classes and you KNOW the work you did in one of those classes is significantly stronger than the other, you just might be a victim of grade inflation. Why do I say victim? Because instead of actually bothering to challenge you and help you get better, your program is just doing the easiest thing for them which is to make students happy and get them out the door.

Where does that leave you? Probably with a bunch of work you think is really strong and no job/show prospects in the foreseeable future ... 

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RE: Artistic Integrity

The WORST thing an artist can do is make work and THEN decide what it is about. It is very obvious when a person is trying to make sub par work relevant/interesting by namedropping and likening it to art concepts and philosophies after-the-fact.

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How to Nail a Portfolio Review

Some good advice in here.

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How to Talk About Art: Brevity Is Not Sol LeWitt Edition

Did I hear you sigh with half relief/half regret thinking you would never have to talk about Sol LeWitt again? Poor fool, that time will never come!

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Photgraphing Artwork: A Portable And Inexpensive Seamless Background System

Do you use a sweep in your portrait or large product photography? Sure a roll of paper several yards in length is necessary for photographing people and large products, but what about food and smal...

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How I Got Into College | This American Life

Students all over are starting college this month, and some of them still have a nagging question: what, exactly, got me in? An admissions officer tells us the most wrongheaded things applicants try. And Michael Lewis has the incredible story of how a stolen library book got one man — Emir Kamenica — into his dream school.

LOL @ parents pretending to be their kids when calling the admission office. "Thanks for the AWESOME t-shirt!!!"

LOL @ "the mission trip" essay

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Can't we all just agree that photographing Barbie dolls to "explore gender" is over? 

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If you are actively looking for creative work, gaps in art production on your resume can be problematic--especially when you are lying. I assure you that my colleagues and I are not stupid. For example, you can't just say you worked on a documentary photo project for a year or more when your images were clearly shot in a day or even over a long weekend.