Jen Bekman
About: I opened my eponymous gallery on NYC's Lower East Side 5 years ago. I write a blog called Personism and run an international photo competition, Hey, Hot Shot!. I also write about art from time to time and maintain a highly useful (if not elegantly designed) list of women speakers for your conference.
My latest endeavor is 20×200, a place to buy editioned prints and photos at ridiculously affordable prices.
Before I got all arty, I spent nearly a decade in the internet business, specializing in online community and content development. Former employers include Electric Minds, Netscape, Disney and Meetup.
I am a far better at being an employer than I was at being an employee.
More background including upcoming panels + portfolio reviews, recent press and articles I've written can be found on Personism, and there's a long format bio there too.
Zach Klein took this photo of me, and for that I am eternally grateful.
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Links: Work: Good, Thrilla @ JBG, Books: Good
--The Work Week Ahead - Boing Boing I like poet Frank Bidart's words in “Advice to the Players” “The greatest luxury is to liv...
Nastier! Stranger!
--Totally genius classic 80s: on set with Steven Meisel. (via Horses Think and On Shadow) Digg This Save to Del.icio.us
Links: Hunny for Sale
--BibliOdyssey: Original Winnie The Pooh Drawings Original Pooh drawings. Yes, I'm a cornball - I love these. Hunny! Eeyore! (tags: books drawin...
Hunny
--That Sort of Bear: E.H. Shepard’s Winnie the Pooh: Auction @ Sotheby’s London on December 17th. Preview exhibition at Sotheby’s N...
Thrilla in Manila: a Jen Bekman Project to Benefit 826NYC
--Thrilla in Manila, a Jen Bekman Project to benefit 826NYC: Jane Mount vs. Jason Polan in a no holds barred draw-a-thon at Jen Bekman Gallery. Drawi...
Links: Publishing Deathwatch
--Traditional Publishing, RIP — Dialect Self-explanatory. (tags: publishing media books business) Digg This Save to Del.icio.us
Bookmarks:
The Work Week Ahead - Boing Boing
I like poet Frank Bidart's words in "Advice to the Players." “The greatest luxury is to live a life in which the work that one does to earn a living, and what one has the appetite to make, coincide - by a kind of grace are the same, one.” Here's to a full workweek ahead, not merely four hours but forty plus.
Thrilla in Manila
Thrilla in Manila, a Jen Bekman Project to benefit 826NYC Jane Mount vs. Jason Polan in a no holds barred draw-a-thon at Jen Bekman Gallery Drawing Hours: Wednesday, December 3 - Saturday, December 6 | Noon - 6pm Reception and 826NYC Benefit Sale: Monday, December 8 | 6 p.m. to 8 p.m 20x200 Mailing List Exclusive Benefit Edition: Tuesday, December 9, 2008 @ 2PM. An editions of 222 *unique* drawings priced at $20, $200 + $2000 each.
Op-Ed Contributor - How to Publish Without Perishing - NYTimes.com
Now, at this point one expects to hear a certain type of sentimental plea for the old-fashioned book — how you like the feel of the thing resting in your hand, the smell of the pages, the faint cracking of the spine when you open a new book — and one may envision an aesthete who bakes his own bread and also professes to prefer the sound of vinyl. That’s not my argument. I do love the heft of a book in my hand, but I spend most of my waking hours looking at — which mainly means reading from — a computer screen. I’m just saying that the book is technology that works.
BibliOdyssey: Original Winnie The Pooh Drawings
Original Pooh drawings. Yes, I'm a cornball - I love these. Hunny! Eeyore!
MediaShift Idea Lab . Journalism Will Survive the Death of Its Institutions | PBS
Just as journalism without newspapers seems inconceivable now, it seemed inconceivable to many then that innovation could continue without the might, resources, and sheer heft of the companies that formed the core of the high tech industry. Today, journalists ask how democracy will fare in a country without a robust free press. Then, technologists asked how the United States could retain its leadership position without big, powerful computing companies.
Traditional Publishing, RIP — Dialect
Self-explanatory.
Jen's Network
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Sarah Milstein (mutual) friend, fan |
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Jen Pahlka (mutual) friend, fan |
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Thor Muller (mutual) friend, fan |
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Matt Jones friend, fan |
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Justin Hall friend, fan |
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Erika Hall (mutual) friend, fan |
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lane becker (mutual) friend, fan |
Comments
I'd like to discuss your ventures and how they could relate to Second Life. Could be interesting possibilities.