Spec work, simply put, is speculative work, work for maybe-profits down the road, or just for creds. For example, someone has an idea for a T-shirt. It is expensive to print T-shirts, so we can’t pay you now to make the design. But if well sell lots of shirts we’ll pay you later, plus you will get lots of publicity. How about that?
Trying to make a living doing something creative will have you facing it almost every day, especially if you are just getting started and are just about ready to take any job you can find.
Over the last few weeks, I’ve encountered lots of good reads on the subject, so here are links.
This first one was actually from a discussion thread from a forum for Flash animators.
Those birds are getting big. They appear fully feathered, and resemble the parents in two aspects, the first being a little bit of yellow fluff is visible yet and the second that they won’t fly away.
That Firefox 3 Release Candidate makes me so excited. Woooh hoo! Most of my add-ons are compatible now. 20 top add-ons that are ready for Firefox 3 …And there has been much rejoicing. 9 that ain’t …boo hoo. The one that I am missing most? FireFTP is a handy little thing if you have your own website.
I am in the process of getting some of those old designs on shirts in my spare time.
I’ve got a rabbit lover’s theme, a cat lover’s theme, and I should find those old drummer-themed t-shirt designs to upload too — those were the only one that ever sold on Cafepress.
I am dealing with Zazzle nowadays, partly because they have fun bells and whistles like the flashy thing below, but mainly because they have something cafepress should have thought of doing from the start; having a networking/community. Web 1.0, meet Web 2.0.
