The Buying and Selling of an Intern

When companies allow Interns into their studios they aren’t supposed to be the studio ‘lackey’.

Interning is supposed to be a time where free service is offered in exchange for ‘real experience’ not doing menial tasks for a boss that wants to save money on hiring a secretary or coffee go-fer or a business that believes the intern must pay their dues with tasks unrelated to their training.

Companies taking advantage of young Interns are despicable, and quite frankly must be deficit in the compassion department to be a real leader instead of a greedy opportunist.

Opportunists are respected when they break new ground and prove they have the savvy to accomplish the task, but just taking advantage of the economic times to use young interns shows lack of ethical morals in business and personal character that will bring down American business faster than any Stockholder's whim.

How hedonistic business has become, where the Guilds no longer bring young interns under their wings to teach them the ways of excellence in craft and ethics for business. There IS room for every Intern to be led if we just pay attention.

Wasting of young enthusiastic interns has become the norm, soliciting to pay for the right to be an intern for a larger company as we solicit chairs in the Senate, a corrupt business practice.

As Corporations, we are responsible to teach our youth how to excel and contribute to America’s business growth industry. Instead I hear horror stories of jealous co-workers, vagrant supervisors and the buying and selling of intern positions for profit and fun, how crass.

For shame that people have become so disconnected to the right way to conduct business for everyone’s benefit, America needs to be lifted up to higher standards to win this new economic battle. Business must step up without supervision or the need for a ‘new-committee’ to Big Brother us into doing the right thing. We must all agree to treat youthful interns as our most prized pot of gold at the end of the future rainbow instead of seeing them as a black cloud raining on your parade…share the wealth and your skills without giving trade secrets away, teach your co-workers to hold no contempt for interns, and last, teach them that business means ethics or suffer the alternative where you are just teaching what we already know, that it’s a dog-eat-dog world of unethical behavior and shallow greed.

Interns are the next best thing in business and we can’t rely on them learning the ropes that unravel at the slightest tension; especially when we need new leaders to know what and how to do business so that the wealthy won’t have the power to bail us out with interest, and we live in fear of debt…the system must change, NOW.

Business, can you hear this plea? Will you step up and train the next generation to be strong or simply continue to make our youth waste their time and training? Will you be an individual participant in the improving our business future or will you just maintain the status quo?
Shame on us.

Adobe Laid off 10% of Workforce, ya think?

Actually, I am glad they are losing sales. I have purchased the product for years, but when Windows 7 was installed my Photoshop and Illustrator did not function unless I buy the updated versions CS3 or 4 or 5. Yet, my much older version Photoshop 7 worked, go figure!
When I called Adobe support they told me that because my product was a CS and not a CS3 or 4 they could not longer give tech support; and Microsoft will not give tech support as well. I would be forced to buy new versions of the software, which appears to be a Bait and Switch tactic to force users to buy the updates. Users are not that stupid.
During the last five years my Daughter used all the same software with one Apple notebook to my three PC's, which did not function properly and caused a lot of lost projects for my clients; do I feel like a BOZO, sure; and I will move over to Apple computer today.
I have lost faith in Adobe products and PC systems over these problems; I am fed up, and will switch computers and software.
What is wrong with these PC business people? Money is more important than people, so now they pay the price of failed business...glad to see some justice being done.
I am so glad to see this, maybe they will rethink their problem instead of trying to force people to buy, buy, buy!

Although according to the business formulas, they have to expand 20% each year to stay in business and I believe this is the cause of product failures, having to buy every few years to function...I cannot believe that business can continue to force people to do this, some must, especially big business, because they run on PC's. Although most stayed with XP while Vista ruined so many users faith in the products.

Now, is Windows 7 going to improve business or force them to switch to Apple as well?

I hope so.

Artist Beware of Trojan Horses bearing FREE exposure gifts

A recent gallery tour revealed a few flaws in how some ‘big corporate companies’ can really mess up an already fragile artist ego with the hype for free exposure.

Case in hand; we joined a gallery tour via invitation complete with fine print and well intentioned guarantees that came with a brand name and credible background from a larger corp. We were grateful for the ‘high profile’ name brand coverage of our Art touring for an entire month, wow. We delivered and waited for the first show.

The street fair gallery was awkward, and really wasn’t setup until noon. The fair was about ‘recycling’ and the gallery booth was completely recycled materials with our art hanging upon metal sheets on paper rolls. Without revealing the actual brand name or naming names, see the photo.

This was a start, we were patient and waited for the usual coverage, news releases or even an article…what we got was a link to their site with no reference to any of the artist’s or reps for the artists. A blogging site where we only talked to each other, the general public was not aware of us. The show became anonymous, a walk-through outside gallery booth without the postcards or usual advertising to draw the crowds or the sales.

Frankly, for such a big news corp. covered in classifieds and worldwide newspaper savvy, they simply dropped the ball in favor of a new brand printed zine in a recycled booth (supposed to appeal to a younger generation), and never once published the artists names or photos to the general public with larger newspaper subscribers.

We eventually had to wait while the tour went from street fair to street fair including cancelled shows and finally to a fashion show side booth; where we finally said, enough! Still anonymous, we grabbed our free show artwork and left. The art had minor damage, but we now understood who we were dealing with and just left it at that. The fine print will obviously disavow our claims, so we make none…for now. We wait until they find some ‘ego’ problem with us pulling out one day early since we had a REAL gallery show to deliver our Art, and to blog about our experience. Meanwhile we wait.

Optimistically, they will just forget us as we will forget them and chock it up to a bad experience and ‘never again’ sign a fine print contract or realize that nothing good is ever FREE especially from big corporations thinking only for their own product!

“Artist beware Trojan Horses bearing FREE exposure Gifts!”

Kaylee Frazier, Fashion Designer; A New Spring Show!

"FIT 2009 Fashion Week in NYC"

Kaylee Frazier, an FIT Fashion Designer graduate, is so inspired by Esul Walker's colorful exciting Artwork, that her choice for the "2009 FIT Fashion Show" (caution, spoiler alert for those attending the show), is a slender classic ottoman knit dress in muted purple (left dress), with a multi-colored shoulder wrap reimaged from one of Esul's early artworks (see below).

This combination has classic styling with an exciting splash of color versatile for all day wear, and then accessorized for an evening outing, perhaps to an Esul Walker showing in Greenwich Village?


Esul's digital art transforms easily with the new advanced knitting machines coming out of Milan, Italy's knit manufacturing industry , and with this type of versatility these colorful patterns will become more available for knitwear in US markets.

The show promises more excitement than usual this year, and we believe Kaylee Frazier and Esul Walker are the inspiration, see you there!

Contact Kaylee Frazier at sf2sf2fp@gmail.com and let her know what you think about her new Spring collection, and collect a few for yourself!

To view more recent work by Esul Walker go to "frazierportfolio.com", click on "A Poet's Gallery" for an exciting presentation.

Esul Walker's Opus

An Artist Opus, Ahead of His Time

Esul Walker is as complicated a person as he is an artist, a multi-faceted educated thinker; with a large and robust physical stature accompanied by a bellowing voice, which he uses in his poetry readings.

Esul's opus has the same vitality, and playfulness without boundaries taking you beyond your own command of understanding space not as void but filled with energy, color, and wit. Esul has moved beyond himself, stepped outside the box, and defined his experience of mind and physical presence through his expressive art. His comprehensive self knowledge is comfortable in the abstract with a vulnerable but concrete hold on his own reality.

Few have conquered the inner self with such distinction. Artists such as Salvador Dali or Jackson Pollack's outer reality was so indistinct that the inner world became the boundary where questions were posed and answered in art in defense of their only acceptable existence, their inner worlds are so ahead of time that we are still exploring with enthusiasm.

When I view an exhibition I see his interpretation of our physical world of life between concept and reality, void versus mass, dream and fantasy, he makes me want to explore again with renewed childlike vision. A world I can play in and enjoy while I journey through his landscapes of bright color, intelligent forms and fluent poetic language.

Esul Walker is an artist for the twenty-first century; take time to view his artwork and discover the power of his self realized expression within his fine art prints.

Visit the gallery presentation and more: www.frazierportfolio.com to see his wonderful work and awards from Europe, who recognize something new and exciting in this new American Artist.