Coding and Design Tips & Tutorials

[caption id="attachment_6908" align="alignnone" width="620"] Image by Pete O'Shea via Flickr[/caption] You know — because every SEO expert, marketing consultant, and armchair internet critic under the sun has told you, either directly or indirectly — that a blog is a great tool for your freelance career or small business. Blogging helps potential clients get to know you, creates new and ever-changing content for search engines to find, can drive sales and revenue, and helps you give your products or services a platform.

The US may have been knocked from the World Cup, but the beautiful game's biggest tournament will continue to play on without us, and we're ok with that. Really, we are.

Long summer weekends are great for lazily letting the hours slip away, but before you turn to Netflix to zone out, why not use some of your time to get inspired and start the second half of the year on the right foot?

Lance Bangs, an accomplished artist, filmmaker, documentarian, producer, and music video director, mines intimate space. He collects ephemeral, essentially impossible to capture moments and turns them into artifacts.

[caption id="attachment_6891" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Photos courtesy Esther Honig.

[caption id="attachment_6859" align="alignnone" width="620"] Image via Flickr[/caption] Creative entrepreneurs, freelancers, and regular old people are forever searching for the secret to inspiration. Is it a flash, like lightning that strikes when you least expect it, or is it a slow burn that builds over a lifetime of paying close attention to everything around you?

Creative inspiration comes from all sorts of places — even from Netflix. If you’re stuck in a creative rut, in need of a new way of looking at things.

Studio lighting can be intimidating — so much so that even renowned photographers like Sue Bryce admit to not fully understanding the complexity of it. Fortunately, editorial and commercial photographer Felix Kunze has a knack for making it look easy.

[caption id="attachment_6793" align="alignnone" width="612"] Image via Flickr[/caption] Networking events. Mixers.