The Other Side of Life — © Copy­right 2012 by William Beem

The Other Side of Life

I posted a shot of the Tree of Life at Ani­mal King­dom a cou­ple of weeks ago, so today I’m show­ing a dif­fer­ent take on the same sub­ject. The Other Side of Life is another angle of the Tree of Life with a bit of a wider angle to show more of the tree. Man, there’s a lot of crit­ters creep­ing around on this tree. It’s kind of inter­est­ing just to peek all around to see where they show up, some­times in unex­pected places.

Another view of the phrase goes back to part of my post yes­ter­day about deal­ing with folks who use your pho­tos with­out per­mis­sion. One of the sites that both­ered me the most was Mash­able and I shared that story on Google+. I received a great deal of sup­port from folks on that site and it reached some deci­sion mak­ers at Mash­able. Within a busi­ness day, Mash­able agreed to my request for a proper attri­bu­tion and imple­mented it. Not only that, they found a cou­ple of other uses of my pho­tos and gave them the same attri­bu­tion. Man, that makes me happy.

I never minded that Mash­able used my pho­tographs, and I didn’t want to use a law­suit as a way to cor­rect the issue. That topic came up on the dis­cus­sion over on Google+ and some advised that was the way to go. In the past, I’ve done that and it works. On the other hand, it is an unpleas­ant process. I saw an oppor­tu­nity to try a dif­fer­ent approach and, thanks to the sup­port of many peo­ple, it worked. That’s not to say a copy­right infringe­ment law­suit is wrong. I just val­ued a dif­fer­ent out­come and I got it.

The Play­ful Side of Pinterest

Now for some­thing com­pletely dif­fer­ent. I dis­cov­ered that I’m the unof­fi­cial mas­cot of Kale­bra Kelby’s show called The Play­ful Side of Pin­ter­est. It’s a Google+ hang­out show dis­cussing pho­tog­ra­phy and dif­fer­ent uses of Pinterest.

I’ll be hon­est. I hadn’t watched it, except per­haps the first ten min­utes of the first show. When I men­tioned that to Kale­bra, she told me that I’ve been men­tioned on all six shows so far. That fas­ci­nated me, because I couldn’t imag­ine why.

Appar­ently it’s because I brought up some­thing called Emer­gency Choco­late one time; some­thing I keep in my mes­sen­ger bag. You never know when you may have a choco­late emer­gency, so you must be pre­pared. Well, some of the reg­u­lar pan­elists on her show now have their own Emer­gency Choco­late. I’ve started a trend and that makes me the unof­fi­cial mas­cot of The Play­ful Side of Pin­ter­est.

Once I learned about that, I decided to go back and watch the most recent show. You know what? Kale­bra and her friends have some pretty good ideas to use Pin­ter­est. They’ve also had some guests like Trey Rat­cliff and Jeremy Cow­art who dis­cussed how they use Pin­ter­est. You can find pre­vi­ous episodes on YouTube and check out her future shows on Google+. Just make sure to have some choco­late handy when you watch the show — you’ll see why as you watch.