Amateur to the Auteur
Kshitiz Anand If one thing that the internet has done, it is that it has given rise to a lot of budding artists. This has resulted in the blossoming of the concept of parallelism in career. Many people aim to follow at least two or more careers. Often you would hear people say I am this and this. Or something like, in the weekday I am this and on weekends, I am that, or better still, I am this in the day and this at night. The most common form of these secondary careers I think happens to be a photographer and a filmmaker. There is a good reasoning behind this. The reach of social networking is constantly on the rise. Facebook, Orkut, Myspace, Youtube etc often consume a lot more of the daily time of millions of people across countries, often exceeding the time spent on their official work. Travel has become cheaper with the low cost airlines and the whole tourism sector is booming. So, more trips mean more photographs and videos. Good times but obviously result in good memories. And w...