Anyone want to help Mission of Burma do their website?

[WilliamPitt]

Just got this via email:

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Mission of Burma is looking for someone to develop
and maintain their website. The ideal candidate
must not only display complete fluency in the skills
required to maintain a site with streaming audio and
video, but prove to be someone who is creative,
ambitious and dedicated enough to keep the MOB site
active and engaging. The ability to make frequent
updates to pre-existing material is key, but the
desire to consistently develop and execute new
methods of taking Burma further on the web is a must.

What we want are your ideas on how to create and
maintain a web-presence for Mission of Burma that
reflects the avant-garde nature of the band, but
remains just as accessible to the legions of new fans
as it does the long-time stalwarts. Please submit
your ideas to [e-mail] . The
candidates with the most creative ideas alongside
actual experience in the field will be interviewed.
There will be some compensation but not enough to be
the reason to do this.

Mission of Burma will be announcing a few US shows,
shortly. Please stay tuned for more details.

Also, don't forget to become friends with Mission
of Burma on My Space.

www.myspace.com/missionofburma

[GOPisEvil]

1. I fucking wish.

MOB rocks. A lot.

[dolo amber]

2. I'll bring the lime jello

:bounce:

[matcom]

3. i LOVE people who expect FREE (or close to it) Professional Services

:eyes:

"There will be some compensation but not enough to be
the reason to do this."

they want streaming audio and video and a host of other EXPENSIVE AND TIME CONSUMING PROGRAMMING but don't want to pay for it. that's why we webmasters are schlepping for other corporate monsters. everything is "free" these days for "the love of it".

*sigh*

[zulchzulu]

4. Some 14 year old will do it for free...

...until they get disinterested (in a couple weeks)...

Should we webmavens bow before those who want free shit, i.e. lots of programming, media compression and of course some tripped-out Actionscript Flash interface...

..if they were willing to pay for studio time and possibly some sweet music toys...maybe...

[matcom]

5. its become a crisis

some college jerk will do it sitting on a beach on Nantucket for bragging rights.

if *I* took this project on, they would riddle me with HOURS of audio and video manipulation, flash programming and THEN want Search Engine Placement services all for the "privelage".

got more than one site under my belt under those circumstances.

who the hell can make a living in this business anymore?

[jmowreader]

6. You just about can't make a living in the creative arts anymore

If you set type, the client could wake up one morning and decide to have his secretary set the company's annual report in Microsoft Publisher. I could probably count the number of annual reports for $50 million companies that I saw come in set in Publisher, but I'd have to take my boots off and count in binary.

If you do video, you guys with pro-grade editing suites are competing against people with consumer-grade cameras and the editor you get free with Windows because that guy charges $25 per hour.

Portrait photography? Man, Wal-Mart charges $9.95 and you get 50 photos. And look at this picture in their ad, the one with the two children acting like they're all in love and everything--my child's portraits will look Just Like This. (And the fact that it took them longer to make those children up before they shot 500 frames of them than it will take yours to go through the whole process has nothing to do with the quality of that photo...)

Music? Between the record company who pays you next to nothing and the kid who rips your new CD and shares it, this one's a bit tenuous too.

Web design? "Why should we pay to have a cool site built? Let's let people do it for bragging rights." And if you're selling industrial valves...where's your secretary?

Yes, you can make piles of money in creative arts, but you'll be making pornos or really vapid pop songs.

[zulchzulu]

9. I make a decent living in the "creative arts"

It can be done.

You just now have to know how to do video editing and shooting, special effects and interactive authoring and either decent Cold Fusion, PHP, Perl, JSP or ASP chops (OK, you need to know all of those languages) as well as be the IT/troubleshooting/hardware installation person...

Oh, and you read Wired and do a column on web tutorials with Builder.com...and (sound of robot noise ......)

Wait, then there's print.

You have to make and design die-cut multi-foldout brochures with embedded ships that ping nearby compliant servers with data mining input.

Sheesh, audio production. Um, ya know an instrument? Synth? Pro Tools?

Make a DVD of your Powerpoint file you expoted into XML-fed InDesign that can spew PDFs through a button.

[xmas74]

7. Sorry. My computer skills suck.

[SmokingJacket]

8. that's lame; they should pay someone for the work

and not just capitalize on their coolness.

[In_The_Wind]

10. My computer skills are getting better - but not enough for this!

Mission of Burma looks looks interesting.