The big booooooom; How Jeff Hamada’s art blog made him an accidental — and highly influential — tastmaker
As the sole author and proprietor of the highest traffic art blog on the Internet, Jeff Hamada has his finger on the pulse of the creative world. In fact, these days, you could say he is the pulse.
“Booooooom.com gets about two million hits a month now – it’s pretty crazy,” the 27-year-old Vancouverite says of the blog he started only a year and a half ago. In a virtual world clogged with endless art sites, Hamada has found a way to stand out, and now quietly exerts major power over creative communities, not only in Vancouver but also around the world.
Booooooom.com features art, photography, film and music, as well as a variety of other projects that Hamada initiates and curates. He works alone from his home in Richmond, B.C., near the Vancouver airport. Each day, Hamada personally publishes around five new posts on different artists, photographers or designers whose work he admires, with the occasional musician or filmmaker garnering a mention. Though he finds it difficult to describe the qualities that will get an image on the site, Hamada admits that he has preference for work that is “imperfect or hand-drawn” over “really slick Photoshopped stuff.”
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