Congratulations to Larry Berman, who received a special award at the Arts Festival Conference in Louisville, October 7. I was there. When Anthony Radich Executive Director of Westaf, the home of Zapplication.org, presented this first ever award, Larry was speechless. Larry has been a fearless nagger representing the interests of artists in getting the technology right. It has been a long battle fighting over pixels, downloads, uploads, calibration, laptops, screen images, etc., but Larry has never wavered. All artists who use the Zapp system have him to thank for leveling the playing field.
Who would have thought the gadfly of this organization would be rewarded for his relentless pursuit of fairness? When I asked him what he would do next he told me this story:
You know in the movie the Shawshank Redemption when Tim Robbins writes to the library every week for a long time to get books delivered to the prison library and then they finally do, the library wants to know if he will now stop pestering them. His reply, "nope -- now I'm going to do it twice a week."
Larry says that is exactly what he will be doing. Congratulations, Larry, for all you do for our business. This is a well-deserved award.
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Congratulations and continued healing!
Congratulations Larry! It is well deserved! Hope you heal well.
Congratulations Larry!
Congratulation for the award. You have been a constant source of information and a leader in making Zapp all that it is. Surgery is a bitch any time just get well as soon as possible and keep up the great work you do.
Here's another thank you Larry!
Congrats Larry. What an awesome accomplishment. Thanks for having all of our interests at heart.
Congratulations Larry! Take time to have that surgery heal correctly ... had my surgery a couple of years ago and I am so happy that I did it!
I was mistaken. This is not the first ever award. Here is the entire list of former recipients. As you can see Larry is in very good company:
It has been such a boon for this site to have Larry here taking care of a lot of the technology issues. I do not want to wrestle with them and having an expert available not only to answer questions but to go to ZAPP with them has been a wonderful gift to all of us, me especially. Thank you, Larry.
Larry...That is Fantastic...! You deserve it and have worked hard and contributed much with your generous advice and help to so many of us.
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