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Heightening or Cheating the Creative Encounter

20. May 2010

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Heightening or Cheating the Creative Encounter

Artistic creativity is an act of intimacy or not; it’s genuine art or it's artifact. Learn to manipulate tools and their crafty mechanisms so they become secondary or not.

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A Scarcity of Surprises is the Result of Abundance

18. May 2010

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A Scarcity of Surprises is the Result of Abundance

In general, the scarcity shift is away from artifacts and toward process. Can you establish the culture that creates, the moment worth photographing, the performance that affects, or the product that markets itself?

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The Vernacular Photograph an Accidental Masterpiece

6. May 2010

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The Vernacular Photograph an Accidental Masterpiece

Like colloquial speech is to literature, vernacular photography is any type that isn’t intended as art. "There are no accidental masterpieces in painting, but there are accidental masterpieces in photography." - Chuck Close

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Paul Rand: “That son-of-a-bitch. He was so good …”

29. April 2010

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Paul Rand: “That son-of-a-bitch. He was so good …”

"Everyone has to learn too much in too short a time. The only way of learning is to do it. There is no shortcut. You need to do a lot of things over and over to get better and better ... Time is short, art is long" - Saul Bass

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Photography from Emotion and Concept – w/ Renee Byer’s TEDx Presentation

25. April 2010

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Photography from Emotion and Concept – w/ Renee Byer’s TEDx Presentation

I can’t grip rational leverage on conceptual composites that look like photography but really aren’t even, though they defy any other category and have original photographic components. What are these things?

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Creativity is Analog; Digital is Facsimile

20. April 2010

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Creativity is Analog; Digital is Facsimile

My point is that the richness you and I perceive as quality, just like my experience in China, can be like old and new competing for road space. Creativity is analog. There is no such thing as digital creativity, it's only a simulation.

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A Tale of Two Sources: Crowd and Open

15. April 2010

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A Tale of Two Sources: Crowd and Open

My encounter with Bird House Design and the first ever user-generated HD Video Contest where photographers become filmmakers, and take it beyond the still frame. Vincent Laforet and Canon kick off the improv video story which was on Chapter 4 as of this writing.

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Interview with Jeff Goodby by BigBuzz Kevin Kelly

9. April 2010

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Interview with Jeff Goodby by BigBuzz Kevin Kelly

Mainly, Jeff Goodby is the Creative Director and co-Chairman of Goodby Silverstein and Partners Ad Age's Agency of the Decade. He was the principle guy who made you "get" milk. Kevin Kelly of BigBuzz.com interviews Jeff Goodby in a short video.

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What’s the Deal With Storytelling?

5. April 2010

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What’s the Deal With Storytelling?

Things begin to go awry when I have no point of view; no opinion, no specific observation, nothing to reveal. I spend most of my time trying to uncover the problem, though once established, the rest is hard work that is relatively relaxing. I’ve discovered that most of my restlessness lies in finding the story not telling it.

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You Need The Discipline to Daydream

31. March 2010

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You Need The Discipline to Daydream

Ok, that’s it, you’re disrupting my musings, and this has got to stop, my creativity depends on it. I need the discipline to waste time purposely daydreaming.

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