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Great Work is Memorable – Good Work is Experience
What defines our story are significant moments and endings; memorable works and what we’ve done lately. Artist’s think of the future in terms of anticipated great works. It’s a trap. + View a TED video presentation by Daniel Kahneman
Continue reading...Heightening or Cheating the Creative Encounter
20. May 2010
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.
Continue reading...A Scarcity of Surprises is the Result of Abundance
18. May 2010
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?
Continue reading...Get as Close to the Flame as You Can
10. May 2010
Flame finding is your talent. Imagination is hot, execution is cold. The flame is illusive; if you must obsess about something, make it a flame search. "I think part of the process of this whole thing is to get as close to the flame as you can get without being burned" – Graham Nash
Continue reading...The Vernacular Photograph an Accidental Masterpiece
6. May 2010
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
Continue reading...Paul Rand: “That son-of-a-bitch. He was so good …”
29. April 2010
"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
Continue reading...Photography from Emotion and Concept – w/ Renee Byer’s TEDx Presentation
25. April 2010
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?
Continue reading...Creativity is Analog; Digital is Facsimile
20. April 2010
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.
Continue reading...A Tale of Two Sources: Crowd and Open
15. April 2010
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.
Continue reading...Ube’s Ice Cream Shop
12. April 2010
All Creatives will relate to artist Ube Urban. I got an immediate warm feeling when I watched him paint a bicycle in Jake Wiens' video; I know what it's like to be immersed in the flow of creating. The idea has been captured so the remainder is letting the gun do it's thing.
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Interview with The Martin Agency Creative Director Andy Azula by Big Buzz Kevin
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Clay Shirky’s Cognitive Surplus: We are changing how we use our free time.
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24. May 2010
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