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Wednesday, December 24, 2014
Friday, December 19, 2014
Quote DuJour
“Don’t think.
Thinking is the enemy of creativity.
Thinking is the enemy of creativity.
It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy.
You can’t try to do things.
You simply must do things”
– Ray Bradbury
Friday, December 05, 2014
Sunday, November 30, 2014
Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
Monday, November 17, 2014
Friday, November 14, 2014
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Saturday, November 08, 2014
Wednesday, November 05, 2014
Monday, November 03, 2014
Saturday, November 01, 2014
Quote DuJour
“And by the way, everything in life is writable about
if you have the outgoing guts to do it,
and the imagination to improvise.
The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
― Sylvia Plath
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Darcy Lynn's Snack Shop
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"While you sweat over a hot stove slinging hash
Work my fingers right down to the elbows
Yes I may be good-for-nothin'
But I'm still your sweet hunk o' trash"
Billie Holiday-Sweat Hunk O'Trash
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
Saturday, August 30, 2014
Berwyn's Toys and Trains O Gauge Train Layout
Worked on a new movie......Simple and it was done simply in Photoshop CC 2014.
Sunday, August 24, 2014
Quote DuJour
"There is nothing wrong with hardships and obstacles, but everything wrong with not trying."
-Werner Herzog
Saturday, August 02, 2014
Quote DuJour
"The enemy of photography is the convention,
the fixed rules of 'how to do'.
The salvation of photography
comes from the experiment."
- Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Wednesday, July 30, 2014
Friday, July 18, 2014
Quote DuJour
"If you want to make more interesting pictures, become a more interesting person"
– Jay Maisel
Wednesday, July 16, 2014
Thursday, July 03, 2014
Saturday, June 28, 2014
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Friday, June 13, 2014
Quote DuJour
"Regardless of who you are, regardless of your social position—the highest or the lowest—have always as your goal to have a lot of strength, a lot of determination, and always do everything with a lot of love and faith in God. Because one day, you will get there. Somehow, you will get there."
-Ayrton Senna
You can hear this in the Nike Ad.....in Portuguese for the workd cup.
Sunday, June 01, 2014
Quote DuJour
"The majority of photographers still seek “artistic” effects, imitating other mediums of graphic expression. The result is a hybrid product that does not succeed in giving their work the most valuable characteristic it should have, —photographic quality."
-Tina ModottiMonday, May 26, 2014
In Honor Of My Father
Memorial day is day that honors those who served........Today I honor my father who served in World War II. A good man with a kind and loving heart who raised two great sons.
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Sunday, May 11, 2014
Quote DuJour
"It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done!"
-Vincent Van Gogh
Saturday, May 10, 2014
Tuesday, May 06, 2014
Thursday, May 01, 2014
Quote DuJour
"I am not designed to come second or third,
I am designed to win"
-Ayrton Senna.
Today is the 20th anniversary of his death.
Sunday, April 27, 2014
Billiken Type Dance
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A little fun with a custom Billiken photoshop brush and the program Typo-Painter.
Friday, April 25, 2014
The Gonzo Illustrator
“I still think the computer has so confused us that we don’t quite have the strong moral compass that we should, I always say to people that I like to see wet ink. A computer leaves me unable to do what I live for: to find something unexpected.”
-Ralph Steadman
I'm interested in seeing the documentay film.
Quote DuJour
At the root of creativity is an impulse to understand, to make sense of random and often unrelated details. For me, photography provides an intersection of time, space, light, and emotional stance. One needs to be still enough, observant enough, and aware enough to recognize the life of the materials, to be able to 'hear through the eyes.
- Paul CaponigroSaturday, April 19, 2014
Friday, April 18, 2014
Quote DuJour Duex
Quote of the day: The past cannot be changed.
The future is yet in your power.
- Mary Pickford
Quote DuJour
“People don’t like to think.
If one thinks, one must reach conclusions.
Conclusions are not always pleasant.”
― Helen Keller
Friday, April 11, 2014
Quote DuJour
"Getting the first draft finished is like pushing a peanut with your nose across a very dirty floor."
-Joyce Carol Oates
Saturday, April 05, 2014
Quote DuJour
“Well, I suppose nothing is meant to last forever. We have to make room for other people. It’s a wheel. You get on, you have to go to the end. And then somebody has the same opportunity to go to the end and so on.”
– Vivian Maier
Thursday, April 03, 2014
Neuroscience Of Color
The Fast Company web site has an interesting blog post by Eric Jaffe on the power of color in art. An interesting read on how color effects the viewing of art.
http://www.fastcodesign.com/3027740/evidence/the-fascinating-neuroscience-of-color
Saturday, March 08, 2014
Monday, March 03, 2014
Quote DuJour
"If you are out there shooting, things will happen for you.
If you're not out there, you'll only hear about it."
- Jay Maisel
Monday, February 24, 2014
Saturday, February 22, 2014
Quote DuJour
“Vision without action is a daydream.
Action without vision is a nightmare.”
– Japanese Proverb
Thursday, February 20, 2014
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Simple Quote DuJour
Available light
is any damn light that is available!
- W. Eugene Smith
Short and to the point!
Monday, February 17, 2014
Sunday, February 09, 2014
Quote DuJour
"Uncertainty is where things happen. It is where the opportunities – for success, for happiness, for really living – are waiting."
-Martha Nussbaum
Friday, February 07, 2014
Wednesday, February 05, 2014
Quote DuJour
"An artist must be open to the muse. The greater the artist, the more he is open to “cosmic currents.” He has to behave as he does. If he has “the courage to be an artist,” he is committed to behave as the mood possesses him. . . .
The price an artist pays for doing what he wants is that he has to do it."
-William S. Burroughs
Saturday, February 01, 2014
Quote DuJour
“When something you make doesn’t work, it didn’t work, not you. You, you work. You keep trying.”
– Zach Klein
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Creatively Conflicted
Creative people have to deal with the monsters in their mind. We are conflicted......we argue with ourselves and usually do nothing but create mental scrambled eggs in our heads. Time usually sorts things out, but we create a lot of confusion in the meantime. Round and round and round we go and where we land nobody knows.
The Fast Company Leadership Now website has an interesting post on the 10 Paradoxical Traits Of Creative People. Faisal Hoque has some interesting points for the creatively conflicted. A interesting read. 10 Paradoxical Traits Of Creative People
Thursday, January 16, 2014
Quote DuJour
"Reaching a 'creative' state of mind thru positive action is considered preferable to waiting for 'inspiration'. "
- Minor White
Sunday, January 12, 2014
Sign From Mars
This sign has marked the way from Illinois to Milwaukee for many years. It's so circa 1950's type design is what makes it. The store building has changed but the sign remains the same. A true cheddar curtain icon.
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Saturday, January 11, 2014
Quote DuJour
Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.
- Diane Arbus
Saturday, January 04, 2014
Friday, January 03, 2014
Wednesday, January 01, 2014
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