7 Habits of Highly Creative Minds

FreelanceSwitch.com has a great post on the "7 Habits of Highly Creative Minds". It's a good read to help inspire and jog your mental rhythms. Read and be inspired at FreelanceSwitch.

Quote DuJour

"All art is autobiographical; 

the pearl 

is the oyster’s autobiography."

-Federico Fellini in a December 1965 piece in The Atlantic

Creative Vapor Lock

It's summer. Hot, 90 to 100 degrees....sticky and just plain uncomfortable. Tis the season to hit creative vapor lock. My mind is putty and it has stalled out. So I go to the Apple app store and wandered around for some mind stimulating candy. Behold a free app just to jockey the photographic mental digits into stimulation.  The free version is DotMatrix FREE by Blackop. The program takes an image from your video cam snapshot or a photo and lets you create a whole mess of unusual and funky images using their presets which you can tweak any way you want. Designers and photographers can play with this for inspiration. Playing with this shakes the old brain cells alive. Download it and give it a shot. The free version creates a lo-res .png file.  They also make a studio version for a price. I'd love to do a review on that to see how well that works. But for now the free version allows me to kick the tires. It's on Apples app store or go to Blackops site.  Below are some samples.

Quote DuJour

“ When a man realizes his littleness, his greatness can appear. ”

— H.G. Wells

Quote DuJour

"A creative is ultimately a person of action. 
They have dreams, but they toil. 
A dreamer is someone 
who never achieves a dream. 
Dreamers are bullshit."

-Lapo Elkann

Quote DuJour

"Know the enemy,
know yourself."

-Sun Tzu

The Principles Of White Space

There is a great blog posting by blogger Leo Babauta of zenhabits that deals with the use of white space.

Some of the things white space accomplishes in design:

• greater legibility
• feeling of luxury
• breathing room & balance
• more emphasis

To read the entire blog article go to DesignTaxi.

Quote DuJour

"Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries." 

~Blaise Pascal

Field Dream

Quote Du Jour

“Opportunity is missed

by most people

because it is dressed

in overalls

and it looks like work”

–Thomas Edison

Back To Basics In Photography In A Large Way

SILVER & LIGHT from Ian Ruhter on Vimeo.

Ian Ruhter shows us what passion he has in an old school method of photography.

Quote DuJour

"One photographs things in order to get them out of one's mind"
-Franz Kafka

Kurt Vonnegut on how to write a short story

If only some writers would actually follow these ideas.

Quote DuJour

"...innocence of eye has a quality of its own. It means to see as a child sees, with freshness and acknowledgment of the wonder; it also means to see as an adult sees who has gone full circle and once again sees as a child - with freshness and an even deeper sense of wonder."

-Minor White

Quote DuJour

“Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual."
-Edward Weston

Quote DuJour

Photography my passion, the search for truth, my obsession."
-Alfred Steiglitz

Friday ClixPix

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Grafitti Twist

Saturday ClixPix

Something to warm the eyes up on a winters day. Color!

Quote DuJour

“I’m thinking there may be a market in being the guy who helps to un-train you of all the ‘tips’ that the ‘experts’ teach you.”
-Patrick Rhone

29 Ways To Stay Creative

29 WAYS TO STAY CREATIVE from TO-FU on Vimeo.

Street Vendor

Press On

Press On

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not;
Nothing is more common than an unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not;
Unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education alone will not;
The world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Digital Photography & Pixels

Pixels are born to be punished!

Quotes DuJour

I don't want to create stuff,
I want to observe stuff.
–
If you're going to explore something,
don't start with a plan.

-Jay Maisel