Quote DuJour

The quote I'm using crosses all creative paths. Whether your a writer, painter, photographer, sculptor it crosses all disciplines.

Writing Is Easy:
all you do is sit staring at a blank piece of paper until the drops of blood form on your forehead.
-Gene Fowler

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Truth Hurts!

An open letter to Canon from safetyhammer on Vimeo.

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"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
-Albert Einstein

London 2012 Olympic Posters....Boring & Bland!

I must say the Olympics should be inspiring. The selection of posters for the 2012 London Olympics are just plain bad. No inspiration or creativity in these. The selection committee must have been a sleep when picking these or they just wanted to be politically correct and offend no one. You can view them here

It's part of me, it's part of my life

One of the greatest Formula 1 racing drivers Ayrton Senna once said; "Racing, competing, it's in my blood. It's part of me, it's part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else." This also applies to those of us in the creative fields. Never forget your passion no matter how low you feel. There are good days and bad days and it is up to you to create more good than bad.

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"There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality."
-Pablo Picasso

Fall Rust Never Sleeps

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"Creativity is a drug I cannot live without"
-Cecil B. DeMille

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Race Fans Mourn

Ask any auto racing fan and they will tell you the sport is dangerous. Race car driver Dan Wheldon unfortunately got caught in an accident that cost him his life. Things just went wrong. My prayers are with his wife Susie his two children and his family.
Now comes the time for the evaluate cars, speeds and tracks. Reports from the track had drivers uneasy about the amount of cars and the speeds they were traveling. IRL it's soul searching time. Maybe it's time to slow the cars down. I don't have the answers, but I do know something good has to be done to make Indy Car racing safer.

Pictured Dan Wheldon with his wife Susie.
Photo credit IRL

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"Art is not what you see but what you make others see."
-Edgar Degas

Grass

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If one really wishes to be a master of an art, technical knowledge of it is not enough. One has to transcend technique so that the art becomes an 'artless art' growing out of the unconscious
-D.T. Suzuki

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Crunch Time

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Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.
-W. Eugene Smith

Some Great Creative Reading

Katrin Eismann an instructor at the SVA in New York has a great group of web pages. One is www.PhotoshopDiva.com has a section of her article reprints from Photoshop User magazine. The column in Photoshop User magazine is called Creative Point of View are an enjoyable read which includes inspiration and technical tips for Photoshop. Click on over, download some of them and give them a read. You'll find them worth the time.

Designing A Photograph – Mood

Photographer Scott Bourne has a great post on the Photofocus site. He discusses the important value of designing a photograph with mood in mind. It's worth a look at Photofocus.com

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"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

John Jay on Creativity

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"Style has no formula, but it has a secret key.
It is the extension of your personality."
-Ernst Haas