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art + copy is a new film delving into the history of what many of us either can’t get enough of or find ourselves getting far too much exposure to. already starting the machine talking it’s sure to ring a few bells + make some waves on it’s current tour.
director Doug Pray (Surfwise, Scratch, Hype!) says on creativepro.com,
“This movie… isn’t about bad advertising. I didn
image by alex dejong
here’s a monday pick-me-up that really hit me. don’t ever let anyone tell you that you can’t do something. the guy’s in this piece via wired have more vision than so many seeing people i know. the creativity involved here is fantastic +i’m into hearing about the various workflows that alex dejong (above) + the others featured employ. jason decamillis shoots with film, a holga being the fav, others are tricking out iphones + taking lightroom to task.
need a different viewpoint, try closing your eyes.
one of my favorite aspects of visual media, be it still images, video or hybrid clips, is the ability to go back through everything much further down the road. sometimes this it’s tough to look at everything other times it’s pure joy. regardless, it’s a great way to keep pushing your style forward + chasing that personal evolution we’re all after.
here’s one of my favs from last year.
the revolution is picking up speed. after a recent mumblings about the new iphone 3GS video capabilities + third party accessories it’s gone + come together. kenny mosher + crew have put together an entire music video on the iphone + thrown in a behind the scenes via the canon 5D II for fun. get ready for the onslaught. more via pro video coalition.
Music Video Shot on iPhone from Kenny Mosher on Vimeo.
“It’s not the strongest of the species,
nor the most intelligent that survive;
it’s the ones most responsive to change.”
–Charles Darwin
i like that. you would darwin would know a thing or two in that direction too. the more i hear on resiliency the more it makes sense to me. as in this article on philly here. though have to admit when even blinking in the direction of adversity good ole joe simpson + his story ‘touching the void’ always sticks in my head.
Paul Stolz, author of the
on a fine tuesday here are a few twists of inspiration i’ve picked up lately.
creative expression at it’s absolute best via cabin46. this is the sickest thing i’ve seen in far too long, way down with bruce.
An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
Charles Dickens
unkl doing right.
“Conventional wisdom says that to be successful, an idea must be concrete, complete, and certain. But what if that’s wrong? What if the most elegant, most imaginative, most engaging ideas are none of those things?” Matt May has answers with Creative Elegance: The Power of Incomplete Ideas.
great portland tunes cranking lately with the thermals.
The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser – in case you thought optimism was dead.
Robert Brault
different mind sets play more than we may ever know but like they say, “if everything you’re doing is turning out right you’re not trying very hard.” this goes against the idea of the midas touch and what is called a fixed mind-set, the belief that you’re artistic intrinsically, via genetics, etc and thus don’t need to work at what you do as it just comes. the other side of the coin is a growth mind-set that is set against this ‘talent myth’. the current science view is that we are born with