I am a regular reader of Chase Jarvis’ blog. You should be too. But today his blog was an especially good read, not only for Chase’s nuggets of wisdom (and if you know any creatives that jealously guard the “secrets” of their “genius”, send them there. It’ll be a bucket of cold water in their...
David DuChemin recently had an interesting blog post regarding faith and art. And it sparked a lot of commentary, which is almost as interesting as the original post. For me, this also sparked a long conversation on a recent roadtrip to Chicago. In my mind (and this isn’t meant to be a global artistic statement;...
Last week I had lunch with an old friend, Mike Rezac (@mikerezac) at his new digs in the Chicago Booth School of Business at University of Chicago. That’s the ceiling of his building above. I find it a terrific pun that a business school has an actual glass ceiling. Mike is a special breed of...
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. I tend to be the guy in the picture next to that entry in the dictionary. Over the years, I always intended to have somebody who knew what they were doing design a website for me, but then while I was waiting to hear back from...
So much going on lately that I haven’t been able to sit still long enough to post, so here’s what’s been up:
First, my shoot with Andrea and the mannequin heads. I got a Facebook message from a high school friend saying she had a bunch of mannequin heads if I wanted them. Who could say...
No gigs on the books this week; waiting for the weather to cooperate for a cool upcoming shoot. So, I could spend all day following everyone on Twitter, Facebook, read every entry of every blog…or…I could shoot what’s right in front of me. In my case, that’s my kids. So while the older two are...
I can’t even add anything. Just watch. Thanks Zack.
I don’t know if it’s my computer or not, but if you can only see half of the video image, go here.
I stumbled on this article while reading Amy Stein’s blog. If you don’t already, definitely follow her blog. I’ll let you read the excerpt (grabbed from Amy Stein again). This isn’t news to us artists, but it may be revelatory to some:
“The fact is that the arts foster innovation. We’ve just published a study that...
When starting a new project, two main questions always pop up immediately: 1. What do I think the client (or boss or whoever is paying) wants, and 2. What’s the WRONG way to do this?
Every time I’ve worried about question 1, the work has suffered and the client has had plenty of “notes” for me....
I had a session the other day…seemed to take forever to nail down a date, as it came up just as my wife and I (mostly her) were about to have a baby. Hard to schedule something when you could be racing to the hospital at any minute…
The concept was “china doll discarded in the...
