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Steven B%c3%b6hm Posted This On Twitter Today Good

https://twitter.com/steven_at/status/559978571931078656

Steven B%c3%b6hm Posted This On Twitter Today Good
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Have You Tried Making Yourself A More Interesting

> “Have you tried making yourself a more interesting person?” — Barry Hannah [https://twitter.com/austinkleon/status/553589823722635265]

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Im Sometimes Mystified By People Who Keep

> “I’m sometimes mystified by people who keep diaries. I never thought of my existence as being that important.” — Saul Leiter [http://lightbox.time.com/2013/02/19/a-casual-conversation-with-saul-leiter/#1] (a pretty important artist)

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The More People Who Say They Hate Your Work Or

> “The more people who say they hate your work (or call your work overrated), the more successful you are.” — Eric Kim [http://erickimphotography.com/blog/2015/01/26/60-street-photography-heuristics-rules-of-thumb-i-believe-in-and-try-to-follow/]

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Happy 60th Birthday, Edward Van Halen!

I’m now an official “contributing writer” to the Van Halen News Desk. Actually, I wrote this stuff 15 years ago in The Van Halen Encyclopedia [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00A4153EI/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00A4153EI&linkCode=

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The Problem With Digital Now Is Young

> “The problem with digital now is young photographers erase their mistakes. That’s a huge error.” — Karen Mullarkey [https://medium.com/vantage/talking-with-karen-mullarkey-2f8604c18205] (via Andy Adams [https://twitter.com/tomalprice/status/558628831389827072])

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Its Time To Change Your Thinking Your Day Job

> “It’s time to change your thinking. Your day job isn’t standing between you and your passion. The former is actually paving the way for the latter.” — J. Maureen Henderson [http://www.forbes.com/sites/jmaureenhenderson/2014/12/30/why-your-unfulfilling-day-job-might-be-the-best-thing-that-has-ever-happened-to-you/]

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Hunter S. Thompson's Praise for the Snapshot

> “When photography gets so technical as to intimidate people, the element of simple enjoyment is bound to suffer,” Thompson writes, highlighting his main argument. “Any man who can see what he wants to get on film will usually find some way to get it; and a man who thinks

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Automation Kills Creativity

Nicholas Carr was the first high profile writer to capture all of the research behind the effects of human’s move from paper to pixels, first in Wired [http://www.wired.com/2010/05/ff_nicholas_carr/all/], and then in his book The Shallows [http://www.amazon.com/gp/

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You Cannot Tell What A Picture Really Is Or What

> “You cannot tell what a picture really is or what an object really is until you dust it every day.” — Gertrude Stein