For All The Care You Put Into Artistry Visual
> “For all the care you put into artistry, visual polish frequently doesn’t matter if you’re getting the story right.” — Ed Catmull, Pixar (in Creativity Inc. [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0812993012/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0812993012&
Choose Wisely Life Is Short Nobody Gives A Shit
> “Choose wisely. Life is short. Nobody gives a shit about your photos, but yourself.” — Eric Kim [http://erickimphotography.com/blog/2014/08/08/nobody-gives-a-shit-about-your-photos/]
There is No Digital Archival Format
Just a reminder from Martin Scorsese [http://insidemovies.ew.com/2014/08/04/martin-scorsese-kodak-film-letter/] and the reason I recommend some kind of analogue output your photographs: > “Everything we do in HD is an effort to recreate the look of film. Film, even now, offers a
Stop being a tourist
> The internet and smartphones have made us all tourists, gawking at our own lives.
Words Want Images To Illustrate And Illuminate
> “Words want images to illustrate and illuminate them, while images want words to clarify and contextualize them.” — Words Not Spent Today Buy Smaller Images Tomorrow: Essays on the Present and Future of Photography by David Levi Strauss [http://aperture.org/shop/words-not-spent-today-buy-smaller-images-tomorrow-
Orphan Buildings
I’ve gotten a little tired of the abandoned building fad, so here’s something new: the orphan building.
I Still Can't Be Ok With Just My iPhone
> “Life is really enjoyable, and we should be using all of our gadgets to capture the story of that enjoyment and whatever gadget you might use to do that — just make sure you are capturing the right things and not the ‘artsy’ things.”
The Dark Room — The Brooks Review Podcast
Ben Brooks had me on his podcast [https://podcast.brooksreview.net/episode/70] today to rant for a while about photography.
The Dark Room — The Brooks Review Podcast
Ben Brooks had me on his podcast today to rant for a while about photography.
Get People Upset
Merlin Mann (in the latest episode of Roderick on the Line [Episode 116 [http://www.merlinmann.com/roderick/ep-116-smilin-alligator.html], at the 25:25 mark]): > “It’s very difficult to efficiently say anything interesting and new and honest without a lot of people getting upset. >