photography for doers and dreamers
We’ve heard of so many great artists ending their lives early… either with conscious intention or unconscious recklessness. Depression can seem synonymous with artists. Is depression inevitable for artists and creatives? Arnold Ludwig, a professor and researcher at the University of Kentucky Medical Center, wanted to answer that question. So he performed a study of 1004 [...]
What can you learn from two brothers who flew through impossibility? How to finance your dream. How to run your business. How to work with partners. How to learn your craft. How to develop your skills. Make sure to read yesterday’s primer on the first 5 lessons you can learn about ignoring impossibility and exploring [...]
“The Wright Brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility.” -Dorothea Brande It was the 1890′s and the race to fly was on. Even Wilbur Wright himself in a moment of deep disappointment, remarked to Orville that man would fly, but not in their lifetimes. Somehow the brothers moved past the disappointment, setbacks, obstacles, failures, copycats, [...]
Why is it that I am long out of junior high, but still feel some of the same insecurities that I felt at age 13? I thought someday they would disappear, go the way of the dinosaur and forever leave the landscape of my mind and heart. Such is not the case. So if they [...]
This is the age of the linchpin, the creative, the indispensable. No more cogs, automatons, and mindlessness. Creativity, growth, and change are the norm, the requirement, the new standard. This is the time of knowing who you are. Are you prepared? I’m writing a series of posts called The Awkward Series, because there’s liberty in [...]
If you’re reading this, there’s a pretty good chance you either are an overachiever or know one. Actually there’s a 100% chance that’s true because if you aren’t one, you know me and I am one. Without question. I’m going to let you in on a little secret for how to build in permission to [...]
It’s real simple. We exist in a world that moves so fast we lose (or momentarily forget) our humanity. Or maybe we don’t forget our own humanity, but we forget the humanity of the person on the other side of the screen. Today, will you remember? Try it. Then tomorrow and every tomorrow after that, [...]
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that.” -Martin Luther King Jr. A legacy of inspiration and social change will forever be intertwined with the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. His words and courage send a powerful message to the hopeless and downtrodden, to the oppressed and weary. Wherever you are [...]
Some days it feels like someone, something or the world in general is out to get you, knock you down, trip you up, and thwart your highest hopes, greatest dreams and best plans. Am I right? Other days you feel like you’re unstoppable, invincible, and moving mountains. Yes? What’s the difference? What’s the worst enemy [...]
Some photographers are so good at what they do, seeing their images makes me want to hang up my camera and call it a day. But I don’t. Honestly, you could replace the words “photographer” and “camera” with any creative art and be right on target. Writers and their pens. Artists and their sketch pads. [...]
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