Doesn’t poke hard enough for my liking, but it’s funny nonetheless. (via Joseph Cristina)
From AllThingsD:
The four most popular camera phones on Flickr currently? The iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 3G and the iPhone 3GS — in that order.
Milton Glaser, as quoted in Jonah Lehrer’s Imagine:
There’s no such thing as a creative type. As if creative people can just show up and make stuff up. As if it were that easy.
I think people need to be reminded that creativity is a verb, and very time-consuming verb. It’s about taking an idea in your head, and transforming that idea into something real. And that’s always going to be a long and difficult process. If you’re doing it right, it’s going to feel like work.”
I’m not a fan of Instagram. I don’t believe it allows you to tell a story with your photos in the best possible way. However, I realize many of you adore the app, which is why the above link may be troubling.
Update: Instagram was just sold to Facebook for $1 billion. So, that was their business model all along - as is the business model for all “free” apps and web services…capturing and selling your information. Very profitable; and you did all the work.
I don’t agree with all of it, but the point of blazing your own trail is spot on. (via Marco Dughera)
From Seth Godin (via Enough):
If your happiness is based on always getting a little more than you’ve got then you’ve handed control over your happiness to the gatekeepers, built a system that doesn’t scale and prevented yourself from the brave work that leads to a quantum leap.
If I Had a Hammer
From LensRentals.com:
With the recent camera releases (or maybe Spring fever) I’ve been rather amazed watching various photography forums have major melt downs during the last few weeks. I said something about cameras and lenses just being tools, not life and death, and got immediately annihilated.
“Why I Print”
David duChemin seconds a sentiment I wrote about a little while ago:
“I encourage you, even if you never print at home, to print your work. The artist’s life is about creating and sharing, not creating and hoarding. The ability to see and experience the world, and express that experience through your work, is a gift; keep it moving.”
Your Best Work
From Havard Business Review (via Hugh McLeod):
“Based on the research we did for our book, we’re convinced that when you’re heading into the unknown, desire is all-important. You simply want to be doing something that you love, or something that is logically going to lead to something you love, in order to do your best work. That desire will make you more creative and more resourceful, and will help you get further faster. But, let’s be real. None of this guarantees wealth, or even financial success.”
Lightroom 4 vs. Aperture 4
Lightroom 4 debuted recently and, since, I’ve read a glut of opinion on what Apple should do to play catchup in Aperture 4.
Peppered throughout these pieces is a sense of entitlement along the lines of, “I’ll stop using Aperture altogether if Apple doesn’t implement the follow enhancements: <insert a list of obscure features that somehow weren’t needed until last year and that I’ll use once for the novelty and forget>.”
Mr. Photo Blogger, before you threaten to leave photo software (which I’m sure Apple and Abode fret about nightly), be sure the features you seek can’t be supplanted by being a better photographer.
