Messing around with the double exposure setting on the Olympus E-P5.
Multiple Exposure on the E-P5
Life is best lived 6 inches from the pavement.
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Day 1 – Just Go Outside
Today’s day one of the digi-cleanse. My advice to you. Turn off and take a walk. Leave your phone, change your perspective, borrow a dog, put a leash on your stupid cat even. Just get the fuck off the internet and go outside.
Signing Off – Going Anti-Social
I’m taking a leave of absence from the internet. For the rest of 2013, I am going anti-social. That means no logging on to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, Dribbble, Feedly and whatever the latest social media channel or reporting tool of the week is. This is not a new concept, and I’m not trying to take credit for any sort of outside-the-box thinking, but lately it’s become apparent that a digital cleanse is long overdue in my life, albeit, somewhat terrifying.
Erik Spiekermann on Owning Your Inspiration
If I find something that I really like, that I think would work for the client, but it’s already used by someone else, or it’s too old, or I can’t afford to buy it or it would be a rip off, then I look at it for a long time, look through the books, draw it, sketch over it, and then I put it away. And then the next day I sit down and draw it from memory. And then it’s different. I read a novel, and then I rewrite it the next day in my own language.
Erik Spiekermann
Type designer Erik Spiekermann on being inspired without ripping off or imitating. What I love most about this is how even Spiekermann, a seasoned pro with a catalog of work older than I, is still faced with the same challenges us lesser designers are in creating work that’s our own. See the full video where Spiekermann discusses owning your inspiration below.
Remembering Lou Reed
King of cool and culture icon Lou Reed passed away this last weekend. Reed, who was 71, reportedly succumbed to liver disease after foregoing a liver transplant earlier in the summer. Pale Blue Eyes, which can be heard below, is one of my all time favorites. Lou will forever linger on through the sounds of my speakers. RIP.
Following Your Passion is Bad for Business
Dilbert creator, Scott Adams has a recent piece on his secrets to success in the Wall Street Journal. Among them, following your passion is bad for business.
But the most dangerous case of all is when successful people directly give advice. For example, you often hear them say that you should “follow your passion.” That sounds perfectly reasonable the first time you hear it. Passion will presumably give you high energy, high resistance to rejection and high determination. Passionate people are more persuasive, too. Those are all good things, right?
The Strangest of all My Friends
The man is totally committed to the muse of music and he’ll do anything for good musing. And sometimes it’s very strange, I was at Neil’s ranch one day, just south of San Francisco, and he has a beautiful lake, red wing blackbirds, and he asked me if I wanted to hear his new album, Harvest. And I said, “Sure, let’s go into the studio and listen.” Oh no, that’s not what Neil had in mind. He said, “Get into the row boat.” I said, “Get into the row boat?” He said, “Yea, we’re going to go out into the middle of the lake.” Now I think he’s got a little cassette player with him or an early digital device and I’m going to wear headphones and listen in the peace of the middle of Neil’s lake. Oh no. He has his entire house as the left speaker, and his entire barn as the right speaker, and I heard Harvest coming out of these two incredibly large speakers, louder than hell. It was unbelievable. Elliot Mazer, who produced Harvest, came down to the shore of the lake and shouted, “How was that Neil?” And I swear to god, Neil shouted back, “More Barn!”
Graham Nash recounting his first listen of Harvest with Neil Young. Via Fresh Air.
One day, I will do this.
Utah Bent Arrow T Pre-Order Sale
Available for pre-order now in the shop.
Wise Words from cityhome
You know that saying about how if you love what you do, then you’ll never work another day in your life? I call bullshit. If you love what you do, more likely than not, you’ll work harder than you ever have before. You’ll wake up early, stay up late, shed blood, sweat, and tears. You won’t love all of it, but it will be so damn worth it.
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Via Big Cartel. Are you making the most out of your time?