give it everything you have to get the best possible result you can achieve. That way when you cross the line you have no regrets because you've given it all you have and you can now relax and enjoy what you've just done, win or lose.via Socal ing with Cal! (*) by Cameron Wurf (*).
It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are...via California (part 2) (*) by Garry Loughlin (*).
I'm nobody! Who are you?Seen in Eye to Eye: Photographs by Vivian Maier (*)
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us — don't tell!
They'd banish us, you know.
How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!
One thing is it’s fun. I like the quality of conversation that goes on, where there’s a group of people who I know are looking at my posts every day, or whenever I do it, and I in turn am looking at theirs, eagerly, waiting to see what they post. And it’s a very different kind of communication than what goes on in a book or a gallery, where you just put the work out there and there’s no sense of dialogue.via Stephen Shore ‘Likes’ Instagram (*) by Stephen Shore (*).
After a lifetime in domestic servitude, secretly documenting the streets of America through 100,000 photographs, Maier had died in great old-age, and in poverty - just on the edge of global recognition - never to know that her work would even receive a glimmer of praise, or understanding.via Vivian Maier: The Secret Photographer Gets A Retrospective In Amsterdam (*) by artlyst (*).
The reason his photographs often feel numbly impersonal now is not just that they are familiar. It’s that they’re so coolly composed, so infernally correct that there’s nothing raw about them, and you find yourself thinking: would it not be more interesting if his moments were a little less decisive?via Cartier-Bresson's classic is back – but his Decisive Moment has passed (*) by Sean O'Hagan (*).
It seems to me that beliefs about the future are so rarely correct that they usually aren't worth the extra rigidity they impose, and that the best strategy is simply to be aggressively open-minded.via How to be an Expert in a Changing World (*) by Paul Graham (*).
Even an unhelpful error message is better than nothing.via Learning from Crashes (*) by Venkat (*).
Error: Unknown Error.Probably the most unhelpful error message I have seen in all my time coding Python to an external third party API. At least you know you have an error, even if it is as far away from the root as it just about can be.
You just have to have failed at a given level enough times to have become well-calibrated to the severity of your own responses, and effective at managing those responses. You are adapted to a domain at an advanced beginner level when you can keep trying indefinitely despite failing. You are at an intermediate level when you can look at failure data to learn, instead of being so traumatized you look away in aversion. You’re advanced when you begin failing in ways nobody has failed before.via Learning from Crashes (*) by Venkat (*).
a photograph of a person will always tell us something about the relationship between the photographer and the subject—that is, it will show the relationship as well as the subject. In most kinds of photos the relationship is so attenuated that the subject is really all that’s left. But in a snapshot the relationship is a real and enduring one, not a merely professional one that exists only for the purpose of the shoot. We can see it clearly in the photo along with the subject, and we can also see that the photo occasion itself is tangled up in it.via Relationships (*) by Looking for Snapshots (*).
The best way to do anything is to begin, then to adjust your course based on what happens next.via What’s The Best Way? (*) by The Story of Telling (*).
I learned to trust that we’d be OK, even starting life afresh [..]. I learned that we can adapt and survive, and cope with the fear of not being OK.via A Simpler Family Life: Starting Life Anew with Our Six Kids (*) by The Minimalists (*).
Have an opinion, tell some truth, show some emotion.via The Helicopterism of Art-Editorial Photography (*) by Jorg Colberg (*) originally from The Dreck of Photographic Muzak (*).
Introspective reflections which are liable to stall are helped along by the flow of the landscape.via Journeys are the midwives of thought (*) by swissmiss (*).
The mind may be reluctant to think properly when thinking is all it is supposed to do.
there is nothing more reassuring than reading the words of a perfect stranger who is saying exactly what you feelvia Venice, through the eyes of a Writer, Mirsada Hadzic (*) by Adam Marelli (*).
the lessons you can easily generalize and share are typically not original, and the lessons that are original typically cannot be generalized and shared. Only modeled in slightly puzzling ways.via Learning to Fly by Missing the Ground (*) by Venkat (*).
If we don’t design human values into the things we create, we’ll find ourselves in a world that is alien to us.Adding:
the way all progress moves forward is by someone thinking differently, trying something that no one else has tried, breaking the established traditions and rules.via (*) via The future of design: stay one step ahead of the algorithm (*) by Dan Saffer (*).
What is the competition too scared to try?via The First Step To Building A Marketing Campaign (*) by The Story of Telling (*).
Say and do that thing.
Yet he found ways to circumvent these restrictions - exploiting the color distortions in outdated film stock and embracing the unpredictable color rendition in emulsions available from some of the smaller manufacturers. His openness to the accidental, and willingness to forgo the photographer's legendary control, are crucial components of Leiter's ethos, anticipating precepts that remained exceptional, even among photography's avante-garde, until the advent of postmodernism in the 1970's.via SAUL LEITER Early Color (*) by Martin Harrison (*).
It is the very pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.As Emily Esfahani Smith (*) notes:
happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to be happy.via There's More to Life Than Being Happy (*) by Emily Esfahani Smith (*).
People won’t remember what I did, but they will remember how I made them feel.via What Makes Someone an Engaging Leader (*) by Ken Oehler (*).
Meaning is not only about transcending the self, but also about transcending the present moment. [..]via There's More to Life Than Being Happy (*) by Emily Esfahani-Smith (*) via happiness and meaning (*) by Shooting Wide Open (*).
Meaning is enduring. It connects the past to the present to the future. [..]
Having negative events happen to you decreases your happiness but increases the amount of meaning you have in life.
Being optimistic is great and at times the only thing that can drive you, but be grounded and base your decisions on being pragmatic too.via Christopher Boots (*) by Lucy Feagins (*) of the The Design Files (*).
Photography is not just about seeing and taking pictures, it’s also about making sense of the photograph and making sense of it is what editing does, .. You take a series of photographs, you tell a story (*) with them and many pictures fall between the cracks in the process. [..]via Magnum’s Archive of Once-Orphaned Photos (*) by James Estrin (*).
When you’re editing you’re editing towards a certain end, and when that end is met you forget about the pictures that didn’t make it, .. What this Magnum project has done is allowed us to go back and re-edit. There isn’t enough re-editing being done today.
Funny how all the little things add up to success or failurevia I wrote a blog about an LED panel on Friday. I wrote it in a hurry. I didn't like it so I ultimately deleted it. I'll get a new one up after tomorrow's shoot. (*) by Kirk Tuck (*).
When I take “street” photos (*) now, they are a little different. I don’t feel I’m of the HCB (*) school of finding moments. I don’t care much about moments. I probably won’t be famous, so the photos I take are for me. Things that are unique to where I am and things that will remind me of what it felt like to be here.via November 8th, 2014. (*) by jtinseoul (*).
when something works the way you intended it to, just in that moment it's a tremendous thrill.via Interview: Christopher Nolan (*) by Andrew Purcell (*).
there is often a huge difference between intention and execution, there is no shame in reshooting, you must be genuinely interested in your subjects, and your photos have to tell a storyvia Elizabeth Avedon Castell Photography Exhibition (*) by Elizabeth Avedon (*).
Sometimes experiencing (*) something with undiluted intention (*) is the only way to either enjoy (*) it or even understand (*) it.via Imagine life at high speed. Imagine the adrenaline on all the time (*) by Kirk Tuck (*).
there are only four ways to function as a photographer. Either you are independently wealthy; or you get paid to take pictures (a commercial photographer, with whatever independence of mind you can retain); or you get paid for photographs (i.e. as an artist [..]); or your photography is a hobby, a pastime, and you earn your living elsewhere.via Walker Evans: the magazine work STEIDL, 2014 (*) by David Campany (*).
Most of us limit ourselves because we believe in boundaries (*), limitations (*) and barriers (*). There are no boundaries and barriers! Get out now and do it better than you did yesterday. Action not words!via Getting Better (*) by Vernon Gambetta (*).
the next Industrial Revolution is about automating the collection of that data, it’s about being able to get insights out of that data that you wouldn’t be able to without a computer, and it’s about being able to do predictive and prescriptive adjustments to a [..] processvia Signals from Strata + Hadoop World New York 2014 (*) by Mac Slocum (o*).
I always walk into a shoot and try let the space or person have a chance to show themselves to me, rather than the other way aroundvia Rachel Kara (*) by The Design Files (*).
