Question everything. Make work that is meaningful to you. Take time.from Interview with: Trent Parke (*) via jotoole: (via An interview with Trent Parke - Try Hard... (*) by Douglas Lowell (*).
I have always found that mistakes and accidents usually lead to the best discoveries.
People don’t want another cheap imitation. They want to connect with and experience you and the meaning you bring to your work.via How To Be Different (*) by The Story of Telling (*).
There’s no more effective way to be different than to be exactly who you are.
Sport is one of the ways we can fulfill our human, our animal need for others; to do things together, to share things. [..]via Why Sport? (*) by Patrick McHugh (*).
Sport moves on from this to be many other things, sometimes complex and disturbing, sometimes beautiful, sublime, inspiring, humbling, and joyous.
Sport is many things and sometimes feels like all things.
But sport starts with sharing.
The sporting impulse begins in our dread of isolation, in our soul-deep need for contact.
For me, it’s the act of shooting that helps, [..] It doesn’t matter how the photos come out. It’s a mindfulness (*) process that brings me into my body. I’m not worrying about the past (*) or the future (*), just looking through the lens. Some people analyze their photos and use them to explore their lives. There are a lot of possibilities that are therapeutic.With Ellen J. Langer (*) abstracting:
Noticing things in the camera (*) puts you in the present (*) moment, makes you sensitive to context and perspective (*), and that’s the essence of engagement (*). I have years of research telling us how good that is for health and well-being.via Photography as a Balm for Mental Illness (*) by Aimee Lee Ball via (*) Photographs on the Brain (*).
I'm a street photographer (*) at heart, so I approached Rochester (*) [the subject (*) - see HCB post (*) specifically] the same way I often approach somewhere I'm shooting, [..] Walking, meandering, allowing my camera and experiences (*) to guide me.via Last days of Kodak town: the decline and fall of the city photography built (*) by Dave Stelfox (*).
It is telling that one of the central activities in programming is abstraction. Abstraction is nothing but taking a jumble of intricate detail, putting it in a tightly sealed box, and then poking very small, well-defined holes in the box to interact with that jumble. So clean! So much better!via Why technologists want to secede (*) by Vivek Haldar (*).
But every abstraction is leaky. Ints carry the baggage of their bit-width. In a perfect world, every int would be a BigInt with unlimited range. But we live in a world where it matters whether ints fit in a hardware register or not. Networks carry the baggage of not being perfect links. In a perfect world, a link between two machines would be an immutable, always-available channel for sending messages between them. But we live in a world where wires break.
the photograph is little more than a manipulated two-dimensional representation of what previously existed in four dimensions (three spatial, one – often forgotten – time).via The Challenge of Photography (*) by Jorg Colberg (*).
It goes without saying that negative thoughts are not helpful.via The Winning Mind (*) by Sebastian Coe (*).
Questions and feedback are constructive, but negativity needs to be batted away.
That is when the vision (*) that drives the daily effort is so important in crowding out those moments of doubt.
in general I think Street Photography (*) work should primarily convey the artistic sensibility and personality of its author.from which Chris expands:
There’s something confessional and diaristic at the heart of Street Photography (*), hidden as it may be through a layer of visual abstraction. Also, I think that the process of navigating the ethical terrain that every street photographer must deal with is one that helps you mature as a person.via Observe Collective Interview #2: Chris Farling (*) by Eric Kim (*).
