The market is awash with books, instructional materials, and kits of every possible iteration on ideas that have ever been conceived regarding the matter of time management and personal productivity. If you know where to look, and even if you’re not looking, you’ll be greeted with all sorts of tools that purport to help you [...]
If you are a creative artist (or even if you’re not), and have been paralyzed by fear, anxiety and discouragement, you need to read Scott Belsky’s Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision & Reality. Making Ideas Happen is not so much about generating ideas for new businesses, coming up with solutions to the [...]
Any creative professional who is deep enough into his craft can’t possibly have escaped the many interesting news items coming out of the digital front of late. A number of things are being brought to light that, when taken together, are creating an incredible tectonic shift. From a technological point of view, these changes will [...]
Last week, I read on Facebook that David Byrne teamed up with Fatboy Slim to create a two-disc album called “Here Lies Love.” The inspiration? Imelda Romualdez Marcos—the former Philippine First Lady. I clicked on a link to NPR where all songs from the album can be heard, and as I started to listen, I [...]
By Dominique James When you read a book, do you read it from cover to cover? If so, does this actually mean you read each and every single page—including the author’s dedication page? Your answer might be yes or no. Either way, this is the kind of question where there’s no wrong or right answer, [...]
If you’re into photography, you know it is an anomaly to have come upon it out of nowhere. One does not become a photographer fully formed without coming from somewhere else. There is commonly one compelling reason you decided to approach the front gate of photography, a singular path, which of necessity follows one of [...]
BY DOMINIQUE JAMES If you’re using a Mac, chances are you already know about Apple’s iPhoto software. This software is part of the iLife suite (which, incidentally, includes iTunes) that allows you to do many things with the pictures you’ve shot using your digital camera or with the pictures you’ve scanned, such as organize, select, [...]
My grandmother’s name is Imelda. She has been dead many years now. But not a single day goes by that I do not think of her. I grew up with her. She was the first influential women in my life. As the perfect wife to my grandfather, Cornelio, who was a lawyer, and as a [...]
It’s no secret that Steve Jobs loves Bob Dylan. He said so himself, publicly, a number of times. Also, this fact has been mentioned in some of his unauthorized biographies. And in some of his company’s events (that’s Apple, in case you don’t know), Bob Dylan songs are often piped in before and after, and [...]
2.15.10: The Value of Fine Art Photography More or less, you know how much a bottle of Coke, a tin of Altoids, or a can of Pringles can cost. More or less, you also know that depending on where you buy it, whether from Walgreens or Rite-Aid, from a movie theater’s concessionaire stand or from [...]
2.5.10: Put a Little Art in Your Life I have yet to come across statistics that will conclusively prove that engagement with art will make you a better person or will make your life better. Who knows, there might just be some such attempts at quantifying people’s experience with art, but I doubt if such [...]
1.29.10 – Recognizing Photography as Fine Art Now more than ever, it is easy to see why not too many of us are inclined to take fine art photography as seriously as other more established and accepted forms of art such as painting or drawing. Photography is so ubiquitous that practically anyone can do it. [...]
1.22.10: When is a photograph art? The straight answer to such a question is: it is art when the photographer says it is. If you have a problem with that answer, you might want to consider the fact that that’s how artists generally label their work—whether it is a painting, a sculpture, a drawing, an [...]
1.16.10: Hey, look! It’s a picture book! Of all forms and methods and styles and materials and construct of communication, I think pictorialism is truly the most universal of all languages. It doesn’t take much to recognize whatever is being pictured (or communicated). Usually, one look is all it takes. Really, not much translation is [...]
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