Archive for October, 2009
Worth Watching - Blogroll Addition
I am going to start adding some links to the Blogroll, over there in the top right of the blog. These are sights that I end up going to at least once a week just to see what is up.
Latest addition is the Lean Mean Fighting Machine blog. Great little agency in England that has a great eye for publishing quirky little moments from all over.
They are also responsible for this great site that promotes a new phone launch by having street photographer Nick Turpin take a photograph, then people can click on an area to vote for where he should take his next photo using the camera phone. He ended up traveling the whole globe, updating to Flickr, posting photos and videos. A really well done project.
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When My Hair Plays Piano
I love photography and the way that it can capture what is so fleeting and momentary. I also really love illustrations, but for a different reason, they can capture the absurd in a way that seems perfectly natural and easily created.
That (along with, I wish I could get inky blacks like that) was going through my head when I came upon Katia Fouquet. Wonderful illustrator, designer and animator based in Germany.
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It’s Not Who You Are, It’s What You Do
“By practicing slowly, by breaking skills down into tiny parts and repeating, the strenuous student forces the brain to internalize a better pattern of performance.”
Interesting article that works to debunk the concept of “genius” in the Op-Ed section of the NYTimes. Ends up pointing out that practice, especially a form of micro-practice, concentrating on the small elements that make a whole are the thing that may be a better indicator of the potential for success.