Bertha Magazine
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Some needed visual inspiration from Bertha Magazine.
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Inspiration from the obituary of Robert Rauschenberg
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The thing I love about life is that inspiration can be pulled from anywhere.
Like this obituary of Robert Rauschenberg:
Messing up is alright:
Screwing things up is a virtue. Being correct is never the point. I have an almost fanatically correct assistant, and by the time she re-spells my words and corrects my punctuation, I can’t read what I wrote. Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.
Don’t fear change:
John Cage said that fear in life is the fear of change. If I may add to that: nothing can avoid changing. It’s the only thing you can count on. Because life doesn’t have any other possibility, everyone can be measured by his adaptability to change.
Be careful of what you know:
Anything you do will be an abuse of somebody else’s aesthetics. I think you’re born an artist or not. I couldn’t have learned it. And I hope I never do because knowing more only encourages your limitations.
Inspiration can be found everywhere:
I really feel sorry for people who think things like soap dishes or mirrors or Coke bottles are ugly. Because they’re surrounded by things like that all day long, and it must make them miserable.
A piece by Rauschenberg:
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Pixar’s Brad Bird on Fostering Innovation
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A nice read on fostering innovation.
The first step in achieving the impossible is believing that the impossible can be achieved. … “You don’t play it safe—you do something that scares you, that’s at the edge of your capabilities, where you might fail. That’s what gets you up in the morning.”
[Jobs] realized that when people run into each other, when they make eye contact, things happen. So he made it impossible for you not to run into the rest of the company.
Pixar basically encourages people to learn outside of their areas, which makes them more complete. [and more creative].
We have all this amazing machinery—how do we use it to make exciting things? We could go to Mars in this rocket ship!” It was, “We don’t understand Walt Disney at all. We don’t understand what he did. Let’s not screw it up. Let’s just preserve this rocket ship; going somewhere new in it might damage it.
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Playing with photography
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Joachim Ladefoged on his bodybuilding project states:
For me it was more like playing with photography. It was about telling a story in a photographic way, not about saving the world
Photo by: Joachim Ladefoged
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You remember 100% of what you feel
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I gave a brief talk the other night to a photojournalism class at my undergrad and was in search of a quote I love on my old blog, but couldn’t find it so thought it was worth repeating here on my new blog.
One of my professors at OU, Bruce Strong, was a huge advocate for making images that made you feel. A notion I believe in strongly myself.
This quote is from a Business 2.0 article:
You remember 1/3 of what you read, 1/2 of what people tell you, but 100 percent of what you feel.
Who doesn’t love images that invite your heart and soul into a two-dimensional plane and bring a level of rawness and life to what is an otherwise static medium?
My cousin’s first dance as a new bride. Congratulations Tina and Ryan.
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Achieving greatness with limited resources
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“Sometimes greatness comes from not having resources.” - Doug Liman
As always a great idea/story will always trump the tools we use.
To illustrate his point, he recalled a commercial he was shooting for Nike in the late 1990s starring golfer Tiger Woods. Liman noticed Woods bouncing a ball on the edge of a club during breaks from shooting. Liman grabbed a shoulder-held camera and, away from the crew, asked Woods to bounce the balls while being filmed.
The shot, which became a classic, was natural, unrehearsed, and driven by imagination rather than millions of studio dollars, Liman said.
From News.com
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A visual journal by Richard Koci Hernandez
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We all loved MultimediaShooter and it’ll be dearly missed, but thankfully Richard has found what he calls his new online distraction. Check out the first piece in his new visual journal.
If you haven’t yet take a look at the rest of his work. It’ll be good for your senses. His On The Road series does the impossible and makes the logistics of traveling seem sexy.
Check this one out from his trip to judge CPOY. Watch for the plane cut out and if you’ve ever witnessed contest judging live you’ll enjoy the “out, out, out” portion of the clip too.
Hopefully he has another in store for us with his trip to the Convergence workshop.
Richard’s work is the Uncola of newspaper video. Very refreshing and something I wish more papers were exploring.
Plastic Dreams by Richard Koci Hernandez
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Saul Bass on film intros
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Anyone doing multimedia needs to be thinking in this same manner as they approach and edit their stories.
Saul Bass states:
My initial thoughts about what a title can do was to set mood and the prime underlying core of the film’s story, to express the story in some metaphorical way. I saw the title as a way of conditioning the audience, so that when the film actually began, viewers would already have an emotional resonance with it.
What resides emotionally in your multimedia or photos is just as important as the narrative and goes along way in engaging your audience.
In other words make me feel.
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MultimediaShooter is no longer being published?
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Awoke to find that MultimediaShooter was down this morning and I’m hoping it’s only a bad dream.
My stomach dropped when I read this:
I’m walking away this time with my head held high. It’s been fun. I’m closing the blog doors for good this time. There’s not enough Jack Daniels or Red Bull to get me back this time. Sorry for on again off again nature of the blog lately. Thanks for the support through the hacks. This is a great time for me to step away from the blogosphere.
Good Night and Good Luck, see you in the real world.
Richard thanks again for everything. As I’ve said before you’ve been an incredible asset to the storytelling community and hopefully your voice isn’t lost for good.
Richard’s Multimedia Journal is sitting on my wish list and can be bought here.
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The photojournalism resume
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I’ve unofficially labeled my spring one of self promotion. My mom, like any good mother keeps reminding me that I need a job career.
I’m in the process of updating my resume. See my resume here on my about page. I briefly entertained the idea of redesigning it, but lack the creative drive right now to make something fresh of it.
Some resume design inspiration
You might find it useful when it comes time to freshen up your resume for that new job prospect or internship.
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